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BL01


Jonathan van Eerd: The Quality of Democracy in Africa: Opposition Competitiveness Rooted in Legacies of Cleavages, Palgrave, London and New York 2017.   
BL02


Siegbert Uhlig, David Appleyard, Alessandro Bausi and Wolfgang Hahn (eds.): Ethiopia - History, Culture and Challenges, LIT Verlag, Berlin 2017.   
BL03


Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz (editors): Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, Peter Lang, New York 2016.   
BL04


Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha: The Aftermath of the Cassinga Massacre. Survivors, Deniers and Injustices, Basel Namibia Studies Series Vol. 18, BAB Publishing House, Basel 2017.   
BL05


Iolanda Pensa (ed.): Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala, vuesDensemble, MētisPresses, Geneva 2017.   
BL06


Wim van Binsbergen: Vicarious Reflections: African explorations in empirically-grounded intercultural philosophy, Papers in Intercultural Philosophy / Transcontinental Comparative Studies (PIP-TraCS   
BL07


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   
BL08


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.   
BL09


La revue Afrique contemporaine présente : "Understanding Boko Haram", De Boeck, n°255, 2017.   
BL10


Matteo Rizzo: Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport in an African Metropolis, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017.   
BL11


OECD/SWAC: Cross-border Cooperation and Policy Networks in West Africa, West African Studies, OECD Publishing, Paris 2017.   
BL12


Klaas van Walraven: Le désir de calme. L’histoire du mouvement Sawaba au Niger, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2017.   
BL13


Martin Mourre: Thiaroye 1944. Histoire et mémoire d’un massacre colonial, Presses Universitaire de Rennes, Rennes 2017.   
BL14


Steven Robins: Letters of Stone. From Nazi Germany to South Africa, Penguin Random House Publishers South Africa, Cape Town 2016.   
BL15


Richard Fardon and Sènga la Rouge: Learning from the Curse. Sembene’s Xala, Hurst Publishers, London 2017.   
BL16


Wiebke Keim: Universally Comprehensible, Arrogantly Local. South African Labour Studies from the Apartheid Era into the New Millennium, Editions des Archives Contemporaines, Paris 2017.   
BL17


Jan Beek, Mirco Göpfert, Olly Owen and Jonny Steinberg (eds): Police in Africa. The Street Level View, Hurst Publishers, London 2017.   
BL18


Elísio Macamo: The Taming of Faith. Approaching Risk from a Social Action Perspective – Case Studies from Southern Mozambique, Dakar, CODESRIA 2017.   
FS01


Something New in Old Town (2016)   
FS02


Casa Branca The Bridge (2016)   
FS03


Xilunguine The Promised Land (2013)   
FS04


Caught-in-Between (2016)   
FS05


Ghana's Electric Dreams (2017)   
FS06


Iman - preventing violence and extremism (2017)   
FS07


Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants (2014)   
FS08


Les Mairuuwas - Masters of Water (2015)   
FS09


Guangzhou Dream Factory (2016)   
FS10


O Nascer de um Ritmo (2016)   
FS11


Maputo: Ethnography of a Divided City (2015)   
FS12


Kalanda - The Knowledge of the Bush (2014)   
FS13


Healing of Memories in South Africa (2017)   
KN00


Mirjam de Bruijn: Digitalisation and the Field of African Studies   
KN01


Elísio Macamo: Urbane Scholarship: Studying Africa, Understanding the World (Lugard Lecture)   
KN02


Joyce Nyairo: Urban Africa, Urban Africans - Binds, Boundaries and Belonging   
KN03


Edgar Pieterse: The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces   
MT01


Collaborative Research Group (CRG) African Politics and International Relations   
MT02


Collaborative Research Group (CRG) African History   
MT03


Collaborative Research Group (proposed new CRG) Migration and Displacement   
MT04


Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Africa in the Indian Ocean   
MT05


Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Coordinators' Meeting   
MT06


