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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Farming as a livelihood source for urban dwellers: results from a research project in Nakuru, Kenya (2006)
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: ASC, Kenya
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

Climate change and climatic variability in West Africa (2006)
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Other
Keywords: Africa, ASC, climate change, West Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

Africa Yearbook 2005 : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara (2006)
Editors: A. Mehler; H. Melber; K. van Walraven
Type of publication: Book

The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa - all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West...

Keywords: Africa, policy, politics
Added to database: 02 April 2012

"To subsidise my income" : urban farming in an East-African town (2006)
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Book

Urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa has gained momentum in recent years in terms of research and policy, as well as in practical terms. The paradox of accelerated urbanization and the increase in urban agriculture in developing countries is widely recognized. More than...

Keywords: Kenya, urban agriculture
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 30 March 2012

Crisis and creativity : exploring the wealth of the African neighbourhood (2006)
Editors: P.J.J. Konings; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Book

During the current economic and political crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, urban dwellers tend to display a large measure of creativity in the invention of survival strategies, the development of social networks, and the construction of imaginative practices. This collective...

Keywords: Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, identity, neighbourhoods, social networks, Subsaharan Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, urban society
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 14 March 2012

Een schijn van Voodoo. Culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie: een verkenning (vierde druk) (2006)
R.A. van Dijk; T. Rasing; N. Tellegen; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Book

Dit rapport is het resultaat van een verkennend onderzoek naar de culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes die naar Nederland komen om in de prostitutie te gaan werken. Een belangrijke overeenkomst in de verhalen die deze meisjes de Nederlandse politie...

Keywords: African religions, illicit trade, Netherlands, Nigeria, Nigerians, prostitution, refugees, religious rituals, voodoo
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Slow awakening? The Ethiopian diaspora in the Netherlands, 1977-2007 (2006)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Diaspora: a journal of transnational studies

This essay offers a preliminary account of the development of the Ethiopian diaspora in the Netherlands, charting the process of community formation among Ethiopian immigrants posited within a five-phase diaspora developmental model (DDM) that has theoretical applicability to...

Added to database: 23 December 2011

Trends in non-consumption dimensions of welfare for Tanzania, 1992-2000 (2006)
M. Dekker; J. Hoogeveen
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper for the conference "Reducing Poverty and Inequality: How can Africa be included? CSAE, 19-21 March 2006.
Added to database: 23 December 2011

(Mis) using bank share capital as a regulatory tool to force bank consolidations in Nigeria (2006)
T.I. Ogowewo; C.U. Uche
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of African law
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa (2006)
Editors: B.F. Soares
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Africa, Islam
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Introduction: Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa (2006)
B.F. Soares
Editors: B.F. Soares
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa
Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Kenya (2006)
M.M.E.M. Rutten
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 2005
Keywords: Africa, Kenya, politics
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Findings, views and policies on migration in Kenya (2006)
M.M.E.M. Rutten; K. Muli
Type of publication: Conference Paper
Keywords: Kenya, migration, Netherlands, policy
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Is er (weer) plaats voor ontwikkelingsgeografie? (2006)
M.M.E.M. Rutten
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Geografie
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Sensus communis or sensus particularis? A social-science comment (2006)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: H. Kimmerle; H. Oosterling
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Sensus communis in multi- and intercultural perspective : on the possibility of common judgements in arts and politics
Keywords: politics
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Outline of a Modes-of-Production Approach to Ideology, Belief and Ritual (2006)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; P.L. Geschiere
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the Research Group on Spirituality, Dutch-Flemish Association for Intercultural Philosophy, Leiden, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 29 October 1999
Added to database: 23 December 2011

'An incomprehensible miracle' - Central African clerical intellectualism versus African historic religion: A close reading of Valentin Mudimbe's Tales of Faith (2006)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: Journal of African cultural studies
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Mythological archaeology: situating Sub-Saharan cosmogonic myths within a long-range intercontinental comparative perspective (2006)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: T. Osada
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Proceedings of the pre-symposium of RIHN and 7 ESCA Harvard-Kyoto roundtable
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Recht en vrede kussen elkaar (2006)
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of publication: Book

Tekst van de rede in verkorte vorm uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van bijzonder hoogleraar Vredesopbouw en rechtsstaat op de V.J. Koningsberger leerstoel aan de Universiteit Utrecht op 24 november 2006. Hierin zet de spreekster uiteen hoe ze de uitdaging...

Keywords: Africa, civil wars, peace, rule of law, Senegal, Somaliland, speeches (form)
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Excursions foncières (2006)
G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Editors: C. Eberhard; G. Vernicos
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: La quête anthropologique du droit: autour de ls démarche d' Étienne Le Roy
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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