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Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika
Die Afrikaforschung in Basel blickt auf eine lange Tradition in diversen Institutionen in der Region zurück und wird durch das Bekenntnis der Universität Basel zur Forschung zu, in, mit und für Afrika weiter gefördert. Unser Zentrum ist die Schnittstelle für den Austausch zwischen den verschiedenen Disziplinen und Fakultäten sowie den ausseruniversitären Partnerinstitutionen im Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika.
Auf der Grundlage der vorhandenen Kompetenzen und Forschungsinteressen setzt das Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika Schwerpunkte in sechs Forschungsbereichen. Zudem verfügen die angeschlossenen Fachbereiche, Departemente und Institutionen über jeweils eigene Forschungsprofile.
Forschungsbereiche
Die Forschung in den fünf Kernbereichen trägt dazu bei, wichtige Lücken im Verständnis des raschen Wandels afrikanischer Gesellschaften zu schliessen, konzeptionelle und methodische Herausforderungen in der interdisziplinären und disziplinären Forschung anzugehen und die sozioökonomische Entwicklung auf dem Kontinent voranzutreiben.
Fachbereiche, Departemente und Partnerorganisationen
Das Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika basiert auf den Kompetenzen und Aktivitäten verschiedener Forschungsgruppen, Fachbereiche und Departemente der Universität Basel und von Partnerorganisationen. Sie alle tragen zur Forschung zu, in, mit und für Afrika sowie zu Lehre und Ausbildung am ZASB bei.
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Call: 9th Namibia Research Day
Basler Afrika Bibliographien and ZASB, together with the University of Namibia, invite students and scholars working on Namibia to participate in the 9th Namibia Research Day (1 October 2022). Interested participants are kindly invited to…
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Blog post: "Ethnographic research with TikTok"
On the University of Basel's Uni Blog, ethnologist Lesley Nicole Braun explains what insights into distant realities of life she and her master's students Anna Vollmers Mateus and Xiao Meng have gained from TikTok videos and conversations…
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ZASB - Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika: Jahresbericht 2021
Unser Jahresbericht vermittelt einen Überblick über die Aktivitäten der Mitglieder unseres Netzwerks in Forschung, Lehre und Wissenstransfer.Aktuelle Publikationen
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Adebayo-Ojo | Temitope Christina | Developing an air quality health index for Cape Town, 2001-2016 |
Ali | Faisal Nooh | Epidemiological and clinical investigations of chronic oncommunicable diseases in Eritrean refugees living in Ethiopia and Switzerland |
Altrogge | Judith | Context and Agency in Assisted Return Migration to the Gambia. Migration regimes and the political effect of return |
Amadou | Mamane Tassiou | Youth and public sphere in Niger: dynamics of the ‘fadas’ of Zinder |
Amstutz | Alain | Supporting Lesotho on the way towards the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets: Operational and clinical research addressing HIV/AIDS care in resource-limited settings |
Arowosegbe | Olalekan Oluwaseyi | Constructing surface level particulate matter concentration statistical models and investigating the association between particulate matter air pollution and adverse health outcomes in South Africa |
Bachmann | Samuel | The Future of African Heritage in Switzerland |
Badoux | Miriam | Corruption, Conflict and Cities in East and West Africa |
Betschart | Thomas | How Transport Infrastructure shapes Territory in Contemporary Africa |
Bishop | Stephanie | Zambian Water Diaries: Technology in Practice |
Brunner | Nina | The impact of scaling up rectal artesunate on severe malaria case management practices in three Sub-Saharan Africa countries |