Journal of African History Editorial Board   
MT07


Journal Africa Editorial Meeting   
MT08


African Books Collective (ABC) Board Meeting   
MT09


Namibian and Southern African Studies   
MT10


AEGIS Board Meeting   
MT11


AEGIS Plenary   
MT12


International Africa Institute Council   
MT13


ELIAS European Librarians in African Studies 11th Annual Meeting, followed by visit to the exhibition Stolen Moments   
MT14


Central African Studies Association (CASA) and CongoResearchNetwork Business Meeting   
MT15


Collaborative Research Group (CFG) Drylands   
P001


Hubs, Gateways and Bottlenecks - New Transport Infrastructures and Urbanities Respacing Africa I   
P002


Rural despotism in democratic South Africa   
P003


Precarious Inclusion: Inclusive Capitalism and African Informal Economies   
P004


Labour (markets) in extractive industries   
P005


The Rural-Urban Linkages in Africa's Quest for Industrialisation: Large Scale Land Acquisition, Capitalist Farming, and Agrarian Transformation in Comparative Historical-Sociological Context   
P006


Africa and Higher Education - A Transnational Perspective   
P007


Aftermaths: urban displacement and the poisoned promise of resettlement   
P008


African capitalisms: Bringing the entrepreneur back in   
P009


Border towns in Africa: Between division and integration (CRG ABORNE approved panel)   
P010


Urban transformations in Rural Africa: The role of small towns in Sub-Saharan Africa - revisited   
P011


60 shades of development assistance: remainings of projects and programs in urban and rural Africa   
P012


Dynamics of growth, investment and violence in Eastern Africa's margins   
P013


Rural Food Farmers in Urban Markets   
P014


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Smart cities as national and regional growth poles in Africa   
P015


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Urbanization for Africa's structural transformation   
P016


Knowledge production for active urban citizenship   
P017 CANCELLED


Gender transition and urban societal wellbeing in Eastern Africa   
P018


Shifting Terrain: The Dynamics of National Land Policy in Africa   
P019


(Street)Markets, Malls, and 'Exhibitions': Commerce and the transformation of African urban space   
P020


Transformative research and economic transformation in Africa   
P021


Mining and Urbanization in Rural Africa/Exploitation minière et urbanisation en Afrique rurale   
P022


Metropolitan emergence: cities in the globalization, views from North and sub-Saharan Africa   
P023


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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)   
P025


Changing spaces for rural and urban civil society movements in Africa   
P026


Zimbabwe's politics and protests: writing the 'urban' back in   
P027


Rural-urban cleavages in the Congolese conflicts   
P028


Social media and the political sphere in Africa: reshaping democratic engagement?   
P029


Time as politics: past present and future in African urbanism   
P030


The State and the Media: surveillance and censorship in Africa's pasts and presents   
P031


Managing militias: the (non)emergence of armed groups before, during, and after elections   
P032


Capital politics: The political economy of African regional organisations   
P033


Security in the city: Experiences of security pluralism in urban Africa   
P034


The changing face of electoral manipulation in Africa   
P035


The Political Economy of Land and Extraction   
P036


Being a non-violent youth in conflict contexts   
P037


The politics and policies of mobilization in authoritarian regimes: producing domination and consent   
P038


Liberation diplomacy and the African city   
P039


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Still Relevant? The European Union in Africa   
P040


Creating Common Understanding - EU-Africa Responses to Urban Challenges   
P041 CANCELLED


La recomposition des espaces politiques en temps de guerre   
P042


Elites, Networks and Bargains: Explaining African trajectories at the intersection of agency and institutions   
P043


'Electric scrambles', past and present: renovating the politics of the kilowatts and the megawatts across African polities   
P044


Ideology and Armed Struggle in Contemporary Africa   
P045


Judicial elites in Africa: appointments and careers at superior courts   
P046


The Developmental State Strikes Back? The Rise of New Global Powers and African States' Development Strategies   
P047


Speaking Africa, integrating Africa? Norms and power of the African Union   
P048


Conspiracies and conspiracy theory. The politics of the unknown   
P049


Urban Africa, Voice, and Politics   
P050


A bottom-up perspective on military intervention in fragile states   
P051


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Youth-led leadership and participation in Africa   
P052


