Announcements
Wednesday, 8 February, 2023 - 19:00
Sarah Nuttall
WiSER invites you to an online book discussion
IN THE SKIN OF THE CITY
Spatial Transformation in Luanda
by António Tomás
With In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and more
Monday, 13 February, 2023 - 16:00
Wendy Hunter
The Dominican Republic retroactively stripped thousands of
Dominico-Haitians of their Dominican citizenship yet managed to defuse
international opprobrium over time. After a direct assault on people’s
citizenship status in 2013 provoked more
Monday, 20 February, 2023 - 16:00
Sakiru Adebayo
In this paper, I engage with Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin’s idea of the flâneur in order to articulate my own concept of the memory flâneur. I argue that while wandering through a city’s memorial sites may have been implied in more
Monday, 27 February, 2023 - 16:00
Gustav Kalm
Simandou mountain chain in Guinea contains the biggest unexploited
high-quality iron ore reserves in the world. The French colonial regime,
Soviet Union, Mitsubishi, Rio Tinto, Chinalco, Vale, Beny Steinmetz
Group (BSGR) and Société more
Monday, 6 March, 2023 - 16:00
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
One of the key features of today's global economy is an ‘offshore world’ of financial structures, institutions and techniques designed to provide secrecy, asset protection and tax exemption. While its worldwide impact is very significant, more
Monday, 13 March, 2023 - 14:00
Marie-Emmanuelle, Cecilia Pommerolle, Passanti
Marked by the killing of a senior ICT professional working for the Electoral Commission and the invalidation of the presidential election by the Supreme Court, the 2017 Kenyan elections make for a good case through which to study how more
Monday, 20 March, 2023 - 16:00
Jeanne Bouyat
The policing of Black girls' hairstyles at school has become
increasingly publicly politicized and primarily analysed through the
lenses of institutional racism, and a lesser extend its intersections
with sexism and religious more
Monday, 27 March, 2023 - 16:00
Enrique Martino
This is the final chapter of my recently published book Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea where I propose a provisional theory of labour recruiters as "lumpen-brokers", both because the usually illegal labour more
Monday, 3 April, 2023 - 16:00
Christian Lund
Land rights are uneven in Indonesia as they favor government overcitizens as rights subjects. Moreover, legal complexity and socialinequality make legal knowledge about land rights ratherinaccessible to small-scale farmers and the urban more
Monday, 17 April, 2023 - 12:00
Janet Roitman
Platform economies are depicted as the foundation for a new era of economic production. This transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices. more
Monday, 24 April, 2023 - 16:00
Clovis BERGERE
This paper examines digital media contents created by young Guineans on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube which all foreground literacy as a site of generational contention and struggle. Recognizing that to be part of a generation is more
Monday, 8 May, 2023 - 16:00
Keren , Radha Weitzberg, Upadhyaya
This paper charts the rise of digital credit in Kenya. It highlights the data on evidence on the problems of digital credit, including the high cost of credit, overindebtedness, and unfair blacklisting. The paper shows that the many of the more
Monday, 15 May, 2023 - 16:00
Polly Pallister-Wilkins
This paper explores how processes of white supremacy and racialisation coalesce in governing differential im/mobilities in mid-Twentieth Century African Trusts administered by the British under the League of Nations Mandate System and more
Monday, 22 May, 2023 - 16:00
Joel Pearson
This article considers the changing role of a local municipality in the political economy of the Waterberg region of Limpopo. It considers the effects that centre-led processes of municipal fiscal reform over the course of the 1980s and more
Monday, 29 May, 2023 - 16:00
Tara Weinberg
In the early 20th century, groups of black land buyers purchased land in the Transvaal with the intention of farming on a large scale. Three of those farms include: Daggakraal and Driefontein in the Wakkerstroom district, purchased by more