AFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Minds, behaviours and psychologies are increasingly and explicitly problematized within social, economic, health, education and development policy, in both the global North and global South. While this shift is ‘new’, it also builds on a long colonial history of the constitution and governance of the ‘psy’. This area of research examines various examples of affective and psy-technologies and the variations these undergo in different contexts.

• Fox, N. J., & Klein, E. “The micropolitics of behavioural interventions: a new materialist analysis”. BioSocieties,15: 226–244 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-019-00153-9, (Peer Reviewed Research Journal Article).

• Klein, E. “The World Bank on Mind, Behaviour and Society”, Development and Change, 48(3): 481–501 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12308, (Peer Reviewed Research Journal Article).

• Klein E. and Mills, C., “Psy-Expertise, therapeutic culture and the new politics of the personal in development”, Third World Quarterly, 38(9):1990-2008 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1319277, (Peer Reviewed Research Journal Article).

• Klein, E. and Ballon, P., “Agency and the Capability Approach: Implications for Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in the ‘Leave no-one Behind’ Sustainable Development Agenda” In Capability-Promoting Policies: Enhancing Individual and Social Development, Hans-Uwe Otto and Holger Ziegler (eds.); Policy Press, 43-62 (2017). https://policypress.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1332/policypress/9781447334316.001.0001/upso-9781447334316-chapter-001

• Klein, E., and Ballon, P. “Rethinking Measures of Psychological Agency: A study on the urban fringe of Bamako”, Journal of Development Studies (Special Issue), 54 (8): 1284-1302 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1414187, (Peer Reviewed Research Journal Article).

• Klein, E. “Women’s agency and the psychological domain: Evidence from the urban fringe of Bamako”. Feminist Economics (A special issue on voice and agency), 22(1): 106-129 (2016), https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2015.1084867, (Peer Reviewed Research Journal Article).

• Klein, E. “Psychological agency: Evidence from the urban fringe of Bamako” World Development, 64: 642-653 (2014), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.07.001, (Peer Reviewed Research Journal Article).

• Klein, E. “Social Norms, Agency and Associations on the Urban Fringe of Bamako,” West African Review, 24: 1525-4488 (2014), https://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/war/article/view/1720%20, (Peer Reviewed Research Journal Article) .

• Klein, E., “Psychological agency: Evidence from the urban fringe of Bamako” Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. Working Paper #69, 1-29 (2015), https://ophi.org.uk/psychological-agency-evidence-from-the-urban-fringe-of-bamako/, (Peer Reviewed Research Publication)