Demarcating political life? The rural-urban divide and its influence on political behavior   
P053


Reading State through humanitarian a perspective: Boko Haram "ruralities war" and population displacement in the Lake Chad region   
P054


Political Representation in Fragile and Transitional States   
P055


Violent conflict and the politics of rural-urban transformation   
P056


Party Politics under Authoritarian Rule   
P057


Civil Wars and State Formation: Order and legitimacy during and after violent conflict   
P058


Democracy, decolonisation and political contestation: the South African case   
P059


The social life of identity documents in Africa   
P060


The New Political Economy of Afro-Asian Ties   
P061


Social Assistance Policies in Africa   
P062


Violent Democracies? Understanding election-related violence in Africa   
P063


Hubs, Gateways and Bottlenecks - New Transport Infrastructures and Urbanities Respacing Africa II   
P064


Insurgent Citizenship: The politics of laying claim to urban spaces in historical perspectives   
P065 CANCELLED


New forms of dependence in rural Africa?   
P066


Sentiments of Justice in Africa: Contestations at the Intersection of Rural and Urban Imaginations   
P067


New mobilities and translocal social practices of African (post)pastoralist societies   
P068


Strangers Among Us: Negotiating/Shifting Race and Ethnic Relations in Urban and Rural African Spaces and Places   
P069


Bus stations in Africa   
P070


Enfants au travail dans les villes africaines: stratégies, droits et mobilités   
P071


Secondary cities in Africa: Between metropolises and small towns   
P072


Different Localities, Different Identities? Rural-Urban Mobilities and the (Re)Production of Class   
P073


The unemployed in Africa: redistribution, time, and the meaning of productivity   
P074


Making the African City: Leisure, Security and Ordinary Urbanities   
P075


Transnational migration and its implications for education in contemporary Africa   
P076


The Role of Networks in Rural-Urban-Transnational Encounters: The Mobility of People, Ideas and Spaces   
P077


(Infra)structures of Extraction in Africa   
P078


A desire for the authentic: urban and rural lives as categories of social distinction   
P079


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Innovations in connectivity and social change in Africa: new ways to bridge the urban and rural in historical perspective   
P080


African bureaucrats and emotions at work   
P081


Africa and the city. Constrained urbanisation through forced displacement   
P082


Africa's Nocturnal Cities   
P083


Coming of Age in a Time of Change: New Forms of Gendered Self-Accomplishment in (East) Africa and beyond   
P084


Youthful agency, art practices and the right to the city   
P085


Rethinking African ageing: Growing old in an urbanising Africa   
P086


Villes et projets urbains en Afrique : politiques de la culture / cultures du politique   
P087


Thinking through time. Large-scale technological innovations in Africa   
P088


Urban governance: new arrangements in African cities of all sizes   
P089


Contested waterfronts in Kenya, Cameroon and Côte d´Ivoire   
P090


Who Owns the City? Political Leverage for Informal Workers in Urban Africa   
P091


African Cities and Urban Theory   
P092


Contemporary politics of informality: encounters between the "formal" and "informal" African city   
P093


Cameroonian cities: conviviality and contradictions   
P094


Unspectacular Youth - Practicing the everyday in urban/rural Africa   
P095


Social science perspectives on One Health in Africa   
P096


Revisiting "moral economy": perspectives from African studies.   
P097


Classes urbaines et fabrique des global south consumers   
P098


Gender, body politics and humanitarian fields in Africa   
P099


Traditional Chiefs and Democratic Political Culture for Africa   
P100


The struggle on memory. Biographies, locations/places, archives, monuments and museum in today´s Africa   
P101


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Conflict Over Natural Resources and Food (In)Security: How do conflicts influence urban food-provision?   
P102


Urban elites and the legacies of slavery   
P103


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   
P104


Strangers in African Cities   
P105


Rural and urban belonging from a life course perspective   
P106


Respatializing informality in urban Africa   
P107


After the Crisis? Ethnographies of Post-Crisis Situations in Africa   
P108


Youth, work and making a living in sub-Saharan cities   
P109


Fashioning sexuality in popular culture   
P110


Food cultures in Africa: food production, consumption, and prestige ranking in the age of development   
P111