Buhl-Colmsee | Andrea Christina | Images of Palliative Care in Tanzania – A Hospital-Ethnography in a Cancer Clinic in Dar es Salaam |
Daoua | Raja | Emerging Trends, Developments and Opportunities of Islamic Finance: The Moroccan Case |
Dugsiye | Sharmarke Jama | Pastoral Conflict Management and the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Managing Pastoral Conflicts, Somali Region, Ethiopia |
Eburi Losoha | Maria Esther Leticia | Improvement of immunization uptake among pregnant women in Equatorial Guinea: Mixed methods approach |
Giroux | Jennifer | Violence Next to Peace: Toggling between social spaces in the Niger Delta |
Graf | Andrea | Out of Sight? Bilharzia in Madagascar as a Global History of ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’, 1950 to the present |
Herzog | Kai Florian | Violent Encounters: Practices and Perceptions of Violence in Southern Namibia and the Northern Cape, c. 1880-1910 |
Hufschmidt | Max | |
Fadeyi | Tolulope Esther | Engendering the Colony: Maternal Health, Indigenous Knowledge and European Medicine in Southwest Nigeria, 1925-1960 |
Jenni | Franziska | Art/articulations: Art and the formation of Social Space in African Cities |
Kanyimba | Tebuho Winnie | |
Karim | Aliya | A Systems-Wide Analysis of the RAcE Programme: A Multi-Case Health System Study of an Integrated Community Case Management Program in Five African Countries |
Kifyasi | Andrea Azizi | Diplomatic History of China Medical Assistance to Africa, a Case study of Tanzania, 1960s to 2015 |
Kocher | Eva | The formation of the Sub-Saharan insurance industry in the second half of the 20th century |
Konate | Katienegnimin Seydou | Bestiaire et biotope végétal dans la littérature de jeunesse de Côte d’Ivoire |
Leuenberger | Andrea | Associations between natural resource extraction projects and social determinants of health in Africa |
Lühe | Ulrike | Knowledge production and transitional justice in Mozambique |
Lyonga | Frida | Homosexuality and the African: Change and Persistence of Homophobic Attitudes among African Migrants in Switzerland |
Mapesi | Herry | Non-communicable diseases in people living with HIV in Rural Africa: tackle the double burden |
Matowo | Nancy | Entomological and molecular characterization, insecticide resistance testing and screening for arboviruses, filarial worm and malaria parasites in culicine species in Ulanga and Kilombero districts, south-eastern Tanzania |
Maurer Rueda | Matthias | Immigration and political identity: Ethnographic studies of retribalization among political activists in Switzerland |
McBride | Sindi-Leigh | Political settlements and public spheres: comparative analysis of economic sophistication in South Africa and Nigeria |
Mlacha | Francis Daudi | The history of insurances in East Africa |
Müller | Barbara | The Student Movement and the Matabeleland Conflict in Zimbabwe |
Mussie | Kirubel | Ethical issues in the care of older people in Ethiopia |
N'Dri | Bédjou Prisca | Malaria in Elibou region, south of Côte d’Ivoire: transmission and insecticide resistance |
Ngwenya | Brian | Order, Politics and Memory: African Police and State-Making in Zimbabwe, c1960-90 |
Nielsen | Lotte | Making the City: The Politics and Potentiality of Urban Uncertainty in Johannesburg, South Africa |
Nimako | Belinda | Linkages between Natural Resource Extraction Projects and the Health System for Sustainable Development |
Pring | Jamie | The role of African mediators in promoting inclusivity in international peace mediation |
Rensing | Julia | Namibia-Germany: A Post-Colonial Heterotopia? Narratives and Negotiations of Colonial Legacies in Namibia and Germany |
Rudnicka | Marta | Tastescapes in Ghana. Eating, tasting and culinary praxis in northern Ghana |
Rutishauser | Melina | Participation in Social Health Protection: Women’s Engagement in Tanzania |
