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.
If you have questions about publishing with the ASCL, please contact Dr. Klaas van Walraven (k.van.walraven@asc.leidenuniv.nl).

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Pastoralists under pressure : Fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa (1999)
Editors: J.W.M. van Dijk; V. Azarya; A. Breedveld; M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Book

This collective volume discusses social change and ecological and cultural adaptation among the Fulbe of West Africa. The introduction is by Victor Azarya. Part 1 (Ethnicity) contains chapters by Roger Blench (the question of why there are so many pastoral groups in East...

Keywords: Africa, animal husbandry, Cameroon, ethnicity, Fulani, Mali, social change, Sudan, West Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Inleiding (1999)
J.W.M. van Dijk; M.E. de Bruijn
Editors: C. Angenent; A. Breedveld; M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: De Haayre: vertelling over een nomadisch Koninkrijk
Keywords: Fulani, Mali, oral traditions
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Régimes fonciers et aménagement des ressources dans un contexte pluriethnique et de pluralisme juridique (1999)
J.W.M. van Dijk
Editors: Y. Diallo; G Schlee
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: L'ethnicité peule dans des contextes nouveaux : la dynamique des frontières

Les sécheresses des années 1970 et 1980 ont provoqué partout en Afrique de l'Ouest des migrations des éleveurs peuls vers des zones plus humides. Dans cet article l'auteur présente quelques réflexions sur la dynamique de la propriété foncière et de la territorialité...

Keywords: agriculture, animal husbandry, customary law, ethnic relations, farmers, Fulani, land law, Mali, nomads
Added to database: 23 December 2011

De Haayre : vertelling over een nomadisch Koninkrijk (1999)
Editors: J.W.M. van Dijk; C. Angenent; A. Breedveld; M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Fulani, Mali, oral traditions
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ressources vivrières de base ou elevage? Deux projets de développement chez les Fulbe eleveurs du Mali Central (1999)
J.W.M. van Dijk; M.E. de Bruijn
Editors: R. Botte; J. Boutrais; J. Schmitz
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Figures Peules
Keywords: animal husbandry, Fulani, Mali, migration, West Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Dryland ecology, resource variability and socio-cultural transformations (1999)
J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Proceedings of the seminar "Acts of man and acts of nature: different constructions of social and natural resource dynamics". Bergen, 1998.
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ecological insecurity and Fulbe pastoral society in the Niger Bend (1999)
J.W.M. van Dijk
Editors: A. Breedveld; M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk; V. Azarya
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Pastoralists under Pressure: Fulbe Societies Confronting Change in West Africa

This collective volume discusses social change and ecological and cultural adaptation among the Fulbe of West Africa. The introduction is by Victor Azarya. Part 1 (Ethnicity) contains chapters by Roger Blench (the question of why there are so many pastoral groups in East...

Keywords: Africa, animal husbandry, Cameroon, ethnicity, Fulani, Mali, social change, Sudan, West Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Coping with urban poverty in Sub-Sahara Africa, with special emphasis on urban agriculture (1999)
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: West Asia and Africa
Keywords: Africa, agriculture
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Urban agriculture: the case of Nairobi (1999)
D.W.J. Foeken; A.M. Mwangi
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: agriculture
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond

The paradigm of the enchanted global economy and the moral perils of involvement with foreign commodities suggests that anxieties about the generally immoral powers believed to exist within foreign objects result from an imperfect understanding of the global marketplace....

Keywords: Africa, Baptist Church, Ghana, gifts, global economy, Pentecostalism
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Pentecostalism, gerontocratic rule and democratization in Malawi : the changing position of the young in political culture (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: J. Haynes
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Religion, globalization and political culture in the Third World

This chapter explores the relationship between the father-metaphor, gerontocratic power, democratization and religion in the context of changing political culture in Malawi. It argues that democratization in Malawi signalled a change in the nature of the dominant...

Keywords: Baptist Church, democracy, democratization, generations, Malawi, Pentecostalism
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Confronting the past and post-colonial identities in Africa: the case of pentecostalism (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the African Studies Program, Indiana University, 17 November 1999
Keywords: Africa, African studies, identity, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Plunder hell to populate heaven: the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the WOTRO seminar series, 5 March 1999
Keywords: diaspora
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference 'Migrant Families and Human Capital Formation', Leiden, 19-21 November 1999
Keywords: diaspora
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The moral life of the gift in Ghanaian Pentecostal churches in the diaspora: questions of (in-)dividuality and (in-)alienability in transcultural reciprocal relations (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference 'Commodification, Objects and Identities: Social Life of Things Revisited', Amsterdam, 10-12 June 1999
Keywords: diaspora, identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The musical politics of transnational pentecostalism in Ghana (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the African Studies Association, panel 'Religious Discourse and Political Expression in the Fourth Republic, Ghana', Philadelphia, 11-14 November 1999
Keywords: African studies, Ghana, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Plunder hell, to populate heaven : the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book

This paper examines the tension between professed individuality and performed dividuality in the Pentecostal ideology of the African diaspora in the Netherlands. The central notion of the paper is that in diasporic movement and its representation in Pentecostalism,...

Keywords: Baptist Church, diaspora, Ghana, Ghanaians, immigrants, Netherlands, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The formation of an 'Islamic sphere' in French colonial West Africa (1999)
R. Launay; B.F. Soares
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Africa, colonialism, France, French-speaking Africa, Islam, Islamization, Muslim brotherhoods, Sufism, West Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Agricultural marketing in tropical Africa : contributions from the Netherlands (1999)
H.L. van der Laan; T. Dijkstra
Type of publication: Book

To mark the 65th birthday of the Dutch economist and Africanist Laurens van der Laan, a symposium was held in Leiden in November 1997 on 'Agricultural marketing in tropical Africa'. This book contains the seven papers presented at the symposium as well as four...

Keywords: 1997, Africa, agricultural marketing, conference papers (form), Subsaharan Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Tourism and African development : change and challenge of tourism in Kenya (1999)
I. Sindiga
Type of publication: Book

Using the example of Kenya, the author assesses whether tourism is a viable development strategy for Africa. More specifically, he assesses the contribution of tourism to development; documents the development of tourism in Kenya; examines the impact of international tourism...

Keywords: Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

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