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  • 1.
    Andersson, Marianne
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Faktasökning2010In: Att studera Afrika: vägar till källorna / [ed] Marianne Andersson och Åsa Lund Moberg, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2010, 4, p. 16-23Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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    Andersson, Marianne
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Litteratursökning2010In: Att studera Afrika: vägar till källorna / [ed] Marianne Andersson och Åsa Lund Moberg, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2010, 4, p. 7-15Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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    Andersson, Marianne
    et al.
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Lund Moberg, ÅsaThe Nordic Africa Institute.
    Att studera Afrika: vägar till källorna2010Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Att studera Afrika är en guide till Afrikastudier inom främst det samhällsvetenskapliga området. Både tryckta och internetbaserade informationskällor behandlas i denna nya, grundligt uppdaterade upplaga. Boken ger praktist vägledning till en rad hjälpmedel för litteratur- och faktasökning. Dessutom finns fylliga introduktioner till litteraturen inom ämnesområdena historia, politik och ekonomi. Boken vänder sig i första hand till studerande och forskare, men även lärare, journalister och bibliotekarier med flera har nytta av den.

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  • 4.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    Uppsala universitet, Kulturantropologiska avdelningen.
    A Mobile Life Story: Tracing Hopefulness in the Life and Dreams of a Young Ivorian Migrant2009In: Migration Letters, ISSN 1741-8984, E-ISSN 1741-8992, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 119-129Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 5.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    Uppsala universitet, Kulturantropologiska avdelningen.
    Att döda för att leva?: Unga kombattanter i gränslandet mellan Burkina Faso och Elfenbenskusten2014In: Resurser och politik i Afrika / [ed] Sten Hagberg & Gabriella Körling, Stockholm: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi , 2014, p. 107-126Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 6.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    Back in Youth: Social Unbecoming in the Study of West African Masculinities2023In: Africa Spectrum, ISSN 0002-0397, E-ISSN 1868-6869, Vol. 58, no 3, p. 247-266Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    African youth became a central research theme in anthropology and related disciplines in the early 2000s, drawing renewed attention to the lives and aspirations of a segment of the continent's population that, since the independence era, has become increasingly demographically dominant but socially and politically marginalised. Reflecting on an extended case study of male ex-combatants in urban Burkina Faso, this paper offers a critical reading of the anthropological scholarship on African youth, emphasising, first, that much of this literature is most usefully read as studies of diverse (West) African masculinities and, second, that the literature has underplayed the extent to which achievements of social progression tend to be acutely reversible in contexts of precarity or radical social change, throwing the unfortunate, as it were, back in youth.

  • 7.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    Book Review: Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone by Susan Shepler. New York University Press, 2014. xiv + 223 pages $89 (hardcover), $26 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8147-7025-2.2017In: Journal on Education in Emergencies, ISSN 2518-6833, Vol. 3, no 1, p. 129-131Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 8.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    Ghassan Hage. 2015. Alter‐politics. Critical anthropology and the radical imagination. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 241 pp. Pb.: US$59.99. ISBN: 9780522867381.2017In: Social Anthropology, ISSN 0964-0282, E-ISSN 1469-8676, Vol. 25, no 1, p. 115-117Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 9.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    Maybritt Jill Alpes. 2017. Brokering high‐risk migration and illegality in West Africa. Abroad at any cost. London/New York: Routledge. 234 pp. Hb.: £110. ISBN: 9781472441119.2018In: Social Anthropology, ISSN 0964-0282, E-ISSN 1469-8676, Vol. 26, no 4, p. 575-576Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 10.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    The Nordic Africa Institute, African International Links.
    Social Branding in Urban Burkina Faso2014In: Nordic Journal of African Studies, ISSN 1235-4481, E-ISSN 1459-9465, Vol. 23, no 2, p. 83-99Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In the past decade Diaspo youths – second generation immigrants in Côte d’Ivoire who were forced to migrate to their parents’ country of origin, Burkina Faso, during the Ivorian civil war– have become a visible presence in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso’s second largest city. By consciously displaying their Ivorian origins, they have provoked both the admiration and resentment of local youths, whose ambivalence towards the outspoken and colourful newcomers stems from Côte d’Ivoire’s central role as a destination for Burkinabé labour migrants since the colonial period. Regardless of this animosity, Diaspo youth culture has made its mark on the city.

