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Archiving Environmental Change: Mapping a Network

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 31 May, 2026 - 17:28

Hofmeyr, Isabel, and Saarah Jappie. "Archiving Environmental Change: Mapping a Network." Kronos 51 (2025): 1-9.

There’s a Bug in my Media: Insects, Colonial Archives and Book History

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 31 May, 2026 - 17:28

Hofmeyr, Isabel. "There’s a Bug in my Media: Insects, Colonial Archives and Book History." Kronos 51 (2025): 1-11.

Bringing Formalisation ‘to the People’: Deceased Estates as a Post-Apartheid Legal Field

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 31 May, 2026 - 17:28

Bolt, Maxim. "Bringing Formalisation ‘to the People’: Deceased Estates as a Post-Apartheid Legal Field." South African Historical Journal 77 (2025): 279-298.

The Measure of Mistrust: African Artisanal Gold Mining and the Geopolitics of the Barbarous Relic

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 17 January, 2025 - 11:40

Breckenridge, Keith. "The Measure of Mistrust: African Artisanal Gold Mining and the Geopolitics of the Barbarous Relic." In Political Economy and Critical Engagement in South Africa: Essays in Honour of Vishnu Padayachee, edited by Rajend Mesthrie, Robert van Niekerk and Imraan Valodia, 58-75. Pietermaritzburg South Africa: UKZN Press, 2025.

Predicaments of Knowledge - Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities by Suren Pillay

Submitted by WiSER Admin on 7 November, 2024 - 15:54

A Moment of Deep Reflection & Gratitude

Southern African Network for Economic History - Workshop

Submitted by Laura Phillips on 26 June, 2024 - 14:45

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Monday, 8 July, 2024 - 09:00

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Beyond the apocalypse | Full Programme

Submitted by Laura Phillips on 24 May, 2024 - 12:50

Public Events

Wednesday, 9 October, 2024 - 18:00

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Achille Mbembe: Thinking the World from Africa

Submitted by WiSER Admin on 25 April, 2024 - 11:11

In collaboration with the Holberg Prize, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK) and the Research Group for Radical Philosophy and Literature invite you all to an open seminar/reading session on this year’s Holberg Prize winner: historian, political theorist and public intellectual Achille Mbembe.

L’invention de « l’âge Kumba ». Comment l’âge des individus est-il devenu dynamique au Cameroun ?

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 5 April, 2024 - 11:37

Eyenga, Georges Macaire. "L’invention de « l’âge Kumba ». Comment l’âge des individus est-il devenu dynamique au Cameroun ?" Ethnologie française 54 (2024): 105-116.

Being undocumented at home? The mishaps of biometric enrolment in Cameroon

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 5 April, 2024 - 11:37

Eyenga, Georges Macaire, Gaëtan Omgba Mimboe, and Joseph Fabrice Bindzi. "Being undocumented at home? The mishaps of biometric enrolment in Cameroon." Critique internationale 97 (2022): 113-134.

Archiving Environmental Change: Mapping a Network

There’s a Bug in my Media: Insects, Colonial Archives and Book History

Bringing Formalisation ‘to the People’: Deceased Estates as a Post-Apartheid Legal Field

The Measure of Mistrust: African Artisanal Gold Mining and the Geopolitics of the Barbarous Relic

Predicaments of Knowledge - Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities by Suren Pillay

Southern African Network for Economic History - Workshop

Beyond the apocalypse | Full Programme

Achille Mbembe: Thinking the World from Africa

L’invention de « l’âge Kumba ». Comment l’âge des individus est-il devenu dynamique au Cameroun ?

Being undocumented at home? The mishaps of biometric enrolment in Cameroon

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