Prof. Dr. Johannes Schubert

Schubert, Jon, & Sumich,Jason. (2026). Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 44. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251344823

Bathla, N., Schubert, J., & Stallone, S. (2026). Thinking through material incompletion [Journal-article]. City, 30, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2026.2629071

Schubert, Jon. (2025). CONTACT ZONES OF CLIMATE PRECONSTRUCTION IN COASTAL AFRICA. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 49(5), 1263–1275. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13353

Schubert,Jon. (2025). Lourencismo: a estética do poder em tempos de crise. In Angola pós-dos Santos: Uma Antologia Sobre Continuidade e Mudança (2 ed., pp. 283–301). Chr. Michelsen Institute.

Schubert,Jon. (2025). Lourencismo: The Aesthetics of Power in Times of Crisis. In Angola after dos Santos. An anthology on continuity and change. (pp. 265–283). Chr. Michelsen Institute.

Schubert, Jon. (2024). Chalfin, Brenda: Waste Works. Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Anthropos, 119(2), 629–630. https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2024-2-629

Schubert, Jon. (2024). “Magical math hand-waving”: The coloniality of political risk forecasting [Journal-article]. American Ethnologist, 51(4), 580–591. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13349

Schubert, Jon. (2024). Maintaining a city against nature: climate adaptation in Beira [Journal-article]. Buildings and Cities, 5(1), 35–49. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.378

Schubert, Johannes. (2023). Dreams of Extractive Development - Reviving the Benguela Railway in Central Angola. In Gilbert, Paul; Bourne, Clea; Haiven, Max; Montgomerie, Johnna (ed.), The Entangled Legacies of Empire: Race, Finance and Inequality (pp. 171–180). Manchester University Press.

Bolt, Maxim, & Schubert, Jon. (2022). Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship. Critique of Anthropology, 42(4), 347–358. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x221139157

Schubert, Jon. (2022). Fear and Fainting in Luanda: Paranoid Politics and the Problem of Interpretative Authority in Angola. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(1), 222–239. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13663

Schubert, Jon. (2022). Disrupted Dreams of Development: Neoliberal Efficiency and Crisis in Angola. Africa, 92(2), 171–190. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001972022000055

Schubert, Jon. (2022). ‘A vision for the future’: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique’s public sector. Critique of Anthropology, 42(4), 400–418. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x221139160

Schubert, Jon. (2021). The Work-Intensive Fiction of Frictionless Trade in the Angolan Port of Lobito. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 89, 64–78. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2021.890106

Schubert, Jon. (2020). Colonial Resonances. Roadsides, 4, 24–31. https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202000404

Schubert, Jon. (2020). Wilful Entanglements: Extractive Industries and the Co-Production of Sovereignty in Mozambique. Ethnography, 21(4), 537–558. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138118802953

Schubert, Jon. (2020). Angola. Africa Yearbook, 16, 433–445. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004430013_045

Schubert, Jon. (2019). Les « glorieuses familles » : Liens de parenté situationnels, stratégie agentielle et critique du pouvoir en Angola. Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines, 234(2), 515–542. https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.25988

SCHUBERT, J. (2018). Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique. Julie Soleil Archambault. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 224 pp. [Journal-article]. American Ethnologist, 45(3), 419–420. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12677

SCHUBERT, J. (2018). Violent Becomings: State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique. Bjørn Enge Bertelsen. New York: Berghahn, 2016. 360 pp. [Journal-article]. American Ethnologist, 45(2), 286–287. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12642

Schubert, J. (2018). Von Schnitzler, Antina. 2016. Democracy’s infrastructure: techno-politics and protest after apartheid. Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 256 pp. Pb.: US$27.95. ISBN: 9780691170787. [Journal-article]. Social Anthropology, 26(1), 149–150. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12437

Schubert, Jon. (2018). ‘A Culture of Immediatism’: Co-optation and Complicity in Post-war Angola. Ethnos, 83(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2015.1133687

Schubert, Jon. (2018). Seeing is believing: Symbolic politics and the opportunities of non-democratic transition in Angola. Anthropology Today, 34(2), 18–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12421

Schubert, Jon. (2018). Angola. Africa Yearbook, 14, 424–435. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004367630_045

Schubert, Jon, Engel, Ulf, & Macamo, Elísio. (2018). Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa : Beyond the Resource Curse. In Routledge studies in African development. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351200639

SCHUBERT, J. (2017). Violent Conversion: Brazilian Pentecostalism and Urban Women in Mozambique. Lindavande Kamp. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2016. 248 pp. [Journal-article]. American Ethnologist, 44(3), 551–553. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12538

Schubert, Jon. (2017). Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola. Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501713699.001.0001

Schubert, J. (2017). Angola. In Africa Yearbook (Vol. 13, pp. 417–426). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004355910_045

Schubert, Jon. (2016). Emerging middle-class political subjectivities in post-war Angola. In Melber, Henning (Ed.), The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class: Myths, Realities and Critical Engagements (pp. 147–158). Zed Books.

Schubert, J. (2016). Violence and the Everyday in Angola’s Civil War [Journal-article]. Journal of Southern African Studies, 42(4), 790–792. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1196961

Schubert, Jon. (2016). Angola. Africa Yearbook, 12, 415–426. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004333239_045

Schubert, Jon. (2015). 2002, year zero: History as anti-politics in the ‘New Angola’. Journal of Southern African Studies, 41(4), 835–852. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2015.1055548

Schubert, J. (2015). Angola. Africa Yearbook, 11, 409–420. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004305052_045

SCHUBERT, J. (2013). Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique edited by E. Morier-Genoud Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxv + 270. £61·31 (pbk) [Journal-article]. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 51(3), 545–546. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x13000517

Schubert, Jon. (2010). ‘Democratisation’ and the consolidation of political authority in post-war Angola. Journal of Southern African Studies, 36(3), 657–672. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2010.507572