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Repair and Relief: 'Building Back Better’ in Post-Cyclone Idai Malawi
Tanja Hendriks wrote a chapter for the book Repair across Africa: Mending, Making and Material Care. The book examines repair as a dynamic social, material, cultural, and economic practice. Spanning diverse African contexts, it explores how mending connects labour, urban lives, and historical memories, revealing the artisanal skills and relational dynamics that underpin everyday acts of material care and transformation.
Repair across Africa: Mending, Making and Material Care, Charline Kopf, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye and Lotte Meinert (eds.), Intellect Books, 2026.
About the author(s) / editor(s)
Tanja Hendriks is an assistant professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University and a research affiliate with the African Studies Centre Leiden. Trained as an anthropologist, she is broadly interested in the anthropology of the state, bureaucracy, development, disasters and humanitarianism.
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Posted on 7 October 2026, last modified on 7 October 2026