Prof. dr. P.L. (Peter) Geschiere
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Exploring Diversity
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- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
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Postbus 15508
1001 NA Amsterdam
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Peter Geschiere is emeritus professor for the Anthropology of Africa at both the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University; he was also co-editor of ETHNOGRAPHY (SAGE, 2007 - 2021).
Since 1971 he has undertaken historical-anthropological field-work in various parts of Cameroon and elsewhere in West and Central Africa. His publications include The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Post-colonial Africa (Univ. Of Virginia Press, 1997), Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009), Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013) and (with Rogers Orock) ‘Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in postcolonial Africa, Africa 90(5), 2020:831-51.
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Publications
- refereed (110)
- academic (26)
- professional (18)
- popular scientific (7)
- recognitions (152)
- supervised theses (21)
2024
- Orock, R., & Geschiere, P. (2024). Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment. The University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226835853 [details]
2023
- Geschiere, P. (2023). Responsibility versus responsibilization: Mafiacraft, witchcraft and the rise of conspiracy thinking today. In M. Demian, M. Fumanti, & C. Lynteris (Eds.), Anthropology and Responsibility (pp. 57-72). (ASA Monographs). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003332077-4 [details]
2022
- Bernault, F., & Geschiere, P. L. (2022). Joseph Tonda, the social sciences and the vortex of city life in Africa. Africa, 92(1), 152-160.
- Geschiere, P. (2022). The Secrets of Fariba Adelkhah’s Anthropology: Intimacy and Mobility. Sociétés Politiques Comparées , 57, 1-12. https://fasopo.org/node/337 [details]
2021
Geschiere, P. (2021). Dazzled by New Media: Mbembe, Tonda, and the Mystic Virtual. African Studies Review, 64(1), 71-85. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.80 [details]- Geschiere, P. L. (2021). Belonging. In V. Das, & D. Fassin (Eds.), Words and Worlds: A Lexicon for Dark Times (pp. 83-102). Duke University Press.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2021). Getting a second pair of eyes: the precarious balance of healing and killing in Cameroon. In C. Buijs, & W. Welling (Eds.), Healing Power: Living Traditions, Global Interactions (pp. 32-38). Sidestone Press. https://www.sidestone.com/books/healing-power
- Geschiere, P. L. (2021). Liberté, censure, autocensure : les défis de la recherche: Un hommage à Fariba Adelkhah. Sociétés Politiques Comparées , 55, 1-15.
- Geschiere, P., & Lucchese, C. (2021). De bas en haut. indocilités politiques et africanisation des sciences sociales. Politique Africaine, 161-162, 57-70. https://shs.cairn.info/revue-politique-africaine-2021-1-page-57
- Orock, R., & Geschiere, P. (2021). Decolonization, freemasonry and the rise of 'homosexuality' as a public issue in Cameroon: The return of Dr Aujoulat. African Affairs, 120(478), 26-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adaa027 [details]
2020
- Geschiere, P. (2020). Langages scientifiques et réalités africaines: La « sorcellerie » comme membrane épistémologique. Editions Oudjat en Ligne, 3(1). http://editionsoudjat.org/index.html/spip.php?article222 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2020). Shifting figures of the witch in colonial and postcolonial Africa. In J. Dillinger (Ed.), The Routledge History of Witchcraft (pp. 299-316). (The Routledge Histories). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003010296-26 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2020). The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast Cameroon. In B. Rubbers, & A. Jedlowski (Eds.), Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts (pp. 180-198). New York: Berghahn Books. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2020). “The African family is large, very large” mobility and the flexibility of kinship – examples from Cameroon. Ethnography, 21(3), 335-354. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138120938076 [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2020). Sex as identity or as practice? Comment on Van Klinken, Adriaan. 2019. Kenyan, Christian, queer: Religion, lgbt activism, and arts of resistance in Africa. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 10(2), 626-629. https://doi.org//10.1086/709580
- Geschiere, P., & Orock, R. (2020). Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in postcolonial Africa. Africa, 90(5), 831-851. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972020000650 [details]
2019
- Geschiere, P. (2019). Autochthony, Belonging, and Xenophobia in Africa. In W. R. Thompson (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics Article e-755 (Oxford Research Encyclopedias). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.755 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2019). Historicizing belonging in Cameroon. In J. Beek, K. N’Guessan, & M. Späth (Eds.), Zugehörigkeiten: Erforschen, Verhandeln, Aufführen im Sinne von Carola Lentz (pp. 85-100). (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; Vol. 42). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2019). The historicity of witchcraft narratives: Examples from the forest region of South Cameroon. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 14(3), 371-391. https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2019.0032 [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2019). Le souverain moderne, style camerounais: la Franc-maçonnerie et ses articulations avec les discours locaux sur l’occulte. In N. B. Boundzanga, C-O. Mpaga, & P. Ondo (Eds.), Joseph Tonda – Entre imaginaires et connaissance (pp. 27-42). (Colloques et Rencontres). Paris: L'Harmattan. [details]
2018
- Geschiere, P. L. (2018). African Chiefs and the Post-Cold War Moment: Millennial Capitalism and the Struggle over Moral Authority. In J. L. Comaroff, & J. Comaroff (Eds.), The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa (pp. 49-79). University of Chicago Press. [details]
2017
- Geschiere, P. (2017). A “Vortex of Identities": Freemasonry, Witchcraft and Postcolonial Homophobia. African Studies Review, 60(2), 7-35. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.52 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2017). La sorcellerie: Un savoir qui se refuse à la connaissance ? Politique Africaine, 148, 158-163. https://www.cairn.info/revue-politique-africaine-2017-4-page-158.htm [details]
2016
- Duyvendak, W. G. J., Geschiere, P. L., & Wekker, F. E. A. (Eds.) (2016). Homing the Dutch: Politics and the Planning of Belonging. Home Cultures, 13(2). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfhc20/13/2?nav=tocList
- Geschiere, P. (2016). Witchcraft and the Dangers of Intimacy: Africa and Europe. In L. Kounine, & M. Ostling (Eds.), Emotions in the History of Witchcraft (pp. 213-229). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52903-9_12 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2016). Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Nostalgia: A Review Essay. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 58(1), 242-265. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417515000638 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2016). Witchcraft: The Dangers of Intimacy and the Struggle over Trust. In V. Broch-Due, & M. Ystanes (Eds.), Trusting and Its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust (pp. 60-84). New York: Berghahn Books. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2016). Éric de Rosny et la violence du monde nocturne. In G. Séraphin (Ed.), Religion, guérison et forces occultes en Afrique: Le regard du jésuite eric de Rosny (pp. 83-96). (Hommes et sociétés). Paris: Karthala. [details]
- Geschiere, P., & Guadeloupe, F. (2016). Conclusion: Post-script on Sex, Race and Culture. In J. W. Duyvendak, P. Geschiere, & E. Tonkens (Eds.), The Culturalization of Citizenship : Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World (pp. 203-218). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53410-1_10 [details]
- Geschiere, P., & Socpa, A. (2016). Changing Mobilities, Shifting Futures. In B. Goldstone, & J. Obarrio (Eds.), African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence and Possibility (pp. 167-180). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226402413.003.0012 [details]
2015
- Geschiere, P. (2015). Préface. In S. Fancello (Ed.), Penser la sorcellerie en Afrique (pp. 11-20). Paris: Hermann. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2015). The 'Knower' and the 'Known': Complex Articulations. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 10(2), 207-212. https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2015.0024 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2015). Witchcraft. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2 ed., Vol. 25, pp. 604-610). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.12165-8 [details]
2014
- Geschiere, P. (2014). La réponse de l'auteur. Politique Africaine, 135, 217-224. https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.135.0197 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2014). The funeral in the village: urbanites' shifting imaginations of belonging, mobility, and community. In M. Diouf, & R. Fredericks (Eds.), The arts of citizenship in African cities: infrastructures and spaces of belonging (pp. 49-66). (Africa connects). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481887_3 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2014). Witchcraft. In V. V. Rao, P. Krishnamurthy, & C. Kuoni (Eds.), Speculation, Now: Essays and Artwork (pp. 41-44). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375906 [details]
- Geschiere, P., & Socpa, A. (2014). Changing mobilities, shifting futures. In B. Przybył-Ołowski, & J. Swianiewicz (Eds.), Into Africa: learning, acting, sharing (pp. 195-208). (Le Monde Diplomatique). Warszawa: Instytut Wydawniczy Książka i Prasa.
