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Dwelling in tourism: power and myth amongst Bushmen in Southern Africa (2013)
S.P. Koot
Type of publication: Book

Dwelling in Tourism highlights how marginalised Bushmen people are in the middle of a struggle between traditional en modern forces. Tourism, as an important element of conservation strategies, is a phenomenon built on both, and therefore reveals those...

Keywords: bushmen, Southern Africa, tourism
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 30 October 2013

Africa Yearbook 2012 : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara (2013)
Editors: A. Mehler; H. Melber; K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Africa, policy, politics
Added to database: 17 October 2013

Liberia : van vrijheidsideaal naar verloren paradijs (2013)
F. van der Kraaij
Type of publication: Book

Als enthousiaste twintiger vertrekt de schrijver in de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw naar het West-Afrikaanse land Liberia. Hij gaat er les geven aan de Universiteit van Liberia. Onder zijn studenten bevinden zich latere ministers; een van zijn studenten ontpopt zich als...

Keywords: Liberia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 16 October 2013

Asian tigers, African lions : comparing the development performance of Southeast Asia and Africa (2013)
Editors: B. Berendsen; A.J. Dietz; H. Schulte Nordholt; R. van der Veen
Type of publication: Book

Asian Tigers, African Lions is an anthology of contributions by scholars and (former) diplomats related to the 'Tracking Development' research project, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and coordinated by the African Studies Centre and KITLV, both...

Keywords: Africa, Asia, economic development, economic policy
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 14 October 2013

African Studies Abstracts Online: number 44, 2013 (2013)
Type of publication: Book

ASA Online provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the ASC library. Issue 44 (2013). African Studies Centre, Leiden.

Keywords: abstracts journals (form), Africa, African studies, ASC, social sciences
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 11 October 2013

Promoting gender equality and female empowerment: a systematic review of the evidence on property rights, labour markets,political participation and violence against women (2013)
M. Dekker
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: gender inequality
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 07 October 2013

Balancing men, morals and money : women's agency between HIV and security in a Malawi village (2013)
J. Verheijen
Type of publication: Book
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 17 September 2013

Grandparents as parents : skipped-generation households coping with poverty and HIV in rural Zambia (2013)
D. Reijer
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Zambia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 17 September 2013

Local perceptions of development and change in Northern Ghana (2013)
A.J. Dietz; K.van der Geest; F. Obeng
Editors: J.A. Yaro
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Rural development in Northern Ghana
Keywords: Ghana
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 17 September 2013

The objects of life in Central Africa : the history of consumption and social change, 1840-1980 (2013)
Editors: R. Ross; M. Hinfelaar; I. Peša
Type of publication: Book

In "The Objects of Life in Central Africa" the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By taking consumption as a vantage point, the contributions deviate from and add to previous works which have mainly analysed issues of...

Keywords: Central Africa, consumption, social change
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 05 September 2013

Islam and politics in Senegal (2013)
M.M. A. Kaag
Type of publication: Other
Added to database: 05 September 2013

Transnational elite formation : the case of the Senegalese Murid community in Italy (2013)
M.M. A. Kaag
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

This paper investigates how diasporic and transnational communities evolve by analysing how networks of power are established and enhanced, both locally and transnationally. As part of a process of diversification in the Senegalese community in Italy, for example, a new elite...

Added to database: 05 September 2013

Les conflits fonciers au Sénégal revisités: continuités et dynamiques émergentes (2013)
M.M. A. Kaag; Y. Gaye; M. Kruis
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Gerti Hesseling : á l'ombre du droit
Added to database: 05 September 2013

Coping with shocks in rural Ethiopia (2013)
M. Dekker; Z.Y. Debebe; A. Mebratie; R. Sparrow; D. Abebaw; G. Alemu; A.S. Bedi
Type of publication: Other

Based on household survey data and event history interviews undertaken in a highly shock prone country, this paper investigates which shocks trigger which coping responses and why? We find clear differences in terms of coping strategies across shock types. The two relatively...

Keywords: Ehiopia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 September 2013

The role of urban agriculture in the development of middle-sized towns : cases from East Africa (2013)
J. Verheijen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of geography and regional planning
Added to database: 02 September 2013

Gendered divisions of labour in urban crop cultivation in a Kenyan town: implications for livelihood outcomes (2013)
J. Verheijen; D. Reijer
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Gender, place and culture
Added to database: 02 September 2013

African Studies Abstracts Online: number 43, 2013 (2013)
Type of publication: Book

ASA Online provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the ASC library. Issue 43 (2013). African Studies Centre, Leiden.

Keywords: abstracts journals (form), Africa, African studies, ASC, social sciences
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 08 July 2013

Annual report 2012 / African Studies Centre (2013)
Editors: A. Reeves; M.C.A. van Winden
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: African studies, annual reports (form), ASC, Netherlands
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 20 June 2013

Islam in Mali since the 2012 coup (2013)
B.F. Soares
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Cultural anthropology online
Keywords: Islam, Mali
Added to database: 13 June 2013

The PADev Story: PADev 2007-2013 End-of-Project Report (2013)
A.J. Dietz; PADev Team
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: Burkina Faso, development projects, evaluation, Ghana, Kenya, reseach methods
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 12 June 2013

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