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Living the City: Stipendien der Humer-Stiftung für akademische Nachwuchskräfte

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06.10.2009
 - 31.12.2022

The Humer Foundation (Humer-Stiftung zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses) funds PhD projects of young scholars at the Centre for African Studies Basel and thereby supports the strategic development of the Centre. Fellows: Richard Faustine Sambaiga: Youth, sex and the city (2010-2013, thesis submitted 2013, supervisor Prof Brigit Obrist, Medical Anthropology) Barbara Heer: Exploring the Public - A Comparative Ethnography of Public Spaces in Maputo and Johannesburg (2010-2013, supervisor Prof Till Förster, Social Anthropology, thesis submitted 2015) Stephanie Bishop: Zambian Water Diaries: Technology in Practice (2011-2014, supervisor: Prof Elísio Macamo, African Studies) Pierrick Leu: Riding motorcycles, making urban road traffic. An ethnomethodological perspective on moto-mobility in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (2011-2014, supervisor: Prof Elísio Macamo, African Studies) Melanie Boehi: The South African Botanical Complex: Plants, Nature and Urban Life in Cape Town (ca. 1913-2013) (2012-2015, thesis submitted 2017, supervisor: Prof Patrick Harries, History) Joschka Philipps: Crystallizing Contention. A cumulative dissertation on youth, politics, and urban violence in Conakry, Kampala, and beyond (2012-2015, thesis submitted 2016, supervisor: Prof Elísio Macamo, African Studies) Christopher Barratt: Using Next Generation Sequencing data to estimate the Biodiversity value of the Coastal Forests of East Africa (2013-2016, submitted 2017, supervisors: Prof Peter Nagel and Simon Loader, Phd, Biogeography) Vladimir Wingate: Terrestrial ecosystem change monitoring: Satellite remote sensing the Namibian savannah biomes in the context of the global carbon cycle and local livelihoodsa (2013-2016, submitted 2018, supervisors: Prof Nikolaus Kuhn and Lena Bloemertz, PhD, Physical Geography) Raja Daouah: Emerging Trends, Developments and Opportunities of Islamic Finance: The Moroccan Case (2017-2020, supervisor: Aleksander Berentsen, Economics) Andrea Kifyasi: Diplomatic History of China's Medical Assistance to Africa: A case Study of Tanzania, 1960s-2015 (2017-2020, supervisor: Prof Julia Tischler, History Stephen Kapinde: Political Sermons in Kenyas Quest for Democratic Governance between 1986 and 2010: A case study of the selected sermons from the three Anglican Clergy (2017-2020, supervisor: Prof Andreas Heuser, Theology) Julia Rensing: Narratives and Negotiations of Colonial Legacies in Namibia and Germany - A Post-Colonial Heterotopia? (2019-2022, supervisor: Lorena Rizzo, History) Esther Tolulope Ilesanmi: Engendering the Colony; Maternal Health, Indigenous Knowledge and European Medicine in South-West Nigeria, 1925-1960 (2019-2022, supervisor: Prof. Julia Tischler, History)

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Boehi, Melanie Eva (2018) ‘Multispecies histories of South African imperial formations in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden’, in Orlow, Uriel; Sheikh, Shela (ed.) Theatrum Botanicum. Berlin: Sternberg Press (Theatrum Botanicum), pp. 81–87.

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Bwong, Beryl A. et al. (2017) ‘Amphibian Diversity in Shimba Hills National Reserve, Kenya: A Comprehensive List of Specimens and Species’, Journal of East African Natural History, 106(Part 1), pp. 19–46. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2982/028.106.0104.

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Philipps, Joschka (2017) ‘Politics of the Future - Riots of the Now. Temporal Horizons of Youth in Upheavals in England and Guinea’, in Steuer, Noemi; Engeler, Michelle; Macamo, Elisio (ed.) Dealing with Elusive Futures. University Graduates in Urban Africa. Bielefeld: Transcript (Kultur und soziale Praxis), pp. 123–147. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839439494-007.

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Boehi, Melanie Eva (2016) ‘Remembering apartheid’s botanical diplomacy at the Chelsea Flower Show’. Daily Maverick. Available at: http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2016-05-31-remembering-apartheids-botanical-diplomacy-at-the-chelsea-flower-show/#.V07uuWa6zMF.

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Boehi, Melanie Eva (2016) ‘Cape Town Floriography’, Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies. Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien, (2).

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Boehi, Melanie Eva (2016) ‘Review of Saul Dubow, Apartheid, 1948-1994’. H-Soz-Kult. Available at: https://www.hsozkult.de/review/id/rezbuecher-24759?title=s-dubow-apartheid-1948-1994&recno=1&q=Saul%20Dubow,%20Apartheid,%201948-1994&sort=newestPublished&fq=&total=1.

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Philipps, Joschka (2016) Crystallizing contention. A cumulative dissertation on youth, politics, and urban violence in Conakry, Kampala, and beyond. . Translated by Macamo Elisio. Dissertation.

Philipps, Joschka and Kagoro, Jude (2016) ‘The metastable city and the politics of crystallization. Protesting and policing in Kampala’, Africa Spectrum, 51(3), pp. 3–32. Available at: www.africa-spectrum.org.