    This paper explores the response of Diaspo youths to their social stigmatisation and argues that their claims to recognition and access may be understood as a process of social branding. It may be seen as a self-aware performance of otherness, intended to evoke a collective identity that is mediated through a specific set of aesthetics to a well-defined audience.

  • 11.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Burkina Faso2018In: What Politics?: Youth and Political engagement in Africa / [ed] Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpää, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2018, p. 123-140Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 12.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    THE POWER OF IMPENDING ZONING: Governance through Inaction in a Secondary City in Burkina Faso2023In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, ISSN 0309-1317, E-ISSN 1468-2427, Vol. 47, no 1, p. 39-53Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    A comprehensive zoning plan has been under way for more than a decade for an urban informal settlement in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. In this article I explore the narratives and strategies of its residents in response to the impending restructuring, suggesting that the continual postponements of the zoning plan's implementation may be understood as constituting an elusive form of urban governance that relegates strategies of both resistance and accommodation to formal governance to the sphere of micro-politics at the level of the neighbourhood. Urban governance is thus approached here neither as a set of formal policies nor through the day-to-day workings of the state bureaucracy, but as a much less tangible form of urban governance that is best studied through its perceivable effects instead of its stated intentions or institutionalized techniques. In the relative absence of the state in the everyday lives of urban residents, the main effects of the workings of the state bureaucracy in this context seem to be to discourage citizen involvement and to slow official procedures to a halt. I argue that the force with which impending evictions and yet-to-be-implemented urban zoning shape residents’ outlook and opportunities for negotiation and mobilization constitutes a form of governance through inaction.

  • 13.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    et al.
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    Utas, Mats
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology.
    Introduction Urban kinship: the micro-politics of proximity andrelatedness in African cities2018In: Africa, ISSN 0001-9720, Vol. 88, no S1, p. S1-S11Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    African cities have long been perceived as emblematic of the vibrancy and contradictions that characterize public spheres in an African context – from breathtaking monuments of wealth and oppression to overwhelming destitution and despair; from vibrant market places and artistic expression to dilapidated infrastructures and rampant criminality. Through depictions of the hectic pace of different forms of movement – from the inner-city traffic that seems to be buzzing even in the midst of a complete standstill to public protests and food riots – African cities become lenses through which social and political life is assessed and synthesized; a canvas on which national politics and global inequalities are laid bare, for all to see. Indeed, the visual has long been the preferred prism for documenting and evoking the dynamism and decay of urban Africa. Many of these dualities hold some truths but have also contained the enduring simplifications of prejudice and exoticization. The ‘urban jungle’ is easily seen as the continent’s true Heart of Darkness; a pre-conceptualized dystopia (Robinson 2010); a micro-cosmos of the most frightening and fascinating facets of primitive humanity. This special issue challenges such simplifications by emphasizing everyday sociality, and by giving priority to the narratives and practices of urban residents themselves.

  • 14.
    Bjarnesen, Jesper
    et al.
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    Utas, MatsUppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Historisk-filosofiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi.
    Urban Kinship: special issue of the journal Africa2018Collection (editor) (Refereed)
  • 15.
    Eriksen, Tore Linné
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Afrikas historie2010In: Att studera Afrika: vägar till källorna / [ed] Marianne Andersson och Åsa Lund Moberg, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2010, 4, p. 69-104Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 16.
    Eriksen, Tore Linné
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Politics, economics and society2011In: Studying Africa: a guide to the sources / [ed] Marianne Andersson and Åsa Lund Moberg, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2011, 2, p. 106-150Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 17.
    Eriksen, Tore Linné
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Politikk, økonomi og samfunn2010In: Att studera Afrika: Vägar till källorna / [ed] Marianne Andersson och Åsa Lund Moberg, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2010, 4, p. 105-149Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 18.
    Eriksen, Tore Linné
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    The history of Africa2011In: Studying Africa: a guide to the sources / [ed] Marianne Andersson and Åsa Lund Moberg, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2011, 2, p. 70-105Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 19.
    Fisher, Eleanor
    University of Reading.
    Mapping Academic Literature on Governing Inclusive Green Growth in Africa: Geographical Biases and Topical Gaps2020In: Sustainability, E-ISSN 2071-1050, Vol. 12, no 5, p. 1956-Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Understanding the capacity for credible, salient and legitimate knowledge production is crucial to support African countries in developing their economies and societies inclusively and sustainably. Here, we aim to quantify the current and historic capacity for African knowledge production to support African development and identify important topical gaps. With a focus on topics relating to Governing Inclusive Green Growth in Africa (GIGGA), our research mapped how much Africa-focused research is being produced, from where and which African countries have higher or lower supply; and the topical focus of the research, mapping it against the African GIGGA policy discourses visible in government strategies. To do this we undertook a systematic review using a two-stage process, mapping the literature for GIGGA. This resulted in 960 verified citations. Content analysis of core metadata and article abstracts enabled mapping of the research focus. The analysis revealed a significant role for South Africa as both the pre-eminent producer of GIGGA literature as well as the geographic focus of GIGGA research, with Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kenya representing emerging loci of credible, African-relevant knowledge production. Topically, there was a strong emphasis on development, policy and environment while topics important for growth that is inclusive in character were infrequent or absent. Overall the results reinforced the view that investment is needed in research on inclusive green growth, linked to capacity building for knowledge production systems in Africa. Furthermore, from a policy perspective, policy makers and academics need to actively explore best to collaborate to ensure that academic research informs government policy.

