Eigene News
In the media: EU-Lieferkettengesetz soll Konzerne haftbar machen
Rita Kesselring in an article on the EU supply chain law to enforce liability of corporations on kurier.at (3 February 2021)![[Translate to English:] screenshot woz.ch](/fileadmin/_processed_/8/6/csm_Screenshot_2021-02-01_122917_40aa369ee2.png?1614933424)
In the media: Zwei Minen für bloss einen Dollar
Rita Kesselring's article in WOZ (28 January 2021)
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Publication: Speaking Through Houses: Interweaving Biography, Property and Personhood in Urban Zimbabwe
In her JJ Bachofen Lecture in 2019, Amanda Hammar looked at houses from an anthropological point of view. Hammar further builds upon theories of houses as constituants of people's biographies and "how they embody interconnections between…
/ Research
Publication: Existential Transformations. Life in the West African Savannah since the 1970s
Till Förster's paper asks how existential transformations are experienced, lived, remembered and conceived by the people, but also by ethnographers. Förster aims at capturing "la longue durée" of his fieldwork among the Senufo in…
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Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies
Pandemic, Corona virus, lockdown, home office, economic and social crisis - unsurprisingly, these keywords of the year 2020 also echo in the latest newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies.
Social norms and poor services drive petty corruption in East Africa’s health sector
In an article on "The Conversation", Saba Kassa, Claudia Baez Camargo and Jacopo Costa present their research on petty corruption in the health sector of Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. They focus on behavioural drivers, such as the role of…
/ Events
Swiss TPH Symposium: Reshaping Healthcare Supply Chains
At the virtual Swiss TPH Winter Symposium, experts from academia, public administration, international organisations and the private sector came together to discuss how to achieve universal access to high quality, affordable medicines and…
/ News
Publication: Anneliese and Ernst Rudolf Scherz’s ‘Ethnographic Object Collection’ from Namibia and Southern Africa
In this BAB working paper series, Lisa Roulet and Dag Henrichsen provide an introduction to the object collection of the Scherz archive at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and document each object with regard to available historical context…
/ Research, Doctorate/PhD, People
Faculty of Theology prize for Stephen Kapinde
We congratulate Stephen Kapinde who was honored by the Faculty of Theology for his doctoral thesis. In his research he describes the development of the relationship between the Anglican church and the state using post-colonial Kenya as a…