Arts, Culture and Urbanism

[Translate to English:] teaser art/articulations

In this key area, we addresses the many ways Africans express themselves through the arts in a broad sense – fine and performing arts as painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theatre, literature as well as the arts of the everyday such as ritual, popular culture, fashion, dance, film and all sorts of religious and profane performances that women and men may engage in. Arts, Culture and Urbanism thus covers all forms of expression and articulation; how humans relate to each other, how they produce sociality, how they make meaning of their own life, how they use media in their social lives, how they build their homes and towns and how they live their cities.

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16 Dec 2024 / Research

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

19 Sep 2024 / Research

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

29 Jul 2024 / Research

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

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Newbury, Darren, Lorena Rizzo, and Kylie Thomas, eds. 2021. Women &Amp; Photography in Africa. Creative Practices and Feminist CHallenges. London: Routledge. edoc

Förster, Till. 2020. “Soziale Bilderwelten. Alltägliche Smartphone-Fotografie in Der Côte d’Ivoire”. Iz3w, no. 376: 24-25. edoc

Braun, Lesley Nicole. 2020. “Women and Migration”. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 1-21. 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.557. edoc

Braun, Lesley Nicole. 2020. “The Moving Parts in Michèle Magema’s Body of Work”. African Arts 53 (3): 22-29. 10.1162/afar_a_00535. edoc

Nzeza Bunketi Buse, Ribio. 2020. “Infectious Images: Viral Internet Content in the Democratic Republic of Congo”. Critical Arts South-North Cultural and Media Studies 34 (4): 103-16. 10.1080/02560046.2020.1753089. edoc

Cupers, Kenny. 2020. “Contagion and Containment: Curtailing the Freedom of Movement in Times of Coronavirus”. Eurozine. https://www.eurozine.com/contagion-and-containment/. edoc

Cupers, Kenny, and Prita Meier. 2020. “Infrastructure Between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-Africa Highway”. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79 (1): 61-81. 10.1525/jsah.2020.79.1.61. edoc

Cupers, Kenny. 2020. “Die Gespenster Eurafrikas”. ARCH+. edoc

Siegenthaler, Fiona, and Marie-laure Allain Bonilla. 2019. “Introduction: Decolonial Processes in Swiss Academia and Cultural Institutions”. Tsantsa 24: 4-13. edoc

Allain Bonilla, Marie-laure, Fiona Siegenthaler, Yann Laville, Grégoire Mayor, and Boris Wastiau. 2019. “Entre négociations Et expérimentations: Les musées d’ethnographie Et La décolonisation. Un Entretien”. Tsantsa 24: 67-77. https://tsantsa.ch/de/archiv/issue-24/content-24-2019/dossier/entre-negociations-et-experimentations-les-musees-d-ethnographie-et-la-decolonisation. edoc