Sampayo Vidal | Melanie | Violences et Résistances dans le théâtre postcolonial au Mali |
Scotto | Giulia | Oil Infrastructure and decolonization: ENI’s “African Scheme” |
Sewordor | Ernest | British Imperial Imagination, Colonial Infrastructure, and the Cape-to-Cairo Road, c.1890-1960 |
Shayo | Kuwawenaruwa August Joachim | Effects of the regional complementary pharmaceutical supply system on improving access to medicines in Dodoma and Morogoro regions, Tanzania |
Shrikhande | Shreya | Effects of climate change on cardiovascular diseases in South Africa |
Tanner | Mathias | Interfaith Peacebuilding. Examining the Impact of Interfaith Peacebuilding Initiatives in a Violent Political Conflict with an Ethno-Religious Dimension in Jos, Nigeria |
Tepebas | Ufuk | The role of Turkey’s development assistance policy in its foreign trade with East Africa |
Voegeli | Anna | Life Stories, Livelihoods and Political Change in the Tzaneen Area, South Africa, 1940-1980 |
Vögele | Pius Jonas | Afrofuturism Echoes Back – Hip Hop’s Sonic Fictions from Black Atlantis |
Wetterich | Cita | Violence against male Refugees – Patterns, Factors and Consequences for Individuals and Communities |
Wüthrich Grossenbacher | Ursula | Impact of religion/spirituality (R/S) on the outcome of HIV care in different health settings in rural and urban Zimbabwe with a special focus on adolescent patients |
Admasie | Samuel Andreas | 2018 | Dynamics of Assertive Unionism in Ethiopia |
Aeby | Michael | 2016 | Zimbabwe's Gruelling Transition: Interim power-sharing and conflict management in Southern Africa |
Alter | Balz Andrea | 2021 | Back from greener pastures |
Ammann | Carole | 2017 | The Work of State Imageries: Women and the Imageries of the State in Guinea |
Angora | Kpongbo Etienne | 2020 | Population genetic structure and hybridization of schistosomes in schoolchildren in Côte d’Ivoire |
Barratt | Christopher | 2017 | Using Next Generation Sequencing data to estimate the Biodiversity value of the Coastal Forests of East Africa |
Bekele | Demissie Ferdissa | 2014 | Ethnic Decentralization and Negotiating Statehood in Urban Ethiopia: A Case Study of Adama and Hawassa Cities |
Bobie | Owusuaa Adwoa | 2020 | Rebranding African, Reclothing Africa: The influence of Emerging Designers in the Production of Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Nigerian Fashion Industry |
Boehi | Melanie | 2018 | A South African social garden: people, plants and multispecies histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden |
Büchele | Julia | 2017 | Expat Spouses in Kampala, Uganda: An Ethnography of Migration from the Global North |
Bueno Bittencourt Silva | Gabriela | 2017 | Lacuna Mozambique : adding an important piece to the African jigsaw puzzle |
Bwong | Beryl Akoth | 2017 | At the crossroads of two biodiversity hotspots : the biogeographic patterns of Shimba Hills, Kenya |
Christen | Anna | 2020 | Walking Together. Perils of Participation in Anthropology and Philosophy of Action. A Case Study in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
Dietler | Dominik | 2020 | Impact of mining projects on environmental determinants of health and associated health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: insights for guiding impact assessment practice |
Ding | Jin | 2020 | China in Africa: Perspectives on development and emergence |
Dreier | Marcel | 2015 | Health Care, Welfare, and Development in Rural Africa: Catholic health services in Ifakara/Tanzania in the 20th century |
Dumbaugh | Mari | 2017 | Influencing Factors on the Utilization of Maternal Health Services and Uptake of Family Planning in the Context of Conditional Cash Transrers, South Kivu, DRC |
Engeler | Michelle | 2013 | Youth and the State in Guinea: Meandering Lives |
Erismann | Séverine | 2017 | Children’s intestinal parasite and nutritional patterns in face of integrated school garden, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in central Burkina Faso |
