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Gender, Climate Change and Natural Resource Management

New Publication: Mineralised Urbanisation: Rural-Urban Linkages, Migration and Mobility, and the Making and Unmaking of Cities in Africa

The chapter describes how mining towns in Southern Africa are strongly characterised by rural-urban linkages and mobilities.

CRG Book Launch: Surrounded: Democracy, Free Markets, and Other Entrapments of New Colonialism

This book touches on the informal, ignorable, subtle and seemingly benevolent ways through which new colonialism has encircled the continent...

CRG Book Launch: Decolonising Education in Islamic West Africa

is grounded in an ethnography of educational decision-making in northern Senegal which shows how young people struggled to obtain an Islamic education

EVENT: Film and Contentious Politics in Senegal

Seminar and Screening of Baanum Nafi ( Nafi's Father)
by Professor and Filmmaker Mamadou Dia

New Publication:The Political Hidden Costs of Power-Sharing in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Two decades after the adoption of a constitution brought about by the Global and Inclusive Agreement (AGI), a full-scale war once again threatens the stability of the regime in the DRC.

EVENT: Rights Bites with Koen Vlassenroot: How to understand the escalation of the Congo conflict?

This talk will delve into the history of conflict in eastern Congo, its complexities and its main player.

Book Launch:Occupation: Russian rule in South-Eastern Ukraine by David Lewis (University of Exeter)

Russia now occupies almost one-fifth of Ukraine’s territory. The author will explain how Russia seeks to subjugate and ‘re-format’ the occupied territories.

CALL FOR APPLICATION: Rural Futures   ‘Governance at the edge of the State’ (GOVEDSTA) Summer School

This Summer School addresses the question of rural futures ‘at the edge of the state’ from a planetary perspective.