  • 20.
    Fisher, Eleanor
    University of Reading.
    Uganda: Gold as a (Trans) National Treasure2020In: Global Gold Production Touching Ground: Expansion, Informalization and Technological Innovation / [ed] Boris Verbrugge and Sara Geenen, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 225-244Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Despite the potential of its known gold deposits, Ugnda has no history of large-scale gold mining. Instead, the story of gold focuses largely on informal artisanl and small-scale mining (ASGM) and on the gold trade that extends through the region. Recent changing global trends in gold investment are stimulating the expansion of both refining and industrial extraction. Here we explore how these trends become articulated in the Ugandan context, with a focus on ASGM. Reflecting nationalistic discourse and new planning priorities, government today characterizes gold as a "national treasure" and an engine for development transformation. To this end, and in line with initiatives promoted by multilateral agencies, it seeks to encourage the industrial sector compled with the formalisation of small-scale gold mining. These formalisation dynamics are embedded within a semi-authoritarian regime privileges a (trans)national elite whose interests in gold extend into mining and into (trans)national trade and refining. Against this background, we echo a familiar story where institutional and regulatory capacity is weak, namely that formalisation privileges some gold miners but also reinforces inequalities, undermining potential for equity and discounting the value of the sector for people’s livelihoods.

  • 21.
    Ha, Thanh Mai
    et al.
    Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; Faculty of Economics and Rural Development, Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
    Hansson, Helena
    Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
    Abu Hatab, Assem
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit. Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
    Darr, Dietrich
    Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Kleve, Germany.
    Shakur, Shamim
    School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
    A risk-benefit approach to the purchase and consumption of conventional vegetables in wet markets2022In: Appetite, ISSN 0195-6663, E-ISSN 1095-8304, Vol. 176, article id 106142Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 22.
    Jansen, Birgitte
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Tidskrifter2010In: Att studera Afrika: vägar till källorna / [ed] Marianne Andersson och Åsa Lund Moberg, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2010, 4, p. 33-42Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 23.
    Li, Anshan
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Globalization, Trade and Regional Integration.
    Chinese medical cooperation in Africa: With special emphasis on the medical teams and anti-malaria campaign2011Report (Other academic)
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  • 24.
    Lourenço, António
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Offentligt tryck2010In: Att studera Afrika: Vägar till källorna / [ed] Marianne Andersson och Åsa Lund Moberg, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2010, 4, p. 62-68Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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    Lourenço, António
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Official publications2011In: Studying Africa: a guide to the sources / [ed] Marianne Andersson and Åsa Lund Moberg, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2011, 2, p. 63-69Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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    Lund Moberg, Åsa
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Afrikainformation på Internet2010In: Att studera Afrika: vägar till källorna / [ed] Marianne Andersson och Åsa Lund Moberg, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2010, 4, p. 24-32Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 27.
    Lund Moberg, Åsa
    et al.
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Kempe, Mats
    Världsbiblioteket.
    Afrika på nätet: De flesta elever hamnar via Google i Wikipedia2010Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 28.
    Negash, Tekeste
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Education in Ethiopia: from crisis to the brink of collapse2006Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The main focus of the study is the deepening crisis of the Ethiopian education system. This study reconstructs the growth of the crisis of the sector during the last four decades. It then discusses the implications of the crisis in terms of communication breakdown; absence of analytical capacity at system level; the fragmentation of society; loss of political legitimacy and perpetuation of authoritarian power. Although the education sector has greatly expanded its mpact on poverty alleviation has so far been insignificant. The poverty landscape has changed to the worse during the last fifty years. This is largely due to the fact that the Ethiopian education system is based on false premises.

