Projects

Northwest Africa has recently been the site of a large variety of political movements. Commentators have struggled to make sense of them, partly because they have taken for granted a sharp division between...

Australia is witnessing a surge of public works by Indigenous creatives across the arts that broadcast the message of ‘ever present’ and ‘always will be’. Despite the centrality of memory in these...

This project explores how ethnicity shapes governance and inequality in Kenya. The project examines how ethnicity both shapes political power and influences the distribution of public resources. In Kenya,...

My research lies within the Life Sciences, and is specialized around questions related to developmental biology, and how gene expression is regulated in normal and diseased contexts. During the last years...

South African law increasingly relies on contracts to resolve disputes between family members and to address new practices like surrogacy and “open” adoptions within the family environment. Tacit contracts...

The unfolding appreciation of the effects of the parthenogenetic production of female eggs from laying workers of Cape honey bee workers on social relationships in colonies has proved to be a rich source...

Since the 2000s, the surveillance and coercion of individuals living in or travelling through the Sahara have been encouraged and implemented by international, European and African actors, often in blatant...

Biomass is the primary energy source for cooking and heating in many developing countries, including Ghana, where nearly 70% of the population rely on fuelwood, charcoal, animal droppings, and agricultural...

This project departs from the emergence of cinema in early 20th century South Africa, and its role in constituting a new public sphere around this form of leisure. My project traces cinema’s mass popularity...

Current research explores land, home, and community in South Africa through a sociological lens. It examines how land is understood not merely as a commodity but as an integral element of collective and...

This monograph project intervenes in the timely debate around the ‘decolonisation’ of trauma theory by providing a revised understanding of the theory’s Euro-American foundations primarily dominated...

The project identifies three main epochs that demonstrate Zambia’s shifting perceptions of China the state, Chinese individuals and Zambia-China relations – from an era of intersecting solidarity...