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In the year when the world became familiar with ‘zoonotic diseases’, and a photo of the locusts invasion in East Africa won a prize in the World Press Photo contest, the ‘animal turn’ in the social sciences is here to stay. Catering for this relatively new research theme, the ASCL Library does not need to revise its collection profile drastically, but it needs to address a potential information need, and direct students to relatively new research areas. Find out more in our latest Library Highlight!

The authors of this article, published open access in Health Systems & Reform, use three years of household panel data to analyse the effects of ill-health on household economic outcomes in rural Ethiopia. They examine the immediate effects of various ill-health measures on health expenditure and labour supply, the subsequent coping responses, and finally the effect on income and consumption. The need for health financing reforms and safety nets that reduce the financial consequences of ill-health is underlined.

The 2021-2022 Master and Research Master in African Studies, as well as the LDE minors African Dynamics and Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development have kicked off! Students of these programmes, that are (co-)organised by the ASCL, were welcomed in Leiden in the first weeks of September. 

The stakes of longitudinal ethnographic research come to the fore particularly starkly in relation to studies of violence. More specifically, longitudinality potentially both enhances certain risks inherent to carrying out research on violence, while also offering unique opportunities for better understanding the phenomenon more reflexively. Lidewyde Berckmoes, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Dennis Rodgers wrote an introduction to a special volume of Conflict and Society. Open access!