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Afrika-Bulletin Nr. 176: Land Grabbing – unerfüllte Versprechungen
Seit dem Jahr 2000 weltweit rund 50 Millionen Hektar an Landkonzessionen vergeben. Doch 2018 errechnete GRAIN, dass ein nicht unerheblicher Teil dieser Konzessionen – nämlich 17,5 Millionen Hektar – entweder nie «unter den Pflug» kam oder…
/ Forschung, Doktorat
Call: Writing Workshop 'Emerging Scholars & New Research in Southern Africa'
The four-day writing workshop at the University of Namibia (7-10 July 2020) is open to early career scholars with an affiliation to the ZASB.Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
NBN author-interview podcast with Rita Kesselring on her book Bodies of Truth – October 17, 2019/ Forschung, Organisation, People
Rita Kesselring is the new editor-in-chief of Anthropology Southern Africa
Anthropology Southern Africa is the peer-reviewed journal of the Anthropology Southern Africa association.
New CD: Carlo Mombelli live at the bird's eye 2009-2018
South African bass wizard and composer Carlo Mombelli just released a new CD documenting a decade of performances a the bird's eye jazz club in Basel
Jazz in Südafrika. Von Cape Town in die Schweiz und zurück
Südafrika Special in der Zeitschrift Jazz'n'more / 05 – 1. September 2019/ Forschung, Doktorat
Call for paper proposals "“Idea of Europe From the Outside”"
Our colleagues Julia Büchele and Metka Hercog invite paper proposals for their panel at the Conference Europe's Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias (University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland June 22-24, 2020)/ Doktorat
Call: AEGIS Summer School (Cagliari, 9-13 June 2020)
The 2020 AEGIS Summer School will address the theme of "African Futures: Promises, Projections and Reflections on a Continent in Transition".
/ Forschung
Publication: Youth and the State in Guinea: Meandering Lives
By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this research monograph introduces the perspective of »meandering lives« to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a…