Lewis, David

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  • Lewis, David (2024). Foreword. In Ali, M., Akhtar, R. & Islam, M. T. (Eds.), COVID-19 in South Asia: Society, Economics and Politics (pp. xii - xiii). Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2023). Book review: Village ties: women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh Bangladesh | By Nayma Qayum. Pacific Affairs, 96(2), 425 - 427.
  • Lewis, David (2016). Anthropologists’ encounters with NGOs: critique, collaboration, and conflict. In Lashaw, A., Vannier, C. & Sampson, S. (Eds.), Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs . University of Alabama Press.
  • Lewis, David (2015). Livelihood resilience in a changing world – 6 global policy recommendations for a more sustainable future. (UNU-EHS Working Paper 221). UNU-EHS.
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (2015). Anthropology and development: challenges for the twenty-first century. Pluto Press.
  • Lewis, David, Rogers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (Eds.) (2014). Popular representations of development: insights from novels, films, television and social media. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2014). Non-governmental organizations, management and development. Routledge.
  • Schuller, Mark, Lewis, David (2014). Anthropology of NGOs. In Jackson, J. (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199766567-0090
  • Lewis, David (2014). Understanding the role of non-government organizations (NGOs) as cultural brokers: a review of approaches. Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Volkskunde, (3), 293-298.
  • Lewis, David (2013). Reconnecting development policy, people and history. In Wallace, T. & Porter, F. (Eds.), Aid, NGOs and the realities of women's lives: a perfect storm . Practical Action (Organization).
  • Lewis, David (2013). Sideways strategies: civil society-state reformist crossover activities in the Philippines 1986–2010. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 35(1), 27-55. https://doi.org/10.1355/cs35-1b
  • Lewis, David (2013). Building the welfare mix or side-lining the state? non-governmental organizations in developing countries as social policy actors. In Surender, R. & Walker, R. (Eds.), Social policy in a developing world (pp. 58-80). Edward Elgar.
  • Lewis, David (2013). Building the welfare mix or sidelining the state? Non-governmental organizations in developing countries as social policy actors. In Surender, R. & Walker, R. (Eds.), Social Policy in a Developing World (pp. 58-80). Edward Elgar.
  • Lewis, David (2013-02-22 - 2013-02-24) Why should the world care about Bangladesh? [Other]. Bridging the Policy-Action Divide: Challenges and Prospects for Bangladesh, Berkeley, United States, USA.
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2013). The projection of development: cinematic representation as a(nother) source of authoritative knowledge? The Journal of Development Studies, 49(3), 383-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2012.724167
  • Lewis, David (2012). Rural development, technology, and policy memory. In Parker, R. A. & Appelbaum, R. P. (Eds.), Can emerging technologies make a difference in development? (pp. 28-39). Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2012). Bangladesh: politics, economy and civil society. Cambridge University Press.
  • Lewis, David (2012). Across the little divide? life histories of public and third sector “boundary crossers”. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 1(2), 158 -177.
  • Austin, Michael J., Dal Santo, Teresa, Lewis, David (2012). Boundary-crossing careers of senior human service administrators: a cross-case analysis. Administration in Social Work, 36(2), 109-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/03643107.2011.564720
  • Lewis, David (2012). Can we learn from the past? policy history and climate change in Bangladesh. In Castro, P. A., Taylor, D. & Brokensha, D. W. (Eds.), Climate change and threatened communities (pp. 153-162). Practical Action (Organization).
  • Lewis, David (2012). Conclusion: the big society and social policy. In Ishkanian, A. & Szreter, S. (Eds.), The big society debate: a new agenda for social welfare? . Edward Elgar.
  • Lewis, David (2011). Exchanges of professionals between the public and non-governmental sectors: life-work histories from Bangladesh. Modern Asian Studies, 45(3), 735-757. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X09000092
  • Lewis, David (2011). Tidy concepts, messy lives: defining tensions in the domestic and overseas careers of UK non-governmental professionals. In Mosse, D. (Ed.), Adventures in Aidland: the Anthropology of Professionals in International Development . Berghahn Books.
