Publications

The African Studies Centre Leiden currently publishes eight different series. Books published in the ASCL Collection Series and Occasional Publications Series can be ordered from the Webshop or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long they are in stock. Book series published by Brill can be ordered directly from the publisher, or they can be purchased during a visit to the ASCL library, as long as they are in stock.

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P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Book

This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa, particularly Cameroon. It demonstrates that the introduction of plantation labour during colonial rule has had significant consequences for gender roles and relations within and beyond the...

Keywords: Cameroon, gender, labour relations, plantations, resistance, tea, workers
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 22 April 2013
H. Hoogenraad
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Tanzania
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 11 April 2013
M. Desmurger
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Madagascar
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 09 April 2013
C. Wilson
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Democratic Republic of Congo, group identity, language usage, Lingala language, sociolects, theses (form), urban youth
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 09 April 2013
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Social Anthropology
Keywords: dams, Ethiopia, ethnic conflicts, state
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 28 March 2013
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: History Today
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 27 February 2013
A.J. Dietz
Editors: I.S.A. Baud; N. Pouw
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Local governancne and poverty in developing nations
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 06 February 2013
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: Informatieprofessional
Keywords: development
Added to database: 24 January 2013
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Other
Added to database: 24 January 2013
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: Informatieprofessional
Keywords: development
Added to database: 24 January 2013
J.C.M. Damen
Type of publication: Review
In: Informatieprofessional
Keywords: development
Added to database: 24 January 2013
M. Dekker; B. Kinsey
Editors: J.B. Gewald; A.H.M. Leliveld; I. Peša
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies
Keywords: Zimbabwe
Added to database: 17 January 2013
P. Konijn
Type of publication: Other
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 17 January 2013
R.R. Simiyu
Type of publication: Book

Drawing on the sustainable livelihood approach, this book explores gender dynamics in urban agriculture, which is an integral part of the diversified portfolio of livelihood strategies adopted by residents of Eldoret town to cope with hard economic times. It explores the...

Keywords: Kenya, urban agriculture
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 08 January 2013
Editors: J.B. Gewald; A.H.M. Leliveld; I. Peša
Type of publication: Book

Africa abounds with examples of material and immaterial innovations that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere yet came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly transformed in Africa. The authors in this volume explore how external innovations (products,...

Keywords: Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 07 January 2013
Editors: G.J. Abbink; T. Salverda
Type of publication: Book

A fascinating array of ethnographic and theoretically relevant cases - several on Africa - this book is timely and topical in combining substantial new historical and ethnographic material about elites. Case studies include financial elite traders in South Africa, the white...

Added to database: 20 December 2012
S. Ellis
Type of publication: Book

When the South African National Congress was outlawed in 1960, it transferred its headquarters abroad and opened what it termed an External Mission. Voted into office in 1994, the ANC today regards its armed struggle as the central plank of its legitimacy. This study of the...

Keywords: 1950-1999, African National Congress, anti-apartheid resistance, exile, South Africa
Added to database: 18 December 2012
Editors: G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Book

This collective volume pays tribute to the work of Africanist Piet Konings and his 30-year career (1978-2008) at the African Studies Centre Leiden. It focuses on key themes addressed in Konings' work such as labour relations, African development, social and political...

Keywords: African studies, festschrifts (form), political economy, Subsaharan Africa
Added to database: 18 December 2012
Editors: K. Witsenburg; A.F.M. Zaal
Type of publication: Book

There are regions in the world where socio-economic deprivation, ecological marginality, political exclusion, poverty and violence all seem to converge. The cases presented in this book describe the various violent conflicts in rural Kenya and aim to understand spatial...

Keywords: Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 17 December 2012
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 04 December 2012

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