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A Socio-Historical Perspective on Organized Crime
The project investigated organized crime around the Atlantic seaboard from an unusual perspective – by tracing the migration of RussoPolish criminals to North and South America and to South Africa between 1881 (after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II) and 1914.
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Reframing the Black Atlantic
Phiri, Aretha. 2024. Reframing the Black Atlantic. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/978100347300
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Reframing the Black Atlantic
Phiri, Aretha. 2023. Reframing the Black Atlantic. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104898
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Alkebulan: The Return of the Leopard
Alkebulan: The Return of the Leopard is set in the formative phases of the African Federation made up of the continent and its diasporas – Caribbean Africa, European Africa, N.
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Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World
Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World. In African Philosophical and Literary Possibilitie...
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Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go
Phiri, Aretha. 2020. Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go. In James Hodapp (Ed....
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Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go
Phiri, Aretha. 2019. Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go. In Emilia Mar...
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Black Archives and Intellectual Histories
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories brings together a range of scholars from South Africa, the continent at large and the black diaspora whose work has transformed our thinking about black intellectual histories and archives.
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Small Ocean History
The Small Ocean Project explores how a historical focus on the intimate and ‘everyday’ lives of mobile subjects, within their simultaneously cosmopolitan and parochial worlds and intimate networks for transnational capital accumulation, can help us understand south-south globalization and its effects on Islam, capitalism and international regimes, around the turn of the 20th century.
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Garment of Destiny: Zanzibar to Oxford: A Surgeon’s Global Quest for Identity and the Ties that Bind
Daar, Abdallah. 2018. Garment of Destiny: Zanzibar to Oxford: A Surgeon’s Global Quest for Identity and the Ties that Bind. Barlow Book Publ...
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Mobility, Subjectivity and the Poetics of Space-making in the Western Indian Ocean Novels
Literary works by African writers of Asian descent construct the experiences of Asian communities in the western Indian Ocean (East Africa) as counter-narratives that seek to provide alternative and more nuanced accounts of Asian presence in the region.
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Rethinking Immigrant Integration in a Mass-Migration Era: Migrant Families in Comparative Perspective
In our era of mass migration, understanding migrant families’ efforts to forge and maintain meaningful social and civic ties is more important than ever.
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Migration Stories: The US Visa Lottery and Global Citizenship
A book about Togolese who apply for the US Diversity Visa lottery will be completed.
