Stichproben 28/2015
Special Issue: Sojourns along the way - narrative perspectives of movement, mobility and moments in between
edited by Kirsten Rüther and Daniela Waldburger
Articles
Einleitung zum Special Issue “Sojourns along the way - narrative perspectives of movement, mobility and moments in between”
Kirsten Rüther, Daniela Waldburger
Scenes from a changing colonial “Far West”. Picturing the early urban landscape and colonial society of cosmopolitan Lubumbashi, 1910-1931
Sofie Boonen, Johan Lagae
Terminal Sahara. Sub-Saharan migrants and Tuareg stuck in the desert
Ines Kohl
Adjournments of intra-urban mobilities in Dar es Salaam. Maintaining social and spatial ties in African multi-local action settings
Christoph Koch, Christiane Rudić
Authors
completed his MA on Senegalese and Ghanaian Migration in 2011. His interest in the African diaspora was spurred by a study abroad year supported by the Fulbright Commission in Lincoln, NE, USA. Since 2014 he has been working on his dissertation project on Pan African history in Dar es Salaam during the 1960s and 1970s.
Contact: harald.barre@hist.uni-hannover.de
PhD candidate at Ghent University, where she graduated as an engineer-architect. She is currently finishing her research on the spatial history of Lubumbashi, in which she traces the way the formation of the city's urban form and built environment was related to the formation of a colonial society. Together with Johan Lagae, she has published several articles on the topic.
Contact: Sofie.Boonen@UGent.be
Magister und Staatexamina in Geographie und Wirtschaftswissenschaften; derzeit: wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im DFG- Projekt zu „Finanzierungsstrategien urbaner Marginalgruppen und Potentiale der Mikrofinanzierung in Afrika südlich der Sahara“ am Lehrstuhl für Geographische Entwicklungsforschung der Universität Bayreuth; Schwerpunkte: Stadtentwicklung, Urban Studies, Netzwerke und Sozialkapital, Resilienz-, Vulnerabilitäts- und Risiko-Forschung, Migrationstheorien, Geographiedidaktik.
Kontakt: christoph.koch@uni-bayreuth.de
doctoral degree from the University of Vienna in social anthropology, and has a regional expertise on the Sahara and the Sahel, the Tuareg, i.e. Algeria/Libya/Niger/Mali. Her thematic research focus ranges from transnational mobility and migration, Saharan borders and borderlands, globalization and identity, to Tuareg youth culture, economic strategies of ex-nomads, and sedentariness, urbanization and gender relations in the Sahara.
Contact: Ines.Kohl@oeaw.ac.at
Full Professor of Architectural History with a specific focus on the non-European context at Ghent University. He holds a PhD on colonial architecture in the Belgian Congo and has done extensive research on the colonial and postcolonial built environment of Central Africa. Having published numerous articles, chapters and books, Johan Lagae has also (co-)curated several Congo related exhibitions, such as The Memory of Congo. The Colonial Era (2005) and Congo belge en images (2010).
Contact: johan.lagae@ugent.be
Master of Arts in geographische Entwicklungsforschung Afrikas; derzeit: Doktorandin an der Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies; Forschungsprojekt zu Strategien der Wohnraumfinanzierung in informellen Siedlungen und Potentiale der Mikrofinanzierung für den Wohnraum; Schwerpunkte: Stadtentwicklung, Urban Studies, Wohnraumversorgung und -finanzierung, Mikrofinanzierung.
Kontakt: christiane.rudic@uni-bayreuth.de