Romain Chenet
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| Email: Romain dot Chenet at warwick dot ac dot uk |
| Room: R3.16 (Ramphal Building) |
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22/23 Term 2 office hours (book via link below) Monday: 11am-12pm in R3.16, in-person. Click here to book. Email for other times. Administrative enquiries: UGGSD@warwick.ac.uk |
Senior Teaching Fellow
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Director of Undergraduate Admissions
- Warwick University Chaplaincy Faith Advisor (Indo-Tibetan Buddhism)
Background
I joined GSD in 2018 and my role is split between teaching and management, with significant oversight and compliance responsibilities as Director of Undergraduate Studies in addition to leading on external-facing student recruitment as Director of Undergraduate Admissions. I hold an MA in Social Research, MA in International Politics, BA in Politics and Sociology, and am completing doctoral study on post-2015 development policies. Briefly, my project spans development, sociology, and politics in exploring global governance through poststructural analysis of discourse. I also have diverse further interests in critical development scholarship, and welcome dissertation enquiries on such topics.
I was previously based in London, working in multinational corporate relations and high-value fundraising management for INGOs including UNICEF and the Red Cross to build and fund long-term development projects, and to respond to humanitarian emergencies with partners such as the Disasters Emergency Committee. Before settling in the UK, I lived in Asia (Nepal, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia), shaping my experiences with development. My personal interests include cooking, gardening, Buddhist philosophy, and spending time with my cats.
Taught Modules
Undergraduate:
Social Principles of Global Sustainable Development (Convening Lecturer)
Surviving the Apocalypse (Convening Lecturer)
Gender and the Sustainable Development Agenda (Convening Lecturer)
Postgraduate:
Leading Transformation in the Anthropocene (Convening Lecturer)
Popular Movements and Sustainable Change (Convening Lecturer)
Teaching and research interests
The evolution of ‘sustainable development’ as a contested mythology; Discursive intersections, silences, and exclusions in development policy and practice; Poststructural discourse analysis (via Foucault); Gender and development; Global governance & power; NGOs and civil society; Culture and lifeworlds; Critical approaches (post-development, feminist, alternatives to development, degrowth, Buddhist economics, queer and trans theory); Epistemological pluralism / decolonisation beyond buzzwords; The history, politics, and sociology of development as a global project.
Selected conference papers
Innovative Practices and Pedagogies for International Development Studies 2022, Indiana University, and
Mapping Interdisciplinarity 2022: Finding Our Way, University of Birmingham.
Paper: Levering into fraught interdisciplinarity: A case study in teaching 'population'.
Paper: ‘Firmly in Britain's own national interest': DfID's dying development. Panel: Foreign Aid.
International Development 2019 Conference, IDS, University of Sussex.
Paper: Bilateral aid donors and discontents. Panel: Problematising Aid & Partnerships in Development.
Centre for the Study of Women and Gender 2018 Symposium, University of Warwick.
Panel Discussant: Feminism in/against Neoliberalism in International Development & Social Movements.
Selected publications
Chenet, R. (2020). Pursuing post-structuralism without linguistics. The Sociological Review Online.