  • Biggs, Stephen, Justice, Scott, Lewis, David (2011). Patterns of rural mechanisation, energy and employment in South Asia: reopening the debate. Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI(9), 78-82.
  • Lewis, David (2010). The strength of weak ideas?: human security, policy history and climate change in Bangladesh. In Security and Development (pp. 113-129). Berghahn Books.
  • Lewis, David (2010). Political ideologies and non-governmental organizations: an anthropological perspective. Journal of Political Ideologies, 15(3), 333-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2010.513877
  • Lewis, David (2010). Encountering hybridity: lessons from individual experiences. In Billis, D. (Ed.), Hybrid Organizations and the Third Sector: Challenges for Practice, Theory and Policy . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lewis, David (2010). Disciplined activists, unruly brokers? exploring the boundaries between non-governmental organisations, donors and state in Bangladesh. In Gellner, D. N. (Ed.), Varieties of activist experience: civil society in South Asia (pp. 159-180). SAGE Publications.
  • Lewis, David (2010). Disciplined activists, unruly brokers?: exploring the boundaries between non-governmental organizations (NGOs), donors, and the state in Bangladesh. In Gellner, D. (Ed.), Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia . SAGE Publications.
  • Lewis, David (2010). Non-governmental organisations. In Barnard, A. & Spencer, J. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology . Routledge.
  • Biggs, Stephen, Lewis, David (2009). Fair trade and organizational innovation in Nepal: lessons from 25 Years of growth of the Association of Craft Producers (ACP). European Journal of Development Research, 21(3), 377-396. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2009.11
  • Lewis, David, Kanji, Nazneen (2009). Non-governmental organisations and development. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2009). International development and the ‘perpetual present’: anthropological approaches to the re-historicization of policy. European Journal of Development Research, 21(1), 32-46. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2008.7
  • Lewis, David (2009). Non-governmental organizations. In Anheier, H. K. & Toepler, S. (Eds.), International encyclopedia of civil society . Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
  • Lewis, David (2009). Reflections on organizational anthropology. In Sridhar, D. (Ed.), Anthropologists inside organizations: South Asian case studies (pp. 149-152). SAGE Publications.
  • Lewis, David (2008). Using life histories in social policy research: the case of third sector/public sector boundary crossing. Journal of Social Policy, 37(4), 559-578. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279408002213
  • Lewis, David, Hossain, Abul (2008). A tale of three villages: power, difference and locality in rural Bangladesh. Journal of South Asian Development, 3(1), 33-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/097317410700300102
  • Lewis, David (2008). Beyond “the net”? the changing rural power structure in Bangladesh. In Gellner, D. & Hachhethu, K. (Eds.), Local democracy in South Asia: microprocesses of democratization in Nepal and its neighbours . SAGE Publications.
  • Lewis, David (2008). Crossing the boundaries between 'third sector' and state: life-work histories from the Philippines, Bangladesh and the UK. Third World Quarterly, 29(1), 125-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590701726582
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2008). The fiction of development: literary representation as a source of authoritative knowledge. The Journal of Development Studies, 44(2), 198-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380701789828
  • Lewis, David, Ravichandran, N. (Eds.) (2008). NGOs and social welfare: new research approaches. Rawat Books.
  • Lewis, David, Hossain, Abul (2008). Understanding the local power structure in rural Bangladesh. Sweden. Styrelsen för internationellt utvecklingssamarbete.
  • Lewis, David (2007). Bringing in society, culture and politics: values and accountability in a Bangladesh NGO. In Ebrahim, A. & Weisband, E. (Eds.), Global accountabilities: participation, pluralism, and public ethics (pp. 131-148). Cambridge University Press.
  • Hossain, Mahabub, Bose, Manik L., Lewis, David, Chowdhury, Alamgir (2007). Rice research, technological process, and impacts on the poor: the Bangladesh case. In Adato, M. & Meinzen-Dick, R. (Eds.), Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries (pp. 56-102). Johns Hopkins University. Press.
