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kasperhoffmann.bsky.social
Kasper Hoffmann
@kasperhoffmann.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University. Conducts research on nexus between armed conflict, resources and identity. DR Congo, Uganda and Myanmar.
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Myfanwy James @myfanwyvjames.bsky.social · 6h
Inspired by the fabulous work of @gillianmathys.bsky.social @kasperhoffmann.bsky.social @denistull.bsky.social @judithverweijen.bsky.social @rogermacginty.bsky.social and many others not on here
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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 17d
Well, this is reassuring. Light at the end of the tunnel?
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 18d
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

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When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
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Kristof Titeca @kristoftiteca.bsky.social · Sep 3
I've written about the difficulties challenges in the various #DRC peace initiatives, and the bleak outlook.
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La Hulotte @nicodm.bsky.social · Sep 3
🇨🇩 "The persistence of conflict in #DRC ’s eastern region isn’t due to a lack of peace initiatives. I argue that some initiatives suffer from flawed design, others from difficult implementation, and some from a combination of both."

💻 @kristoftiteca.bsky.social

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DRC’s latest peace deal is breaking down and it isn’t the first – what’s being done wrong
Sustained diplomacy is needed to make current peace efforts work more effectively in the DRC.
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Kasper Hoffmann @kasperhoffmann.bsky.social · Sep 4
🌍Proud to share our new article in Land Use Policy:
“Everyday Property-Making: Negotiating Land Rights, Precarity and Public Authority in Urban Congo”
📎 doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
#Property #Land #DRCongo #PublicAuthority #Precarity
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Redirecting
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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · Aug 13
AFP | One of Myanmar’s most conflict-ravaged states has witnessed a “dramatic rise in hunger” after United States aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Programme said Tuesday.
Rakhine State sees 'dramatic' hunger rise after aid cutbacks
One of Myanmar's most conflict-ravaged states has witnessed a "dramatic rise in hunger" after United States aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Progr...
www.frontiermyanmar.net
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Aug 8
So sad, Callon was such an important figure in STS. Who can forget those scallops? I met him once at the École des Mines, Bruno Latour introduced us, around 1990 - that was it. I wish I'd gotten to know him, too late now - yet the scallops and ANT live on
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Jérôme Denis @jrmdns.bsky.social · Aug 7
The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
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Kasper Hoffmann @kasperhoffmann.bsky.social · Jul 25
Thanks. This looks very relevant. It goes on top of the reading list.
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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · Jul 23
Funny piece. It's actually stunning how incompetent people can end up influencing African policy just because they cultivate proximity with decision-making circles. Paris has its Phams, too
The grift tank
In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, lobbyists, and frauds.
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Jul 21
And now the book is officially out!
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · May 20
My book Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu's Borderlands can now be pre-ordered with a 20% discount

www.cambridge.org/be/universit...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Jul 13
Fishing is an important food production system that's most vulnerable to climate change, and yet governments lack data to help fishers adapt.

To address that gap, the global research partnership CGIAR recently launched its Asia Digital Hub.
A new data hub helps small-scale fishers adapt to climate change
Roughly 40% of the global fish catch comes from small-scale fisheries. It’s one of the food production systems most vulnerable to climate change, and governments are lacking data to help fishers…
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Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social · Jun 27
My book Fractured Pasts @universitypress.cambridge.org was officially launched today. Grateful for everyone who attended, and thanks to everyone who contributed in big and small ways. You can order it here www.cambridge.org/core/books/f... and you can get a 20% discount at checkout using FPLKB2025.
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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · Jun 15
In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, produced in record time in Portuguese & English with chapters by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence.
www.cmi.no/publications...
Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change
As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, s...
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Denis Tull @denistull.bsky.social · May 26
This is your once in a life time chance to work with top scholars on a super important topic!
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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · May 26
🚨 Job alert 🚨Join @emorier.bsky.social, @vincentfoucher.bsky.social, @corinnajentzsch.com and me, and be part of a new exciting research project on jihadism in Africa. Two more positions will follow. Feel free to approach @emorier.bsky.social if you have questions. Please circulate widely
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Vincent Foucher @vincentfoucher.bsky.social · May 22
Very important, this. News do not show up naturally, they are allowed (or disallowed) by a variety of social processes. When it comes to violence in the Lake Chad Basin, there is good reason to suspect it is seriously underestimated even in the best data bases.
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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · May 22
Another mass murder perpetrated by the army in Mali. Here, ethnic targeting is demonstrated. (Also, a friend lost six of his close relatives in this massacre)
« Ils les ont tous égorgés un à un » : à Diafarabé, au Mali, chronique d’un massacre ordinaire
Le 12 mai, dans le centre du Mali, une trentaine de civils ont été arrêtés avant d’être sommairement exécutés, parce que peuls et soupçonnés de collusion avec les groupes jihadistes, témoignent leurs proches. Jeune Afrique a reconstitué, à partir de témoignages recueillis sur place, le déroulé de cette nouvelle tuerie.
www.jeuneafrique.com
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DVB English News @dvbenglish.bsky.social · May 20
Aung Naing Soe, a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Burma living and working in exile, joined the DVB Newsroom to discuss the new book he co-authored with Joe Freeman called Frontline Poets: The literary rebels taking on Myanmar’s military.
Read more: english.dvb.no/resistance-a...
Aung Naing Soe, the co-author of Frontline Poets: The literary rebels taking on Myanmar’s military, joined the DVB Newsroom on May 8. (Credit: DVB)
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · May 9
'The DRC – born under Belgian colonial rule, remade as a Cold War theatre, now shaped by external financial flows – remains deprived of anything resembling real sovereignty.'

