Publications

This chapter studies how reading practices on the twentieth-century East African Muslim coast were shaped both by producers and by users of Swahili-language religious pocket books printed in Roman and/or Arabic script. The focus will be on editorial strategies, the charity...

Teaching and researching multispecies organizational ethnography needs a pedagogy that decentres the human animal and has a basic multisensorial approach to sensemaking in organizations, in order to try to do (more) justice to nonhuman sentience, animals, and plants, that is...

This chapter critically engages with narratives of game rangers on nature conservation in South and southern Africa, drawing on (auto)biographies of white male game rangers to surface the relationship between anthropocentric abuses to other species and dominating forms of...

Cultures have usually been studied as a purely human phenomenon. Recent research challenges this single-focused perspective on exclusively human agency in the formation and sustainability of cultures and offers a more inclusive format for exploring cultural processes,...

The 1970 nationalisation of foreign businesses in Uganda was arguably the first time that a country would announce to pay compensation for nationalised businesses from the future profits earned by such businesses. Using two interrelated models, namely the Obsolescing...

In this chapter I explore how conflict as a contextual stressor interacts with parenting in Burundi, a country affected by repeated outbreaks of mass violence since Independence. Interested in understanding how these conflict experiences inform cultural understandings of what...