- Geschiere, P., & Socpa, A. (2014). Nowe wzory mobilności, nowa przyszłość. In J. Jankowska (Ed.), Ku Afryce: poznawać, działać, dzielić się (pp. 191-215). (Le Monde diplomatique. Artystyka). Warzawa: Instytut Wydawniczy Książka i Prasa. [details]
2013
- Awondo, P., Geschiere, P., & Reid, G. (2013). Une Afrique homophobe? Sur quelques trajectoires de politisation de l'homosexualité: Cameroun, Ouganda, Sénégal et Afrique du Sud. Raisons Politiques, 2013(1), 95-118. https://doi.org/10.3917/rai.049.0095 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2013). Witchcraft, intimacy and trust: Africa in comparison. University of Chicago Press. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2013). Autochthony and the politics of belonging. In N. Cheeseman, D. M. Anderson, & A. Scheiber (Eds.), Routledge handbook of African politics (pp. 108-120). (Routledge handbooks). Routledge. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2013). Autochthony, citizenship, and (in)security: new turns in the politics of belonging in Africa and elsewhere. In Z. Gambetti, & M. Godoy-Anativia (Eds.), Rhetorics of insecurity: belonging and violence in the neoliberal era (pp. 40-68). New York University Press. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2013). Sociality and its dangers: witchcraft, intimacy and trust. In N. J. Long, & H. L. Moore (Eds.), Sociality: new directions (pp. 61-82). (WYSE series in social anthropology; No. 1). Berghahn Books. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2013). Autochthonie, Zugehörigkeit und Exklusion: Die widersprüchlichen Verflechtungen des Lokalen und Globalen in Afrika und Europa. Historische Antropologie. Kultur, Gesellschaft, Altag, 21(1), 85-102. https://doi.org/10.7788/ha.2013.21.1.85 [details]
2012
- Awondo, P., Geschiere, P., & Reid, G. (2012). Homophobic Africa? Toward a more nuanced view. African Studies Review, 55(3), 145-168. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0002020600007241 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2012). Política de la pertenencia: brujería, autoctonía e intimidad. (Umbrales). Mexico, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2012). Religion's 'others': Jean Comaroff on religion and society. Religion and Society, 3(1), 17-25. https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2012.030102 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2012). The political economy of autochthony: labour migration and citizenship in Southwest Cameroon. In J. Abbink (Ed.), Fractures and reconnections: civic action and the redefinition of African political and economic spaces: studies in honor of Piet J.J. Konings (pp. 15-35). (African Studies Centre; No. 5). LIT Verlag. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2012). The return of culture: anthropology's temptations. In N. Faraclas, R. Severing, C. Weijer, & E. Echteld (Eds.), Proceedings of the ECICC-conference Guyana 2001. - Vol. 1: Multiplex cultures and citizenships: multiple perspectives on language, literature, education and society in the ABC-Islands and beyond (pp. 17-27). Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma (FPI) / University of the Netherlands Antilles (UNA). [details]
- Geschiere, P., & Allen, R. M. (2012). An introduction: multiple cultures and multiplex citizenships in the ABC-islands and beyond. In N. Faraclas, R. Severing, C. Weijer, & E. Echteld (Eds.), Proceedings of the ECICC-conference Guyana 2001. - Vol. 1: Multiplex cultures and citizenships: multiple perspectives on language, literature, education and society in the ABC-Islands and beyond (pp. 13-15). Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma (FPI) / University of the Netherlands Antilles (UNA). [details]
2011
- Geschiere, P. (2011). 'Sons of the soil': autochthony and its ambiguities in Africa and Europe. In J. Abbink, & M. de Bruijn (Eds.), Land, law and politics in Africa: mediating conflict and reshaping the state (pp. 80-98). (African dynamics; No. 10). Brill. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2011). Autochthony as a "nervous language": some elements of its genealogy. In E. Jul-Larsen, P. J. Laurent, P. Y. Le Meur, & E. Léonard (Eds.), Une anthropologie entre pouvoirs et histoire: conversations autour de l'œuvre de Jean-Pierre Chauveau (pp. 347-368). (Hommes et sociétés). IRD/Karthala. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2011). Autochthony, citizenship and exclusion: new patterns in the politics of belonging in Africa and Europe. In S. Albiez, N. Castro, L. Jüssen, & E. Youkhana (Eds.), Ethnicity, citizenship and belonging: practices, theory and spatial dimensions = Etnicidad, ciudadanía y pertenencia: prácticas, teoría y dimensiones espaciales (pp. 175-198). (Ethnicity, citizenship and belonging in Latin America; No. 1). Iberoamericana. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2011). Autochthony, citizenship and exclusion: paradoxes in the politics of belonging in Africa and Europe. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 18(1), 321-339. https://doi.org/10.2979/indjglolegstu.18.1.321 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2011). L’autoctonia e le contese sulla cittadinanza: nuovi sviluppi nelle politiche dell’appartenenza nell’Africa del dopo guerra fredda. Afriche e Orienti, 2011(3-4), 16-33. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2011). The 1994 forest law in Cameroon: neoliberals betting on "the" community. In N. Schareika, E. Spies, & P-Y. Le Meur (Eds.), Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen: Festschrift für Thomas Bierschenk (pp. 477-494). (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung; No. 28). Köppe. [details]
2010
- Geschiere, P. (2010). Autochthony: local or global? In U. Freitag, & A. von Oppen (Eds.), Translocality: the study of globalising processes from a southern perspective (pp. 207-228). (Studies in global social history; No. 4). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004181168.i-452.58 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2010). Een worsteling met productiewijzen. Krisis, 2010(2), 45-48. http://archive.krisis.eu/content/2010-2/krisis-2010-2-08-geschiere.pdf [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2010). Homosexuality in Cameroon: identity and persecution. In I. Dubel, & A. Hielkema (Eds.), Urgency required: gay and lesbian rights are human rights (pp. 126-131). Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos). http://www.asylumlaw.org/docs/sexualminorities/Urgency%20Required%20Publication.pdf [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2010). Sorcellerie... comment guérir le mal qui vient de l'intérieur? In L. Lado (Ed.), Le pluralisme médical en Afrique: colloque international de Yaoundé, 3-5 février 2010: hommage à Éric de Rosny (pp. 429-448). Karthala. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2010). The self-reflective turn in ethnography: from dialogue to narcissism? Etnofoor, 22(1), 137-146. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2010). Witchcraft and modernity: perspectives from Africa and beyond. In L. Nicolau Parés, & R. Sansi (Eds.), Sorcery in the black Atlantic (pp. 233-258). University of Chicago Press. [details]
2009
- Geschiere, P. (2009). Perils of belonging: autochthony, citizenship, and exclusion in Africa and Europe. University of Chicago Press. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2009). Autoctonia: locale o globale? In A. Bellagamba (Ed.), Inclusi/esclusi: prospettive africane sulla cittadinanza (pp. 3-31). UTET. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2009). Is there "a" postcolonial condition? The Salon / Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, 1(1), 23-25. http://www.jwtc.org.za/resources/docs/Salon-1-pdfs/Geschiere_Isthereapostcolonial.pdf [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2009). La stregoneria e i limiti della legge in Camerun e Sud Africa. In R. Beneduce (Ed.), Poteri e identità in Africa subsahariana (pp. 59-93). Liguori Editore. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2009). Von Gravenreuth and Buea as a site of history: early colonial violence on Mount Cameroon. In I. Fowler, & V. G. Fanso (Eds.), Encounter, transformation and identity: peoples of the western Cameroon borderlands, 1891-2000 (pp. 69-92). (Cameroon studies; No. 8). Berghahn. [details]
2008
- Geschiere, P. (2008). [Review of: H.G. West (2007) Ethnographic sorcery]. African Studies Review, 51(3), 138-140. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0103 [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2008). Witchcraft and the state: Cameroon and South Africa: Ambiguities of ‘reality’ and ‘superstition’. Past & Present, 199(3), 313-335. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtm070 [details]
- Geschiere, P., Meyer, B., & Pels, P. (2008). Introduction. In P. Geschiere, B. Meyer, & P. Pels (Eds.), Readings in modernity in Africa (pp. 1-43). Currey / Indiana U.P. [details]
2007
- Geschiere, P. L. (2007). Epilogue: ''Seeing like a State'' in Africa, High Modernism, Legibility and Community. African Studies, 66(1), 205-213.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2007). Regional Shifts, Marginal Gains and Ethnic Stereotypes. African Studies Review, 50(2), 43-56.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2007). Returning to ''the Mountain''. In D. F. Bryceson, J. Okeley, & J. Weber (Eds.), identity and Networks, Fashioning gender and ethnicity across cultures (pp. 273-286). Oxford: Berghahn Books.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2007). Witchcraft and kinship among the Maka. Issues of Inequality and the Production of Knowledge. In T. Bierschenk, & et al. (Eds.), Une Antropologie entre rigueur et engagement. Essais autour de lóeuvre de J.P. Olivier de Sardan Parijs: Karthala.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2007). Witchcraft. In D. S. Clark (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives vol. 3 (pp. 1586-89). Londen: Sage.
