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Publication: The cosmic submarine—Yugen Blakrok’s sonar echoes
This article by Pius Jonas Vögele explores South African hip-hop artist Yugen Blakrok, applying Afrofuturism as a conceptual framework.
/ Research, Studies
"African Worlds in China": Website on students' field trip to Guangzhou
In January 2020, twelve social anthropology students from the University of Basel embarked on a field research trip to explore African communities in Guangzhou, China. Now, they created a website that offers some impressions from this…
In the media: Wieso lehnt eine Grünliberale die Konzern-Initiative ab?
Rita Kesselring in an article on Nau.ch, 10. Oktober 2020 (in German)
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Publication: A worm's-eye view of wildlife trafficking in Uganda – the path of least resistance
The working paper by the Basel Institute on Governance's Public Governance team digs deep into the dynamics feeding a multi-billion-dollar global illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife products. It tackles a simple two-part question: why…
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Publication: Colonial Resonances
In this essay Jon Schubert charts the resonance of colonial urbanism in contemporary urban renewal projects in the Angolan port city of Lobito.![[Translate to English:] choir performs at swiss parliament](/fileadmin/_processed_/e/7/csm_2018-08-01-offene-tueren-01_red-3_4f79d55c77.jpg?1630253990 "A choir performs at the National Council chamber during open day at the Swiss Parliament")
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New SNSF Sinergia project at ZASB and Institute of European Global Studies: ‘Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies’
The research project ‘Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies’ examines the crisis of liberal democracy in Europe and aims at developing new methodological and theoretical perspectives on comparison and on the Area…In the media: Der Segerhof – Christoph Burckhardt oder 1000 tote Sklav*innen
Veit Arlt in the Bajour series Neue Augen auf die Stadt – 28 September 2020Victime de la pandémie, la Zambie est en quasi-faillite
Rita Kesselring in einem Beitrag von Le Temps – 30. September 2020/ Research, Studies
Namibia1953.com: An online portal enables access to text, sound and photos at the BAB archives
During this year’s Visual History Lab, a group of students created a website that helps the Namibian public to access text documents, sound recordings and photos in the "Ernst & Ruth Dammann Collection" at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien…