Joshua Akintayo
Joshua Akintayo completed his PhD in Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. His research for the Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict project examines how the coexistence of multiple South–South security partnerships reshapes (counter-)terrorism and security governance in Nigeria. The project asks whether the growing involvement of multiple state and regional actors in Nigeria’s security […]
Biruk Terrefe
Biruk’s research lies at the intersection of Political Science, Development Studies, and Geography with a focus on how infrastructure projects and urban spaces relate to the politics of statecraft in Africa. His current research agenda investigates the relationship between infrastructure and state-building, particularly how large energy, transport, and logistics systems have shaped (and are shaped […]
Darja Wolfmeier
Darja is a PhD researcher, examining how postcolonial hierarchies are produced by humanitarian organizations working in situations of peace and conflict. Postcolonial continuities and racism within the humanitarian aid sector have been criticized for some time now.
Patricia Pinky Ndlovu (Associate Researcher)
Patricia’s research project examines three overlapping and interconnected issues in the minibus taxi industry in South Africa: conflict, armed violence, and gender relations. Women struggle to operate within this industry which is steeped in and constituted by violent patriarchy. It investigates the multidimensional forms of ‘everyday violence’ that women face in their attempts to navigate […]
Jana Hönke
Jana’s current research examines how political geographies become transformed through South-South relations by studying the contested social and security arrangements around multinational companies and large-scale infrastructure projects in Africa.
Joël Glasman
Joël’s research focuses on the humanitarian government of the world, from a historical angle. Joël examines the apparatus of ideas, forms of expertise, and devices that shape contemporary humanitarianism.