  • Hallman, Kelly, Lewis, David, Begum, Suraiya (2007). Assessing the impact of vegetable and fishpond technologies on poverty in rural Bangladesh. In Adato, M. & Meinzen-Dick, R. (Eds.), Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries (pp. 103-148). Johns Hopkins University. Press.
  • Bebbington, Anthony, Lewis, David, Batterbury, Simon, Olson, E, Shameem Siddiqi, M (2007). Beyond the development text: the World Bank and empowerment in practice. The Journal of Development Studies, 43(4), 597-621. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380701259665
  • Opoku-Mensah, Paul, Lewis, David, Tvedt, Terje (Eds.) (2007). Reconceptualising NGOs and their roles in development: NGOs, civil society and the international aid system. Aalborg University Press.
  • Hossain, Mahabub, Lewis, David, Bose, Manik L., Chowdhury, Alamgir (2007). Rice research, technological progress, and impacts on the poor: the Bangladesh case. In Adato, M. & Meinzen-Dick, R. (Eds.), Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries (pp. 56-102). Johns Hopkins University. Press.
  • Lewis, David (2006). The management of non-governmental development organisations. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2006). Issues and priorities in non-governmental organisation research. Journal of Health Management, 8(2), 181-193. https://doi.org/10.1177/097206340600800202
  • Lewis, David, Opoku-Mensah, Paul (2006). Moving forward research agendas on international NGOs: Theory, agency and context. Journal of International Development, 18(5), 665-675. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1306
  • Lewis, David (2006-11-30 - 2006-12-02) Anthropology and development: knowledge, history, power and practice [Paper]. Anthropology in practice: theory, method and ethnography in Swedish Development Cooperation, Uppsala, Sweden, SWE.
  • Lewis, David, Mosse, D. (2006). Development brokers and translators: the ethnography of aid agencies. Kumarian Press.
  • Lewis, David, Mosse, D (2006). Encountering order and disjuncture: Contemporary anthropological perspectives on the organisation of development. Oxford Development Studies, 34(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600810500495907
  • Lewis, David (2006). Globalization and international service: a development perspective. Voluntary Action, 7(2), 13-26.
  • Lewis, David (2006). Non-governmental organisations. In Tate, N. (Ed.), Governments of the World (pp. 205-209). Macmillan Reference.
  • Lewis, David (2006). Non-governmental organisations and international politics. In Tate, N. (Ed.), Governments of the world: a global guide to citizens' rights and responsibilities . Macmillan Reference USA.
  • Lewis, David, Siddiqi, M. Shameen (2006). Social capital from sericulture? : actors, markets, and power in a multi-agency project in Bangladesh. In Bebbington, A. J., Woolcock, M., Guggenheim, S. E. & Olson, E. (Eds.), The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank (pp. 239-257). Kumarian Press.
  • Lewis, David (2005-09-23 - 2005-09-25) Policy tensions in public space: shifting boundaries between non-governmental organisations (NGOs), donors and state in Bangladesh [Paper]. The public reconfigured: The production of poverty in an age of advancing liberalism, Bergen, Norway, NOR.
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (2005). Beyond development? In Edelman, M. & Haugerud, A. (Eds.), The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism (pp. 352-360). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Lewis, David (2005). Entries on ‘civil society’, ‘non-governmental organisations’ and ‘Grameen Bank’. In Forsyth, T. (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of International Development . Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2005). Individuals, organisations and public action : trajectories of the non-governmental in development studies. In Kothari, U. (Ed.), A Radical History of Development Studies (pp. 200-222). Zed Books.
  • Mosse, David, Lewis, David (2005). The aid effect: giving and governing in international development. Pluto Press.
