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Monographs
2. 2016: À Goma on sait jamais. Jugend im ganz normalen Ausnahmezustand in Goma, DR Kongo. Berlin: Lit Verlag.
1. 2008: Wir sind doch alle unsichtbar: Jugendliche Binnenvertriebene in Kolumbien. Osnabrück: edition terre des hommes.
Reviewed by: “Das politische Buch”, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 11.11.2008, S. 10, Eva Karnofsky.
Monographs in progress
a) Wetland Politics: Social Belonging, Racialized Inequalities, and Urban Environmental Futures in Cartagena, Colombia.
Book manuscript in preparation (based on SNSF-funded project “Urban Waterworlds” and “Exploring Urban Environmental Futures“).
b) Laughter in the City: On Humour, Urban Sociality, and Infrastructure in Goma, Eastern DR Congo. Book manuscript in preparation (drawing on long-term ethnographic research in Eastern DR Congo since 2008).
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
14. 2025: On Laughter, the Grotesque, and the Ability to Pretend. Reframing Uncertainty in Goma, Eastern DRC. In: Cahiers de Littérature Orale, 98, https://doi.org/10.4000/15cgi
13. 2025: Thinking with the Archipelago: Mangroves, marginalization, and the making of alternative environmental futures in Cartagena, Colombia. Environment and Planning F, 2025 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26349825251339492
12. 2023: “Estoy llenita de agua: Caring for Infrastructural Belonging in Cartagena.” Roadsides 9: 8-16 (with María Buelvas) in SI “Gendering Infrastructures”, eds: Yaffa Truelove & Sneha Annavarapu.
11. 2021: Navigating the Archipelago City: Everyday Experiences and Socio-Political Imaginaries of Urban Floods in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 97, 2021/2, p. 139-163 (with Laura Neville).
10. 2020: ‘Maisha ni Kuvumiliya’: Patrimonialism, Progress and the Ambiguities of Waiting in Goma, DR Congo. In: Critical African Studies; Special Issue on “Temporalities of Waiting in Africa”, 12 (1): 37-51.
9. 2019: Dead End? Young Motorcycle Taxi Drivers between Being Stuck, Bridging Potholes and Building a Future in Goma, Eastern Congo. In: Cadernos. Journal of African Studies, 37, 63-87. Special Issue on “Working for Better Lives: Mobilities and Trajectories of Young People in West and Central Africa”, Special Issue Conveners: Ute Röschenthaler, Mamadou Diawara, Christian Ungruhe.
8. 2018: Agency, Social Space and Conflict-Urbanism in Eastern Congo. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 18 (2): 254-273.
7. 2017: with Valerie Hänsch; Lena Kroeker: Uncertainty and Future. Perceptions on Time between the Immediate and the Imagined. In: Tsantsa, 22: 4-17.
6. 2016: ‘I am an Intellectual’: War, Youth and Education in Goma, Eastern DR Congo. Special Issue AnthropoChildren: Images and Imaginations of the Future among Children and Youth in Africa. Open access: http://popups.ulg.ac.be/2034-8517/index.php?id=2489
5. 2015: The Politics of Love and Intimacy in Goma, Eastern DR Congo. Perspectives on the Market of Intervention as Contact Zone. In: Journal of Intervention and State-Building, 9 (3): 316-333.
4. 2014: Das Ende der M23-Rebellion im Ostkongo aus geschlechterpolitischer Perspektive. In: Femina Politica, 23 (1): 139-153.
3. 2014: Love in Times of Humanitarian Intervention. Sex, Gender Relations and Humanitarian Intervention in Goma, DR Congo*. In: Peripherie, 133: 46-70.
2. 2010: Under Familiar Fire. Making Decision During the “Kivu Crisis” in Goma, DR Congo. In: Africa Spectrum, 45 (2): 61-80.
1. 2006: Der Weg der paramilitärischen Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia“ zur politischen Anerkennung In: Lateinamerika Analysen 14 (2): 3-36 (with Kristofer Lengert).
Peer-reviewed Special Issues
1. 2017: Uncertain Futures. In: Tsantsa, 22; co-edited with Lena Kroeker & Valerie Hänsch.
Chapters to Edited Volumes
6. 2023: “From ‘Goma veut de l’eau’ to ‘Monusco doit partir’: Perspectives on Youth, Urban Protest and Armed Conflict in Goma, Eastern DR Congo. In: Kniknie, S. and Büscher, K. (eds.) Rebellious Riots. Entangled Geographies of Contention in Africa. Leiden, Boston: Brill (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies), pp. 180–208 (with Wassy Kambale).
5. 2022 : Futuros Ambientales de los Barrios Populares de Cartagena: Perspectivas desde una Colaboracion Interdisciplinaria Colombia-Suiza. In: Ramirez Gröbli, M. del P. (ed.) ACIS 30 años. Diáspora científica colombiana en Suiza. Una experiencia pionera en el mundo. Binges, Frances: Editions Orbis Tertius, pp. 303–318.
4. 2020: Going ‘off-the-record’? On the Relationship between Media and Identity Formation in Post-Genocide Rwanda. In: Bräuchler, Brigit and Philipp Budka (eds.): Media and Conflict, Berghahn, 277-294.
3. 2019: Agency, Social Space and Conflict-Urbanism in Eastern Congo. In: Büscher, Karen (ed): Urban Africa and Violent Conflict. Understanding Conflict Dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an Urban Perspective. London: Routledge, 62-80. (republication of JEAS-article 2018).
2. 2016: “Everyday Entrepreneurs and Big Men: Facets of Entrepreneurship in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Röschenthaler, Ute & Dorothea Schultz (eds.): Cultural Entrepreneurs in Africa, Routledge, 181-200.
1. 2009: Zwischen Akzeptanz und Widerstand. Jugendliche Lebenswelten im kolumbianischen Bürgerkrieg. In: Imbusch, Peter (ed.): Jugendliche als Täter und Opfer von Gewalt. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag: 95-132.
Edited Volumes
1. 2018: Basel Papers on Political Transformations, 16-17: Making the City in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (with Christina Bosbach & Christine Wabersich).
Public Scholarship
28.10.2024: Paz y Derecho a la Tierra. Geneva Graduate Institute in collaboration with ASCAMCAT (Asociación Campesina del Catatumbo).
10.02.2023: Lab del Medioambiente Urbano> Biblioteca la Puntilla, Olaya Herrera, Cartagena (with Laura Neville and Maria Buelvas).
01.07.2022: Francia Márquez – Kolumbiens erste schwarze Vizepräsidentin ist die Stimme der „Niemande“ (with Melanie Sampayo).
May-June 2021: Photo exhibition:” Black Colombia: Memory, Politics and Identity” in the courtyard of the Museum of Cultures, Basel.
19.02.2020: «Im Feld und auf dem Feld. Ein Gespräch unter Nachbarn. Switzerland: SRF2 Kultur: https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kontext/tandem-unter-nachbarn, 46.50min.
12.12.2019 Spass verstehen. Warum wir lachen und Humor entwickeln 11min: (Interview with Eva-Maria Götz, deutschlandfunk).
22.02.2019: Trotzdem oder erst recht? Lachen als Lebenselixier im Kongo 56min: (with Maya Brändli, SRF2Kultur).
11.01.2019: In Goma, you never know. Everyday life in the eastern Congolese city* 2/2. 55min: (with Maya Brändli und Wassy Kambale, SRF2Kultur).
07.01.2019: In Goma Weiss man nie. Alltag in einer ostkongolesischen Stadt* /2. 54 min. (with Maya Brändli und Wassy Kambale, SRF2Kultur).
05.11.2018: Beim Plastikmüll is tuns der Kongo einen Schritt voraus. 4.20 min with Maya Brändli, SRF2Kultur).
30.10.2018: Ebola and Humor. Short reportage (4.18min). SRF2Kultur, MP3 upon request.
21.8-6.9.18: Consultancy for UNICEF in Beni, North Kivu. Report: Integration of Youth in Ebola-Prevention in Eastern DR Congo.
23.08.2018: Key considerations: Burial, Funeral and Mourning Practices in North Kivu. Social Sciences in Humanitarian Action Platform.
13.08.2018: Expert on „Perspektiven auf Ebola in der Nordkivu Provinz”. SRF4News. Interview with Romana Costa.
07.08.2018:Key considerations: The Context of North Kivu Province, DRC. Invited Regional Expert for Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform concerning Ebola outbreak in the province of North Kivu.
11.06.2018: Interview with SRF (with Till Förster & Rita Kesselring): Different yes, exotic no. Where does anthropology stand today?
01.11.2016: Daring to make peace? Colombia 50 years after the civil war. terre des hommes. Roundtable Discussion, Unternehmen Mitte, Basel.
10.10.2015: On Being a ‘Youngster’ in Academia in the United States and Switzerland. Global Perspectives Program, Basel.
03.05.2013: Media Freedom and Hate Speech: Unravelling the Dichotomy. Panelist and Presentation in the Framework of the World Press Freedom Day organized by the Media High Council, Kigali, Rwanda.
04.11.2007: Faces of Urban Microcosms of Violence: Young People in Bogota, Colombia*. Keynote Lecture at the Hans Böckler Foundation, Oer-Erckenschwick.
