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Policy Conferences

During MIASA’s main phase, the institute organizes three policy conferences in collaboration with GIGA and other partners. These conferences foster exchange between scholars and practitioners and address policy-relevant topics, such as sustainable economic transformation...

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Blogposts Fellows / Fellows & PIs Reflections / Knowledge Production / Slide / Sustainability Transformation

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African Worlds Have Been More-than-human Worlds avant la lettre: Relational Ontologies and the Decolonisation of Nature in Africa

Scholarship on the environmental history of Africa largely demonstrates that European colonial rule involved exercising power over nature. Moreover, as many scholars have suggested, power over nature was a key tool in colonial rule.1...

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African Cities / Blogposts Fellows / Fellows & PIs Reflections / Landownership / Slide

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“Ancestors’ Land Does No Longer Exist?” Negotiations of Belonging and Ownership in the Context of Urban Land Governance in Dakar (Senegal)

Land governance has been for many years one of the most burning political, economic, social and cultural issues across the African continent. This blogpost shares some reflections on the concepts of belonging and ownership...

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Conferences, Lectures, Roundtables / Early Career Workshops / Knowledge Production / Reports / Slide

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Re-Thinking the Academic Environment for Increasing Gender-Balance and Inclusion: Roundtable Report

PDF version of this report This roundtable on “Re-thinking the academic environment for increasing gender-balance and inclusion” was organised on 29 May 2024 as part of the seventh Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop,...

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Blogposts Fellows / Fellows & PIs Reflections / Landownership / Slide / Sustainability Transformation / Sustainable Governance

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What Does Mine Closure Mean? Some Insights from West Africa (Authors: Diana Ayeh and Tongnoma Zongo)

Owing to its mineral abundance, West Africa’s subsoil has increasingly attracted both large-scale investors and small-scale miners in recent decades. This situation has not only led to the mushrooming of new mining projects but...

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Conferences, Lectures, Roundtables / Reports / Slide / Sustainable Governance / Topics

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Midterm-Conference on Sustainable Governance in a Time of Global Flux: Issues, Concepts and Future Directions

The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA)’s Midterm Conference, held in September 2023 at the University of Ghana, was a critical dialogue on the theme: ‘Sustainable Governance in a Time of Global...