Waiting for COVID-19 in Makeni, Sierra Leone, by Susan Shepler (2020)
This is the third time I’ve fled Sierra Leone because of a crisis. The first was in May of 2000 during the tail end of the war, when…
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Waiting for COVID-19 in Makeni, Sierra Leone, by Susan Shepler (2020)
This is the third time I’ve fled Sierra Leone because of a crisis. The first was in May of 2000 during the tail end of the war, when…
Land and tears: the political economy of deforestation on the Freetown Peninsula, by Anais Menard (2019)
For some years now, at the height of Sierra Leone’s rainy season, heavy floods have struck the country’s capital city, Freetown, leaving behind them damaged infrastructure and devastated…
Land and tears: the political economy of deforestation on the Freetown Peninsula, by Anais Menard (2019)
For some years now, at the height of Sierra Leone’s rainy season, heavy floods have struck the country’s capital city, Freetown, leaving behind them damaged infrastructure and devastated…
Some thoughts and observations on the Liberian presidential and representative elections, by Maarten Bedert (2018)
The second day of Christmas saw the birth of a new President in Liberia. Former football player and current Senator for Montserrado County, George Weah won the presidential…
Some thoughts and observations on the Liberian presidential and representative elections, by Maarten Bedert (2018)
The second day of Christmas saw the birth of a new President in Liberia. Former football player and current Senator for Montserrado County, George Weah won the presidential…
Acceleration: the Key Feature of Twenty-First Century Globalization? A Review of ‘Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change’, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Pluto Press, 2016 By David O’Kane
‘It’s the global’: these were the words which miners in Sierra Leone used to explain the global economic slowdown of 2007, the event which would lead to the…
Acceleration: The Key Feature of Twenty-First Century Globalization? A Review of ‘Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change’, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Pluto Press, by David O’Kane (2016)
‘It’s the global’: these were the words which miners in Sierra Leone used to explain the global economic slowdown of 2007, the event which would lead to the…
Remnants of Ebola: Contemporary repercussions at a former centre of the outbreak, by Anita Schroven
Field notes from Kailahun and Kpemalu The road network in Sierra Leone has much improved in recent years, especially since the first time I travelled to the Eastern…
Remnants of Ebola: Contemporary Repercussions at a Former Centre of the Outbreak, by Anita Schroven (2017)
Field notes from Kailahun and Kpemalu. The road network in Sierra Leone has much improved in recent years, especially since the first time I travelled to the Eastern…
IN THE HEART OF THE CITY: THE CASE OF LONG-TERM REFUGEES IN DAKAR, SENEGAL, BY AGATHE MENETRIER
Worldwide, the majority of refugees now lives in urban areas. Refugee camps have long since become the hallmark of prolonged refugee crises, so that researchers and aid organisations…
In the Heart of the City: The Case of Long-Term Refugees in Dakar, Senegal, by Agathe Menetrier (2017)
Worldwide, the majority of refugees now lives in urban areas. Refugee camps have long since become the hallmark of prolonged refugee crises, so that researchers and aid organisations…
The Morning After: anthropology and the Ebola hangover, by Anne Menzel and Anita Schroven
The morning after a long night a well-deserved hangover can be treated with a variety of potent remedies. There is black coffee with lemon, raw egg with Tabasco,…
The Morning After: Anthropology and the Ebola Hangover, by Anne Menzel and Anita Schroven (2016)
The morning after a long night a well-deserved hangover can be treated with a variety of potent remedies. There is black coffee with lemon, raw egg with Tabasco,…
Review of Danny Hoffman’s ‘The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia’, by Jacqueline Knörr (2014)
Hoffman, Danny (2012): The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Critique of Anthropology 34: 124 (2014). Hoffman’s…
Review of Danny Hoffman’s ‘The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia’, by Jacqueline Knörr (2014)
Hoffman, Danny (2012): The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Critique of Anthropology 34: 124 (2014). Hoffman’s…
The Frontier in Sierra Leone: past experiences, present status, and future trajectories by David O’Kane, Anaïs Ménard (2015)
Igor Kopytoff revolutionised our thinking on the origins of African ethnic identities by arguing that such identities were formed by and through frontier processes. These were the political…
Towards ‘Audit Culture’ in Sierra Leone? Understanding ‘quality assurance’ at the University of Makeni by David O’Kane (2014)
Audits and audit-like mechanisms have been as important in the colonial and postcolonial past of Sierra Leone as they are today, and yet their social consequences in this…
Suffering for the Nation: bottom-up and top-down conceptualisations of the nation in Guinea and Guinea-Bissau by Christoph Kohl and Anita Schroven (2014)
Taking the two West African countries of Guinea and Guinea-Bissau as examples, the paper analyses how discourses of suffering can contribute to the emergence and development of a…