RESEARCH

I am a development anthropologist interested in livelihood processes and social change in the context of international development.  I have extensive research and policy experience in sub-Saharan Africa, a growing portfolio of work in Wales, and short-term consultancy experience in Asia and Latin America.

PUBLICATIONS

• Fisher, E. Mwaipopo, R.M. Kimani, P. Wanyonyi, I. Tunje, J. Bashemweru, V. Msuya, F. (2010) The Relationship between Community-Based Organisations and the Effective Management of Coastal and Marine Resources in the WIO Region.  Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association: Dar es Salaam.
• Fisher, E. (2009) Guest Editor, Policy Arena: Fair Trade, Governance and Social Justice, J. Int. Dev. 21
• Fisher, E. (2009) The Policy Trajectory of Fair Trade: A Review, J. Int. Dev. 21, 985–1003
• Fisher, E. Mwaipopo, R., Mutagwaba, W., Nyange, D., Yaron, G. (2009) The Ladder that Sends us to Wealth: Artisanal Mining and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania, Resources Policy, 34 (1): 1-7.
• Fisher, E. (2008) Artisanal Gold Mining at the Margins of Mineral Resource Governance: A Case from Tanzania, Development Southern Africa, 25 (2): 199-214
• Fisher, E. (2007) Working on the Margins: Social Exclusion in Artisanal Mining in Tanzania, Development and Change, July 38 (4): 735-760.
• Arce, A. & Fisher, E. (2006) Embodying Natural Knowledge: Science, Experiments and Agriculture, in Sillitoe, P. (Ed.) Local Versus Global Science.  Berghahn Books: Oxford.  ISBN 978-1-84545-014-4
• Bastia, T., Fisher, E., Holland, J.D., Holtam, D. (2005) Capacity Building for Policy Relevant Social Development Research, in Holland, J.D. & Campbell, J.R. Methods, Knowledge & Power: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Development Research.  Intermediate Technology: London. ISBN: 1-85339 572 2
• Rew, A., Fisher, E., & Pandey, B. (2005) Addressing Policy Constraints and Improving Outcomes in DIDR projects, in Wet, C. de, Development Resettlement: Where to From Here? Berghahn Books: Oxford. ISBN: 1-84545-096-5
• Fisher, E. (Guest Editor) (2003), Special Issue of the Journal for International Development, Social Development: Bridging the Theory – Practice Divide, Past, Present, Future. Volume 15 (7): 815-818.
• Fisher, E. & Holland, J.D. (2003) Social Development as Knowledge Building: Research as a Sphere of Policy Influence, Journal for International Development. Volume 15 (7): 911-924
• Fisher, E. & Brocklesby, M.A. (Guest Editors) (2003) Special Issue of Community Development Journal, Whose Livelihoods: Community Development and Sustainable Livelihood Approaches.  Volume 38 (3).
• Brocklesby, M.A. & Fisher, E. (2003) Community Development and Sustainable Livelihoods – An Introduction, Community Development Journal, Volume 38 (3).
• Arce, A. & Fisher, E. (2003) Knowledge Interfaces and Practices of Negotiation, in Negotiating Local Knowledge: Power and Identity in Development, Pottier, J., Bicker, A., and Sillitoe, P. (Eds.).  Pluto Press: London.  ISBN: 0745320066
• Bradbear, N., Fisher, E. & Jackson, H. (eds.) (2002) Strengthening Livelihoods: Exploring the Role of Beekeeping in Development. Bees for Development: Monmouth.  ISBN: 1898807019
• Fisher, E. (2002), Picturing Beekeeping in Rural Development, in Bradbear, N., Fisher, E. & Jackson, H. (eds.) Strengthening Livelihoods: Exploring the Role of Beekeeping in Development. Bees for Development: Monmouth. ISBN: 1898807019
• Fisher, E. (2002) Forced Resettlement, Rural Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation along the Ugalla River in Tanzania.  In, Displacement, Forced Settlement and Conservation, ed. Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. Berghahn: Oxford.  ISBN: 1571818421
• Fisher, E., Holland, J., & James, S. B. (2001) Becoming Poverty Focused: Implications for Health Actors. Development: Partnership in Health and Poverty, Vol. 44, No 1, March.  ISSN 1011-6370 Pp 22-30.
• Fisher, E. (2000) Forest Livelihoods: Beekeeping as Men’s Work in Western Tanzania, in Creighton, C and Omari, C, Gender, Family and Work in Tanzania. Ashgate: Aldershot.  ISBN: 1-84014 100 X Pp138-176
• Fisher, E., & Arce, A. (2000) The Visual Spectacle of Modernity: Blood, Microscopes, and Mirrors in Colonial Tanganyika, in Long, N., Arce, A. (Eds.) Anthropology, Development and Modernities: Exploring Discourses, Counter-Tendencies and Violence. Routledge: London & New York. ISBN: 0-415-20500-X Pp 74-99
• Arce, A. & Fisher, E. (2000) Commodities in a Global Market Place, in Modernity on a Shoestring: Dimensions of Globalization, Consumption and Development in Africa and Beyond, Fardon, R., Binsbergen, W. van, & Dijk, R. van, published by EIDOS in association with the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Centre of African Studies London. ISBN: 0-7286-0301-2 pp 49-70
• Fisher, E. (1997) Beekeepers in the Global Fair Trade Market: A Case from Tabora Region, Tanzania, in International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Volume 6, Spring Issue. ISSN: 0798-1759 Pp 109-160.
• Fisher, E. (1996) The Social Sustainability of Beekeeping in Tabora Region, Tanzania, in Beekeeping & Development (June Issue).  Pp 8-10 ISSN: 13699555