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Dr P.J.J. Konings

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Main researcher

Theme group: SMPC theme group
Focus: Cameroon; Ghana

Piet Konings retired in 2008. He is currently affiliated to the African Studies Centre as an honorary researcher.

Piet Konings is a sociologist of development. He has carried out extensive research on labour and trade unionism, rural development and political processes in Africa. His current research interests are: (i) political change and regionalism in Cameroon, with particular reference to the anglophone problem, and (ii) the role of civil society organizations during economic and political liberalization in several African countries, in particular Cameroon and Ghana.

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4 Projects

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Key publications

P.J.J. Konings
The Politics of Neoliberal Reforms in Africa. State and civil society in Cameroon.
Bamenda: Cameroon: Langaa Publishers & Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011.
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P.J.J. Konings
Neoliberal bandwagonism: civil society and the politics of belonging in Anglophone Cameroon
Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Publishers, 2009.
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P.J.J. Konings and Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Negotiating an Anglophone identity : a study of the politics of recognition and representation in Cameroon
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 1, 2003.
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P.J.J. Konings
Unilever estates in crisis and the power of organizations in Cameroon
Hamburg [etc.]: Lit Verlag [etc.], African Studies Centre 1, 1998.
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P.J.J. Konings
Labour Resistance in Cameroon.
London: James Currey, 1993
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P.J.J. Konings and James J. Ravell
The state and rural class formation in Ghana : a comparative analysis
London [etc.]: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Monographs from the African Studies Centre, 1986.
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