Journal of Eastern African Studies

2007 - 2024

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Volume 12, issue 4, 2018

Post-imperial statecraft: high modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia’s pastoral frontier pp. 613-631

Asebe Regassa and Benedikt Korf

Power, production, and land use in German East Africa through the photographs of Walther Dobbertin, c. 1910 pp. 632-654

Chris Conte

Forest imageries and political practice in colonial coastal Kenya pp. 655-673

David Bresnahan

Ethiopian church forests: a socio-religious conservation model under change pp. 674-695

Izabela Orlowska and Peter Klepeis

‘National resources’? The fragmented citizenship of gas extraction in Tanzania pp. 696-715

Robert Ahearne and John Childs

Regional derailment: the saga of the East African Railways pp. 716-734

Patrick Y. Whang

Before the Bright Star: football in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan pp. 735-753

Christopher Tounsel

The murder of Wilbert Klerruu: collective agriculture on trial in Tanzania pp. 754-771

Michael F. Lofchie

Volume 12, issue 3, 2018

“No war, no peace” in a region in flux: crisis, escalation, and possibility in the Eritrea-Ethiopia rivalry pp. 407-427

Michael Woldemariam

“One People, One Struggle”: Anya-Nya propaganda and the Israeli Mossad in Southern Sudan, 1969–1971 pp. 428-453

Yotam Gidron

Sudan and the assassination attempt on President Mubarak in June 1995: a cornerstone in ideological reverse pp. 454-472

Mohammed Hussain Sharfi

Maasai group ranches, minority land owners, and the political landscape of Laikipia County, Kenya pp. 473-493

Graham R. Fox

“Ambiguous citizens”: Kenyan Somalis and the question of belonging pp. 494-513

Tabea Scharrer

Understanding Rwandan politics through the longue durée: from the precolonial to the post-genocide era pp. 514-532

Filip Reyntjens

Mobile phones in the transformation of the informal economy: stories from market women in Kampala, Uganda pp. 533-551

Caroline Wamala Larsson and Jakob Svensson

Aid, trade and the post-war recovery of the Rwandan coffee sector pp. 552-574

Andrea Guariso and Marijke Verpoorten

Contested ‘respectability’: gender and labour in the life stories of Tanzanian women and men in the hospitality industry pp. 575-593

Gundula Fischer

Identifying the most deprived in rural Ethiopia and Uganda: a simple measure of socio-economic deprivation pp. 594-612

John Sender, Christopher Cramer and Carlos Oya

Volume 12, issue 2, 2018

African cities and violent conflict: the urban dimension of conflict and post conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa pp. 193-210

Karen Büscher

Wartime speculation: property markets and institutional change in eastern Congo's urban centers pp. 211-231

David Peyton

Urbanizing Kitchanga: spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo pp. 232-253

Gillian Mathys and Karen Büscher

Agency, social space and conflict-urbanism in eastern Congo pp. 254-273

Silke Oldenburg

The politics of everyday policing in Goma: the case of the Anti-gang pp. 274-289

Maarten Hendriks

Autochthony and insecure land tenure: the spatiality of ethnicized hybridity in the periphery of post-conflict Bukavu, DRC pp. 290-309

Fons van Overbeek and Peter A. Tamás

From rural rebellion to urban uprising? A socio-spatial perspective on Bujumbura's conflict history pp. 310-328

Tomas Van Acker

Small towns and rural growth centers as strategic spaces of control in Rwanda’s post-conflict trajectory pp. 329-347

Ine Cottyn

Humanitarian urbanism in a post-conflict aid town: aid agencies and urbanization in Gulu, Northern Uganda pp. 348-366

Karen Büscher, Sophie Komujuni and Ivan Ashaba

Planning amidst precarity: utopian imaginings in South Sudan pp. 367-385

Naseem Badiey and Christian Doll

Hybrid security governance, post-election violence and the legitimacy of community-based armed groups in urban Kenya pp. 386-404

Moritz Schuberth

Corrigendum pp. 405-405

The Editors

Volume 12, issue 1, 2018

Power, contested institutions and land: repoliticising analysis of natural resources and conflict in Darfur pp. 1-21

Brendan Bromwich

Change and continuity in Burundian divinatory healing pp. 22-43

Peter Ventevogel, Jérémie Niyonkuru, Aline Ndayisaba, Ria Reis and Joop T.V.M. de Jong

Age and gender voting trends in the 2015 Tanzanian general election pp. 44-62

Robert Macdonald

“Umoja ni ushindi (Unity is victory)”: management of factionalism in the presidential nomination of Tanzania's dominant party in 2015 pp. 63-82

Machiko Tsubura

Talking ‘land grabs’ is talking politics: land as politicised rhetoric during Tanzania’s 2015 elections pp. 83-101

Sina Schlimmer

The unintended consequences of foreign military assistance in Africa: an analysis of peacekeeping training in Kenya pp. 102-119

Marco Jowell

The Burundian army’s trajectory to professionalization and depoliticization, and back again pp. 120-135

Nina Wilén, Gérard Birantamije and David Ambrosetti

An uncertain future: South Africa’s national defence force caught between foreign-policy ambitions and domestic development pp. 136-153

Thomas Mandrup

Rwanda’s military as a people’s army: heroes at home and abroad pp. 154-171

Josefine Kuehnel and Nina Wilén

Joining AMISOM: why six African states contributed troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia pp. 172-192

Paul D. Williams

Volume 11, issue 4, 2017

Marx in campus: print cultures, nationalism and student activism in the late 1970s Kenya pp. 571-589

