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Jonathan van Eerd: The Quality of Democracy in Africa: Opposition Competitiveness Rooted in Legacies of Cleavages, Palgrave, London and New York 2017.
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Siegbert Uhlig, David Appleyard, Alessandro Bausi and Wolfgang Hahn (eds.): Ethiopia - History, Culture and Challenges, LIT Verlag, Berlin 2017.
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Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz (editors): Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, Peter Lang, New York 2016.
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Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha: The Aftermath of the Cassinga Massacre. Survivors, Deniers and Injustices, Basel Namibia Studies Series Vol. 18, BAB Publishing House, Basel 2017.
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Iolanda Pensa (ed.): Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala, vuesDensemble, MētisPresses, Geneva 2017.
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Wim van Binsbergen: Vicarious Reflections: African explorations in empirically-grounded intercultural philosophy, Papers in Intercultural Philosophy / Transcontinental Comparative Studies (PIP-TraCS
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Zed Books and the International African Institute Book Launch: Kris Berwouts: Congos Violent Peace: Conflict and Struggle Since the Great African War.; Marielle Debos: Living by the Gun in Chad
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Sylvain Racaud, Bob Nakileza, François Bart, Bernard Charlery de la Masselière (eds.): Rural-Urban Dynamics in the East African Mountains, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Dar es Salaam 2017.
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La revue Afrique contemporaine présente : "Understanding Boko Haram", De Boeck, n°255, 2017.
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Matteo Rizzo: Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport in an African Metropolis, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017.
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OECD/SWAC: Cross-border Cooperation and Policy Networks in West Africa, West African Studies, OECD Publishing, Paris 2017.
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Klaas van Walraven: Le désir de calme. L’histoire du mouvement Sawaba au Niger, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2017.
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Martin Mourre: Thiaroye 1944. Histoire et mémoire d’un massacre colonial, Presses Universitaire de Rennes, Rennes 2017.
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Steven Robins: Letters of Stone. From Nazi Germany to South Africa, Penguin Random House Publishers South Africa, Cape Town 2016.
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Richard Fardon and Sènga la Rouge: Learning from the Curse. Sembene’s Xala, Hurst Publishers, London 2017.
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Wiebke Keim: Universally Comprehensible, Arrogantly Local. South African Labour Studies from the Apartheid Era into the New Millennium, Editions des Archives Contemporaines, Paris 2017.
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Jan Beek, Mirco Göpfert, Olly Owen and Jonny Steinberg (eds): Police in Africa. The Street Level View, Hurst Publishers, London 2017.
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Elísio Macamo: The Taming of Faith. Approaching Risk from a Social Action Perspective – Case Studies from Southern Mozambique, Dakar, CODESRIA 2017.
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Something New in Old Town (2016)
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Casa Branca The Bridge (2016)
FS03
Xilunguine The Promised Land (2013)
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Caught-in-Between (2016)
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Ghana's Electric Dreams (2017)
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Iman - preventing violence and extremism (2017)
FS07
Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants (2014)
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Les Mairuuwas - Masters of Water (2015)
FS09
Guangzhou Dream Factory (2016)
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O Nascer de um Ritmo (2016)
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Maputo: Ethnography of a Divided City (2015)
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Kalanda - The Knowledge of the Bush (2014)
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Healing of Memories in South Africa (2017)
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Mirjam de Bruijn: Digitalisation and the Field of African Studies
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Elísio Macamo: Urbane Scholarship: Studying Africa, Understanding the World (Lugard Lecture)
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Joyce Nyairo: Urban Africa, Urban Africans - Binds, Boundaries and Belonging
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Edgar Pieterse: The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces
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Collaborative Research Group (CRG) African Politics and International Relations
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Collaborative Research Group (CRG) African History
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Collaborative Research Group (proposed new CRG) Migration and Displacement
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Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Africa in the Indian Ocean
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Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Coordinators' Meeting
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Journal of African History Editorial Board
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Journal Africa Editorial Meeting
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African Books Collective (ABC) Board Meeting
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Namibian and Southern African Studies
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AEGIS Board Meeting
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AEGIS Plenary
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International Africa Institute Council
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ELIAS European Librarians in African Studies 11th Annual Meeting, followed by visit to the exhibition Stolen Moments
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Central African Studies Association (CASA) and CongoResearchNetwork Business Meeting
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Collaborative Research Group (CFG) Drylands
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Hubs, Gateways and Bottlenecks - New Transport Infrastructures and Urbanities Respacing Africa I
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Rural despotism in democratic South Africa
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Precarious Inclusion: Inclusive Capitalism and African Informal Economies
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Labour (markets) in extractive industries
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The Rural-Urban Linkages in Africa's Quest for Industrialisation: Large Scale Land Acquisition, Capitalist Farming, and Agrarian Transformation in Comparative Historical-Sociological Context