- Geschiere, P. L., Goheen, M., & Piot, C. (2007). Marginal Gains Revisited. African Studies Review, 50(2), 37-41. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0093
- Geschiere, P. L., Goheen, M., & Piot, C. (Eds.) (2007). Life Begins at Fifty: African Studies Enters Its Age of Awareness. African Studies Review, 50(2). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/african-studies-review/issue/1EDA095ACB0FE7B49D4D85E6A2A53EDC
2006
- Geschiere, P. L. (2006). Afterword. Social Anthropology, 14(1), 119-123.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2006). Autochthony and Citizenship: New Modes in the Struggle over Belonging and Exclusion in Africa. QUEST, 18(1-2), 9-25.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2006). Communautés locales et autochtonie: Le danger des notions inadaptées au Cameroun. In L. Bérard (Ed.), Biodiversité et savoirs naturalistes locaux en France (pp. 79-85). Montpellier: CIRAD.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2006). Proyectos de autoctonía y pertenencia en el África actual. Anales de Desclasificación, 1(1), 179-193.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2006). Tournaments of Value in the Forest Area of Southern Cameroon: "Multiple Self-realization" versus Colonial Coercion During the Rubber Boom (1900-1913). In W. H. M. van Binsbergen, & P. L. Geschiere (Eds.), Commodification - Things, Agecny and Identities (pp. 243-265). Berlin/Munster/Vienna/London: Lit.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2006). Witchcraft and the Limits of the Law: Cameroon and South Africa. In J. Cornaroff (Ed.), Law and disorder in the postcolony (pp. 219-247). Chicago: Chicago University Press.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2006). Éditorial. The African Anthropologist, 12(1), 4-11.
2005
- Geschiere, P. L. (2005). "Hekserij" in Afrika: De Fascinatie van het Kwaad. In R. Wiche (Ed.), Des Duivels: Het Kwaad in Religieuze en Spirituele Tradities (pp. 144-160). Leuven / Voorburg: Acco. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2005). Funerals and Belonging: Different Patterns in South Cameroon. African Studies Review, 48(2), 45-65. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2005). The State, Witchcraft and the Limits of the Law - Cameroon and South Africa. In E. de Rosny (Ed.), Justice et Sorcellerie (pp. 87-121). Yaounde: Presses de l'Université d'Afrique Centrale. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L., & Ceuppens, B. (2005). Autochthony: Local or Global? New Modes in the Struggle over Citizenship and Belonging in Africa and Europe. Annual Review of Anthropology, 34, 385-407. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120354 [details]
2004
- Geschiere, P. L. (2004). "Liberalisierung und die Produktion von Lokalität - Zu einer "Re-Komposition" des afrikanischen Dorfes". In R. Loimeier, D. Neubert, & C. Weissköppel (Eds.), Globalisierung und Konzept von Hamdeln in Afrika (pp. 209-236). Bayreuth: Einleitung. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2004). Comment on "Modernity and Its Aspirants - Moral Community and Developmental Eutopianism in Buganda", by Mikael Karlström. Current Anthropology, 45(5), 610-611.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2004). Ecology, belonging and xenophobia: the 1994 forest law in Cameroon and the issue of 'community'. In H. Englund, & F. B. Nymanjoh (Eds.), Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (pp. 237-261). London: Zed Books. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2004). The Return of Culture: Anthropology's Temptations. In I. Hoving, F-W. Korsten, & E. van Alphen (Eds.), Africa and Its Significant Others (pp. 5-95). Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi. [details]
2003
- Geschiere, P. L. (2003). 'Jamais en public'. Alternatives Internationales, 7, 13. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2003). 'On Witch Doctors and Spin Doctors: The Role of `Experts¿ in African and American Politics'. In B. Meyer, & P. Pels (Eds.), Magic and Modernity, Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment (pp. 159-183). Stanford: Stanford U.P.. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2003). 'Préface'. In P. Petit (Ed.), Ménages de Lubumbashi - Entre précarité et recomposition (pp. 4-7). Paris: L¿Harmattan. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2003). 'Re-interpreting the Local, Autochthony, Democratization and New Modes in the Politics of Belonging in Present-day Africa'. In M. Diawara (Ed.), L¿interface entre les savoirs paysans et le savoir universel (pp. 56-74). Bamako: Figuier. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2003). 'Witchcraft as the Dark Side of Kinship - Dilemmas of Social Security in New Contexts'. Etnofoor, XVI, 43-62. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2003). The Modernity of Witchcraft, Politica and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L., & Meyer, B. (2003). Globalization and Identity, Dialectics of Flow and Closure. Oxford: Blackwell. [details]
2002
- Geschiere, P. L. (2002). Witchcraft. In Elsevier¿s International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences Oxford: Elsevier. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L., & Fisiy, C. (2002). "Witchcraft, Development and Paranoia in Cameroon. Interactions between Popular, Academic and State Discourse". In H. L. Moore, & T. Sanders (Eds.), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities. Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa London: Routledge. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L., & Pandey, G. (2002). The Forging of Nationhood. The Contest over Citizenship, Ethnicity and History". Delhi: Manohar. [details]
2001
- Geschiere, P. (2001). Shaka and the Limits of Colonial Invention [Review of: C. Hamilton (1998) Terrific majesty: the powers of Shaka Zulu and the limits of historical invention]. African Studies Review, 44(2), 167-177. https://doi.org/10.2307/525580 [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2001). Autochthony as an Alternative to Citizneship: New Modes in the Politics of Belonging in Postcolonial Africa. In E. Kurimoto (Ed.), Rewriting Africa: Towards Renaissance or Collapse? (pp. 209-237). Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2001). Historical Anthropology: Questions of Time, Method and Scale, Interventions. Interventions, 3(1), 31-40. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2001). J'étais là avant. Problématiques politiques de l'autochtonie, dossier Variations. Critique Internationale, 10, 126-195. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2001). Regard académique, sorcellerie et schizophrénie. Annales, histoire, sciences sociales, 56(3), 634-651. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2001). Witch-doctors et spin-doctors: le rôle des 'experts' dans la vie politique en Afrique et aux Etats-Unis. Politix, 54, 15-43. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2001). Witchcraft and New Forms of Wealth: Regional Variations in South and West Cameroon. In P. Clough, & J. P. Mitchell (Eds.), Power of Good and Evil, Social Transformation and Popular Belief (pp. 43-77). Oxford: Berg. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L., Bayart, J-F., & Nyamnjoh, F. (2001). Autochtonie, démocratie et citoyenneté en Afrique. Critique Internationale, 10, 177-195. [details]
2023
- Geschiere, P. L. (2023). Book review: Mafiacraft – An Ethnography of Deadly Silence | Deborah Puccio-Den [2022]. Droit et Societé. https://doi.org/10.58079/nxqs
- Geschiere, P. L. (2023). Un regard sur Éric. In A-N. Perret-Clermont, J-D. Morerod, & J. Blanc (Eds.), Cultures et Guérisons. Éric de Rosny - L’intégrale (Vol. Volume 1, pp. 85-94). Éditions CLÉ.