  • Lewis, David (2004). On the difficulty of studying “civil society”: NGOs, state and democracy in Bangladesh. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 38(3), 299-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/006996670403800301
  • Glasius, Marlies, Lewis, David, Seckinelgin, Hakan (Eds.) (2004). Exploring civil society : political and cultural contexts. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2004). Icebergs, hippos and organizational change in Africa, a reply to Rick James. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 15(2), 259-263. https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.67
  • Lewis, David, Madon, Shirin (2004). Information systems and non-governmental development organisations: advocacy, organisational learning and accountability. Information Society, 20(2), 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972240490423049
  • Lewis, David (2004). Non-Governmental Organisations. In Thomas, C. S. (Ed.), Research Guide to Us and International Interest Groups (pp. 263-264). Praeger Publishers.
  • Lewis, David (2004). "Old" and "new" civil societies in Bangladesh. In Glasius, M., Lewis, D. & Seckinelgin, H. (Eds.), Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts (pp. 113-120). Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2003). NGOs, organizational culture, and institutional sustainability. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 590(1), 212-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716203256904
  • Lewis, David (2003). Theorising the organisation and management of non-governmental development organisations: towards a composite approach. Public Management Review, 5(3), 325-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/1471903032000146937
  • Lewis, David, Bebbington, Anthony J., Batterbury, Simon, Shah, Alpa, Olson, Elizabeth, Siddiqi, M. Shameem, Duvall, Sandra (2003). Practice, power and meaning: frameworks for studying organizational culture in multi-agency rural development projects. Journal of International Development, 15(5), 541-557. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1004
  • Lewis, David (2003). Civil society. In Christensen, K. & Levinson, D. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World . SAGE Publications.
  • Lewis, David (2003). Nongovernmental organizations, business, and the management of ambiguity. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 9(2), 135-152. https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.9202
  • Lewis, David (2003). « Old » and « new » civil societies? reflections on NGOs, state and democracy in Bangladesh. Journal des Anthropologues, 94-95, 93-121.
  • Lewis, David (2003). Organization and management in the third sector: toward a cross-cultural research agenda. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 13(1), 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.13106
  • Lewis, David (2002). Civil society in African contexts: reflections on the usefulness of a concept. Development and Change, 33(4), 569-586. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00270
  • Lewis, David (2002-01-31 - 2002-02-01) Organisational culture in multi-agency development projects [Paper]. Conference on Sustainable Development in Urban Communities, Arizona, United States, USA.
  • Lewis, David (2002). NGOs, performance and accountability: an overview. In Desai, V. & Potter, R. B. (Eds.), The Arnold Companion to Development Studies (pp. 519-522). Edward Arnold.
  • Lewis, David (2002). The rise of non-governmental organisations: issues in development management. In Clarke, R., Kirkpatrick, C. H. & Polidano, C. (Eds.), Handbook on development policy and management (pp. 372-380). Edward Elgar.
  • Lewis, David (2001). The management of non-governmental development organisations: an introduction. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2000). International aid agencies: policy conflict and convergence. In Harris, M. & Rochester, C. (Eds.), Voluntary organisations and social policy in Britain: perspectives on change and choice . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lewis, David (2000). Building 'active' partnerships in aid-recipient countries: lessons from a rural development project in Bangladesh. In Osborne, S. P. (Ed.), Public-Private Partnerships: Theory and Practice in International Perspective (pp. 252 - 264). Routledge.
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (2000). Dominant paradigms overturned or 'business as usual'? Development discourse and the White Paper on international development. Critique of Anthropology, 20(1), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X0002000106
  • Lewis, David, Sobhan, Babar (2000). Routes of funding, roots of trust? Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs and the rise of direct funding. In Eade, D. & Wallace, T. (Eds.), Development and management (pp. 202-219). Oxfam.
  • Lewis, David, Wallace, Tina (Eds.) (2000). New roles and relevance: development NGOs and the challenge of change. Kumarian Press.
  • Lewis, David (1999). International perspectives on voluntary action: reshaping the third sector. Earthscan Publications Ltd..
