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Exploring Platformization in Africa: Insights from a Workshop on Digital Transformation

By Victoria Luxen (Project C01 Future in Chains). From February 24 to 27, 2025, I participated in the workshop “Writing about Platformization from Africa” at …

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CRC-TRR Public Lecture: Stefan Ouma

Mon | April 7th, 2025 | 16:00 – 17:30  (CEST) Between the City and the Countryside: Centering Accumulation in African Studies Prof. Dr. Stefan Ouma ...
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New Publication: Infrastructural Promises and the Non-Economy of Anticipation – Lessons from the Thwake Dam

In this article, Arne Rieber, Eric Kioko and Theo Aalders (Project C03 Green Futures) examine how the promises of large-scale infrastructure projects shape community aspirations ...
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New Monograph Explores Over a Century of Development Visions in Tanzania’s Kilombero Valley

Future Rural Africa researcher Jonathan M. Jackson (Project A02 Past Futures) recently expanded on his doctoral research in a monograph titled “Visions for an African ...
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This illustration portrays the emerging labor camp near the future Kidunda Dam construction site, highlighting the intersection of infrastructure development, precarious labor, and the yet-to-materialize promises of the dam project

New Publication: How Labour has the Potential to Make Marginalised Futures Visible and Real

In this recent publication, Theo Aalders and Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 Green Futures) explore how labour shapes future-making in East African infrastructure projects, balancing between ...
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