Ben Radley & Nicholas Fairwood contextualise the conflict in the Congo:

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Ben Radley & Nicholas Fairwood, Colonial Legacies — Sidecar
Understanding the DRC.
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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · May 11
[1/8] @justinebrabant.bsky.social et Joseph Confavreux s'entretiennent avec Gilles Dorronsoro (Université Paris 1/CESSP), politiste spécialiste des guerres civiles. Dans Le Plus Grand des Maux, il analyse les logiques politiques, sociales et internationales de ces conflits. #HGGSP #civilwar
Gilles Dorronsoro : « Poutine est un idéologue qui ne terminera pas sa guerre par des accords économiques »
Spécialiste de l’Afghanistan et de la Syrie, le chercheur analyse dans son nouveau livre les dynamiques des guerres civiles contemporaines. Il constate qu’en la matière, « la politique étrangère occi…
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · May 8
A much more complicated history than most people imagine. A piece of mine following an interview with him: www.nytimes.com/1996/06/02/w...
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Universiteit Antwerpen @uantwerpen.be · Apr 28
Are Indigenous peoples always forest guardians? Or can they also become forest destroyers? Fergus O'Leary Simpson #UAntwerp explores the nuanced reality through the case study of the Batwa community in the Democratic Republic of Congo. @iobua.bsky.social

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Indigenous Forest Guardians or Destroyers? A More Nuanced Story — with Fergus O'Leary Simpson
Podcast Episode · Intertwined · 04/26/2025 · 39m
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Apr 24
Check out this fantastic post doc opportunity working with @judithverweijen.bsky.social ⬇️
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Judith Verweijen @judithverweijen.bsky.social · Apr 24
I am hiring a 2-year postdoc for my NWO-funded (Vidi) project "Centring Armed Organizations in the Climate-Conflict Nexus" (CLIMCON) which will be implemented in the DR Congo-Burundi and Uganda borderlands: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Postdoc in Climate & Conflict Studies – CLIMCON
Join Utrecht University as a postdoc in the CLIMCON project and explore how armed groups shape the climate-conflict nexus in a dynamic, interdisciplinary team.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Apr 18
Roberto Casati, The Cognitive Life of Maps - @mitpress.bsky.social, 2024 (print and open access)
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review at NDPR by Ben Blumson
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The Cognitive Life of Maps
The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what they are and how they work.In a sense, maps are temp
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Apr 9
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · Apr 8
On the Ukraine model. www.ft.com/content/8b62...
US closes in on critical minerals deal with DR Congo
Trump’s Africa adviser agrees ‘path forward’ to drive American mining investment as Tshisekedi government seeks to shore up support
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · Apr 1
We've got a big book coming out on carbon removal and geoengineering in October.

If you're interested in doing a review (hence in getting an advance copy) - send me a dm!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790847...
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Koen Vlassenroot @kvlassen.bsky.social · Apr 2
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"We Are Caught Between Violence and Famine" - Analysis of the Deepening Crisis Affecting Eastern DR Congo - Egmont Institute
Regional and international initiatives to end the war between M23/AFC and the Congolese government are multiplying, leading to mounting pressure on the belligerents to negotiate through sanctions and ...
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