As a political sociologist interested in how people living with poverty and precarity get the public services they need, Naomi’s work centres on two distinct but occasionally converging areas: the politics of Bangladesh’s development, and the contentious politics of public services and disasters (beyond Bangladesh). In both areas, she focuses on issues of state accountability and responsiveness, protest and civic agency, and the role of aid. To both she brings an interest in concepts and frameworks from social history, in particular the ‘moral economy’. With an academic background in philosophy, politics, economics, social anthropology and development studies, Naomi’s work aims to be collaborative, inter-disciplinary, accessible and to make a difference that goes beyond the scholarly. She has worked with researchers from around the world as well as with social movements, civic actors, artists, governments and aid agencies around the world.
