Sovereign Performance is a research project focused on the political repertoires of democratic movements that strive for independence or autonomy.

The article examines how and why dangerous imaginaries are constructed.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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