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What CAS Staff are Reading

Here's a list of a few books that some of the CAS staff are currently reading or have just finished reading…

Gerhard Anders

  • Adam Branch, Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda. (Oxford University Press, 2011).
  • Rosalind Shaw & Lars Waldorf (eds.), Localizing Transitional Justice: Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence. (Stanford University Press, 2010).
  • Richard A. Wilson, Writing History in International Criminal Trials. (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Paul Nugent

  • James C. McCann, Stirring the Pot: A history of African cuisine (Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2009)
  • Ian Tyrrell, Woman's World, Woman's Empire: The Women's Christian Temperance Union in international perspective, 1880-1930 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
  • Jakes Gerwel, Wilmot James and Jeanne Viall, Grape: Stories of the vineyards in South Africa – from slavery to BEE (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2011)

Alan Barnard

  • Sibel Barut Kusimba, African Foragers: Environment, technology, interactions (Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2003)
  • Chris Stringer, The Origin of our Species (London: Allen Lane, 2011)
  • David Lewis-Williams and Sam Challis, Deciphering Ancient Minds: The mystery of San Bushman rock art (London: Thames & Hudson, 2011)

Lizelle Bisschoff

  • Mahir Saul and Ralph Austen, Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art films and the Nollywood video revolution (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010)
  • Pierre Barrot, Nollywood: The video phenomenon in Nigeria (Oxford: James Currey, 2008)
  • Brian Larkin, Signal and Noise: Media infrastructure and urban culture in Nigeria (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009)

Barbara Bompani

  • Yvette Geyer and Ivor Jenkins (eds.), Civil Society and the Zuma Government: Opportunities for engagement (Cape Town: IDASA, 2009)
  • Harri Englund (ed.), Christianity and Public Culture in Africa (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2011)
  • Janet McIntosh, The Edge of Islam: Power, personhood and ethno-religious boundaries on the Kenya coast (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009)

Davide Chinigò

  • Lovise Aalen, The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia: Actors, power and mobilisation under ethnic federalism (Leiden: Brill, 2011)
  • Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills (eds.), Big African States: Angola, DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2006)
  • Ward Anseeuw and Chris Alden (eds.), The Struggle Over Land in Africa: Conflict, politics, change (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2010)

Sabine Höhn

  •  Branch, D/ N Cheeseman/ L Gardner (eds) Our Turn to Eat - Politics in Kenya since 1950 (Muenster: LIT Verlag, 2010)
  • Hazan, P Judging War, Judging History - Behind Truth and Reconciliation (Stanford University Press, 2010)
  • Lynch, G I say to you - Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya (U of Chicago Press, 2011)
  • Stover, E The Witnesses - War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague (Philadelphia: UPenn Press, 2005)

Thomas Molony

  • Jan Shetler Bender, Imagining Serengeti: A history of landscape memory in Tanzania from earliest times to present (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007)
  • Chedieli Mgonja, Johari ya Maisha Yangu (Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press, 2003)
  • Andrew Ivaska, Cultured States: Youth, gender, and modern style in 1960s Dar es Salaam (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011)

Sam Spiegel

  • Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002)
  • Godfrey Chikowore, Emmanuel Manzungu, Dorothy Mushayavanhu, and Dennis Shoko, Managing Common Property in an Age of Globalisation: Zimbabwean Experiences (Harare: Weaver Press, 2002)
  • Ray Bush, Poverty and Neoliberalism: Persistence and Reproduction in the Global South (London: Pluto Press, 2004)

Wolfgang Zeller

  • Bennett Kangumu, Contesting Caprivi: A history of colonial isolation and regional nationalism in Namibia (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2010)
  • Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot (eds.), The Lord's Resistance Army: Myth and reality (London: Zed Books, 2010)
  • Carolyn Nordstrom, Shadows of War: Violence, power, and international profiteering in the twenty-first century (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004)

This page was published on 21 March 2012


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