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The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes c.1865-193
Critics of globalisation come in many forms from environmentalists to trade unionists and many other
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (U Pennsylvania Press,
In The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press,
In this episode, I interview Prof. Stephanie Decker about her new book Postcolonial Transition and G
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) ex
Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theor
Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein's book Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950 (S
How and why do rebel groups initially form? Prevailing scholarship has attributed the emergence of a
Societies that are throwing off the yoke of authoritarian rule and beginning to build democracies fa
Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar (Cornell UP, 2022) expl
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere Universit
Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a trans
Contemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive reputation, despite an undeniable trad
Kwasi Konadu's book Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women
In African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke UP, 2021), Cajetan Iheka examines the e
Dawne Y. Curry’s Social Justice at Apartheid’s Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Sa
Archives of Times Past: Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History (NYU Press, 2022) is an expl
In Rage and Carnage in the Name of God (Duke University Press, 2022), Dr. Abiodun Alao examines the
What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising t
