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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

CRG Book Launch: Dawn Rose on a Dead Body: Armed Violence and Poppy Farming in Mexico

Who are the poppy farmers, caught between military repression and exploitation by those who buy their crops? What does it mean to be a woman in a place where men’s violence looms?

New Publication: Marks and mobility: a photographic exploration of cattlesmuggling across the India–Bangladesh border

This photo essay argues that cattle markings have had an intrinsic connection to cattle mobility across and within borders.

Bandung Conference and South-South Cooperation: Knowledge, Solidarities, and Worldmaking

Doctoral School Course
May 6-8, 2025
UFO Campus, Ghent University

Book Launches 17: Learning through Collective Memory Work- Troubling Testimonio in Post-war Peru by Goya Wilson Vasquez 

Dr. Eva Willems will be in conversation with Goya Wilson Vasquez  (University of Bristol)
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Keynote Lecture: Genealogies of the Un/Citizen in “Hometown,” USA: From Colonial New Jersey to the Magical Coalition by Prof. dr. Carolina Alonso Bajarano

April 22, 2025 (Tue) UFO Campus, Ghent University. The lecture is part of the Spring School 2025: Re-imagining field work through creative methodologies and collaborative learning

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.