Duncan Omanga and Kipkosgei Arap Buigutt

Dirty things: spiritual pollution and life after the Lord’s Resistance Army pp. 590-608

Letha Victor and Holly Porter

Shifting trajectories of inter-ethnic relations in Western Ethiopia: a case study from Gidda and Kiremu districts in East Wollega pp. 609-627

Zelalem Teferra

“In the interests of justice?” The International Criminal Court, peace talks and the failed quest for war crimes accountability in northern Uganda pp. 628-648

Anna Macdonald

The ghost in the news room: the legacy of Kenya’s 2007 post-election violence and the constraints on journalists covering Kenya’s 2013 General Election pp. 649-669

Lisa Weighton and Patrick McCurdy

The vulnerability and resilience of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in Tanzania pp. 670-691

Jennifer J. West and Ruth Haug

New institutional formation in the intersection of Tanzanian decentralization and HIV/AIDS interventions pp. 692-713

Catherine A. Long

From protection to repression: the politics of street vending in Kampala pp. 714-733

Graeme Young

Resisting resettlement in Rwanda: rethinking dichotomies of “survival”/“resistance” and “dominance”/“subordination” pp. 734-750

Gumira Joseph Hahirwa, Camilla Orjuela and Stellan Vinthagen

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 11, issue 3, 2017

Implementing the Women, Peace and Security agenda? Somali debates on women’s public roles and political participation pp. 389-407

Cindy Horst

Land use plans in Tanzania: repertoires of domination or solutions to rising farmer–herder conflicts? pp. 408-424

William John Walwa

Developing the racial city: conflict, solidarity and urban traders in late-colonial Mombasa pp. 425-441

Devin Smart

Jomo Kenyatta and the repression of the ‘last’ Mau Mau leaders, 1961–1965 pp. 442-459

Anaïs Angelo

The Maasai age system and the Loonkidongi prophets pp. 460-481

Paul Spencer and Richard Waller

Nothing succeeds like success narratives: a case of conservation and development in the time of REDD pp. 482-505

Hanne Svarstad and Tor A. Benjaminsen

The bricolage of REDD+ in Zanzibar: from global environmental policy framework to community forest management pp. 506-525

Grete Benjaminsen

REDD+ as ‘inclusive’ neoliberal conservation: the case of Lindi, Tanzania pp. 526-548

Andreas Scheba and Suraya Scheba

When community forestry meets REDD+: has REDD+ helped address implementation barriers to participatory forest management in Tanzania? pp. 549-570

Tom Blomley, Karen Edwards, Stephano Kingazi, Kahana Lukumbuzya, Merja Mäkelä and Lauri Vesa

Volume 11, issue 2, 2017

Subject(s) to control: post-war return migration and state-building in 1970s South Sudan pp. 211-229

Nicki Kindersley

Border diplomacy and state-building in north-western Ethiopia, c. 1965–1977 pp. 230-248

Luca Puddu

Race, religion and resistance: revelations from the Juba archive pp. 249-265

Christopher Tounsel

Global and local forces in deindustrialization: the case of cotton cloth in East Africa’s Lower Shire Valley pp. 266-289

Katharine Frederick

‘Facing conservation’ or ‘conservation with a human face’? People–park interactions in southern Ethiopia pp. 290-309

Genaye Tsegaye, Stefaan Dondeyne, Mulugeta Lemenih, Abraham Marye, Jan Nyssen, Jozef A. Deckers and Miet Maertens

When ‘chemo is failing’ … ‘the illness is indigenous’. Therapeutic pluralism and reclaiming agency: family cancer caregivers’ experiences in Nairobi pp. 310-328

Jennifer Nyawira Githaiga

Dance performances in post-genocide Rwanda: remaking identity, reconnecting present and past pp. 329-346

Carine Plancke

Discussing community-based outreach activities by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda pp. 347-366

Philipp Schulz

Legitimising the Juba peace Agreement on Accountability and Reconciliation: the International Criminal Court as a third-party actor? pp. 367-387

Line Engbo Gissel

Volume 11, issue 1, 2017

Ten years of JEAS pp. 1-2

Michael Jennings, James Brennan, Richard Vokes and Jason Mosley

Beyond the artisanal mining site: migration, housing capital accumulation and indirect urbanization in East Africa pp. 3-23

Jesper Bosse Jønsson and Deborah Fahy Bryceson

(Re)making politics in a new urban Ethiopia: an empirical reading of the right to the city in Addis Ababa’s condominiums pp. 24-45

Sabine Planel and Marie Bridonneau

‘Buying a path’: rethinking resistance in Rwanda pp. 46-63

Will Rollason

Contesting the militarization of the places where they met: the landscapes of the western Nuer and Dinka (South Sudan) pp. 64-85

Naomi Pendle

‘Those who are not known, should be known by the country’: patriotic history and the politics of recognition in southern Zimbabwe pp. 86-114

Joseph Mujere, Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya and Joost Fontein

The spectacle of death: visibility and concealment at an unfinished memorial in South Sudan pp. 115-132

Zoe Cormack

Rebuilding the liberation war base: materiality and landscapes of violence in Northern Zimbabwe pp. 133-150

Edmore Chitukutuku

Exile biography and un-national history: the story of Kaufilwa Nepelilo pp. 151-165

Christian A. Williams

Loyalty and liberation: the political life of Zephaniah Moyo pp. 166-187

Jocelyn Alexander

The politics of the Luweero skulls: the making of memorial heritage and post-revolutionary state legitimacy over the Luweero mass graves in Uganda pp. 188-209

Pauline Bernard