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REFRACT: Resilience & Fragility in Action
This project critically examines the evolving dynamics of fragility and resilience amid escalating crises
New Publication: Loose sediments: history, geology, and sand mining in Nepal’s Himalayan-Tarai rivers
Loose sediments structure the deep history of the youngest Himalayas, Churia, in Nepal.
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: 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.
New article: Conflits à l’Est du Congo, repenser la centralité des minerais
Rethinking the centrality of minerals for conflicts in the DRC, this article is part of a special issue in Alternatives Sud on the reproduction of predations in Congo.
New article: Rural Radicalism and the Tactic of Third-Party Leverage
How Acholi Peasants Drew a UN Agency into Their Struggle against Land-Grabbing by the Ugandan State
New article: Rural Radicalisms and the Politics of Order: Authority, Precarity, and Globality in Africa
This special issue traces new forms and practices of rural radicalism.
New Book Chapter Publication: “Democratic Republic of the Congo” in Africa Yearbook Vol. 20
Two dynamics dominated the political and social context in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. One was the electoral process, and the second dynamic was the further intensification of the conflict with the Rwandan-backed M23 in North Kivu Province.
Social dynamics of private security sector development in west Africa
This project aims to explore how private security firms embody a specific expansion of market logics as a modality of governance and the exercise of violence.
The Social Anthropology of Security Practices in areas affected by recurring conflicts in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uvira, Fizi, Mwenga, and Djugu territories)
This project investigates the socialization processes that (re-)configure (violent) security practices occurring in the civil wars of Central Africa.