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Infrastructures, Borders, and the Making of the African Territory: The Case of Zambia

Giulia Scotto Feltrinelli, 2020 What do researchers talk about when they talk about borders? International debates on boundaries and borders have multiplied along with the global restructuring of the economy, the crisis of state…

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Call for applications: PhD-position (SNFS) in Urban Studies / Visual Arts

“Decolonizing Socialism: Entangled Internationalism. An Intersectional Study of Cold War Projects from East Germany in Cinema and Cybernetics with Relevance to the 21st Century” led by Prof. Dr. Doreen Mende, dean of MA in Fine Arts CCC at…

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Contagion and Containment

As part of the ongoing miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic, our faculty member Prof. Dr. Kenny Cupers has published the following article entitled "Contagion and containment: curtailing the freedom of movement in times of…

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Wilful Entanglements: extractive industries and the co-production of sovereignty in Mozambique

Jon Schubert Ethnography, 2020 This article looks at how actors commonly associated with the separate spheres of the state, private industry, and civil society, are engaging in wilful entanglements to improve the Mozambican state’s…

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Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences

Jon Schubert, Pia, A.E. et al. Commonplace, 2020 By Pia, A. E., Batterbury, S., Joniak-Lüthi, A., LaFlamme, M., Wielander, G., Zerilli, F. M., Nolas, M., Schubert, J., Loubere, N., Franceschini, I., Walsh, C., Mora, A., and Varvantakis,…

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The Global Age of Mass Housing

Kenny Cupers A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age, edited by Despina Stratigakos (London: Bloomsbury) , 2020 During the twentieth century, the world’s population increased more than in any other period in history, from about…

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Infrastructure Between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-African Highway

Kenny Cupers and Prita Meier just published an article on their ongoing research on African infrastructure, exploring how highways transform statehood and selfhood. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2020.

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The work-intensive fiction of frictionless trade in the Angolan port of Lobito

Jon Schubert Focaal, 2021 Cargo shipping, as emblematic stand-in for globalization, peddles a seductive imagery of frictionless transnational trade and just-in-time logistics. Backed by the normative might of transnational institutions,…

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Migration Infrastructure: Mapping the European Border Regime

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Die Gespenster Eurafrikas

Kenny Cupers Architecture magazine ARCH+, No. 239, 2020 To say that Europe has a colonial past is obvious, and the "exclaves" of the current EU—from Ceuta and Melilla to Mayotte and Réunion—are many. From the perspective of Europe’s…

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