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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Phoning anthropologists: the mobile phone's (re-)shaping of anthropological research (2009)
L. Pelckmans
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; I. Brinkman
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Mobile phones : the new talking drums of everyday Africa
Keywords: anthropological research, Mali, mobile telephone
Added to database: 06 February 2013

The mobile phone, 'modernity' and change in Khartoum, Sudan (2009)
I. Brinkman; M.E. de Bruijn; H. Bilal
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; I. Brinkman
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Mobile phones: the new talking drums of everyday Africa

This chapter considers the appropriation of the mobile phone in Khartoum, Sudan, and its sociocultural impact. The chapter is based on research carried out as a pilot study in the framework of collaboration between the telecom company Zain and the African Studies Centre...

Keywords: African studies, mobile phone, mobility, modernization, Sudan, telecommunications
Added to database: 06 February 2013

The healer and his phone: medicinal dynamics among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon (2009)
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; I. Brinkman
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Mobile phones: the new talking drums of everyday Africa
Added to database: 06 February 2013

Review of "African Politics in Comparative Perspective" by G. Hyden (2009)
J.K. van Donge
Type of publication: Review
In: Development and change
Added to database: 03 April 2012

Review of "Challenges of African Growth; Opportunities, Constraints and Strategic Direction" by B.J. Ndulu, L. Chakraborti, L. Lijana, V. Ramachandran & J. Wolgins (2009)
J.K. van Donge
Type of publication: Review
In: Development and change
Added to database: 03 April 2012

Review of "Democracy and development", edited by Bernard Berendsen (2009)
J.K. van Donge
Type of publication: Review
In: The journal of development studies : a quarterly journal devoted to economic, political and social development
Added to database: 03 April 2012

Review of "Mineworkers in Zambia: labour and political change in post-colonial Africa" by Miles Larmer (2009)
J.K. van Donge
Type of publication: Review
In: Commonwealth & comparative politics
Keywords: Zambia
Added to database: 03 April 2012

Review of "Mineworkers in Zambia: labour and political change in post-colonial Africa" by M. Larmer (2009)
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Review
In: International Review of Social History
Added to database: 03 April 2012

Review of "Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Asia and Africa" by K. Otsuka, J.P. Estudillo & Y. Sawada" by G. Hyden (2009)
J.K. van Donge
Type of publication: Review
In: Development and change
Added to database: 03 April 2012

Review of "Trade unions and the coming of democracy in Africa" by J. Kraus (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007, 296 pp) (2009)
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Review
In: Canadian journal of African studies
Added to database: 03 April 2012

Review of A. Honwana & F. de Boeck, 'Makers and breakers. Children and youth in Postcolonial Africa' (2009)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Review
In: Africa : journal of the International African Institute
Added to database: 03 April 2012

Water reforms and interventions in urban Kenya. Institutional set-up, emerging impact and challenges (2009)
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Kenya, urban water supply, water interventions, water reforms
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

The total Somali clan genealogy (second edition) (2009)
G.J. Abbink
Type of publication: Other

This paper presents an updated genealogy of all Somali 'clans'. Somali kinship is based on patrilineal descent or 'tol', but there are no equivalents in the Somali language for the words 'clan' and 'lineage'. The Somali terminology for the...

Keywords: kinship, Somali, Somalia
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

Mouvement Nsilulu : rupture ou continuité historique des messianismes congolais (1998-2003) (2009)
E. Ngodi
Type of publication: Book
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

Espace public et technologies numériques en Afrique : emergence, dynamique et gouvernance du cyberspace sénégalais (2009)
F. Diallo
Type of publication: Book
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

Bridging the gender divide: an experimental analysis of group formation in African villages (2009)
A. Barr; M. Dekker; M. Fafchamps
Type of publication: Other

Assortative matching occurs in many social contexts. We experimentally investigate gender assorting in sub-Saharan villages. In the experiment, co-villagers could form groups to share winnings in a gamble choice game. The extent to which grouping arrangements were or could be...

Keywords: gender, group formation, Zimbabwe
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

Mobile phones : the new talking drums of everyday Africa (2009)
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; I. Brinkman
Type of publication: Book

'We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone' is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing...

Keywords: 2006, Africa, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, conference papers (form), Ghana, Mali, mobile telephone, mobility, Sudan, Tanzania
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

Neoliberal bandwagonism : civil society and the politics of belonging in Anglophone Cameroon (2009)
P.J.J. Konings
Type of publication: Book

Civil society and empowerment have become buzz words in neoliberal development discourse. Yet many unanswered questions remain on the actual nature and configuration assumed by civil society in specific contexts. Typically, while neoliberals perceive civil-society...

Keywords: Africa, Cameroon
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

African Studies Abstracts Online: number 25, 2009 (2009)
Type of publication: Book

ASA Online provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the ASC library. Issue 25 (2009). African Studies Centre, Leiden.

Keywords: abstracts journals (form), Africa, social sciences
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

African Studies Abstracts Online: number 26, 2009 (2009)
Type of publication: Book

ASA Online provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the ASC library. Issue 26 (2009). African Studies Centre, Leiden.

Keywords: abstracts journals (form), Africa, social sciences
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 02 April 2012

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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 12 September 2024