Research projects
See a list of the current research projects below, or visit the archive of completed projects. Projects are either funded by the ASCL or externally funded.
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A multi-media documentation of the Oyda Language
Keywords: language documentation, DoBeS projects, endangered languages, Omotic studies
Countries, location: Ethiopia
Researchers: Azeb Amha
Cooperation:
In cooperation with Dr. Bernhard Köhler (Institut für Afrikanische Sprachwissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main).
Funding:
The DoBeS programme of the Volkswagen Stiftung, Germany.
Boom2Dust
Keywords: mining, history, multi-species history, environment, mineral extraction, climate crisis
Countries, location: Zambia, Namibia, South Africa
Researchers: Jan-Bart Gewald
PhD Affiliates: Jan-Jan Joubert , Maaike Rozema, Walker Swindell
Cooperation:
SAIPAR - The Southern African Institute for Policy and Research
Funding:
NWO Open Competition grant
ASCL
CoCooN Initiative Kenya Programme – ‘Land grab’ and dwindling water resources: reconciling competing claims and conflicts over natural resources in Africa’s dry lands, specifically Kenya
Countries, location: Kenya
External affiliates: Moses Mwangi, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, South Eastern Kenya University (SEKU)
Consortium for Development Partnerships
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn
CorTypo: Designing spoken corpora for cross-linguistic research
Keywords: Linguistic Copora, Afroasiatic, Wolaitta, Omotic
Countries, location: Ethiopia
Researchers: Azeb Amha
Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict (DDMAC)
Keywords: Social media, digital media, conflict, hate speech, disinformation
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn
PhD Affiliates: Modibo Galy Cissé
Cooperation:
Oslo Metropolitan University (Oslomet)
African Studies Centre Leiden
Utrecht University
University of Addis Abeba
Voice4Thought
Digital Humanities Leiden
External affiliates: Kristin Skare Orgeret, Professor in Journalism at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway, Bruce Mutsvairo, Associate Professor in Media Studies at Utrecht University , Johannes Langguth, Research Scientist at Simula Research Laboratory, Mulatu Alemayahu Moges, Assistant Professor in Media Studies, Addis Ababa University, Daniel Thilo Schroeder, postdoctoral fellow, Simula Met
Funding:
Norwegian Research Council
Developmental dilemmas and political culture in Ethiopia and the Horn: local refractions of state policies
Keywords: developmentalism; state politics; economic policy; human rights; local political culture; donor policy dilemmas; resistance
Researchers: Jan Abbink
Funding:
African Studies Centre Leiden, Netherlands
Evolving relations between religion and politics in the Horn of Africa: media use and public identity discourse of religious communities/elites in Northeast Africa
Keywords: religious relations; polemics; communal tension; public sphere; the politics of religion
Researchers: Jan Abbink
Funding:
ASC
Exploring the operations of multinational corporations in conflict areas
Financial decision-making, gender and social norms in Zambia
Keywords: Financial decision-making, gender, social norms, financial services
Countries, location: Zambia
Researchers: Marleen Dekker
Cooperation:
Financial Sector Deepening Zambia
External affiliates: Abigail Barr (University of Nottingham) , Floyd Mwansa (Financial Sector Deepening Zambia) , Tia Linda Zuze (Stellenbosch University)
Funding:
NWO Westerdijk Talent Impuls
DFID through FSD Zambia
Frugal innovations in Africa
Keywords: frugal innovation ; economic growth ; development ; bottom of the pyramid ; private sector ; multinationals ; technology
Researchers: André Leliveld
Cooperation:
Cees van Beers (TU Delft); Peter Knorringa (ISS/EUR)
Funding:
Seed money from Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Intergenerational resilience and anticipation of conflict and natural disaster
Keywords: Intergenerational resilience, anticipatory practices, disaster, war and genocide, young people, ethnography
