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Publication: "Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo"

This article co-authored by Jon Schubert takes China Miéville's novel The City & The City as its point of departure to develop the idea of “unseeing” as a central cultural skill to make sense of, and live with, contemporary urban…

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ZASB - Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika: Jahresbericht 2024

Das ZASB blickt auf ein weiteres Jahr mit vielfältigen und bereichernden Aktivitäten in Lehre und Forschung zurück. Gleich drei der zahlreichen Höhepunkten im Jahr 2024 standen im Zeichen der Geschichte der Basler Mission und der…

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Basel Summer School in African Studies: "Honouring Mudimbe: Rethinking Research through African Thought"

The Centre for African Studies Basel ZASB calls for applications for the 7th Basel Summer School in African Studies, which will take place from 8 to 12 September 2025. This year’s Summer School honours Valentin-Yves Mudimbe’s work and…

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Julia Büchele erhält Teaching Excellence Award

Julia Büchele wurde in der Kategorie "Dienst an der Lehre" mit dem Teaching Excellence Award der Universität Basel ausgezeichnet. Die Beteiligung an der Verleihung der Lehrpreise war in diesem Jahr so hoch wie nie zuvor: Für die fünf…

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Publication: "Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa"

Jon Schubert’s essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges and realities of climate…

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Publication: "Defining the noma research agenda"

A new publication by Swiss TPH and partners defines a global research agenda to tackle noma – a devastating and life-threatening disease mainly affecting children living in extreme poverty. The publication draws on the outcomes of a…

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Publication: "Upending coloniality: Race and infrastructure from Ghana's urban gold-mining hinterlands"

Ernest Sewordor's article questions the linear and determinist way coloniality has been deployed in the extant literature on infrastructure, by expanding the term to reflect a spectrum of racial politics dominated by metropolitan mining…

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Das ZASB ist jetzt auf Bluesky

Das ZASB hat neu ein Profil auf der Social Media-Plattform Bluesky - zusätzlich zu den bestehenden Accounts auf Linkedin, Instragram und Facebook. Die Aktivitäten auf X werden eingestellt.

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Publication: "Space is the Ultimate Luxury. Capitalists, Conservationists, and Ancestral Land in Namibia"

This book co-authored by Luregn Lenggenhager provides a historical and contemporary narrative of African farmers in the South of Namibia and their struggle for access to their ancestral land.

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Publication: "Cultivating Race: Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South Africa, c. 1900–1950"

Julia Tischler's book examines the intersections and relationships between scientific knowledge in farming and race politics in early twentieth-century South Africa.

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