Eigene News
In den Medien: EU-Lieferkettengesetz soll Konzerne haftbar machen
Rita Kesselring in einem Artikel im östereichischen Kurier (3. Februar 2021)
In den Medien: Zwei Minen für bloss einen Dollar
Rita Kesselrings Artikel in der WOZ (28. Januar 2021)
/ Forschung
Publication: Speaking Through Houses: Interweaving Biography, Property and Personhood in Urban Zimbabwe
In her JJ Bachofen Lecture in 2019, Amanda Hammar looked at houses from an anthropological point of view. Hammar further builds upon theories of houses as constituants of people's biographies and "how they embody interconnections between…
/ Forschung
Publication: Existential Transformations. Life in the West African Savannah since the 1970s
Till Förster's paper asks how existential transformations are experienced, lived, remembered and conceived by the people, but also by ethnographers. Förster aims at capturing "la longue durée" of his fieldwork among the Senufo in…
/ Forschung
Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies
Pandemic, Corona virus, lockdown, home office, economic and social crisis - unsurprisingly, these keywords of the year 2020 also echo in the latest newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies.
Social norms and poor services drive petty corruption in East Africa’s health sector
In an article on "The Conversation", Saba Kassa, Claudia Baez Camargo and Jacopo Costa present their research on petty corruption in the health sector of Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. They focus on behavioural drivers, such as the role of…
/ Events
Swiss TPH Symposium: Reshaping Healthcare Supply Chains
At the virtual Swiss TPH Winter Symposium, experts from academia, public administration, international organisations and the private sector came together to discuss how to achieve universal access to high quality, affordable medicines and…
/ News
Publication: Anneliese and Ernst Rudolf Scherz’s ‘Ethnographic Object Collection’ from Namibia and Southern Africa
In this BAB working paper series, Lisa Roulet and Dag Henrichsen provide an introduction to the object collection of the Scherz archive at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and document each object with regard to available historical context…
/ Forschung, Doktorat, People
Stephen Kapinde erhält Preis der Theologischen Fakultät
Ganz herzlich gratulieren wir Stephen Kapinde, der von der Theologischen Fakultät für seine Dissertation ausgezeichnet wurde. Er beschreibt darin die Entwicklung des Verhältnisses der Anglikanischen Kirche zum Staat am Fallbeispiel des…