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Boehi, Melanie Eva (2016) ‘“Flowers are South Africa’s silent ambassadors”: flower shows and botanical diplomacy in South Africa’, in Ramutsindela, Maano; Miescher, Giorgio; Boehi, Melanie (ed.) The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien (The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa), pp. 149–176.

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Boehi, Melanie Eva (2016) ‘Blumendiplomatie, Pflanzenausstellungen und der südafrikanische botanische Komplex’, in Kranz, Isabel; Schwan, Alexander; Wittrock, Eike (ed.) Floriographie : die Sprachen der Blumen. Basel: Wilhelm Fink (Floriographie : die Sprachen der Blumen), pp. 371–387.

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Bishop, Stephanie (2015) ‘Using Water Diaries to Conceptualize Water Use in Lusaka, Zambia’, ACME-An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 14(3), pp. 688–699.

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Boehi, Melanie Eva (2015) ‘‘Who cut down Margaret Thatcher’s tree?’’, in Arlt, Veit; Bishop, Stephanie; Schmid, Pascal (ed.) Explorations in African History: Reading Patrick Harries. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Explorations in African History: Reading Patrick Harries), pp. 71–74.

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Boehi, Melanie Eva and Hammel, Tanja (2014) ‘Workshop report “Research, Exhibitions and African History”’. H-Soz-Kult. Available at: http://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/tagungsberichte-5688?title=research-exhibitions-and-african-history&q=melanie%20boehi&sort=&fq=&total=12&recno=2&subType=fdkn.

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Leu, Pierrick (2014) ‘Politiques publiques et économie informelle’, Newsletter de la Société suisse d’études africaines, 1 January, p. 50.

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Boehi, Melanie and Hubler Baier, Susanne (2014) ‘Das Ruth Weiss Archiv in Basel - ein Archivgespräch mit Ruth Weiss’, in Kropf, Anni; Springer-Kropf, Günter (ed.) Ein Leben für Freiheit und Frieden. Die Zeitzeugin Ruth Weiss zum 90. Geburtstag. Aschaffenburg: Ruth Weiss Realschule (Ein Leben für Freiheit und Frieden. Die Zeitzeugin Ruth Weiss zum 90. Geburtstag), pp. 28–30.

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Jacob, Jean-Pierre and Leu, Pierrick (2014) ‘Imposition et contestation de valeurs sur un marché ouest africain. Le cas du Grand marché de Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso)’, in Lapeyre, Fréderic; Lemaître, Andreia (ed.) Politiques publiques et pratiques de l’économie informelle en Afrique subsaharienne. Louvain-la-neuve: Academia-L’Harmattan (Espace Afrique), pp. 193–220.

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Hammel, Tanja and Boehi, Melanie Eva (2013) ‘Tagungsbericht 2. Blumenworkshop’, H-Soz-Kult. Available at: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=4821&count=1&recno=1&sort=datum&order=down&search=Tanja+Hammel.

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Boehi, Melanie Eva (2013) ‘‘Ich folge meinem Instinkt’’, in Berlowitz, Shelley; Joris, Elisabeth; Meierhofer-Mangeli, Zeedah (ed.) Terra Incognita? Der Treffpunkt Schwarzer Frauen in Zürich. Zürich: Limmat (Terra Incognita? Der Treffpunkt Schwarzer Frauen in Zürich), pp. 266–267.

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Söderström, Ola, Dupuis, Blaise and Leu, Pierrick (2013) ‘Translocal urbanism: How Ouagadougou strategically uses decentralised cooperation’, in Obrist, Brigit, Arlt, Veit; Macamo, Elisio (ed.) Living the city in Africa : processes of invention and intervention. Zürich: LIT Verlag (Schweizerische Afrikastudien), p. S. 99–117.

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Bishop, Stephanie (2012) ‘Kampf um Reichtum und Macht’, Afrika Bulletin, 1 January, p. 14. Available at: http://www.afrikakomitee.ch/Bulletin/AfrikaBulletin146_2012.pdf.

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Bishop, Stephanie (2012) ‘Der Grosse Durst’, Afrika Bulletin, 1 January, p. 14. Available at: http://www.afrikakomitee.ch/Bulletin/AfrikaBulletin146_2012.pdf.

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Bishop, Stephanie (2012) ‘Ungleicher Zugang zu Wasser auf Haushaltsebene. Massnahmen fokussieren in erster Linie auf Frauen’, Afrika Bulletin, 1 January, pp. 8–9. Available at: http://www.afrikakomitee.ch/Bulletin/AfrikaBulletin146_2012.pdf.

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Leu, Pierrick (2010) ‘L’appropriation privée d’un espace public. L’exemple du Grand marché de Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso)’, Étude Recit [Preprint]. Laboratoire Citoyennetés (Étude Recit, 32).

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Bishop, Stephanie (2009) ‘Peace and Conflict in Africa [review]’, Newsletter / Société suisse d’études africaines, 2009(2), p. 23.

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Veit Arlt

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Manfred Max Bergman

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Till Förster

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Patrick Harries

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Elisio Macamo

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Peter Nagel

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