  • Lewis, David, Sobhan, Babar (1999). Routes of funding, roots of trust? northern NGOs, southern NGOs, donors, and the rise of direct funding. Development in Practice, 9(1-2), 117-129.
  • Lewis, David (1999). Development NGOs and the challenge of partnership. In Finer, C. J. (Ed.), Transnational Social Policy (pp. 49-60). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Lewis, David (1999). Partnership as process: building an institutional ethnography of an inter-agency aquaculture project in Bangladesh. Journal of Social Studies, 85, 61-82.
  • Lewis, David (1999). Revealing, widening, deepening?: a review of the existing and the potential contribution of anthropological approaches to ‘third sector’. Human Organization, 58(1), 73-81.
  • Lewis, David (1998). Partnership as process: building an institutional ethnography of an inter-agency aquaculture project in Bangladesh. In Mosse, D., Farrington, J. & Rew, A. (Eds.), Development as process: concepts and methods for working with complexity (pp. 99-114). Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (1998). Development NGOs and the challenge of partnership: changing relations between North and South. Social Policy and Administration, 32(5), 501-512. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9515.00111
  • Lewis, David (1998). Interagency partnerships in aid-recipient countries: lessons from an aquaculture project in Bangladesh. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 27(3), 323-338. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764098273004
  • Lewis, David (1997). NGOs, donors, and the state in Bangladesh. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 554(1), 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716297554001003
  • Lewis, David (1997). Rethinking aquaculture for resource-poor farmers: perspectives from Bangladesh. Food Policy, 22(6), 533-546. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-9192(98)00006-2
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (1996). Anthropology, development and the post-modern challenge. Pluto Press.
  • Lewis, David (1996). ‘Appropriating’ technology? tractor owners, brokers, artisans and farmers in rural Bangladesh. Journal of International Development, 8(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199601)8:1<21::AID-JID247>3.0.CO;2-#
  • Lewis, David, Wood, Geoffrey, Gregory, Rick (1996). Trading the silver seed. Practical Action (Organization).
  • Lewis, David (1996). Understanding rural entrepreneurship in a Bangladesh village — individuals, roles or structures? Small Enterprise Development, 7(4), 22-31. https://doi.org/10.3362/0957-1329.1996.034
  • Farrington, John, Lewis, David (Eds.) (1993). Non-governmental organizations and the state in Asia: rethinking roles in sustainable agricultural development. Routledge.
  • Bebbington, Anthony, Farrington, John, Lewis, David, Wellard, Kate (Eds.) (1993). Reluctant partners? NGOs, the state and sustainable agricultural development. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (1993). Going it alone: female-headed households, rights and resources in rural Bangladesh. The European Journal of Development Research, 5(2), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/09578819308426586
  • Lewis, David, Gregory, Rick, Wood, Geoffrey D. (1993). Indigenising extension: farmers, fish-seed traders and poverty-focused aquaculture in Bangladesh. Development Policy Review, 11(2), 185-194. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.1993.tb00036.x
  • Lewis, David (1992). Social research and aquaculture in Bangladesh: a case study from the North West. In Sadeque, S. Z. (Ed.), Environment and natural resource management in Bangladesh . Bangladesh Sociological Association.
  • Lewis, David (1991). The offstage miracle: carrying out and writing up field research in Bangladesh. Journal of Social Studies, 52, 43-68.
  • Lewis, David (1991). Technologies & transactions: a study of the interaction between new technology and agrarian structure in Bangladesh-Dhaka. Dhaka University. Centre for Social Studies.
