Publications

Journal Articles

Brooks, S. & Kumar, A. (2023) Why the Super-Rich Will Not Be Saving the World: Philanthropy and “Privatization Creep” in Global Development, Business and Society, 62(2), 223-228

Kirshner, J., Brown, E., Dunlop, L., Franco Cairo, J.P., Redeker, K., Veneu, F. Brooks, S., Kirshner, S., Walton, P.H. (2022)
“A future beyond sugar”: Examining second-generation biofuel pathways in Alagoas, northeast Brazil,
Environmental Development, 44, 100739

Brooks, S. (2021) Configuring the digital farmer: a nudge world in the making? Economy and Society, 50(3) 374-396

Kumar, A. & Brooks, S. (2021) Bridges, platforms and satellites: theorizing the power of global philanthropy in international development, Economy and Society, 50(2) 322-345

Mamonova, N, Franquesa, J. & Brooks, S. (2020) ‘Actually Existing’ Right-Wing Populism in Rural Europe: Insights from Eastern Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ukraine, Journal of Peasant Studies, 47(4) 1497-1525. Republished in  Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World (Routledge 2022, pp. 420-447, hardback/open access e-book)

Brooks, S. (2020) Brexit and the politics of the rural, Sociologia Ruralis, 60(4) 790-809

Gabor, D. & Brooks, S. (2017) The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era, New Political Economy, 22(4) 423-436

Brooks, S. (2016) Inducing food insecurity: financialisation and development in the post-2015 era. Third World Quarterly, 37(5) 768-780

Brooks, S. & Roberts, E. (2016) ‘Simultaneous Immersion’: How online postgraduate study contributes to the development of reflective practice among public service practitioners, Interactive Learning Environments, 24(7) 1692-1705

Brooks, S. (2014) Enabling Adaptation? Lessons from the new ‘Green Revolution’ in Malawi and Kenya, Climatic Change, 122(1-2) 15-26

Brooks, S. (2013) Biofortification: lessons from the Golden Rice project, Food Chain, 3(1-2) 77-88

Krätli, S., Huelsebusch, C., Brooks, S. & Kaufmann, B. (2013) Pastoralism: a critical asset for food security under global climate change, Animal Frontiers, 3(1) 42-50

Brooks, S. & Loevinsohn, M.E. (2011) Shaping Agricultural Innovation Systems Responsive to Food Insecurity and Climate Change, Natural Resources Forum, 5(3) 185-200.

Brooks, S. (2011) ‘Living with Materiality or Confronting Asian Diversity? The Case of Iron-Biofortified Rice Research in the Philippines’, East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS), 5(2) 173–188

Brooks, S. (2011) ‘Is International Agricultural Research a Global Public Good? The Case of Rice Biofortification’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 38(1) 67-80

Brooks, S. (2005) ‘Biotechnology and the Politics of Truth: From the Green Revolution to an Evergreen Revolution’, Sociologia Ruralis, 45(4) 360-379

Book (Monograph)

Brooks, S. (2010) Rice Biofortification: Lessons for Global Science and Development. London: Earthscan

“A deeply thought-provoking book, this study of biofortification in rice explores how and why public science so often irons out complex needs into a demand for pre-packaged solutions… [This] book is essential reading for both critics and proponents of biotechnology in international development” 

– Paul Richards, Professor Emeritus, Knowledge, Technology and Innovation, Wageningen University

“a carefully reasoned, meticulously researched account of the tenacity of a certain kind of science … Brooks writes from experience in the field, not just from the sidelines, and shows how multiple pressures and opportunities coagulate in the form of singular high-tech, high-modernist and market-driven scientific solutions for complex, variable and dynamic social problems”

– Joanna Davidson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University

More reviews here

Book Chapters

Brooks, S. (2024) The platformisation of global development. In R. Paul, E. Carmel and J. Cobbe (Eds.), Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham. Pre-print available here.

Brooks, S. (2015) Philanthrocapitalism,  ‘pro-poor’ agricultural biotechnology and development,  in B. Morvaridi (Ed.) New Philanthropy and Social Justice: Debating the conceptual and policy discourse Policy Press: Bristol.

Brooks, S., D. Burges Watson, A. Draper, M. Goodman, H. Kvalvaag & W. Wills (2013) Chewing on Choice, in Abbots, E-J & Lavis, A (Eds.) Why We Eat, How We Eat: Contemporary Encounters Between Foods and Bodies, Farnham: Ashgate.

Brooks, S. & Johnson-Beebout, S.E. (2017) Contestation as continuity? Biofortification research and the CGIAR, in Routledge FreeBook Pathways to Sustainable Agriculture. Originally published in Sumberg, J. & Thompson, J. (Eds.) Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World, Abingdon: Routledge (2012).

Other publications

Dunlop, L., Brooks, S., Friend, R. M., Kirshner, J. D., Redeker, K. R., Walton, P. H., Brown, E. J., Fernanda, V., Zimmermann, A., & Franco, J. P. (2020). How Science Works: Second generation biofuels. Chemistry Review, 18-20

Brooks, S. (2016) Private finance and the post-2015 development agenda, Development Finance Agenda, 1(3) 24-27 (January 2016)

Brooks, S. (2013) Investing in Food Security? Philanthrocapitalism, Biotechnology and Development (November 1, 2013). SWPS 2013-12

Brooks, S., Thompson J., Odame H., Kibaara B., Nderitu S., Karin F. & Millstone, E. (2009) Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya: Exploring Pathways in and out of Maize, STEPS Working Paper 36, Brighton: STEPS Centre

Brooks, S., Leach M., Lucas, H. & Millstone, E. (2009) Silver Bullets, Grand Challenges and the New Philanthropy, STEPS Working Paper 24, Brighton: STEPS Centre

Brooks, S. (2008) Global Science, Public Goods? Tracing International Science Policy Processes in Rice Biofortification, PhD Thesis, Brighton: University of Sussex

Brooks, S. (1996) Small Business Development in Papua New Guinea: Lessons, Department of Environment and Conservation/United Nations Development Programme, OPS-PNG/93/G31