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"Skin Color and Race in African History" - Lynn M. Thomas's Basel History Lecture available online
In her lecture, Lynn M. Thomas takes a layered approach to explain how and why skin lighteners became such commonplace and contentious commodities in South Africa. Due to the corona pandemic, the distinguished lecture organized by the…
/ Forschung
Publication: Growing Wild. The Correspondence of a Pioneering Woman Naturalist from the Cape
Tanja Hammel and Jasmin Rindlisbacher coedited the publication of Mary Elizabeth Barber's scientific correspondence. Barber was the first woman ornithologist in South Africa, an early archaeologist, keen botanist and interested…
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"The Coloniality of Infrastructure - Eurafrican Legacies": conference registration now open
Initially scheduled for June 2020, the conference will now take place online from 12 to 15 January 2021. Keynote speakers include Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall and Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui.
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Publication: Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges
The collection "Women and Photography in Africa" edited by Lorena Rizzo, Darren Newbury and Kylie Thomas draws on recent conceptual and methodological developments in photographic scholarship.
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Publication: The cosmic submarine—Yugen Blakrok’s sonar echoes
This article by Pius Jonas Vögele explores South African hip-hop artist Yugen Blakrok, applying Afrofuturism as a conceptual framework.
/ Forschung, Studium
"African Worlds in China": Website on students' field trip to Guangzhou
In January 2020, twelve social anthropology students from the University of Basel embarked on a field research trip to explore African communities in Guangzhou, China. Now, they created a website that offers some impressions from this…
In den Medien: Wieso lehnt eine Grünliberale die Konzern-Initiative ab?
Rita Kesselring in einem Artikel auf Nau.ch, 10. Oktober 2020
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Publication: A worm's-eye view of wildlife trafficking in Uganda – the path of least resistance
The working paper by the Basel Institute on Governance's Public Governance team digs deep into the dynamics feeding a multi-billion-dollar global illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife products. It tackles a simple two-part question: why…
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Publication: Colonial Resonances
In this essay Jon Schubert charts the resonance of colonial urbanism in contemporary urban renewal projects in the Angolan port city of Lobito.