"Following a wave of oil discoveries in Africa, Oil-Age Africa offers new perspectives and critical reflections on the prevalent academic discourses on oil in Africa. This collection brings together researchers from the social sciences to challenge simplified readings of the complex realities of...

"This work challenges received ideas of Africa as a marginal continent and place of exodus by considering the continent as a centre of global connectivity and confluence. Flows of people, goods, and investments towards Africa have increased and diversified over recent decades. In light of these...

"What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro grew up with the image that to be developed was to be as European as possible. However, as a researcher in Europe during her...

African spaces of global order : territory, border and infrastructure in Africa / Marc Boeckler, Ulf Engel and Detlef Muller-Mahn -- Struggling for sovereignty : political authority and the governance of climate change in Ethiopia / Detlef Muller-Mahn, Florian Weisser and Julia Willers --...