Research projects
ASC researchers have been applying for external funding from various sources.
Mirjam de Bruijn, for example, has been awarded a VICI grant for her proposal 'Connecting in Times of Duress: Understanding Communication and Conflict in Middle Africa’s Mobile Margins'.
And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has provided funding for further research as part of the Tracking Development project that is comparing four countries in South East Asia with four in Sub-Saharan Africa in an attempt to explain why the former region has developed more rapidly over the last 50 century.
Other current ASC research projects include:
- The study of the History of Nigerian organized crime and
- The analysis of food chains in African cities
If you would like more information about ASC projects, then check the ASC's project database by author, keyword or country.
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A History of Nigerian organized crime
Africa in the World - Rethinking Africa’s global connections
Collaborative project
Africa’s food and nutrition security: 2010-2050
Individual project
Keywords:
food basket ; population ; hunger ; undernutrition ; overnutrition ; agriculture ; access ; distribution ; food prices ; income ; economic value ; scenario studies ; water ; environment ; private sector ; gender ; food policy
Beyond the state: trajectories of power competition and civic (dis)engagement in Africa
Collaborative project
CoCooN – ‘Land grab’ and dwindling water resources: reconciling competing claims and conflicts over natural resources in Africa’s dry lands, specifically Kenya
Individual project
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Community based health insurance and the well-being of children and households in Plan communities in Togo
Individual project
Keywords:
Health insurance ; reproductive health ; children
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Community-based health insurance in Ethiopia
Individual project
Keywords:
health insurance ; reproductive health ; health shocks
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Connecting in times of duress: understanding communication and conflict in Middle Africa’s mobile margins
Individual project
Keywords:
new communication and information technology ; conflict ; connections ; africa ; historical ethnography
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Consortium for Development Partnerships
External project
Coping with economic crisis in Zimbabwe
Individual project
Keywords:
economic crisis ; social networks ; livelihoods
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Developmental dilemmas and political culture in Ethiopia and the Horn: local refractions of state policies
Individual project
Keywords:
developmentalism; state politics; economic policy; human rights; local political culture; donor policy dilemmas; resistance
EAB - East African borders
Individual project
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ECOTAF - ecotourism in Africa
ELKEN - elections in Kenya
Individual project
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Evolving relations between religion and politics in the Horn of Africa: media use and public identity discourse of religious communities/elites in Northeast Africa
Individual project
Keywords:
religious relations; polemics; communal tension; public sphere; the politics of religion
FADRO – famine and drought planning among Maasai pastoralists
Individual project
Food security and the African city: clustering metropolitan food chains
Collaborative project
From the land of ‘milk and honey’ to ‘permanent famine’: a socio-political history of Western Zambia 1940-1972
Individual project
Keywords:
regional atonomy; secessionism; nationalism
Frugal innovations in Africa
Individual project
Keywords:
innovations ; economic development ; bottom of the pyramid ; private sector
Grounding land governance
External project
Keywords:
land governance ; post-conflict situations ; decentralization ; land tenure ; IDPs ; institutions
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Human trafficking, prostitution and irregular migration in West Africa: the Nigeria-Cote D’Ivoire axis
Individual project
Keywords:
prostitution ; migration ; labour ; trafficking ; counter-trafficking ; ethnicity ; Yoruba
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Initiating and sustaining developmental regimes in Africa
External project
Keywords:
Subsaharan Africa; Asia; development; research
IS Academy
External project
Islam in colonial and postcolonial Mali
Islam, politics and society in Senegal
Long-term transformations in recent African history: Niger in the 1970s and 1980s
Individual project
Keywords:
rethinking historical periodisation ; transforming political economy ; military ; changing relation with former metropole
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MAALAND - Maasai pastoralism losing ground
Individual project
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MADIS - Maasai and disability
Individual project
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MINA - migration to Nairobi by Maasai pastoralists
Individual project
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Mobile Africa revisited, communication, marginality and society in West, Central and Southern Africa
Individual project
Keywords:
mobility ; marginality ; information and communication technology ; identity ; inequality
Mobility, networks and institutions in the management of natural resources in contemporary Africa (phase 2)
Individual project
Keywords:
mobility ; resources ; South ; African elites
Muslim Africa’s global connections
Networks, conflict and mediatization in Africa
Collaborative project
New Muslim public figures and changing Muslim socialities in Africa
Individual project
Keywords:
Islam ; politics ; social theory
New religious engagements with relationships, sexuality and health in Africa: the case of Botswana
Individual project
Keywords:
religion ; pentecostalism ; middle classes ; relationships ; marriage ; sexuality ; health
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New topographies of power? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world
Individual project
Keywords:
transnational linkages ; economic networks ; natural resources ; migration
PADev, participatory assessment of development: Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya
Political cultures in Ethiopia: intersections of the national and the local
Keywords:
conflict; ethnic identity; government; legal systems; local politics; political change
Post-Apartheid South Africa: trajectories of the transition
Individual project
Keywords:
identity ; social networks ; social structure ; South Africa ; youth
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Recovering Wolaitta: an historical ethnography of identity and change in rural Ethiopia
Individual project
Keywords:
livelihoods; historical identity; ethnic relations and conflict; state rural policy; development aid
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Religious identities and local politics in Northeast Africa
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Rethinking contemporary African history and historiography
Collaborative project
Roads to prosperity and their social zones of transit: comparing cases in Southern and West Africa through time
Collaborative project
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School farming and school feeding in Nakuru, Kenya
Society, labour, technology and consumption: the establishment of colonial rule in Northern Rhodesia, 1890-1924.
Individual project
Keywords:
technology; colonial rule; consumption
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SWIP: shallow wells improvement project
Individual project
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TD ASILI -Tracking development history of Kenya
Individual project
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The Black Dutchmen: African soldiers in the Dutch East Indies
Individual project
Keywords:
diasporas ; Ghana ; identity ; Netherlands ; slave trade
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The enduring legacy of German colonial rule and the League of Nations mandate in the borderlands of contemporary Africa
Individual project
Keywords:
German colonialism ; League of Nations mandate ; contemporary Africa
The governance of ‘ungoverned spaces’
Individual project
Keywords:
governance ; conflict ; state formation
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The history of the African National Congress in Exile, 1960-1990
Individual project
Keywords:
history ; ANC ; liberation movements.
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The long-term impact of violence and climate variability on food security
Individual project
Keywords:
Climate variability ; violence ; food security ; food production ; land tenure, anthropometrics
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Tracking Development
External project
Keywords:
Subsaharan Africa; Asia; development; research
Transnational Islamic NGOs in Africa
Individual project
Keywords:
Transnational linkages ; Islam ; Arab World ; religion and development
Water-sector reforms and interventions in urban Kenya: their Impact on the livelihoods of the poor
Individual project
Keywords:
urban water supply ; urban poverty ; urban livelihood ; political economy
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