A5052158192- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Land Rights and Reforms
- French Urban and Social Studies
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- African history and culture studies
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- African Studies and Ethnography
- Migration, Identity, and Health
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Global Politics and Economy
- Global Security and Public Health
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- International Development and Aid
- African history and culture analysis
- Social Sciences and Governance
- Cambodian History and Society
- Cultural Identity and Heritage
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
University of Mons
2020-2024
Université Catholique de Bukavu
2021
UCLouvain
2014-2021
Ghent University
2020-2021
University of Antwerp
2018-2020
Institut Supérieur de Développement Rural
2020
E Ink (South Korea)
2020
This research note explores the pressing ethical challenges associated with increased online platforming of sensitive on conflict-affected settings since onset Covid-19. We argue that moving and ‘digitalisation suffering’ risks reducing complexity social phenomena omission important aspects lived experiences violence or peace-building. Immersion, ‘contexting’ trust-building are fundamental to in repressive and/or these vitally eclipsed exchanges platforms. ‘Distanced research’ thus bears...
Since the early 2000s, Rwanda has implemented a comprehensive agrarian reform that makes large areas of land available to local cooperatives and foreign enterprises for investment. This article presents case grabbing by state elites. First, it describes process through which arrived at an agricultural agenda with productivist rationale, reflects on consequences governance. Then explores how governmentality – as organisational technique power contributes accumulation peasant exploitation. The...
ABSTRACT Rwanda has embarked on an ambitious policy package to modernise and professionalise the agrarian land sector. Its reform fits into a broader call – supported by major international donors implement Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa. After 10 years of implementation, there is increased production output value-addition commercialised commodity chains. These are promising results. However, poverty reduction, particularly more recent years, seems limited. Moreover, micro-level...
During the COVID-19 crisis in Africa, several contradictory discourses have tried to predict how continent will experience pandemic. Based on a qualitative approach, this article goes beyond generalized and arbitrary predictions analyzes three countries Great Lakes region of Africa managed We first analyze which measures respective governments – their decentralized authorities taken. also up extend international prescriptions as propagated by World Health Organization influenced choices....
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This special issue asks what happens to international research and collaboration when the community becomes temporarily immobilized. The COVID-19 global pandemic powerfully disrupted normal ways of doing and, therefore, created a perfect natural experiment “otherwise” for digital qualitative in sensitive contexts. collected papers argue that lessons extracted from this recent health crisis should shape our thinking on amid crisis. authors speak core themes like platforming research,...
Literature on transformations to sustainability increasingly recognizes transformation as inherently political, but the field still struggles study these politics. Our research project 'Securing Tenure, Sustainable Peace?' efforts localize land registration in conflict-affected settings, both illustrates and contributes understanding politics of transformation. Building insights from political ecology/economy, legal anthropology, anthropology conflict, we analyse involved (1) overarching...
In the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, land-use rights underwent profound changes following processes colonization, commodification and conflict, leading to an increased individualization privatization tenure. Despite these evolutions, customary tenure continues be described as a common-property system managed through strong hierarchical tribute-based land allocation mechanism. This central place commons in policy discourses either stems from romantic, often Western, notion on communal...
Discussions on African responses to Covid-19 have focused the state and its international backers. Far less is known about a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, humanitarians, criminal gangs, armed groups. This paper investigates how pandemic provided opportunities for claims contests over power in Uganda, Democratic Republic Congo, South Sudan. Ethnographic research used contend that local forms authority can be akin miniature sovereigns, able interpret dictates, policies,...
The article analyses how the 2018 in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) contributed to a further opening up democratic space and shared expressions sentiments citizenship. Through an ethnography electoral process South Kivu province, we investigate claiming rights that come with citizenship people’s political identity, shape are being shaped by processes. We introduce notion citoyenneté capture dynamic civic mobilization positioning. In case DRC, concept encapsulates ideas, positions actions...
Most national and international observers perceive recent political developments in Burundi (Nkurunziza’s third term as head of state, constitutional reforms 2018, presidential elections process 2020) a violation the Arusha Peace Agreement signed 2000, which was cornerstone Burundian peace process. This article discusses normative approach often adopted to evaluate success or failure through an analysis variance between stipulations agreement reality on ground. By mobilising intermedial...