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Africa and Higher Education - A Transnational Perspective
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Aftermaths: urban displacement and the poisoned promise of resettlement
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African capitalisms: Bringing the entrepreneur back in
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Border towns in Africa: Between division and integration (CRG ABORNE approved panel)
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Urban transformations in Rural Africa: The role of small towns in Sub-Saharan Africa - revisited
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60 shades of development assistance: remainings of projects and programs in urban and rural Africa
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Dynamics of growth, investment and violence in Eastern Africa's margins
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Rural Food Farmers in Urban Markets
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Smart cities as national and regional growth poles in Africa
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Urbanization for Africa's structural transformation
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Knowledge production for active urban citizenship
P017 CANCELLED
Gender transition and urban societal wellbeing in Eastern Africa
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Shifting Terrain: The Dynamics of National Land Policy in Africa
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(Street)Markets, Malls, and 'Exhibitions': Commerce and the transformation of African urban space
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Transformative research and economic transformation in Africa
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Mining and Urbanization in Rural Africa/Exploitation minière et urbanisation en Afrique rurale
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Metropolitan emergence: cities in the globalization, views from North and sub-Saharan Africa
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Villes, inégalités et conflits en Afrique contemporaine
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Local Government in decentralizing and urbanizing society (Le gouvernement local dans la société décentralisante et urbanisante)
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Changing spaces for rural and urban civil society movements in Africa
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Zimbabwe's politics and protests: writing the 'urban' back in
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Rural-urban cleavages in the Congolese conflicts
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Social media and the political sphere in Africa: reshaping democratic engagement?
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Time as politics: past present and future in African urbanism
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The State and the Media: surveillance and censorship in Africa's pasts and presents
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Managing militias: the (non)emergence of armed groups before, during, and after elections
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Capital politics: The political economy of African regional organisations
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Security in the city: Experiences of security pluralism in urban Africa
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The changing face of electoral manipulation in Africa
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The Political Economy of Land and Extraction
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Being a non-violent youth in conflict contexts
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The politics and policies of mobilization in authoritarian regimes: producing domination and consent
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Liberation diplomacy and the African city
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Still Relevant? The European Union in Africa
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Creating Common Understanding - EU-Africa Responses to Urban Challenges
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La recomposition des espaces politiques en temps de guerre
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Elites, Networks and Bargains: Explaining African trajectories at the intersection of agency and institutions
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'Electric scrambles', past and present: renovating the politics of the kilowatts and the megawatts across African polities
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Ideology and Armed Struggle in Contemporary Africa
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Judicial elites in Africa: appointments and careers at superior courts
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The Developmental State Strikes Back? The Rise of New Global Powers and African States' Development Strategies
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Speaking Africa, integrating Africa? Norms and power of the African Union
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Conspiracies and conspiracy theory. The politics of the unknown
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Urban Africa, Voice, and Politics
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A bottom-up perspective on military intervention in fragile states
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Youth-led leadership and participation in Africa
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Demarcating political life? The rural-urban divide and its influence on political behavior
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Reading State through humanitarian a perspective: Boko Haram "ruralities war" and population displacement in the Lake Chad region
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Political Representation in Fragile and Transitional States
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Violent conflict and the politics of rural-urban transformation
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Party Politics under Authoritarian Rule
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Civil Wars and State Formation: Order and legitimacy during and after violent conflict
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Democracy, decolonisation and political contestation: the South African case
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The social life of identity documents in Africa
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The New Political Economy of Afro-Asian Ties
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Social Assistance Policies in Africa
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Violent Democracies? Understanding election-related violence in Africa
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Hubs, Gateways and Bottlenecks - New Transport Infrastructures and Urbanities Respacing Africa II
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Insurgent Citizenship: The politics of laying claim to urban spaces in historical perspectives
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New forms of dependence in rural Africa?
