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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Mobility and society in the Sahel : An exploration of mobile margins and global governance (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn
Editors: H. Hahn; G. Klute
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Cultures of Migration
Keywords: migration, mobility, Sahel
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Chad (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Editors: A. Mehler; H. Melber; K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Africa yearbook: politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 2006
Keywords: Africa, Chad, politics
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Une violence sociale ordinaire. Le developpement social de l'Afrique en question (2007)
Editors: J. Bouju; M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: violence
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Agency in and from the margins : street children and youth in N'Djaména, Chad (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa

Since the 1980s the number of NGOs working with street children in African cities has mushroomed and numerous publications about street children have appeared. This chapter investigates how children and youth living on the streets of N'djaména in Chad create a living in...

Keywords: Africa, Chad, children, street children, urban society, youth
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: P. Chabal; U. Engel; L.J. de Haan
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: African Alternatives

This chapter outlines the historical trajectory of the agency paradigm in African studies. It shows that over the past four decades, all the major social science paradigms - from structuralism to Marxism, world-systems theory and globalization theory - that sought to explain...

Keywords: Africa, African studies, research methods, social sciences
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Islam and Muslim politics in Africa (2007)
Editors: B.F. Soares; R. Otayek
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Africa, Islam
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Les sciences ésotériques musulmanes et le commerce d'amulettes au Mali (2007)
B.F. Soares
Editors: C. Hamès
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Magie et écriture islamique dans les mondes africain et européen
Keywords: Mali
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Rethinking Islam and Muslim societies in Africa (2007)
B.F. Soares
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: African affairs
Keywords: Africa, Islam, politics, Senegal, Sufism
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Saint and Sufi in contemporary Mali (2007)
B.F. Soares
Editors: M. van Bruinessen; J.D. Howell
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Sufism and the 'modern' in Islam
Keywords: Islam, Mali, Sufism
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Introduction : Islam and Muslim politics in Africa (2007)
R. Otayek; B.F. Soares
Editors: B.F. Soares; R. Otayek
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa
Keywords: Africa, Islam, politics
Added to database: 23 December 2011

'It's the contract, stupid!' (2007)
M.M.E.M. Rutten
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Indigo
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ecotourism initiatives in the East African region (2007)
M.M.E.M. Rutten
Editors: G. Bartles
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Connecting the agendas - proceedings of the RMNO conference on sustainable development of tourism
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The MDG on poverty and hunger : how reliable are the hunger estimates? (2006)
M. Nubé; W. Klaver
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: International Conference: the end of poverty in Africa? Five decades of development and what now?

Of the eight Millennium Development Goals, the first goal addresses poverty and hunger. One of the two quantified targets is to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. To measure progress towards achieving this target, two indicators...

Keywords: Africa, change, child growth, children, development, food availability, hunger, MDG, policy, poverty, stunting, undernourishment, undernutrition, underweight, wasting
Added to database: 08 December 2015

Verbal compounding in Wolaitta (2006)
A. Amha; G.J. Dimmendaal
Editors: A.Y. Aikhenvald; R.M.W. Dixon
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Serial verb constructions: a cross-linguistic typology
Keywords: Ethiopia
Added to database: 18 March 2014

The converb in an African perspective (2006)
A. Amha; G.J. Dimmendaal
Editors: F.K. Ameka; A. Dench; N. Evans
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Catching language: the standing challenge of grammar writing
Keywords: Ethiopia
Added to database: 18 March 2014

Wolaitta (2006)
A. Amha
Editors: K. Brown
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Encyclopedia of language and linguistics ; vol. 13 (2nd ed.)
Keywords: Ethiopia
Added to database: 18 March 2014

Gender and animacy in Maale in comparative perspective (2006)
A. Amha
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies
Keywords: Ethiopia
Added to database: 18 March 2014

Facilitating scholarly communication in African Studies (2006)
T. van der Werf-Davelaar
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: D-Lib Magazine
Added to database: 27 June 2012

Review of "Between a Rock and a Hard Place : African NGOs, donors, and the state", edited by Jim Igoe and Tim Kelsall (2006)
J.K. van Donge
Type of publication: Review
In: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society
Added to database: 03 April 2012

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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 6 October 2025