    At the centre of the crisis is the use of English as medium of instruction. The proficiency in English is so low that its continued use as a medium of instruction can only lead to the collapse of the education system. The study argues that it is only through language (readily understood and practised) that collective life and the world can be interpreted in an integrated manner. The replacement of English by Ethiopian languages all the way from the primary to tertiary levels is one of the factors that could strengthen the survival potential of the Ethiopian political community.

    The study is relevant for policy makers and students of development studies on the role of education in social change in Africa south of the Sahara.

     

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  • 29.
    Pijpers, Robert
    et al.
    University of Hamburg, Germany.
    Calvimontes, Jorge
    University of Campinas, Brazil.
    Camp, Esther van de
    Leiden University, The Netherlands.
    D'Angelo, Lorenzo
    University of Hamburg, Germany.
    Fisher, Eleanor
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit. University of Reading.
    Lanzano, Cristiano
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    Massaro, Luciana
    University of Campinas, Brazil.
    Mining ‘Waste’: Repurposing Residues in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining2021In: Etnofoor, ISSN 0921-5158, Vol. 33, no 2, p. 13-39Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Gold mining, like all other forms of mining, is strongly associated with the production of a wide range of residues, whether this concerns (toxic) waste materials or the environments transformed in pursuit of gold. Frequently, these residual products, such as soil, mud, rocks, and water, as well as the environments from which they are extracted or where they are deposited, appear as waste, cast aside or abandoned, rendered as useless by-products or destroyed lands. In this photographic essay, we build on recent insight regarding the fluid character of waste by extending analysis into both the domains of materials and of space because not only can specific materials be repurposed as resources, but also specific spaces can be transformed from sites of abandonment to sites of production (or vice versa), whether for mining or other activities. These photographic series show how different actors repurpose material and spatial residues. By centralising images of processes of repurposing, this essay nuances and offers a counterweight to dominant visual narratives. These typically focus on environmental and social damage, and often take a perspective ‘from above’ as they largely draw on aerial images. In doing so, these narratives tend to flatten or even erase local complexity and heterogeneity, and risk reproducing received negative stereotypes about artisanal and small-scale mining and miners. Importantly, as will transpire throughout the essay, the phenomena and processes depicted in our images shape and are shaped by different social, political, economic, technological, environmental, and historical relations and dynamics. These include, for example, former mining trajectories, gendered production relations, miners’ socio-economic positions, the involvement of external actors, and the introduction of new capital, knowledge and technologies. Ultimately, this illuminates the necessity of approaching ‘waste’ in fluid, relational, and transformative terms as material and spatial endings are turned into new beginnings.

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  • 30.
    Rylander, Kristina
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Att studera Afrika: vägar till källorna2004Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Att studera Afrika är en guide till Afrikastudier inom främst det samhällsvetenskapliga området. Både tryckta och Internet-baserade källor behandlas i denna nya, grundligt uppdaterade upplaga. Boken ger praktisk vägledning till handböcker, databaser, kartor, statistik och en rad andra hjälpmedel för litteratur- och fakta-sökning. Dessutom finns fylliga introduktioner till litteraturen inom några för Afrikastudier centrala ämnesområden: politik, ekonomi, historia, antropologi, geografi och utbildningsfrågor. I första hand riktar sig boken till studerande och forskare, men även lärare, journalister och bibliotekarier med flera har nytta av den.

    Bidragen är skrivna av bibliotekarier och forskare med lång erfarenhet av det moderna Afrika: Kristina Rylander (red.), Tore Linné Eriksen, Ingemar Gustafsson, Katarina Hjortsäter, Birgitte Jansen, Peter Kinlund, Christer Krokfors, António Lourenço, Åsa Lund Moberg och Knut G. Nustad.

     

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  • 31.
    Themnér, Anders
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Conflict, Displacement and Transformation.
    Violence in Post-Conflict Societies: Remarginalization, Remobilizers and Relationships2011Book (Refereed)
  • 32.
    Wallenius, Anna-Britta
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Library work in Africa1966Conference proceedings (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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