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Sentiments of Justice in Africa: Contestations at the Intersection of Rural and Urban Imaginations
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New mobilities and translocal social practices of African (post)pastoralist societies
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Strangers Among Us: Negotiating/Shifting Race and Ethnic Relations in Urban and Rural African Spaces and Places
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Bus stations in Africa
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Enfants au travail dans les villes africaines: stratégies, droits et mobilités
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Secondary cities in Africa: Between metropolises and small towns
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Different Localities, Different Identities? Rural-Urban Mobilities and the (Re)Production of Class
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The unemployed in Africa: redistribution, time, and the meaning of productivity
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Making the African City: Leisure, Security and Ordinary Urbanities
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Transnational migration and its implications for education in contemporary Africa
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The Role of Networks in Rural-Urban-Transnational Encounters: The Mobility of People, Ideas and Spaces
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(Infra)structures of Extraction in Africa
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A desire for the authentic: urban and rural lives as categories of social distinction
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Innovations in connectivity and social change in Africa: new ways to bridge the urban and rural in historical perspective
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African bureaucrats and emotions at work
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Africa and the city. Constrained urbanisation through forced displacement
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Africa's Nocturnal Cities
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Coming of Age in a Time of Change: New Forms of Gendered Self-Accomplishment in (East) Africa and beyond
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Youthful agency, art practices and the right to the city
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Rethinking African ageing: Growing old in an urbanising Africa
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Villes et projets urbains en Afrique : politiques de la culture / cultures du politique
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Thinking through time. Large-scale technological innovations in Africa
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Urban governance: new arrangements in African cities of all sizes
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Contested waterfronts in Kenya, Cameroon and Côte d´Ivoire
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Who Owns the City? Political Leverage for Informal Workers in Urban Africa
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African Cities and Urban Theory
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Contemporary politics of informality: encounters between the "formal" and "informal" African city
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Cameroonian cities: conviviality and contradictions
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Unspectacular Youth - Practicing the everyday in urban/rural Africa
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Social science perspectives on One Health in Africa
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Revisiting "moral economy": perspectives from African studies.
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Classes urbaines et fabrique des global south consumers
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Gender, body politics and humanitarian fields in Africa
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Traditional Chiefs and Democratic Political Culture for Africa
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The struggle on memory. Biographies, locations/places, archives, monuments and museum in today´s Africa
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Conflict Over Natural Resources and Food (In)Security: How do conflicts influence urban food-provision?
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Urban elites and the legacies of slavery
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The urban images of rural life: its materials and materiality, its actors and its practices / L'imaginaire de «la brousse» en milieu urbain: matérialités, acteurs, pratiques
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Strangers in African Cities
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Rural and urban belonging from a life course perspective
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Respatializing informality in urban Africa
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After the Crisis? Ethnographies of Post-Crisis Situations in Africa
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Youth, work and making a living in sub-Saharan cities
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Fashioning sexuality in popular culture
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Food cultures in Africa: food production, consumption, and prestige ranking in the age of development
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Notions of gender equality in African contexts
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Engineering the Middle Classes: State Institutions, Wealth, and Aspirations of Citizenship
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Local Resistances to International Agendas on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa
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CRG Africa in the World: Global Village, African City. How to read Africa's changing global connections in the African cityscape
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Social Sciences Research Institutions in Post-independence Africa as subjects of research
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Questioning legitimating discourses and practices in the international aid context
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Teaching peace after conflict: the effect of teachers' agency and social identity on the effectiveness of peace education
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LGBTI Activism in Lusophone Africa and beyond: organization and dynamics in urban contexts
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The Practice and Politics of DIY Urbanism in African Cities
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From village schools to univer-cities: Rural-urban dynamics in education and knowledge production in Africa
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The ones who moved to the town: Informal DDR through urbanisation
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Global scientific encounters: The quest for sustainable research cooperations
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The urban and the rural in biographical constructions of urban African middle classes
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Rising African Urban Middle Classes: Narrative Mirage or Social Reality?
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Everyday Citizenship: entanglements of state power, space and citizenship in contemporary Africa
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Land commodification, Land tenure and Gender in Africa
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Raising revenue: everyday taxation in urban Africa
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The Rise of African Transnational Traders
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Why is research from Africa invisible?
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Urban technologies and technologies of urbanity in Africa
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Popular claim-making, public authority and governance in urban Africa
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Between Rural and Urban: Building the state in secondary towns
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Towns build around and on concentration camps: The War in German Southwest-Africa and its urban trajectories
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Urban scenographies of political power in Africa before 1900 (double panel)
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African Ivory; Connecting cosmopolitan spaces in a globalized Atlantic: trade, art and visual discourses
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Mémoire multiple et participation politique: L' « histoire locale » dans la voie africaine de la démocratie
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Port Cities and Coastal Towns along the African Indian Ocean Coast
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Encounters of the Urban and the Rural: Labour in Durban/KwaZulu
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Transregional and Transnational Histories of Commodity Cultures in Urban Africa
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Being and Making 'Good Citizens': Concepts and Practices of Citizenship in Africa Past and Present
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Lines of Control - Lines of Desire: Towards an Integrated History of Fencing in Southern Africa
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Migration and "in-between" Logistics: Recruiters, Agencies, Brokers and Transport Workers
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Urbanisation and Africa's "Agrarian Question": Rural-Agricultural Development in the Twentieth Century
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Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean
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African Women Interpreting and Redefining Public Health in late 20th and early 21st century Africa
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The Bureaucratic City: The Politics of Organising Urban Life in colonial and postcolonial Africa
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Dichotomic 'Fault Lines': Exploring the Mutual Constitution of Binary Formulations in African Histories
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Economic and Financial Histories of Central Africa I (double panel)
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The importance of biography in African historical studies
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The monument in the African Town: its origin, place and part
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Historicizing Humanitarianism, Development, and Colonial Legacies
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Geographies of violence and the migration of conflict
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Religious Minorities in Africa. Urban areas as crossroads: meeting points, safe heavens, and stages
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Schools and education at the core of the city (20th C.)