Fürst | Thomas | 2015 | Assessing morbidity and burden due to neglected tropical diseases at different geographical scales |
Gerold | Jana | 2013 | Full of Life: old age and care in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
Geuder | Jacob | 2020 | Visualizing Urban Struggles: Video Activism as Utopian Practice |
Giustizieri-Haberstroh | Christine | 2014 | Writing the City. Narratives of Johannesburg’s Urban Space in Contemporary South African Literature |
Gonsalves | Lianne | 2020 | Understanding the role of pharmacies as contraceptive outlets for young people (ages 18-24) in Coastal Kenya |
Grolimund | Andrea | 2018 | Ageing, Agency and Health in Dar es Salaam |
Guyer | Nanina | 2015 | Picturing Secrecy - A History of the Visualization of "Secret Societies" in Historical Photographs from West Africa |
Hammel | Tanja | 2018 | Shaping Science and Society at the Cape – A Relational History of Mary Elizabeth Barber |
Heer | Barbara | 2015 | Spaces of Encounter and Unequal Neighbourhoods. A Comparative Ethnography of Agency, Space and Difference in Maputo and Johannesburg |
Heitz Tokpa | Katharina Elisabeth | 2013 | Trust and Distrust in Rebel-Held Côte d’Ivoire |
Hella | Jerry | 2020 | Understanding the epidemiology and transmission of tuberculosis among adults in rural and urban Tanzania |
Hellmüller | Sara Anna | 2014 | Bridging the Gap – Examining Local Dimensions of International Peacebuilding in the DR Congo |
Hürlimann | Eveline | 2014 | Effects of parasitic infections on clinical outcomes, self-rated quality of life and physical fitness in Côte d’Ivoire |
Indermaur | Adrian | 2016 | Comparative ecology and phylogeography in east African cichild fishes |
JeanRichard-dit-Bressel | Verena | 2013 | Crowding at Lake Chad: An Integrated Approach to Demographic and Health Surveillance of Mobile Pastoralists and Their Animals |
Kapinde | Stephen Asol | 2020 | Political Sermons in Kenyas Quest for Democratic Governance between 1986 and 2010: A case Study of the selected sermons from the three Anglican Clergy |
Kaufmann | Andrea | 2013 | Spaces of Imagination Associational Life and the State in Post-War, Urban Liberia |
Keitel | Kristina | 2017 | e-POCT: Improving health outcomes of febrile childresn in Tanzania through innovative point-of-care technologies at the primary care level |
Kesselring | Rita | 2013 | Bodies of Truth. Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
Krenz | Juliane | 2019 | Land degradation and Carbon erosion in Southern Africa |
Larsen | Maren | 2020 | Worlding Home: Peacekeepers, Camp Space, and Urbanity in Goma, DRC |
Laube | Anne | 2018 | The Organisation of Violence in the Actions of the Lord’s Resistance Army |
Liedtke | Hans Christoph | 2014 | The Evolution of Terrestrial Breeding in African Amphibians |
Ludwig | Susann | 2018 | La chance: En Ethnography. University Graduates making Sense of Uncertainty in Bamako, Mali |
Luthra Sinha | Bobby | 2016 | A Comparative Interpretation of Peoples’ Movements: Actors, Evolving Consciousness and Democratic Imagination in India and South Africa |
Massue | Dennis | 2019 | Long-Lasting Insecticide Treated Bed Net (LLINs) for malaria control in Tanzania: Barriers to physical and chemical protection |
Mbilo | Céline | 2021 | Rabies Epidemiology in DR Congo and Chad |
Merron | James | 2017 | Travelling technologies of the environment: Knowledges of water management and the transformation of land in South Africa |
Mhalu | Grace | 2019 | Identifying community determinants of health seeking behaviour and the contribution of socio-cultural and gender aspects to improve tuberculosis case detection in Tanzania |
Mhlanga | Shakuntala | 2020 | An epidemiological cohort study of children and adolescents investigating neurobehavioural effects from pesticide exposure and e-media use in South Africa |
