englischThis book is about a frontier zone that has emerged in central Benin in the wake of rapidly growing internal migration and the settlement of farmers and herders. It provides an interpretative framework for the multiscale dimension of territoriality that helps us to understand the [...]

englischAn overview of the field of Islamic faith-based organisations (FBOs) in Tanzania and insights into selected organisations are the basis from which Sebastian Müller develops a novel approach to understanding NGOs. Focusing on the organisations’ central characteristics that have hardly been [...]

englischThis book examines variations in voter turnout at the sub-national level during general elections. It employs a case study–mixed methods approach, combining quantitative and qualitative data to provide in-depth evidence for three systematically selected constituencies with varying levels of [...]

englischWho are the most important actors in the peacebuilding process in post-war Liberia? How do they interact in specific institutions on the ground and what are the factors behind the slow pace of the post-war reform process? This book, designed as a qualitative case study with a strong [...]

englisch‘Development’ is controversial—as both a concept and a practice. Can religious actors open up alternative approaches to change or make development cooperation more efficient?

In view of the promotion of values-based development in German development policy, this volume shows what and who [...]

englischThis study offers a new perspective on witchcraft in Africa. Based on ethnographic research material, it examines Muslim, Christian and traditional Yoruba concepts of witchcraft in the 21st century, presenting them in the contexts of witchcraft in the public sphere, witchcraft and religion, [...]

englischThis book analyses middle-class enterprises in Kenya with special regard to their founders’ social mobility. Using concrete events, individual biographies and in-depth empirical material, Maike Voigt demonstrates how the interplay of personal and familial characteristics with larger [...]

englischThe economic crisis set in motion new migration trends in southern European countries. In Portugal, post-crisis migration has occurred in two main directions: northwards to more prosperous European countries and southwards to former Portuguese colonies in Africa—notably oil-producing Angola. [...]

englischIn line with the encyclopaedic scope of development sociology, this book offers perspectives on key issues relating to societal processes. These encompass the shaping of everyday life, intergenerational relations in diverse societies, fine-grained comparative analyses of trajectories of [...]

englischThis book illustrates the ways in which Uganda is transforming into an oil producing country, framed here as a ‘petro-state’. In contrast to the term’s traditional usage, here ‘petro-state’ highlights the deliberate attempt to reorient the political economy of Uganda towards its future [...]