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New Conference Proceedings: Empowering Southeast Asian Peoples on Addressing Food Security, Environmental Sustainability, Climate Justice through Alternative Regionalism
These are the proceedings of the Fifth Southeast Asian Regional Conference on Alternatives. The conference took place on 21 to
24 October 2024 at Pangandaran, West Java, Indonesia.
New Opinion Piece: Beyond Extractivism? Intertwined Conflict in Eastern Congo
The article explores the various complexities of the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
New Publication: Counter-mapping Racial Capitalism in the Niger Delta: Zones of Unlimited Extraction and Cyclical Dispossession from Slavery to Petroleum
This article traces the longue durée of extraction in the Niger Delta, revealing how contemporary petro-infrastructure overlays and reactivates earlier corridors of extraction
Vacancy Post-doctoral Researcher on Sovereignty and Aesthetics Politics
You will join the Sovereign Performance project, which is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. The project will grow into a team of five post-docs and is coordinated by Bart Klem
New Publication:Land Under Siege: Militarized Capitalism and Urban Land Dispossession in the City of Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
This article investigates the relationship between militarization and land grabbing in the context of rapid urbanization and protracted violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
New Publication: Contextual Note on the Ebola Bundibugyo Outbreak in Ituri (2026)
This note provides contextual background on the Ituri province, currently affected by an Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak.
Event: Building Capacities: “Washout”: Film Showing and Global South-North Conversations on the Politics of Land, Resistance and Solidarity
July 7, 2026
13:30–16:00
Stadsacademie / Green Office Gent / Green Hub, Ghent University
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 31, 9000 Ghent
Lunch will be provided at 12:30 (same venue).
Event: Policy Roundtable Advancing integrated climate–security responses: the role of local institutions, youth, and gender in flood-prone western Burundi
27 May 2026
14.00-15.30
Venue: Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU, Belliardstraat 65, 1040 Brussels
New Publication: The politics of potentiality: Responsible sourcing, ASM formalization and future making in the DRC’s cobalt mines
The DRC’s cobalt has become a spear point of global policies and narratives envisioning sustainable futures.
New Publication: The role of taxation of artisanal mining in conflict-affected contexts
From armed predation to ‘informal formalization’?