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  • Lewis, David (9 June 2025) Towards a development humanities. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2025). Towards a ‘Development Humanities’: widening the multi-disciplinary field of development studies. Oxford Development Studies, 53(2), 105 - 118. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2025.2476553 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Bowers, Rebecca, Heslop, Luke, Tawfic, Simon (2024). From ecosystems to advicescapes: business, development and advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Journal of South Asian Development, 19(3), 345 - 363. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741241239120 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2024). Clarifying confusion between development as 'change' and 'intention'. In The Companion to Development Studies (pp. 57-61). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282348-12 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (1 January 2024) Bangladesh goes to the polls. South Asia @ LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Rahman, M. Feisal, Lewis, David, Kuhl, Laura, Baldwin, Andrew, Ruszczyk, Hanna, Nadiruzzaman, Md, Mahid, Yousuf (2023). Managed urban retreat: the trouble with crisis narratives. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2228094 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (20 February 2023) Why study entrepreneurship advice in South Asia? South Asia @ LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (9 January 2023) Is development an art or a science? Impact of Social Sciences Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Biggs, Stephen, Justice, Scott (2022). Rural mechanization for equitable development: disarray, disjuncture and disruption. Development Policy Review, 40(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12612 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (Eds.) (2022). New mediums, better messages? How innovations in translation, engagement, and advocacy are changing international development. Oxford University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rahman, M. Feisal, Twinomuhangi, Revocatus, Haque, Shababa, Huq, Nazmul, Huq, Saleemul, Ribbe, Lars, Ishtiaque, Asif (2022). University-based researchers as knowledge brokers for climate policies and action. European Journal of Development Research, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-022-00526-0 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Hossain, Abul (2022). Local political consolidation in Bangladesh: power, informality and patronage. Development and Change, 53(2), 356 - 375. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12534 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2021). The sounds of development: musical representations as a(nother) source of development knowledge. The Journal of Development Studies, 57(8), 1397 - 1412. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1862800 picture_as_pdf
  • Leone, Tiziana, Hammoudeh, Weeam, Mitwali, Susan, Lewis, David, Kafri, Rawan, Lin, Tracy, Giacaman, Rita, Coast, Ernestina (2021). Redefining deprivation in a conflict area: learning from the Palestinian experience using mixed methods. (LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series 47). LSE Middle East Centre. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, van Schendel, Willem (2020). Rethinking the Bangladesh state. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 54(2), 306 – 323. https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966720911733 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2020). The sounds of development: musical representations as (an)other source of development knowledge. (Social Policy Working Paper Series 07-20). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2019). Big D and little d two types of twenty-first century development? Third World Quarterly, 40(11), 1957 - 1975. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1630270 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2019). Humanitarianism, civil society, and the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. Third World Quarterly, 40(10), 1884-1902. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1652897 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2019). Social entrepreneurship before neoliberalism?: The life and work of Akhtar Hameed Khan. (Social Policy Working Paper Series 02-19). The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Social Policy. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Hossain, Abul (2018). Dealing with the local level power structure: findings from a qualitative study of three villages in Greater Faridpur District. Journal of Bangladesh Studies, 18(1-2). picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2018). Peopling policy processes? Methodological populism in the Bangladesh health and education sectors. World Development, 108, 16 - 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.012
  • Huq, Saleemul, Lewis, David (2018). What should be the future of UK-Bangladesh relations after aid? Exit DFID, enter the universities. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2018). The view from Cox's Bazar: assessing the impact of the Rohingya crisis on Bangladesh.
  • Lewis, David (2018). Oxfam crisis: we need a more informed debate about NGOs and international aid.
  • Lewis, David (2017). Organising and representing the poor in a clientelistic democracy: the decline of radical NGOs in Bangladesh. The Journal of Development Studies, 53(10), 1545-1567. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1279732
  • Lewis, David, Schuller, Mark (2017). Engagements with a productively unstable category: anthropologists and non-governmental organizations. Current Anthropology, 58(5).
