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Internationale Konferenz bringt Afrika nach Basel

Radio X – 29. Juni 2017

Afrika Bulletin 166: "Die Schuldenfalle"

Ende der 1990er Jahre wurden unter der HIPC-Initiative „hochverarmten“ Ländern die Schulden erlassen – dies war die Basis dafür, dass sie neue Darlehen aufnehmen konnten. Mit der Aussicht auf einen Rohstoffboom kamen vielerorts vermehrt…

Afrika Bulletin 165: "Aktuelle Brennpunkte: Äthiopien, Mozambique und Zimbabwe"

Die vorliegende Ausgabe des Afrika-Bulletins befasst sich mit drei Ländern, die aktuell Brennpunkte in Afrika darstellen. «Brennpunkt» kann Verschiedenes bedeuten: das Zentrum des Interesses, das Zentrum einer politischen Entwicklung,…

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Highly skilled migrants in Senegambia and Switzerland

UNI NOVA People on the Move – Dossier on Migration – 02/November 2016

The Politics of Governance
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Publication: The Politics of Governance - Actors and Articulations in Africa and Beyond

How do government arrangements emerge? When and how does individual agency turn into collective agency? How do sensory experiences of violence, instability, etc. affect the configuration of governance arrangements? When, why, and how are…

Bodies of Truth
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Publication: Bodies of Truth - Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory.

The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa
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Publication: The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa

This book brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of politics, namely, the politics of nature, i.e. how nature conservation projects are sites on which power relations play out, and the politics…

Usakos Photographs beyond Ruins
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Publication: Usakos – Photographs Beyond Ruins. The Old Location Albums 1920s–1960s

This full-colour exhibition catalogue of the exhibition Photographs Beyond Ruins focuses on a central Namibian town, Usakos. The town’s history is linked to the development of the South African railway system in Namibia.

Aufbau Ausstelllung Usakos: Photographs beyond Ruins
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Exhibition: Usakos - Photographs Beyond Ruins

The exhibition provides insight into the eventful history of the small town Usakos in central Namibia. Two historians from Switzerland, a curator and a photographer from Cape Town and eighteen students from the Universities of Basel and…

Explorations in African History
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Publication: Explorations in African History - Reading Patrick Harries

This collection of essays documents the growth of African history as a discipline at the University of Basel since 2001. It thus pays tribute to fourteen years of research and teaching by Patrick Harries at the Department of History and the…

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