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Identity and Soldiering: Making armies in southern Africa
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Debts and the city
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Non-Penal Confinement in Africa
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Transforming Urban and Rural Memorialization in Southern Africa
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Between the Rural and the Urban: Critiquing Discourses of Development in Hunting, Conservation and Architecture in Namibia and South Africa
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Political Cultures in the Central African Copperbelt
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Power in travel, powering travel
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Photographs and Photographers in Africa Visual Entanglements of the Urban and the Rural
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Urban artists with rural links: Contemporary art and social practice
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Creative Boundaries: Traveling between Urban and Rural Identities
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Rethinking the dialectics of Rural and Urban in African Art Scholarship
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Cultivating African cities: On a decolonial potential of urban cultural elites
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Digital (Sound)Pictures in/on/about Urban Africa
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Rural-urban sexuality and power dynamics in African literature and culture
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Rethinking Periphery(ies) in Portuguese-speaking cinemas
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The visibility and violence of sexual diversity in Africa
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Urbanized African Sociolinguistics - Questioning research foci
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African indigenous languages as urban youth languages: the rural-urban exchange
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The Urban African Space and Its Marginal Literatures/Performances
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Managing linguistic diversity in the African city
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The Urban Space and the African Short Story in English
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Mobility within Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
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Idealizing the Rural? Emerging Consciousness to Relocate African Theoria to the Village Square
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The Plural and Relational in Religious Practices, Concepts, and Spaces in Africa
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Urbanity, Religiosity and Inter-Religiosity in Contemporary Africa
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Disability and Technology in Urban and Rural Settings
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Local Knowledge: development opportunities coming from the countryside? Methodological and political strategies and challenges in the health area
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Ageing in Sub-Sahara Africa: Shifting Landscapes of Moral Neoliberal Reforms
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Innovation and urban health in Africa
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Local health-care governance in troubled times
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In pursuit of "wellness"
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Interrogating Land Value Capture in the African peri-urban Interface: towards a new political Economy?
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Urban-rural migration, movement and livelihoods revisited in a context of crisis
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Mass rapid transit (MRT) in African Cities: A contribution towards inclusiveness?
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Impact of tourism development on urban and rural communities in Africa
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Futures of nature in African rural and urban spaces in the post-independence era
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Exploring Crime and Poverty Nexus in Urban Africa
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Food System Links Between the Rural and Urban Africa
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Boundaries, Links, and Flows: the Materiality and Political Meaning of Distinctions between Urban, Suburban, and Rural Africa
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Soft constraint and the reshaping of the urban political space: relocated urban dwellers in African cities' peripheries
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Food Markets in rural-urban Africa
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African migration imaginaries: rumours, cosmologies, representations
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How to govern the making of urban space in Africa between informality and mobility?
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"Creative commons destruction?" - Large-scale investments, new commons, and distributive institutions
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Towns, public areas and discards. Encounters of the rural and the urban
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Sustainable Cities in Africa: plans, dreams, and practices
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Contested justice: Legal and judicial pluralism in urban settings and renegotiations of the law from urban to rural domains
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Taking rules seriously: Between formality and informality in African bureaucracies
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Uncovering the merits of African approaches to foster democracy, human rights, and conflicts resolutions in Africa
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Urban property disputes in fragile and transitional settings in Africa
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Architecture, Modernization, and the City in Africa
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Scholarly Journals in African Studies: Meet the editors
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Open city – a conversation on in- and exclusion in African cities (sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation)
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Researching urban Africa: a roundtable discussion on methodology and epistemology
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Research in Africa - on whose terms? (sponsored by the Swiss Society for African Studies and CODESRIA)
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Strategic Essentialism? The Patrick Chabal Debate
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Challenges in African Studies Worldwide
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New paradigms for researching Africa’s past: Round table in honour of Patrick Harries (1950-2016)
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Africa versus the West: The challenge of reciprocal comparisons in the study of Africa
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Cosmopolitan Biographies
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Working with Africa - The Swiss joint research programmes
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New Urban Studies Masters Programmes at the Universities of Cape Town and Basel
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Presentation of the 8th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2019
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Gerti Hesseling Prize