Michel | Janet | 2021 | Towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policy roll-out experience in South Africa : how and why policy-practice gaps come about in a UHC context |
Mlotshwa | Langelihle | 2019 | Exploring incident HIV in Pregnant Women and Sexual Risk Behaviours and Practices in Soweto, South Africa |
Moreillon | Olivier | 2017 | Reading the Post-Apartheid City. Urbanite and Capetonian Literary Topographies in Selected Texts Beyond 2000 |
Nambuusi | Betty Bukenya | 2019 | Assessing the effects of interventions on child and maternal health-related outcomes in Uganda |
Oderinde | Peter Ayoola | 2020 | The role of Internet in migrants’ Christianity: A case study of Nigerian Pentecostal churches in Switzerland |
Osei-Bonsu | Victoria Amma Agyeiwaah | 2018 | Representations of the African Other in Selected Works of Joseph Conrad |
Owusu | Henry Frimpong | 2016 | Insecticide Resistance Monitoring – a review of current methodology |
Philipps | Joschka | 2016 | Crystallizing Contention. A cumulative dissertation on youth, politics, and urban violence in Conakry, Kampala, and beyond |
Posluschny-Treuner | Myra | 2017 | Land grabbing or an essential move towards development? A case study of Ethiopia |
Renggli | Sabine | 2017 | Promoting Universal Health Coverage in Tanzania: An Evaluation of the Initiative to Strengthen Affordability and Quality of Health Care (ISAQH) |
Righetti | Aurélie A. | 2014 | Aetiology of anaemia and public health implications in the Taabo health demographic surveillance system, south-central Côte d’Ivoire |
Rubli | Sandra | 2014 | Transitional Justice and State-Formation in Burundi |
Sambaiga | Richard Faustine | 2013 | Sexual inter-subjectivity and the quest for social well-being : an ethnographic inquiry of adolescent sexuality in urban Southern Tanzania |
Sanogo | Aïdas | 2019 | Corruption, conflict and cities in West and East Africa |
Sarr | Khadeeja "Haddy" | 2021 | Narratives of Identity, Multi-Sited Biographies, and Transnational Life-Modes of Highly Qualified Migrants. Senegambia Migrants in Switzerland and Swiss Migrants in Senegambia |
Schicketanz | Nicolas | 2015 | A History of Teacher Training Colleges in South Africa and the Effects of Teacher Training on Identity Formation |
Schmid | Pascal | 2013 | Medicine, Faith and Politics in Agogo. A history of health care delivery in rural Ghana, ca 1925 to 1980 |
Schultz | Sabine | 2017 | The Game of Personal Politics or How to Rule a Kingdom. The State of Affairs in Rey Bouba/North-East Cameroon. |
Schwarz | Joëlle | 2021 | Youth sexuality education and utilisation of reproductive health services in the African Great Lakes region |
Schwärzler | Patricia | 2014 | “ De nos jours, chacun fait ce qu’il veut ” ? Dynamiques des relations sociales et pratiques sexuelles dans le contexte du VIH/sida à Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
Ssempira | Julius | 2018 | Bayesian spatial-temporal modeling of malaria risk in Uganda during 2009-2016, and the effect of control interventions and health system strengthening |
Staudacher | Sandra | 2019 | Cosmopolitan Aging in Urban Zanzibar: Elderhood, Health and Transnational Care Spaces Related to Oman |
Sutherland | Claudette Simone | 2016 | An elimination investment case (EIC) for human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense (“sleeping sickness”) |
Tarr | Natalie | 2020 | Interpreting the Administration: Burkina Faso's Courts in Translation |
Thiam | Sokhna | 2017 | Spatial analysis of diarrhoea and environmental risk factors in an urban context in Senegal, West Africa |
Tibaijuka | Albert | 2016 | Multinational Mines and Communities of Place: Revisiting the Stakeholder Dialogue Discourse from Geita, Tanzania |
Unseld | Frederik | 2020 | Making Art Work: Articulating Art and Urban Marginality in Kisumu, Kenya |
Wingate | Vladimir | 2017 | Terrestrial ecosystem change monitoring: Satellite remote sensing the Namibian savannah biomes in the context of the global carbon cycle and local livelihoods |