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Publication: Bootstrapping sovereignty: the placeholder dynamics of contested states from identity documents to international courts
These placeholder dynamics help explain how attributions of sovereignty simultaneously challenge, mimic, and rearticulate the statist international (dis)order.
New Vacancy: PhD position on ‘transnational urban warscapes’
4-year fully funded PhD opportunity
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Position on Performative Politics in Catalonia
The present position focuses on the Catalonian independence movement
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.
CRG Book Launches: The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean.
The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers.
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.
What does peace have to do with it? Examining the creation and operationalisation of peace arrangements and their actors in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Warfare and the nature of conflict have substantially changed over the last 40 years. Yet, the procedures and content of peace agreements have not evolved with this change.