2022
- Geschiere, P. L. (2022). Un regard sur Éric. In A-N. Perret-Clermont, J-D. Morerod, & J. Blanc (Eds.), Cultures et Guérisons. Éric de Rosny - L’intégrale (Vol. Tome 1, pp. 85-94). (Collection Ethnographies; Vol. 503). Éditions Livreo-Alphil.
2020
- Bracke, S., Davidson, R. J., & Geschiere, P. (2020). Editorial. Ethnography, 21(1), 3-4. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138120902585 [details]
- Bracke, S., Davidson, R. J., Geschiere, P., & Guadeloupe, F. (2020). Editorial. Ethnography, 21(2), 149-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138120922727 [details]
- Bracke, S., Davidson, R. J., Geschiere, P., & Guadeloupe, F. (2020). Editorial. Ethnography, 21(4), 415-416. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138120964654 [details]
2019
- Geschiere, P. (2019). Mistrust and trust: Conjoined twins? HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 9(2), 261-264. https://doi.org/10.1086/705582 [details]
2016
- Duyvendak, J. W., Geschiere, P., & Tonkens, E. (Eds.) (2016). The Culturalization of Citizenship: Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53410-1 [details]
2015
- Geschiere, P. (2015). Postface. In J. Tonda (Ed.), L'impérialisme postcolonial: Critique de la société des éblouissements (pp. 243-246). (Les Afriques). Paris: Karthala. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2015). Le jeune Bayart ert le discours foudroyant du grand parti unique: Ou comment prendre un imaginaire ingrat au sérieux? In La bande à Bayart (Ed.), À bas les fonctionnaires apathiques et ventripotents: pour un fonctionnaire intellectuellement fécond et physiquement disponible, en avant! (pp. 81-91). Paris: Karthala.
2011
- Geschiere, P. (2011). Response to Irène Bellier II. Social Anthropology, 19(2), 207-209. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2011.00149.x [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2011). Response to Irène Bellier IV. Social Anthropology, 19(2), 211-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2011.00149.x [details]
2008
- Geschiere, P. (2008). Een nieuw idee van emigratie in Kameroen: 'Bushfalling': jagen in rijke landen. De linker wang: platform voor geloof en politiek, 2008(4), 24-25. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2008). Homoseksueel in Kameroen: identiteit en vervolging. In I. Dubel, & A. Hielkema (Eds.), Urgentie geboden: homo- en lesborechten zijn mensenrechten (pp. 126-131). SWP. [details]
- Geschiere, P., Meyer, B., & Pels, P. (Eds.) (2008). Readings in modernity in Africa. (Readings in...). International African Institute. https://archive.org/details/readingsinmodern0000unse_x2j0 [details]
2007
- Geschiere, P. L. (2007). Nawoord. In V. de Rooij, & F. Guadeloupe (Eds.), Zo zijn onze manieren: visies op multiculturaliteit in Nederland (pp. 199-207). Amsterdam: Rozenberg.
2006
- Geschiere, P. L. (2006). Moderne Mythen : Cultuur en Ontwikkeling in Afrika. In J. Jansen (Ed.), Sub-Sahara Afrika: Perspectieven en Plaatsbepalingen (pp. 1-23). Amsterdam: Aksant.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2006). [Review of: K. Barber (2006) The Generation of Plays - Yoruba Popular Life in Theater]. Africa.
- van Binsbergen, W. M. J., & Geschiere, P. L. (2006). Commodification - Things, Agency and Identities: ‘The Social Life of Things’ Revisited. Lit. http://Based on an international conference held at Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1999, and constituting one of the results of the WOTRO (Netherlands Foundation for Tropical Research) wide-ranging programme on 'Globalization and the construction of communal identities'
2005
- Meyer, B., & Geschiere, P. L. (2005). series 'Modernity and Belonging'. Hamburg: LIT Verlag. [details]
2004
2003
- Geschiere, P. L. (2003). "Crisis en het Alledaagse - Veena Das over de Doorwerking van `Critical Events' in het Dagelijkse Leven". Facta, 11(5), 8-10. [details]
2001
- Geschiere, P. (2001). [Review of: A. Eckert (1999) Grundbesitz, Landkonflikte und kolonialer Wandel: Douala 1880 bis 1960]. Africa, 71(4), 709-710. https://doi.org/10.3366/afr.2001.71.4.709 [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2001). Issues of Citizenship and Belonging in Present-day Africa. In L. Kropaxcek, & P. Skalnik (Eds.), Africa 2000, Forty Years of African Studies in Prague. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2001). Liberalization and New Struggles over Belonging: Towards a Recomposition of the Village in Africa? In J. A. Anderson, & M. Breusers (Eds.), Kinship Structures and Enterprising Actors: Anthropological Essays on Development [details]
2018
- Geschiere, P. (2018). Belonging. In G. Desai, & A. Masquelier (Eds.), Critical Terms for the Study of Africa (pp. 27-39). (Critical Terms). University of Chicago Press. [details]
2017
- Geschiere, P. (2017). Afterword: Academics, Pentecostals and Witches: The Struggle for Clarity and the Power of the Murky. In K. Rio, M. MacCarthy, & R. Blanes (Eds.), Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia (pp. 281-291). (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7_12 [details]
2015
- Geschiere, P. (2015). [Review of: I. Niehaus (2013) Witchcraft and a life in the new South Africa]. Journal of Religion in Africa, 45(2), 225-227. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340043 [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2015). [Review of: J.-F. Bayart (2014) Le plan cul: Ethnologie d'une pratique sexuelle]. Revue Française de Science Politique, 64(5), 1025-1027. [details]
2012
- Geschiere, P. (2012). Modernity as sorcery? [Review of: A. Lattas (2010) Dreams, madness, and fairy tales in New Britain]. Anthropology Now, 4(1), 79-84. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2012). Reconciling difference and equality [Review of: G. Pandey (2010) Subaltern citizens and their histories: investigations from India and the USA]. Economic & Political Weekly, 47, 34-37. http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2012_47/08/Reconciling_Difference_and_Equality.pdf [details]
2009
- Geschiere, P. (2009). [Review of: G. Steinmetz (2007) The devil’s handwriting: precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa and Southwest Africa]. American Journal of Sociology, 115(1), 289-291. https://doi.org/10.1086/605748 [details]
2005
- Geschiere, P. L. (2005). [Review of: D. Malaquais. Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun]. Africa. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2005). [Review of: E.M. Chilver, U. Roschenthaler. Cameroon’s Tycoon; S. Ardener. Swedish Ventures in Cameroon]. Africa. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2005). [Review of: N. Whitehead, R. Wright. In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assoault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia]. Journal of contemporary religion. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2005). [Review of: P. Stoller. Stranger in the Village of the Sick]. American Anthropologist. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L., & Konig, R. (2005). De Maalstroom van Congo - Filip de Boeck over Kinshasa. Karakter: tijdschrift van wetenschap, 11, 20-23. [details]
2004
- Geschiere, P. (2004). [Review of: R. Bertrand (2002) Indonésie: la democratie invisible: violence, magie et politique à Java]. Social Anthropology, 12(2), 235-236. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0964028204210588 [details]
2003
- Geschiere, P. (2003). [Review of: B. Jewsiewicki, B. Plankenstein (2001) An/Sichten - Malerei aus dem Kongo, 1990-2000]. Cahiers d'études africaines, 43(171), 673-675. [details]
2002
- Geschiere, P. (2002). Gruesome rumours, the reality question and writing history [Review of: A. Ashforth (2000) Madumo: a man bewitched; L. White (2000) Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa]. The Journal of African History, 43(3), 499-501. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853702008204 [details]
2001
- Geschiere, P. L. (2001). The Elusive Community - Problems and Opportunities for the Application of the New Forest Law (1994) in the East Province of Cameroon. onbekend: onbekend_FMG. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L. (2001). [Review of: A. Ashforth (2000) Madumo: a man bewitched]. Critique Internationale, 13. [details]
- Geschiere, P. L., Nyamnjoh, F., & Socpa, A. (2001). Autochthony versus Citizenship - Variable Effects of Political Liberalization in Cameroon. Paris: Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Paris. [details]
2024
- Geschiere, P. L., & Orock, R. (2024). Freemasons, homosexuals and corrupt elites in Cameroon – inside an African conspiracy theory. Web publication or website, The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/freemasons-homosexuals-and-corrupt-elites-in-cameroon-inside-an-african-conspiracy-theory-245107
2018
- Geschiere, P., & Guadeloupe, F. (2018). Europese Oogkleppen. NRC Handelsblad, Opinie, 17. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/04/16/17815808-a1599527
2015
- Geschiere, P. L. (2015). L’anthropologie marxiste en questions. Le retour contemporain énigmatique de l'esclavage dans une société segmentaire de la forêt du Cameroun. In F. Keck (Ed.), Repenser l’anthropologue aujourd’hui’ avec Emmanuel Terray (pp. 15-23). Parijs: Musée Quai Branly.
