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Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Position on Performative Politics in Kurdistan

The present position focuses on the autonomous region in Northeast Syria known as Rojava (and Kurdistan more widely).

Publication: Danger on My Mind: Dangerous Imaginaries and Their Effect on Epistemologies

The article examines how and why dangerous imaginaries are constructed.

Publication: Science as a Territory in Dispute: An Analysis of Power and Paradigms in the Conceptualization of Agroecology

This article, based on fieldwork conducted in Argentina between 2019 and 2024, is published in the Agriculture and Human Values journal

Publication: Governing Artisanal and Small-Scale Sand Mining in Bangladesh

This article uses an in-country comparative approach to investigate the governance of artisanal and small-scale river sand mining in Bangladesh, focusing particularly on sector heterogeneity, tax farming and power imbalances.

Publication: We Are Caught Between Violence and Famine” – Analysis of the Deepening Crisis Affecting Eastern DR Congo

Regional and international initiatives to end the war between M23/AFC and the Congolese government are multiplying, leading to mounting pressure on the belligerents to negotiate through sanctions and direct engagement.

Publication: Could Africa’s Forever War Finally End? How U.S. Diplomacy Could Resolve the Conflict Between Congo and Rwanda

By Reagan Miviri,  Joshua Z. Walker and Jason K. Stearns
A deal between Congo and Rwanda must lead to a larger peace process.

Public Lecture: Sub-imperial Power in Arabia: The Gulf Arab States and their Precarious Regional Role in Sudan and Beyond By Isa Blum

When:December 11, 4:30-6 PM
Where: Auditorium 4 'Jaap Kruithof' Campus Boekentoren, Blandijnberg 2.

Publication: National Histor(iograph)y: An Ideological Identitarian Frontline? Gulag Commemoration, Self-definition and Statehood in Kazakhstan

It examines how present-day Kazakhstan tries to accommodate the existence and function of the Karlag branches of the Soviet Gulag system in the Kazakh Soviet republic.

Silencing Minds, Starving Bodies: Authoritarian Epistemicide in Ethiopia

It looks at the political developments within Ethiopia in the last decade, and their effects on freedom of academic work and thought as well as on material conditions within the country.

CALL FOR APPLICATION: CRG Fully Funded Ph.D. Position

CRG offers a fully funded PhD position on the theme of ‘Rural Radicalism’.
Deadline: August 15, 2025