Rama Salla Dieng

Rama (she/her) is a Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh since January 2019 and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. I have worked with several African development organisations before joining academia. This rich policy and research background allows me to ground my research and teaching in my lived work experience in African contexts. Her main research interests are land, labour, social reproduction, accumulation and agrarian transformations , at the intersections of critical feminist and critical agrarian studies with a focus on Senegalese / West African agri-food systems. Her research also focuses on African feminisms, social movements, care and parenting, and the politics of development in Africa. She has edited a book of interviews on African feminisms and a book on Feminist Parenting.

Current and notable research projects/ publications:

• She is a member of the international advisory board of the journal Feminist Theory and is convening a colloquium on Gender and Social Science Research in Africa (8-10 May), online.
• Author (2023), From Yewwu Yewwi to #FreeSenegal: Class, Gender and Generational Dynamics of Radical Feminist Activism in Senegal. Politics & Gender, 1-7.
• Co-Author (2023), Centering Feminists and Feminism in Protests in Africa. Politics & Gender, 1-4. (with Haastrup, T., & Kang, A. )
• Author (2022) : ‘Adversely Incorporated yet Moving up the Social Ladder?’: Labour Migrants Shifting the Gaze from Agricultural Investment Chains to ‘Care Chains’ in Capitalist Social Reproduction in Senegal Rama Salla Dieng
• Co-Editor (2022), Special Issue on Agrarian Change, Food Security, Migration and Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe, Africa Development Journal, CODESRIA , Vol. 47, No 3 (2022) (Double Bilingual Special Issue)
• Co-author (2022), Introduction: Agrarian Change, Food Security, Migration and Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe Rama Salla Dieng, Geoffrey Banda, Walter Chambati
• DIENG, R. S. (2017) ‘Land grabbing’ & the politics of evidence: The case of Senegal in Africa Insight 46 (4) Investment on Land or Land Grabbing? Land Reform, Agricultural Production and Food Security in Africa