2012
- Geschiere, P. L., & Guadeloupe, F. (2012). Al dat gesjacher met die vluchtelingen. NRC Handelsblad.
2009
- Geschiere, P. (2009). Autochtonie, cultuur en geschiedenis: het glibberige pad van de identiteit. De Gids, 2009(dec), 901-911. [details]
- Geschiere, P. (2009). Het autochtone gevaar. De Groene Amsterdammer, 18-21.
2008
- Geschiere, P. (2008). Westerse ondeugd schandvlek voor de samenleving. De Gay-krant, 594, 28-31.
Prize / grant
- Geschiere, P. L. (2004). "scholar of the day".
- Geschiere, P. L. (2002). Distinguished Africanist of the Year Award.
Membership / relevant position
- Geschiere, P. L. (2014). Visiting professor course on ‘Cultural dynamics in Africa', HEM School of Management, Rabat, Marocco.
- Geschiere, P. L. (2014). Visiting professor for Course on ‘Autochthony and Modernity’ for Pre-dissertation Fieldwork Program, Social Research Council (New York).
- Geschiere, P. L. (2008). Member Steering Committee, NWO Programme "Cultural Dynamic".
- Geschiere, P. L. (2007). co-editor of the journal ETHNOGRAPHY, Sage Publishers.
- Geschiere, P. L. (1995-2011). Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
Media appearance
- Geschiere, P. (28-09-2022). Peter Geschiere. Livre 6. Franc-maçonnerie, homophobie et enrichissement en Afrique, saisir les imaginaires postcoloniaux [Web] Revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (series: Les Possédés et leurs mondes). Peter Geschiere. Livre 6. Franc-maçonnerie, homophobie et enrichissement en Afrique, saisir les imaginaires postcoloniaux. https://www.anthropologie-societes.ant.ulaval.ca/videos/peter-geschiere-livre-6-franc-maconnerie-homophobie-et-enrichissement-en-afrique-saisir
- Geschiere, P. (27-06-2022). Peter Geschiere. Livre 5. L’autochtonie au Cameroun et ailleurs en Afrique, un sujet qui m'est venu du terrain [Web] Revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (series: Les Possédés et leurs mondes). Peter Geschiere. Livre 5. L’autochtonie au Cameroun et ailleurs en Afrique, un sujet qui m'est venu du terrain. https://www.anthropologie-societes.ant.ulaval.ca/videos/peter-geschiere-livre-5-lautochtonie-au-cameroun-et-ailleurs-en-afrique-un-sujet-qui
- Geschiere, P. (23-05-2022). Peter Geschiere. Livre 4. L’analyse de la sorcellerie au Cameroun [Web] Revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (series: Les Possédés et leurs mondes). Peter Geschiere. Livre 4. L’analyse de la sorcellerie au Cameroun. https://www.anthropologie-societes.ant.ulaval.ca/videos/peter-geschiere-livre-4-lanalyse-de-la-sorcellerie-au-cameroun
- Geschiere, P. (06-04-2022). Peter Geschiere. Livre 3. L’étude d’un village au Cameroun dans un contexte plus large et quelques sources d'inspiration [Web] Revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (series: Les Possédés et leurs mondes). Peter Geschiere. Livre 3. L’étude d’un village au Cameroun dans un contexte plus large et quelques sources d'inspiration. https://www.anthropologie-societes.ant.ulaval.ca/videos/peter-geschiere-livre-3-letude-dun-village-au-cameroun-dans-un-contexte-plus-large-et
- Geschiere, P. (11-03-2022). Peter Geschiere. Livre 2. Mon passage de l’histoire à l’anthropologie et mon premier terrain en Tunisie et au Cameroun [Web] Revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (series: Les Possédés et leurs mondes). Peter Geschiere. Livre 2. Mon passage de l’histoire à l’anthropologie et mon premier terrain en Tunisie et au Cameroun. https://www.anthropologie-societes.ant.ulaval.ca/videos/peter-geschiere-livre-2-mon-passage-de-lhistoire-lanthropologie-et-mon-premier-terrain-en
- Geschiere, P. (16-02-2022). Peter Geschiere. Livre 1. Mon opinion sur l’anthropologie contemporaine et celle du passé, et ma propre trajectoire [Web] Revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (series: Les Possédés et leurs mondes). Peter Geschiere. Livre 1. Mon opinion sur l’anthropologie contemporaine et celle du passé, et ma propre trajectoire. https://www.anthropologie-societes.ant.ulaval.ca/videos/peter-geschiere-livre-1-mon-opinion-sur-lanthropologie-contemporaine-et-celle-du-passe-et
- Geschiere, P. L. (25-02-2014). Koloniaal verleden ligt ten grondslag aan homowetten Afrika [Radio] Radio 1. Koloniaal verleden ligt ten grondslag aan homowetten Afrika.
Journal editor
- Geschiere, P. L. (member of editorial board) (2018-2019). Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (Journal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (member of editorial board) (2010-2021). African Studies Review (Journal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (member of editorial board) (2010-2024). Africa (Journal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (editor) (2009-2011). Critique of Anthropology (Journal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (member of editorial board) (2008-2018). Africa (Journal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (editor) (2008). Critique of Anthropology (Journal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (editor) (2007). Critique of Anthropology (Journal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (editor), Goheen, M. (editor) & Piot, G. (editor) (2007). African Studies Review (Journal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (editor) & Willis, P. (editor) (2007-2021). Ethnography (Journal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (member of editorial board) (2002-2021). Afrika Spectrum (Journal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (member of editorial board) (1985-2024). Politique Africaine (Journal).
Talk / presentation
- Geschiere, P. (keynote speaker) (27-6-2019). Langages scientifiques et réalités africaines – La « sorcellerie » comme membrane épistémologique, Université de Libreville.
- Geschiere, P. (keynote speaker) (7-5-2019). Witchcraft and Capitalism, Università La Sapienza.
- Geschiere, P. (keynote speaker) (1-5-2019). Productive Friction – History and Anthropology on “Witchcraft”, Durham University, History Department.