Notions of gender equality in African contexts   
P112


Engineering the Middle Classes: State Institutions, Wealth, and Aspirations of Citizenship   
P113


Local Resistances to International Agendas on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa   
P114


CRG Africa in the World: Global Village, African City. How to read Africa's changing global connections in the African cityscape   
P115


Social Sciences Research Institutions in Post-independence Africa as subjects of research   
P116


Questioning legitimating discourses and practices in the international aid context   
P117


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Teaching peace after conflict: the effect of teachers' agency and social identity on the effectiveness of peace education   
P118


LGBTI Activism in Lusophone Africa and beyond: organization and dynamics in urban contexts   
P119


The Practice and Politics of DIY Urbanism in African Cities   
P120


From village schools to univer-cities: Rural-urban dynamics in education and knowledge production in Africa   
P121


The ones who moved to the town: Informal DDR through urbanisation   
P122


Global scientific encounters: The quest for sustainable research cooperations   
P123


The urban and the rural in biographical constructions of urban African middle classes   
P124


Rising African Urban Middle Classes: Narrative Mirage or Social Reality?   
P125


Everyday Citizenship: entanglements of state power, space and citizenship in contemporary Africa   
P126


Land commodification, Land tenure and Gender in Africa   
P127


Raising revenue: everyday taxation in urban Africa   
P128


The Rise of African Transnational Traders   
P129


Why is research from Africa invisible?   
P130


Urban technologies and technologies of urbanity in Africa   
P131


Popular claim-making, public authority and governance in urban Africa   
P132


Between Rural and Urban: Building the state in secondary towns   
P133


Towns build around and on concentration camps: The War in German Southwest-Africa and its urban trajectories   
P134


Urban scenographies of political power in Africa before 1900 (double panel)   
P135


African Ivory; Connecting cosmopolitan spaces in a globalized Atlantic: trade, art and visual discourses   
P136


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Mémoire multiple et participation politique: L' « histoire locale » dans la voie africaine de la démocratie   
P137


Port Cities and Coastal Towns along the African Indian Ocean Coast   
P138


Encounters of the Urban and the Rural: Labour in Durban/KwaZulu   
P139


Transregional and Transnational Histories of Commodity Cultures in Urban Africa   
P140


Being and Making 'Good Citizens': Concepts and Practices of Citizenship in Africa Past and Present   
P141


Lines of Control - Lines of Desire: Towards an Integrated History of Fencing in Southern Africa   
P142


Migration and "in-between" Logistics: Recruiters, Agencies, Brokers and Transport Workers   
P143


Urbanisation and Africa's "Agrarian Question": Rural-Agricultural Development in the Twentieth Century   
P144


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Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean   
P145


African Women Interpreting and Redefining Public Health in late 20th and early 21st century Africa   
P146


The Bureaucratic City: The Politics of Organising Urban Life in colonial and postcolonial Africa   
P147


Dichotomic 'Fault Lines': Exploring the Mutual Constitution of Binary Formulations in African Histories   
P148


Economic and Financial Histories of Central Africa I (double panel)   
P149


The importance of biography in African historical studies   
P150


The monument in the African Town: its origin, place and part   
P151


Historicizing Humanitarianism, Development, and Colonial Legacies   
P152


Geographies of violence and the migration of conflict   
P153


Religious Minorities in Africa. Urban areas as crossroads: meeting points, safe heavens, and stages   
P154


Schools and education at the core of the city (20th C.)   
P155


Identity and Soldiering: Making armies in southern Africa   
P156


Debts and the city   
P157


Non-Penal Confinement in Africa   
P158


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Transforming Urban and Rural Memorialization in Southern Africa   
P159


Between the Rural and the Urban: Critiquing Discourses of Development in Hunting, Conservation and Architecture in Namibia and South Africa   
P160


Political Cultures in the Central African Copperbelt   
P161


Power in travel, powering travel   
P162


Photographs and Photographers in Africa Visual Entanglements of the Urban and the Rural   
P163


