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A socio-cultural history of the SNV (1965-2005)

Agency and settled flexibility
Keywords: coping strategies, diversity, flexibility

Agency in African history: Reconstructing patterns of pre/post-colonial continuity
Keywords: African religion, afrocentricity, agency, Black Athena, colonialism, consciousness, cross-cultural comparison, method, myth, neo-diffusionism, philosophy, poverty, pre-colonial history, proto-globalization, worldview

Civil society building in Mali and the Dutch co-financing agencies
Keywords: development policy, co-financing agencies, Mali

Conceptual explorations in African agency
Keywords: Afrocentricity, agency, belief, Black Athena, consciousness, culture, difference, epistemology, identity, indigenous knowledge systems, intellectuals, localization, method, philosophy, politics of scholarship, religion, science, self-definition

Cultural understandings of conflict situations, the role of young men, women and children in Chad and Mali
Keywords: gender, conflict, culture

Failed inclusion and human rights
Keywords: cultures on the margins, processes of inclusion and exclusion, human rights

Localizing anxieties: Migrants, Pentecostalism and questions of citizenship in Botswana
Keywords: Contestation; Pentecostalism, transnationalism, citizenship, minority studies

Moral panics and young African immigrants: Issues of identity politics in the Netherlands and their intercultural understanding
Keywords: migration, minorities, identity politics

Pastoral urbanites: Socio-cultural and economic transformations among Moors in small towns (Mauritania)
Keywords: pastoralism, mobility, multi-spatial livelihoods, small town, urbanism

Religion and the mobility of form: Ghanaian Pentecostal churches in the Netherlands
Keywords: Pentecostalism, diaspora, minority studies, migration

Religious modernities in West Africa: A comparative study
Keywords: Knowledge; new religious movements, modernity, identity

Remembering slavery: travelling hierarchies in transnational Fulbe societies in Mali and France
Keywords: migration, social relations, slavery, memory, mobility, transnationalism

The impact of motor-vehicles in Africa in the twentieth century: A socio-historical case study in Zambia
Keywords: Zambia, Internal Combustion Engine, transformation

The migration of Ghanaians and Malawians to Botswana: New minorities and the national project
Keywords: Agency and mobility; diaspora studies, transnationality, identity formation, minority studies

The naturalness of evil
Keywords: religion, islamization, African Christianity, witchcraft, juju, evil, identity

Through the looking glass: African societies and the tourist encounter
Keywords: Reflexivity and knowledge; tourism, encounter, production of culture, projection of images of self

Urban people and uncertainty of daily life
Keywords: Agency and mobility; urban life, poverty, marginality, coping strategies

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