- Geschiere, P. (keynote speaker) (17-4-2019). The Secular State in Africa and Its Challenges - ‘Witchcraft’, Pentecostalism, Freemasonry., African Studies Center, University of Harvard.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (24-4-2018). Feitiçaria, Intimidade e Confiança’ (Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust), Kaleidoscopio, Maputo.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (18-4-2018). The Witchcraft of the House Going Global – New Articulation of Suspicion in the Contemporary, WISER, University of the Witwatersrand.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (28-2-2018). The Witchcraft of the Houses is Going Global – How to Deal with the Dynamics of Witchcraft Discourses and Practices, Centre for Basic Research, Kampala.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (19-2-2018). African Chiefs and the Post-Cold War Moment: Millennial Capitalism and the Struggle over Moral Authority, University of Witwatersrand.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (1-5-2017). The Hybridity of “Witchcraft”: Field-work experiences in Cameroon in comparative perspective, Museum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (24-4-2017). Commodification, Accumulation and Composition -The Rubberboom in German Kamerun, Universität Leipzig.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (21-4-2017). Franc-Maçonnerie, Sorcellerie et Homosexualité – Comment comprendre l’explosion récente de la homophobie au Cameroun?, University of Louvain la Neuve.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (31-3-2017). Croire ou ne pas croire à la sorcellerie?, Institue of Graduate Studies, Maison de la Paix, Geneva.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (16-2-2017). Le souverain moderne, sylte camerounais – La franc-maçonnerie et ses articulation vec les discours locaux de l’occult, Université Omar Bongo, dept. de sociologie.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (1-12-2016). Tempting Transgressions – Same-Sex Practices as a Challenge to African Studies, African Studies Review Distinguished Lecture, Washington DC.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (24-11-2016). Museums, Citizenship and Belonging, Museum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (22-7-2016). Capitalism and Witchcraft, Deutsche Afrikanistenverein.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (29-6-2016). Witchcraft, Freemasonry and Homosexuality – Postcolonial Obsessions in Cameroon (and Elsewhere), WISER, University of the Witwatersrand.
- Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (15-6-2016). Face à la sorcellerie, L’État et les institutions face à la sorcellerie dans l’Afrique conbtemporaine, Paris.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (2016). Witchcraft and the Dangers of Intimacy: Africa and Europe, Witchcraft and Emotions, Berlin.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (2016). Witchcraft, Homosexuality and Freemasonry – Popular Imaginaries of Affliction, Healing and Medecine, Point Sud, Stellenbosch.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (2016). Witchcraft and Practices of Trust in Family, Work and Migration, Point Sud, Bamako.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (2016). The Historicity of Witchcraft Narratives – Examples from the Forest Region of South Cameroon, Narrating Witchcraft – Agency, Discourse and Power, Erfurt.
- Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (15-10-2015). Ethnicity: pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial - Africa in comparison, Conference on ethnivity in pre-colonial societies, Keulen.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (22-9-2015). Autochthony and black citizenship, Workshop on ‘Black Citizenship - The Politics of Cultural Heritage Formation in South Africa and the Netherlands, Universiteit Utrecht.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (16-7-2015). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Issue of Epistemology, University of Rostock, Rostock.
- Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (19-6-2015). Sorcellerie, intimité et crise de la présence - souffrances chez les Maka (Cameroun), Conférence il rovescio della immigrazione, Turijn.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (8-4-2015). (Homo)Sexuality and Freemasonry - Cameroonian Constructs of Homophobia, University of Uppsala, Uppsala.
- Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (6-2-2015). Genre et citoyenneté, REASOPO, CERI, Parijs.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (9-12-2014). Eric de Rosny et les dangers de la nuit, Lecture at Conference to the memory of Eric de Rosny, Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaounde, Cameroon.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (3-12-2014). The Return of Chieftaincy - Africa since the Post-Cold War Moment, Lecture at University of Buea, Cameroon.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (23-10-2014). Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion, Lecture at University of Helsinki, Helsinki.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (21-10-2014). Changing mobilities, Shifting Futures, Lecture at African Studies Association, Indianapolis.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (3-10-2014). Presentation "Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison", at University of Tromso, Tromso (Norway).
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (23-9-2014). Presentation "Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison", at Emory University, Atlanta.
- Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (25-4-2014). The Return of Chieftaincy in Africa, keynote, conference on chieftaincy, African Studies Center, Harvard, Cambridge.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (27-3-2014). Presentation "Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison", at University of Oslo, Oslo.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (25-3-2014). Emanuel Terray et la relevance d’une anthropologie marxiste aujourd’hui, at Musée Quai Branly, Paris.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (21-3-2014). Homophobic Africa ? Towards a more nuanced approach., African Studies Center, Leiden.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (14-3-2014). Presentation "Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison", at Universiteit Groningen, Groningen.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (6-3-2014). Presentation "Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison", at Université Mohamed VI, Rabat.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (21-1-2014). Presentation "Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison", at University of Bayreuth, Anthropology Dep., Bayreuth.
- Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (17-1-2014). African Futures, keynote Program African Futures, Univ. of Bayreuth, Bayreuth.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (12-12-2013). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Presentation, Université de Bordeaux, LAM, Bordeaux.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (4-12-2013). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Presentation, Universiy of Aarhus, Aarhus.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (19-11-2013). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Presentation, At Oxford, Ohio, Oxford.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (19-11-2013). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Presentation, University of Miami, Miami.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (9-10-2013). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Presentation, SOAS, London, dept. of anthropology, London.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (5-6-2013). Witchcraft and Entrepreneurship, TOTAL company, annual conference on Africa, St. Tropez.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (29-5-2013). Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion, University of Thessalia, Volos.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (7-5-2013). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Presentation, Max Plancke Institute, Gottingen.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (20-3-2013). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Presentation, Univ of Edinburgh, African Studies Center, Edinburgh.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (4-3-2013). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Presentation, Northwestern University, African Studies Center.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (25-1-2013). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Presentation, Univ. of Wisconsin Department of Anthropology, Madison.
- Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (2013). Lord Lugard and the Ambiguities of Belonging : From Indirect Rule to Present-day Issues of Autochthony’, Lugard Lecture 2007. http://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/lugard.html
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (29-11-2012). Gay Identities and Homophobic Reactions in Cameroon, paper for panel on ‘Commoditizing Identities – Recent Cameroonian Trajectories’ at annual conference African Studies Association (USA), Philadelphia.
- Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (22-10-2012). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust - Africa in Comparison, keynote for Ph.D. conference, dept. of anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (19-10-2012). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust, paper for staff-seminar, University of St. Andrews, dept. of anthropology, Edinburgh.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (11-9-2012). New Forms of Migration: Bush-falling as Role-Model in Cameroon, presentation for workshop on Migration, Citizenship and Belonging, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Accra.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (18-5-2012). Witchcraft: The Dangers of Intimacy and the Struggle over Trust, Paper for workshop ‘The Entangled Tensions of Intimacy, Trust and the Social.’ University of Bergen (Norway), dept. of anthropology, Bergen (Norway).
- Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (4-5-2012). Homophobia and Citizenship in Cameroon and Elsewhere in Africa, Keynote address: for conference on Culture, Citizenship and Belonging, Universiteit van de Nederlandse Antillen, Willemstad.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (8-12-2011). Sorcellerie, intimité et confiance - perspectives africaines, Invited lecture for dept. of anthropology, Univ. de Louvain--la-neuve, Louvain-la neuve.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (14-11-2011). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust - Africa and Europe, Invited lecture dept. of anthropology Yale University, New Haven.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (17-10-2011). Belonging, Heritage and the Denial of History in an African Society, invited lecture for conference Patrimonio e historia: a passado como forma sensational, UFBA, Salvador de Bahia.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (3-10-2011). Autochtonie, citoyennete et exclusion. Enjeux d'appartenance en Afrique et en Europe., invited lecture ofr seminar of Institut des Htes Etudes de Belgique / Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles.
- Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (13-7-2011). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust - Africa in Comparison, Invited lecture of Johannesburg Workshop in Critical Theory, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (17-5-2011). Autochthony and New Modeas of Exclusion - The Relevance of Post-colonial Studies, Invited lecture for Max Plancke Institut, Halle.
- Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (7-5-2011). African Urbanites and the Funeral in the Village: An Ultyimate Test of Belonging?, invited lecture for Conference on The Art of Citizienship in African Cities, New York, Columbia University.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (5-5-2011). New Patterns in the Politics of Belonging in Africa and Europe - Autochthony and Its Ambiguities, Keynote for Conference on Locality and Transnational Processes, Bielefeld.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (3-2-2011). Sorcellerie et intimité - Perspectives comparatives, annual conference REASOPO / C ERI, Paris.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (14-1-2011). Reflexions on an African anthropology, Opening of Catholic University of Bamenda, Bamenda (Cameroon).
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (24-11-2009). The Politics of Belonging: Cizenship, Autochthony and Exclusion, Keynote speech for social science seminar at the World Bank, Washington.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (7-10-2009). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison, paper presented at staff seminars anthropology at University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) & Guadeloupe, F. E. (speaker) (16-6-2009). The Religion of the Urban Cool: Kut Marokkanen, Sapeurs and Bushfallers, paper presented at conference on Youth and Citizenship in Africa, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (7-5-2009). Witchcraft and the Law: Cameroon and SAfrica, paper presented for staff seminar anthropology, University of Bergen, Bergen.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (19-3-2009). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison, paper presented at staff seminars anthropology at Brunel University, London.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (6-3-2009). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison, paper presented at staff seminars anthropology at University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (19-2-2009). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison, paper presented at staff seminars anthropology at Oxford University, Oxford.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (11-7-2008). Lord Lugard Lecture, Lord Lugard and the Colonial Paradox, Indirect Rule and Autochtony, Leiden, IAI/AEGIS.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (25-10-2007). The Perils of Belonging- Autochtony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe, PASSIM, Berlin, Humboldt universitat.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (19-10-2006). Witchcraft in Africa and Brasil, keynote for conferentie Witchcraft in Africa and Brasil, Center for African Studies, Federal University of Bahia, S. Salvador.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (12-5-2006). Witchcraft and the State, New Developments in Cameroon, Staff seminar Anthropoly, Londond School of Economics, London.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (24-4-2006). Witchcraft and the Limits of the Law, Examples from Cameroon and South Africa, Staff seminar anthropology, University of Stanford, Palo Alto.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (18-4-2006). Autochthony, Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging in Present-day Africa and Europe, Lezing voor anthropology, New School, New York.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (15-12-2005). ‘Von Gravenreuth and Buea as a Site of History - Early Colonial Violence on Mount Cameroon’, University of Basel, Center for African Studies, Basel.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (19-11-2005). ‘Marginal Gains and Ethnic Contrasts in South Cameroon’, Annual Conference African Studies Association, Washington.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (3-11-2005). ‘Autochtonen, Burgers en Vreemdelingen - Kwesties van In- en Uitsluiting’, key note speech Congres van ABv (Antropologische Beroepsvereniging), Arnhem.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (17-10-2005). ‘Witchcraft and Modernity - Dialectics of Faith and Rationality.', Summerschool WISER, Univ. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (8-8-2005). ‘Autochthony and Citizenship: New Modes in the Politics of Belonging in Africa and Europe’, key note speech Conferentie van Pan African Association of Anthropology, Yaounde.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (14-7-2005). ‘Globalization and Belonging: Dialectics of Flow and Closure’, University of Frankfurt, dept. of anthropology, Frankfurt.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (2-4-2005). ‘Autochthony and Its Confusing Genealogies in Africa’, SSRC Conference on ‘Citizenship and Belonging.’, Gorée (Senegal).
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (18-3-2005). ‘Witchcraft and the Limits of the Law: Cameroon and South Africa.', key note speech Conferentie ‘Justice et Sorcellerie’, Université Catholique d’Afrique Centrale, Yaounde.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (8-12-2004). "Hekserijprocessen in Kameroen.", "Tweespraakcyclus", Universiteit van Antwerpen, Antwerpen.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (8-12-2004). "The Modernity of Witchcraft - Examples from Africa and Elsewhere", Lecture at Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsvraagstukken, Universiteit van Antwerpen, Antwerpen.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (2-12-2004). "Anthropology and Cannibalism - The Imaginary of the Wild Rubber-boom in SE Cameroon (1900-1913)., Lecture at African Studies Center, University of Oxford, Oxford.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (12-11-2004). "The Future of Citizenship in Africa - Democratization, Decentralization and New Struggles over Belonging.", Lecture for Research programme for Social Sciencesd Research Council, New York.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (28-9-2004). "Community in Development Policies - The Pittfalls of a Notion", Lecture for FASAPO / Caisse de Coöperation, Paris.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (29-3-2004). "Rubber and Cannibalism - The Germans, The Maka and the Wild Rubberboom in Cameroon (1900-1913)., Lecture at African Studie Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) & Pels, P. J. (speaker) (2001). Summerschool Genealogies of Modernity, Conference in Amsterdam.
- Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) & Coheen, M. (speaker) (2001). Citizenship, Belonging and the Production of Locality, the Annual Conference of African Studies Association, Houston.
Others
- Geschiere, P. (participant) (20-7-2023 - 29-7-2023). Magic and Witchcraft: History, Interdisciplinarity, Global Perspectives, Budapest. Lecturer (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. (visiting researcher) (1-6-2023 - 30-6-2023). EHESS, Paris (EIT Arts et Intelligences du Silence) (visiting an external institution).
- Geschiere, P. (organiser) & Andrikopoulos, A. (organiser) (2019). Panel for American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference: Transnational Mobility and the Dynamics of Kinship, Vancouver (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. (organiser), Spronk, R. (organiser) & Hendriks, T. (organiser) (2019). Panel at European Congress in African Studies (ECAS), Edinburgh (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Besnier, N. (organiser) & Geschiere, P. L. (organiser) (19-12-2018). KNAW Symposium "Global Sports, Masculinity and Exploitation: Views from Africa", Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (organiser), Hendriks, T. (organiser) & Spronk, R. (organiser) (20-3-2017 - 22-3-2017). Dissident Desires, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Hekma, G. (organiser) & Geschiere, P. L. (organiser) (4-8-2016 - 5-8-2016). Conferentie ‘Proud in Europe?’, Amsterdam. 3 panels on LGBT+ Refugees, Immigration Officers and the Gay Community (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (organiser) & Hendriks, T. (organiser) (2016). African Studies Association, Washington DC. double panel on ‘Power and transgression – Queering Notions of Asexuality and Dissidence’ (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (organiser) & Pratten, D. (organiser) (19-11-2015 - 22-11-2015). Conference of African studies association, San Diego. Double round-table: Post-cold war, post-nation state? (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (organiser), Hendriks, T. (organiser) & Spronk, R. (organiser) (8-7-2015). European congress of African studies, Parijs. Dissident genders and sexualities: comparative and theoretical perspectives from Africa (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) (7-11-2013). Organizer Panel for Arjun Appadurai, honorate doctorate, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) (28-6-2013). Organizer Panel for ECAS2013: Une anthropologie entre pouvoirs et histoire - Conversations autour de l’œuvre de Jean-Pierre Chauveau’, Lisbon (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) (31-1-2013). Organizer Panel for REASOPO / CERI: ’In Memory of Eric de Rosny’, Paris (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant), Malaquais, D. (participant) & Goheen, M. (participant) (29-11-2012 - 1-12-2012). for annual conference African Studies Association, Philadelphia. Commoditizing Identities - Recent Cameroonian Trajctories (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) & Jandoh, M. G. (participant) (1-9-2012 - 2-9-2012). Outreach conference of NWO Cultural Dynamics programme on Culturalization of Citizenship in collaboration with Institue of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Migration, Citizenship and Belonging - African Caribbean and European Perspectives (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) & Allen, R. (participant) (2-5-2012 - 3-5-2012). Outreach conference of NWO Cultural Dynamics programme on Culturalization of Citizenship in collaboration with Universiteit van de Nederlandse Antillen, Curaçao. Culture, Citizenship and Belonging (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) & Akan, M. (participant) (8-3-2012 - 9-3-2012). Outreach conference of NWO Cultural Dynamics programme on Culturalization of Citizenship in collaboration with Boghazici University, Istanbul. Citizenship, Democracy and Diversity: Comparison (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) & Akan, M. (participant) (2-3-2012 - 4-3-2012). panel for annual Mediterranean Research Meeting, Montecatini. Contextualizing Multiculturalism (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Verkaaik, O. G. A. (participant) & Geschiere, P. (participant) (1-11-2007 - 2-11-2007). Panel voor Antropologische Beroepsvereniging, Arnhem. Autochtonie en inburgering (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (other) (2007). Organisatie NWO programma Culturele Dynamiek, NWO (other).