Urban artists with rural links: Contemporary art and social practice   
P164


Creative Boundaries: Traveling between Urban and Rural Identities   
P165


Rethinking the dialectics of Rural and Urban in African Art Scholarship   
P166


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Cultivating African cities: On a decolonial potential of urban cultural elites   
P167


Digital (Sound)Pictures in/on/about Urban Africa   
P168


Rural-urban sexuality and power dynamics in African literature and culture   
P169


Rethinking Periphery(ies) in Portuguese-speaking cinemas   
P170


The visibility and violence of sexual diversity in Africa   
P171


Urbanized African Sociolinguistics - Questioning research foci   
P172


African indigenous languages as urban youth languages: the rural-urban exchange   
P173


The Urban African Space and Its Marginal Literatures/Performances   
P174


Managing linguistic diversity in the African city   
P175


The Urban Space and the African Short Story in English   
P176


Mobility within Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective   
P177


Idealizing the Rural? Emerging Consciousness to Relocate African Theoria to the Village Square   
P178


The Plural and Relational in Religious Practices, Concepts, and Spaces in Africa   
P179


Urbanity, Religiosity and Inter-Religiosity in Contemporary Africa   
P180


Disability and Technology in Urban and Rural Settings   
P181


Local Knowledge: development opportunities coming from the countryside? Methodological and political strategies and challenges in the health area   
P182


Ageing in Sub-Sahara Africa: Shifting Landscapes of Moral Neoliberal Reforms   
P183


Innovation and urban health in Africa   
P184


Local health-care governance in troubled times   
P185


In pursuit of "wellness"   
P186


Interrogating Land Value Capture in the African peri-urban Interface: towards a new political Economy?   
P187


Urban-rural migration, movement and livelihoods revisited in a context of crisis   
P188


Mass rapid transit (MRT) in African Cities: A contribution towards inclusiveness?   
P189


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Impact of tourism development on urban and rural communities in Africa   
P190


Futures of nature in African rural and urban spaces in the post-independence era   
P191


Exploring Crime and Poverty Nexus in Urban Africa   
P192


Food System Links Between the Rural and Urban Africa   
P193


Boundaries, Links, and Flows: the Materiality and Political Meaning of Distinctions between Urban, Suburban, and Rural Africa   
P194


Soft constraint and the reshaping of the urban political space: relocated urban dwellers in African cities' peripheries   
P195


Food Markets in rural-urban Africa   
P196


African migration imaginaries: rumours, cosmologies, representations   
P197


How to govern the making of urban space in Africa between informality and mobility?   
P198


"Creative commons destruction?" - Large-scale investments, new commons, and distributive institutions   
P199


Towns, public areas and discards. Encounters of the rural and the urban   
P200


Sustainable Cities in Africa: plans, dreams, and practices   
P201


Contested justice: Legal and judicial pluralism in urban settings and renegotiations of the law from urban to rural domains   
P202


Taking rules seriously: Between formality and informality in African bureaucracies   
P203


Uncovering the merits of African approaches to foster democracy, human rights, and conflicts resolutions in Africa   
P204


Urban property disputes in fragile and transitional settings in Africa   
RT01


Architecture, Modernization, and the City in Africa   
RT02


Scholarly Journals in African Studies: Meet the editors   
RT03


Open city – a conversation on in- and exclusion in African cities (sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation)   
RT04


Researching urban Africa: a roundtable discussion on methodology and epistemology   
RT05


Research in Africa - on whose terms? (sponsored by the Swiss Society for African Studies and CODESRIA)   
RT06


Strategic Essentialism? The Patrick Chabal Debate   
RT07


Challenges in African Studies Worldwide   
RT08


New paradigms for researching Africa’s past: Round table in honour of Patrick Harries (1950-2016)   
RT09


Africa versus the West: The challenge of reciprocal comparisons in the study of Africa   
RT10


Cosmopolitan Biographies   
SE01


Working with Africa - The Swiss joint research programmes   
SE02


New Urban Studies Masters Programmes at the Universities of Cape Town and Basel   
SE03


Presentation of the 8th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2019   
SE04


Gerti Hesseling Prize   
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