Susanne Schech

Associate Professor in Geography and
Development Studies
Theories of Development; Culture and Development; Social Constructions of Whiteness; Information Technology in Development; Gender and Development/Geography

Contact Details Office: Room 308 Social Sciences North Postal: School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia Email: susanne.schech@flinders.edu.au Phone: (08) 8201 2489 (in Australia); (618) 8201 2489 (outside Australia) Fax: (08) 8201 3521 (in Australia); (618) 8201 3521 (outside Australia)

Qualifications

BA (1985); PhD (1990) (Durham University, UK)

Position Held

• Associate Professor, School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management (GPEM)
• Director, Centre for Development Studies (CDS)
• Leader, Flinders International Asia Pacific Area of Research Focus (FIAP ARF)

Current Teaching

• Honours Year
  • Research Induction DVST 7005/A
  • Development Problems, Policies & Programs DVST 7002
• Postgraduate
  • Development Problems, Policies & Programs DVST 8023
  • Research Induction DVST 9020/A
  • Gender, Public Health and International Development DVST 9041
  • Gender Analysis DVST 9043

Research Areas

• International development (especially culture and gender)
• Nationalism, racism and migration
• Poverty policies
• Information technologies and development
• Asia Pacific, Australia
  

Current Research Projects

• ARC Discovery “From Stranger to Citizen” studies how refugees from developing countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa settle in Australia and become Australians. This is a joint project with Associate Professor Jane Haggis (also Flinders University).
  
• “Poverty reduction strategy papers and Gender Mainstreaming in Indonesia” looks at how the PRSP process in Indonesia has incorporated gender equity issues.

Consultancy Capabilities

• Gender mainstreaming and analysis (experience in designing, coordinating and delivering intensive training courses on gender mainstreaming and analysis in Indonesia and Australia).
  (See also research areas above).
  

Research Supervisions

• Alwiya Alwy, ‘Education and ethnicity in Kenya’, PhD ongoing.
• Lincolin Arsyad ‘The role of micro-credit in regional economic development’, PhD completed 2006.
• Leah Briones ‘Beyond agency and rights: capability, migration and livelihood in Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong’, PhD completed 2006.
• Vandra Harris ‘The development contact zone: practitioner perspectives on culture, power and participation in Cambodia and the Philippines’, PhD completed 2006.
• Benjamin Heyward ‘A Comparative Study in Community Participation in the Phillipines’, MA submitted 2006.
• Sheila James ‘The Anglo-English in Australia’ PhD ongoing.
• Catherine Koerner ‘The impact of whiteness on Aboriginal sovereignty, multiculturalism, and national identity in Australia’ PhD ongoing.
• Carlos Soria Environmental policies in Chile, Peru and Ecuador’, PhD completed 2004.
• Sanjugta Vas Dev ‘Refugees and their host communities’, PhD ongoing.
• Thomas Wanner ‘The World Bank and Sustainable Development’, PhD completed 2005.

Recent Publications

• Authored Books:
  
  Schech, S. & Haggis, J. (2003) Culture and Development: A Critical Introduction. (Complex Chinese language translation). Taipei: Chu Liu Book Company.
  
  Schech, S. & J. Haggis 2000 Culture and Development: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
  (peer reviewed)
  
  
• Edited Books:
  
  Schech, S. and Wadham, B. (eds) (2005) Placing Race and Localising Whiteness, Conference Proceedings for the ‘Placing Race and Localising Whiteness’ Conference, Flinders University, South Australia, 1-3 October 2003, Bedford Park: Flinders Press.

  Schech, S. & Haggis, J. (eds) (2002) Development: A Cultural Studies Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.

• Book Chapters (refereed)
  
  Alwy, A. & Schech, S. 2007 “Ethnicity, politics, and state resource allocation: Explaining educational inequalities in Kenya”, in Noblit, G. et al (eds) International Handbook of Urban Education, Springer.

  Schech, S. & Vas Dev, S. 2007 “Governing through participation? The World Bank’s new approach to the poor”, in Moore, D. (ed.) The World Bank: Development, Poverty, Hegemony, Durban: University of Natal Press.

  Schech, S. & Haggis, J. 2004 “Terrains of Migrancy and Whiteness: How British migrants locate themselves in Australia”, in Moreton-Robinson, A. (ed.) Whitening Race: Critical Contexts and Crucial Conversations. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

  Haggis, J. & Schech, S. 1999 “Incoherence and whiteness: reflections on a study of settler life histories”, in B. McKay (ed.) Unmasking whiteness: race relations and reconciliation. The Queensland Studies Centre, Griffith University, Nathan, pp. 45-51.
  
  Schech, S. & Haggis, J. 1999 “Migrancy, whiteness and the settler self in contemporary Australia”, in J. Docker and G. Fischer (eds.) Race, Colour & Identity in Australia and New Zealand, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, pp. 231-239.

• Journal Articles (refereed)

  Haggis, J., Schech, S. & Rainbird, S. 2007 "From refugee to settlement case worker: cultural brokers in the contact zone and the border work of identity", The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and nations, 7.
  
  Schech, S. & Vas Dev, S. 2007 “Gender justice: the World Bank’s new approach to the poor?”, Development in Practice, 17(1), pp. 14-26.

  Alwy, A. & Schech, S. 2004 “Ethnic inequalities in education in Kenya”, International Education Journal, 5(2), pp. 266-274.

  Schech, S. 2002 “Wired for change? The links between ICTs and development discourses”, Journal of International Development, 14(1), pp. 13-23.

  Schech, S. & McNally, S. 2001 “Interpreting gender policy: The challenges of negotiating difference in Australian development projects in Vietnam”. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 22 (3), pp. 655-74.

  Schech, S. & Haggis, J. 2001 “Migrancy, multiculturalism and whiteness, re-charting core identities in Australia”, Communal/Plural, 9(2), pp. 143-60.

  Haggis, J. & Schech, S. 2000 “Meaning well and global good manners: reflections on white western feminist cross-cultural praxis”, Australian Feminist Studies, 16(33), pp. 387-399.

  Vas Dev, S. & Schech, S. 2000 “Southern NGOs and the Internet: empowerment or enslavement?”, Policy, Organisation and Society, 19(2) pp. 39-58.

  Haggis, J., Schech, S. and Fitzgerald, G. 1999 “Narrating lives, narrating whiteness - a research note”, Journal of Australian Studies, 60, pp. 168-173.

  Schech, S. & J. Haggis 1998 “Post-colonialism, identity and location: being white Australian in Asia”, Society and Space 16, pp. 615-629.

  Schech, S. 1998 “Between tradition and post-coloniality: the location of AusAID’s gender and development policy” Australian Geographer 29, pp. 389-404.
  

Last updated 22 January 2007