- Geschiere, P. L. (other) (2007). Organisatie conferentie panels voor AEGIS, AEGIS (other).
- Geschiere, P. L. (other) (2007). visiting professor at Humboldt University, Humboldt University (other).
- Geschiere, P. L. (other) (2007). organisator conferentie panel voor African Studies Association, African Studies Association (other).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) (19-11-2005). Annual Conference of African Studies Association, Washington. organiser of a double panel ‘Author Meets Critics: Jane Guyer’s Marginal Gains.’ (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) (20-8-2005). International Conference of Asian Studies, Shang-hai. Panel on ‘Racism in the Postcolony - Comparative Perspectives’ (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) (11-11-2004 - 14-11-2004). panel for Social Science Research Council (New York) on "Citizenship and Belonging in Africa", at annual conference of African Studies Association, New Orleans. Citizenship and Belonging in Africa (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (participant) (7-10-2004 - 10-10-2004). ASSR summerschool with WISER (Johannesburg), Amsterdam. "Redefining Citizienship and Access to the Public Sphere: Recent African Developments in Historical and Comparative Perspective" (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Geschiere, P. L. (other) (2003 - 2011). Chair of award jury Prince Claus Award, Prince Claus Foundation (other).
2024
- Miller, P. S. (2024). In the shadows of respectability: Gendered trajectories of marital dissidence amongst Dakarois professionals. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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- Thesis (complete) (embargo until 07 June 2026)
- Front matter
- Bibliography; Summary; Samenvatting; Acknowledgements
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2021
- Oestermann, T. (2021). Kautschuk und Arbeit in Kamerun – Soziale Mobilität, Zwang und Militanz unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. [Thesis, fully external, Humboldt Univeristät zu Berlin].
2019
2018
- Kovac, U. (2018). The precarity of masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and transnational aspirations in Cameroon. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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- Thesis (complete)
- Front matter
- Chapter one: Introduction: Precarity, spirituality, and moral masculinities
- Chapter two: Cameroon and the Southwest Region: Football between politics, economy, spirituality, and transnational markets
- Chapter three: “This is a business, not a charity”: Political and moral economy of football
- Chapter four: Becoming useful and humble: Football, Pentecostalism, and moral masculinities
- Chapter five: Beyond rupture and continuity: Jars, Pentecostalism, and the spiritual world of football
- Chapter six: Athletes and spiritual wives: Football, Pentecostalism, and the body
- Chapter seven: Conclusion: Masculinities, faith, and the production of aspiration
- References; Summary; Samenvatting
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2017
- Andrikopoulos, A. (2017). Argonauts of West Africa: Migration, citizenship and kinship dynamics in a changing Europe. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
- Downloads
- Thesis (complete) (embargo until 19 December 2026)
- Front matter
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Kinship, citizenship and inequality
- Chapter 2: The citizen as a person and the persona of the citizen: Unauthorized identity craft in the age of involuntary immobility (embargo until 19 December 2026)
- Chapter 3: “Working with my sister’s papers”: Identity loan, kinship and the perils of intersubjective participation (embargo until 19 December 2026)
- Chapter 4: Divorcing siblings? Marriage and Dutch citizenship in transatlantic kinship (embargo until 19 December 2026)
- Chapter 5: EU citizenship and the European family: Inequality and subversion in the marriages of African men to women from Europe’s periphery (embargo until 19 December 2026)
- Conclusion: Civic inequality and new dynamics of kinship (embargo until 19 December 2026)
- Back matter
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2015
- van Stapele, N. (2015). Respectable 'illegality': Gangs, masculinities and belonging in a Nairobi ghetto. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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- Thesis (complete)
- Front matter
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Mapping people, places and power in Bondeni, a neighbourhood in the Nairobi ghetto Mathare
- Chapter 2: Joining a working gang: on locality, membership and work
- Chapter 3: Leaving the gang: masculinities, mind-sets and marriages
- Chapter 4: Showing success: the continuous struggle to leave the gang
- Chapter 5: 'We are the community!' Gangs and other social groups and authorities in Mathare
- Chapter 6: ‘Political violence’ in Mathare: on jealous neighbours and streetsmart visitors
- Conclusion
- Back matter
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2011
- Alpes, M. J. (2011). Bushfalling: How young Cameroonians dare to migrate. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
- van der Sijpt, E. (2011). Ambiguous ambitions: on pathways, projects, and pregnancy interruptions in Cameroon. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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- Thesis
- Front cover
- Title pages
- Table of contents
- Figures / Photos
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1: Asung, aires de santé, and ambiguity: on local terrains and their tensions
- 2: Eating bananas and filling with force: on pregnancy development and management
- 3: Old bodies and greedy panthers: on village ethics of production and reproduction
- 4: Big fish and foetal bargains: on urban horizons and fertility bets
- 5: Hanging underwear and falling mangoes: on idioms of distress, destiny, and decision-making
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendices
- Summary
- Samenvatting
- Notes
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2008
- de Witte, M. (2008). Spirit media : charismatics, traditionalists, and mediation practices in Ghana. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
- Downloads
- Thesis
- Cover
- Titlepage
- Contents
- List of images
- Acknowledgments
- Part one: Getting in touch. Introduction
- Chapter 1: Religion on Air: changing politics of representation
- Part two: The International Central Gospel Church. Chapter 2: Mensa Otabil: marketing charisma, making religious celebrity
- Chapter 3: Christ Temple: Holy Spirit discipline and the born-again subject
- Chapter 4: Living Word: formatting charisma and the televisual body
- part three: The Afrikania Mission. Chapter 5: Afrikania Mission: ‘Afrikan Traditional Religion’ in public
- Chapter 6: Publics and Priests: dilemmas of mediation and representation
- Chapter 7: Defending Tradition: Afrikania’s voice in public debates
- Chapter 8: Media Afrikania: styles and strategies of representation
- Conclusion: Making sense
- Chronology
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Nederlandse samenvatting
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2007
- Reid, G. C. (2007). How to be a 'real' gay : emerging gay spaces in small-town South Africa. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
2006
- Beuving, J. J. (2006). Cotonou's Klondike : a sociological analysis of entrepreneurship in the Euro-West African second-hand car trade. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
- Guadeloupe, F. E. (2006). Chanting down the New Jerusalem : the politics of belonging in Saint Martin & Sint Maarten. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. Rozenberg. [details]
- Ndjio, B. (2006). Feymania : new wealth, magic money and power in contemporary Cameroon. [details]
- Spronk, R. (2006). Ambiguous pleasures : sexuality and new self-definitions in Nairobi. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
2005
- Mouiche, I. (2005). Autorités traditionnelles et démocratisation au Cameroun.
2004
- Havik, P. (2004). Silences and Soundbytes - The Gendered Dynamics of Trade and Brokerage in the Pre-colonial Guinea Bissau Region.
2003
- Spierenburg, M. (2003). Strangers, Spirits and Land Reforms: Conflicts about Land in Dande, Northern Zimbabwe. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
2002
- Janson, M. (2002). "The Best Hand is the Hand that Gives" `Griottes? in Gambia. [details]
- Socpa:, A. (2002). "Democratisation et autochtonie au Cameroun. Trajectoires regionales divergentes".
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Geschiere, P. (2021). Dazzled by New Media: Mbembe, Tonda, and the Mystic Virtual. African Studies Review, 64(1), 71-85.