  • Lewis, David, Hossain, Abul (2017). Revisiting the local power structure in Bangladesh: economic gain, political pain? London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Lewis, David (2017). Guest editorial: should we pay more attention to South-North learning? Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance, 41(4), 327-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2017.1366222
  • Hammoudeh, Doaa, Coast, Ernestina, Lewis, David, Rabaia, Yoke, Leone, Tiziana, Giacaman, Rita (2017). Age of despair or age of hope? Palestinian women's perspectives on midlife health. Social Science & Medicine, 184, 108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.028
  • Lewis, David (2015). Abandoned pasts, disappearing futures: further reflections on multiple temporalities in studying non-governmental organisation worlds. Critique of Anthropology, 36(1), 84-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X15617304
  • Lewis, David (2015). Contesting parallel worlds: time to abandon the distinction between the ‘international’ and ‘domestic’ contexts of third sector scholarship? Voluntas, 26(5), 2084-2103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9482-x
  • Lewis, David (2015). Book review: non-governmental organizations, management and development, 3rd Edition.
  • Lewis, David (2015). Is civil society in trouble in Bangladesh?
  • Lewis, David (2015). Non-governmental organizations and civil society. In Riaz, A. & Rahman, M. S. (Eds.), Routledge handbook of contemporary Bangladesh . Routledge.
  • Hammoudeh, Doaa, Coast, Ernestina, Giacaman, Rita, Lewis, David, Rabaia, Yoke, Leone, Tiziana (2015-03-20 - 2015-03-21) Age of despair or age of hope? Older Palestinian women’s perspectives on health in midlife [Other]. Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance 6th conference, Beirut, Lebanon, LBN.
  • Lewis, David (2014). Two elections, one new government: India-Bangladesh relations in 2014.
  • Lewis, David (2014). Heading south: time to abandon the ‘parallel worlds’ of international non-governmental organization (NGO) and domestic third sector scholarship? Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 25(5), 1132-1150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9438-1
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2014). Can film offer an(other) authoritative source of development knowledge?
  • Lewis, David (2014). Commodifying development experience: deconstructing development as gift in the development blockbuster. Anthropological Forum, 24(4), 440-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2013.863144
  • Lewis, David (2014). Politics in Bangladesh: no quick fixes.
  • Lewis, David (2013). What options for Bangladesh?
  • Lewis, David (2013). Bangladesh: democracy in turmoil.
  • Lewis, David (2013). The paradoxes of Bangladesh’s Shahbag protests.
  • Lewis, David (2012). Love-hate relationship: why bilateral tensions persist between India and Bangladesh. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2011). The voluntary sector is at the centre of the government’s Big Society plans: this may offer the possibility of better services, but not necessarily cheaper ones.
  • Lewis, David (2011). There is no crisis of civic participation: The Big Society risks undermining the integrity of both state and civil society.
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2005). The fiction of development: knowledge, authority and representation. (International Development Working Paper Series 05-61). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Lewis, David (2005). Anthropology and development : the uneasy relationship. In Carrier, J. G. (Ed.), A Handbook of Economic Anthropology (pp. 472-486). Edward Elgar.
  • Lewis, David, Bebbington, Anthony J., Batterbury, Simon, Shah, Alpa, Olson, Elizabeth, Siddiqi, M. Shameem, Duvall, Sandra (2002). Practice, power and meaning: frameworks for studying organisational culture in multi-agency rural development projects. (International Working Paper Series 12). Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science).
  • Lewis, David (2001). Civil society in non-Western contexts: reflections on the ‘usefulness’ of a concept. (Civil Society Working Paper series 13). Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science).
  • Lewis, David (1998). Bridging the gap?: the parallel universes of the non-profit and non-governmental organisation research traditions and the changing context of voluntary action. (International Working Paper Series 1). Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science).
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  • Lewis, David, Schuller, Mark (2025). NGO afterlives. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 48(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.70029 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2019). NGOs and management studies. In Davies, T. (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations (pp. 165-178). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315268927 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2018). Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999). In Simon, D. (Ed.), Key Thinkers on Development . Routledge. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Tanner, Thomas, Wrathall, David, Bronen, Robin, Cradock-Henry, Nick, Huq, Saleemul, Lawless, Christopher J, Nawrotzki, Raphael, Prasad, Vivek & Ashiqur Rahman, Md et al (2014). Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change. Nature Climate Change, 5, 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2431 picture_as_pdf