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L’IAI publie la revue de renommée établie Africa, la revue Journal of African Cultural Studies, la bibliographie annuelle Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation, la série International African Library, la série African Arguments et la série Urban Africa Book Series.
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NEWS
Bushmeat: Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa
Tickets, Wed 5 Apr 2023 at 18:00
Based on extensive interviews and a comprehensive review of secondary literature, Bushmeat
presents a startling account of one of the Anthropocene’s catastrophes in the making.
Join us as we launch this much-awaited launch and panel discussion with author Theodore Trefon
and special guests.
RSVP here
Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation - Volume 1 - November
2022
From the editorial by Terry A. Barringer: "This first issue contains a fine mixture of articles,
from senior scholars and practitioners who
have published with ARD in the past to young professionals just embarking on their careers. A number
are drawn from SCOLMA’s last annual conference, ‘Publishing, Collecting and Accessing
African-language Materials’, held online in June 2021. There is a particularly strong focus on
African languages and publishing, longstanding interests of the IAI. SCOLMA plans for annual
conferences are ongoing and we hope these will be a rich source of articles in years to come."
Go to issue >>
African Digital Research Repositories & Database of African
Publishers.
To gain a better sense of the existing institutional repository landscape in
Africa, the International African Institute (IAI) has collated and published on
its website a list of all known institutional repositories, which can be found at
internationalafricaninstitute.org/repositories.
You can also view the pamphlet
African
Arguments book series now published with Hurst
From 2021, the African Arguments book series is being published with Hurst. For further details, see
Hurst
Publishers.
Debating
ideas
Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing writing from
within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and
controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. Edited and
managed by the International African Institute. Host: SOAS
University of London. Sponsored by the World Peace Foundation. Go to
the Debating ideas
web page >>
NEW TITLES
Bushmeat.
Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa
Theodore Trefon
A detailed investigation of the environmental, social and economic consequences of wild meat
consumption in the Congo Basin.
In much of Central Africa, eating wildlife is seen as a normal, desirable and common-sense practice.
Almost all wild animals, from the largest mammals to the smallest invertebrates, are hunted, traded
and
consumed, providing vital income and nutrition for millions of people. But as demand for bushmeat
grows,
animal populations are being decimated, directly impacting biodiversity, local economies and public
health. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Bushmeat explores questions ranging from deforestation
and
conservation strategies to infectious diseases, urban street food and law enforcement. It explains
how
the popularity of wild meat consumption has spread from rural areas into major cities, fuelled by
rapid
urbanisation, poorly defined regulations, and developing trade networks-whether small-scale and
informal, or commercial and politically connected. While unsustainable hunting practices pose clear
problems for wildlife conservation, they also increase the risk of rural food insecurity and of new
infectious diseases emerging-as HIV, Ebola and Covid-19 have shown. But cultural attachment to wild
meat, and its dietary importance for many communities, make the ‘bushmeat crisis’ difficult to
solve.
Based on extensive interviews and a comprehensive review of secondary literature, Bushmeat presents
a
startling account of one of the Anthropocene’s catastrophes in the making.
Published for the International African Institute by Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 9781787388147, 256 pp, October 2022 9781787388147
Trade Makes States: Governing the Greater Somali Economy
Tobias Hagmann, Finn Stepputat
A detailed investigation of the links between state-building and commodity exchange across the
Somali-inhabited territories of East Africa. Trade Makes States highlights how trade and the
circulation
of goods are central to Somali societies, economies and politics. Drawing on multi-site research
from
across East Africa’s Somali-inhabited economic space–which includes areas of Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda
and
Ethiopia–this volume highlights the interconnection between trade and state-building after state
collapse. It scrutinises the ‘politics of circulation’ between competing public administrations,
which
seek to generate revenue and to control infrastructures along major trade corridors. The
contributors to
this volume draw attention to the ingenuities of transnational Somali markets, which often appear to
be
self-governed. Their dynamism and everyday administration by a host of actors provide important
insights
into contemporary state formation on the margins of global supply-chain capitalism.
Published for the International African Institute by Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 9781787387058, 312pp, June 2022
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