Projects

Amyloids are proteins able to form very regular insoluble fibrils. They are associated with erroneously folded proteins and related to the onset of amyloid diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s,...

Since the start of my career the focus of my scholarly research has been what has been defined as the “agrarian question”. This question is concerned with understanding the processes by which capitalism...

How do we come to know what we think we know? What evidence do we use to shape what we conceive of as truth? How does who we are—our positionality—impact how we read and make sense of the world around...

The future of human society – and indeed, the very meaning of what it is to be human – is inextricably related to mobility. Depending on the circumstances under which it occurs, mobility may foster...

The world reached 8 billion people in November 2022. That number is expected to increase to 10.4 billion by the mid-2080s before stabilizing and beginning to decline. Population growth in Low- and Middle-Income...

Judge Radhabinod Pal is a forgotten man in international law. Pal is best known as the author of an impassioned dissenting judgment in the Tokyo trials after World War II, finding each of the Japanese...

Generative linguistic theory holds that language is shaped by principles hardwired in the human brain. For many years modeling of the principles was based mainly on English, taking its properties to be...

Reconceptualization of socio-cultural climate change maladaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demands a nuanced understanding of regions diverse social, cultural and environmental contexts. Concerns exist...

The textile and clothing sector generates a large amount of waste that are either incinerated or disposed in landfills. There is a large and growing share of textile waste that is exported to e.g. Africa...

Creole languages result from extreme linguitic contact between languages with distinct prosodic systems and often do not fit neatly into prototypical linguistic categories. For Atlantic Creole languages,...

This project is based on in-depth ethnographic research in eight villages in the rural Eastern Cape. It focuses on post-pandemic recovery and rebuilding at the household and community level in remote rural...