Prof. Dr. Johannes Schubert

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, 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, 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. (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

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, 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, 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

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, 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.

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, 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