Countries, location: Rwanda
Researchers: Lidewyde Berckmoes
Cooperation:
University of Rwanda
External affiliates: Stefan Jansen (University of Rwanda), Verena Mukeshimana (University of Rwanda), Eugène Rutembesa (University of Rwanda) , Révérien Interayamahanga (Community Based Sociotherapy Rwanda)
Funding:
NWO
Kenya Coast Portal
Keywords: anthropology ; economics ; education ; geography ; health ; history ; languages ; law ; political science ; religion ; sociology
Countries, location: Kenya
Researchers: Jan Hoorweg
Locally grounded models for air quality in Africa: the power of TROPOMI to bridge African science and policy
Keywords: Inclusive development, air quality, satellite data, TROPOMI, climate change, Africa
Researchers: Marleen Dekker, Agnieszka Kazimierczuk
Cooperation:
KNMI, University of Pretoria
External affiliates: Deborah Stein Zweers, R&D Satellite observations department of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Rebecca Garland, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria
Funding:
ASCL, KNMI
Muslim Africa’s global connections
New topographies of power? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world
Keywords: transnational linkages ; economic networks ; natural resources ; migration
Researchers: Mayke Kaag
Pedagogies of peace and conflict in the Great Lakes region
Keywords: Pedagogies of peace and conflict, intergenerational transmission, cycle of violence, family education, children, Great Lakes region, Burundian refugees, Banyamulenge refugees, genocide
Countries, location: Rwanda
Researchers: Lidewyde Berckmoes
Cooperation:
University of Rwanda
External affiliates: Stefan Jansen, University of Rwanda , Juul Kwaks (Radboud University Nijmegen/ASCL) , Verena Mukeshimana, University of Rwanda , Benjamin Tuyishimire, University of Rwanda , Eugène Rutembesa (University of Rwanda), Theoneste Rutayisire, Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS) Rwanda , Clémentine Kanazayire (University of Rwanda) , Révérien Interayamahanga (CBS Rwanda)
Funding:
NWO Aspasia premie
Pentecostalism and Social Services in Botswana: Charting a new terrain in the religious provisioning of social support
Keywords: Religion, Pentecostalism, social support, activism
Countries, location: Botswana
Researchers: Rijk van Dijk
Portable Islam: Swahili literary networks in the Indian Ocean
Keywords: African-language literature, traditions of learnings, materiality, Muslim networks, Islamic studies, Swahili intellectual history, India, Indian Ocean
Countries, location: East Africa
Researchers: Annachiara Raia
Funding:
NWO-Talentprogramma Veni SGW 2021 - Cultuur en Taalwetenschappen/ NWO Talent Programme Veni SSH 2021 - Cultural Sciences and Linguistics
The language of food: documentation and representation of food preparation and culinary culture in Africa and its diasporas
Transnational Islamic NGOs in Africa
Keywords: Transnational linkages ; Islam ; Arab World ; religion and development
Researchers: Mayke Kaag
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA). Maktaba ya kidijitali ya Ustadh Mau
Keywords: Archives, digital humanities, heritage, material culture, Indian Ocean, Swahili intellectual history
Countries, location: Kenya
Researchers: Annachiara Raia
Cooperation:
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)
Centre for Digital Scholarship, Leiden University Library
ASCL Library
Lamu Museum, Kenya
Lamu Fort Museum Library, Kenya
Hekaya Arts Initiative, Mombasa, Kenya
UCLA Library, Los Angeles
Iwalewa House (Bayreuth University)
External affiliates: Ustadh Mau (archive owner), Abu Mirah, Fahim Abdalla , Mohamed Mwenje (curator), Fahim Abdalla (IT specialist), Khadija Issa Twahir (librarian at Lamu Fort and Survey of Documentary Heritage and indigenous records), Thomas Gesthuizen (webmaster and audio expert at voice4thought), Charlotte Sophie Bruns Knight, Naima Idris, Mohamed Omar
Funding:
This project is supported by the Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library, with funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
Posted on 9 May 2012, last modified on 19 September 2019