14.05.2007: Childhood and Displacement in Colombia. Lecture and roundtable discussion as part of the exhibition “Children and War”. Terre des hommes and Peace Brigades International. House of Democracy and Human Rights. Berlin.
20.04.2007: Lebenswelten jugendlicher Binnenvertriebener in Bogotá. Keynote given at the meeting of the terre des hommes thematic working group “Children in Armed Conflicts” in Bonn.
Other Writings
21. 2026: Vigilance. In: Basel Anthropology Papers: Reading, No. 3.
20. 2026: Catatumbo’s ‘Care-Land’. The Conversation, February 2026, with Anna Leander and Nora Doukkali.
19. 2025: Urban Racial Politics in Cartagena, Colombia. With Laura Neville, Orlando Deavila Pertuz & Javier Ortiz. Urban Political Podcast: Urban Polycrisis Series 2025: https://urbanpolitical.online/94-urban-racial-politics-in-cartagena-colombia-urban-polycrisis-series/
18. 2025: Humanitarians on Hold: Cruel Optimism and Rhythmic Objects of Care. e-flux Architecture, 2025, with Nora Doukkali and Anna Leander
17. 2024: Politike Bishimbo: Humour, Statehood and Social Ambivalence in the 2023 Elections of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. MIASA blog hypotheses, 2024: https://miasa.hypotheses.org/4473 with Christian Mwemezi.
16. 2024: Conviviality. In: Basel Anthropology Papers: Drawings, No 1.
15. 2023: Review of “How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey” by Caterina Scaramelli. American Ethnologist, https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/amet.13212
14. 2020: Review of Elusive justice. Women, land rights, and Colombia’s transition to peace, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. doi: 10.32992/erlacs.10657.
13. 2019: Politische Macht, gesellschaftliche Teilhabe und Wandel im Kongo. Afrika Bulletin, 3 Februar, p. 4-6. Access here: http://www.afrikakomitee.ch/nr-173-demokratische-republik-kongo/.
12. 2018: “Living without Plastic Bags - the Democratic Republic of Congo is Paving the Way», Sci Five Blog – University of Basel, 6 Dezember.
11. 2018: «Intro: Making the City», Basel Papers on Political Transformations. Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel. Access: https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/news/details/news/making-the-city-in-cartagena-de-indias/.
10. 2018: «Street Corner Society – Conviviality and Contestation in Getsemaní», Basel Papers on Political Transformations. Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/news/details/news/making-the-city-in-cartagena-de-indias/.
9. 2018: “Outro: From Making the City to Making Sense of the City”, Basel Papers on Political Transformations. Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel. Verfügbar unter: https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/news/details/news/making-the-city-in-cartagena-de-indias/.
8. 2017: Review of “Introducing Urban Anthropology” by Rivke Jaffe and Anouk de Koening. In: Social Anthropology, 25 (2): 258-259.
7. 2016: Review of “Mediatized Worlds” by Andreas Hepp and Friedrich Krotz. In: Media, Culture and Society, 38 (8): 1276-1282.
6. 2015: Review of “Whispering Truth to Power. Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda” by Susan Thomson. In: African Affairs, 114 (455): 322-323.
5. 2014: Review of “Genocidal Gender and Sexual Violence. The Legacy of the ICTR, Rwanda’s Ordinary Courts and Gacaca Courts” by Usta Kaitesi. In: African Affairs, 113 (453): 620-621.
4. 2014: Bildung, Krieg und Jugend in Goma, DR Kongo. In: Afrika Süd, 43 (1), 28-30.
3. 2007: “Sie sollen uns nicht übersehen”. Vertriebe Jugendliche kämpfen Gegen soziale Ausgrenzung in Bogotá, Kolumbien. In: ILA 303: 12-13.
2. 2007: Niemand flieht freiwillig. In: Schule ohne Rassismus; GEW; Caritas; Deutsches Rotes Kreuz; Pro Asyl; terre des hommes; Uno Flüchtlingshilfe e.V (Hg.): Flucht & Asyl. Ein Thema für Schulen. Grundstufe. Berlin: 30-33.
1. 2007: Jugendliche im Fokus der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung – eine vernachlässigte Perspektive? In: Working Group on Peace and Conflict Research (Ed.): Security, Conflict and Peace – Taking a New Look at the Body of Knowledge. Iserlohn: 136-154.
Documentary
2022: “This was Nothing but Water and Mangrove” (Idea, Screenplay & Interviews; Producer, Camera: Alfredo Marimon, Crudo Films, Cartagena de Indias, 12 min; financed by Leading House for the Latin America Region, St. Gallen): [Link]