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Publication: "Worlding Home. An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC"

Maren Larsen's book interrogates the social, spatial, and architectural lifeworlds of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accommodated in contingent camps throughout Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Publikation: "BildWelt Mission. Ästhetische Perspektiven christlicher Transkulturationsgeschichte"

Der von Andreas Heuser mit herausgegebene Sammelband bietet innovative methodische Zugänge zur Missionsgeschichte anhand von Bildmaterial und materieller Kultur, leuchtet missionswissenschaftliche Horizonte Interkultureller Theologie aus…

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Publication: "African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present"

Ettore Morelli is the editor of a volume that questions the concept of border. Arguing that a border is a threshold made to be crossed, this book studies places of passage from all over the African continent. In a time when state borders…

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Publication: "‘Peace-kept’ urbanism: Ephemerality and endurance in eastern DRC"

Inspired by literature from southern urbanism and camp urbanism that focuses on temporal aspects of the built environment, Maren Larsen's article traces the various spatio-temporal horizons through which peacekeeping camps come in and out…

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Publication: "Troubling Archives – History and Memory in Namibian Literature and Art"

In her book, Julia Rensing examines how contemporary writers and artists from Namibia and South Africa navigate archival silences, omissions, and power structures to renegotiate historical narratives and address intergenerational trauma.…

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Publication: "When You Have Corrupt Friends Abroad: The Impact of Strategic Corruption on Sudan’s Democratic Collapse"

The article co-authored by Saba Kassa looks into how corruption undermines democracies. The focus is on Sudan, where the ambitious transition to democratic governance ended in 2023 with state collapse and conflict. The article explains the…

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Publication: "Diasporic Consciousness in the Material Culture of Brazilian Candomblé"

By following the movements of artefacts historically, Zainabu Jallo's study reveals how Candomblé has transitioned from a secluded sacred tradition marked by discrimination and persecution to its inclusion in the construction of a new…

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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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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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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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Publication: "Women and Gendered Roles in the History of Diamond Mining in Colonial Ghana"

Relying on archival, oral, and visual sources, Ernest Sewordor's article highlights women’s involvement in colonial Ghana’s diamond industry in different capacities - as discoverers, washers, licensed prospectors and dealers.

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Publications on Global Post-Comparative Philosophy

Lerato Posholi and Ralph Weber have contributed articles to the special feature of Philosophy East and West on “The Prospects, Problems, and Urgency of Global Intercultural Philosophy Now”. Their contributions link debates in philosophy in…

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Publication: "Addressing Bribery and Associated Social Norms in Healthcare: Results of a Behaviour Change Intervention in Tanzania"

This article co-authored by Claudia Baez Camargo describes the results of a behaviour change intervention to address gift-giving as a form of bribery in a Tanzanian hospital. The findings suggest that practices and norms around bribery…

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Publication: "The Earth That Modernism Built. Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design"

Kenny Cupers' book provides an intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis. Cupers draws from both canonical and unknown sources and archives in Germany, Namibia, and…

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Publication: “African Studies, or How to Make the Canon Apocryphal”

In his essay in the edited volume " Knowing - Unknowing. African Studies at the Crossroads", Elísio Macamo rewrites parts of Kant’s “What is Enlightment?” as a starting point to explore African studies’ contribution to a critical reflection…

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Publication: "African History between Ghana and Switzerland. Essays Honouring Paul Jenkins"

This collection edited by Ernest Sewordor and Anne Beutter retraces the academic path of the British historian-cum-archivist Paul Jenkins. The essays celebrate, engage, interrogate, and push beyond Jenkins' numerous publications and ongoing…

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Publication: "Magical math hand-waving"

Jon Schubert’s article examines the knowledge protocols of commercial risk forecasting to show how, despite strenuous efforts to render risk forecasts neutral and actionable, analysts construct risk in African countries in line with…

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Publication: "Elsewheres of the Unbuilt: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects"

The article co-authored by Maren Larsen and Kenny Cupers argues that understanding the effects of infrastructural expansion in the global South requires accounting for the ways in which projects are financed, planned, contested, contracted,…

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Publication: "High expectations: Civil society participation in conflict early warning and response systems of the AU, ECOWAS and IGAD"

Michael Aeby's article examines how civil society organisations contributed to data collection, analyses, early warning and responses of conflict early warning and response systems in different contexts, and assesses their participation…

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Publication: "Navigating the political context: Practice insights and adaptive strategies to strengthen the anti-corruption and asset recovery justice chain"

Saba Kassa's new Working Paper discusses the political and governance factors that affect the performance of the justice system in relation to anti-corruption and asset recovery, and offers provides a novel Assessment and Monitoring…

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Publication: "A processual perspective on utopia as a lived social project: the case of a Ghanaian ‘Christian Town’"

Drawing on historical and ethnographic data, the article co-authored by Ernest Sewordor demonstrates how the utopian religious ideal can function as a powerful symbol for the self-identification of a religious group in practice. The authors…

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Publication: "Burden of chronic pain among adult pastoralists in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional household survey"

An article co-auhtored by Piet van Eeuwijk and Jakob Zinsstag provides insights into the burden of chronic pain among Somali pastoralists and reveals associated risk factors. The results of the study support the planning of locally adapted…

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Publication: "Building Trust, Situating Repair: An Ecology of Action in a South African Nature Reserve"

Structured around an encounter between white commercial farmers, scientists and government and NGO experts working in a South African nature reserve, James Merron's book analyzes the negotiation between different orientations to ecological…

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Publication: "Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface"

This article co-authored by Wahab Lawundeh provides an in-depth ethnographic account of two bushmeat markets in Bo, Sierra Leone. The authors found that inadequate infrastructure and sanitation facilities created risks of zoonotic disease…

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Publication: "Maintaining a city against nature: climate adaptation in Beira"

In this article, Jon Schubert analyzes the case of Beira, a port city on Mozambique’s Indian Ocean coast, which was devastated by Tropical Cyclone Idai in March 2019. Ever since, a host of unequal international and national actors have been…

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Publication: "Operational Differences between Product Development Partnership, Pharmaceutical Industry, and Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials"

This article in the open access journal Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, co-authored by ZASB members Piet van Eeuwijk and Jürg Utzinger, compares the operational differences between pharmaceutical industry sponsored trials, product…

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Publication: "The Reports of Theophilus Opoku: A 19th-Century Gold Coast Pastor"

Over 50 years Michelle Gilbert and Paul Jenkins have engaged with the reports of Revd Theophilus Opoku - a prolific writer and careful observer in the kingdom of Akuapem. This volume published in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series of the…

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