The #WorldBank proposes #digital #land registration in #Africa, but will it work? A new report raises many questions. zimbabweland.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/the…

Title deed limbo, digitization, gender + more in new OPEN-ACCESS article “Time and Title Deeds in Post-Reform Agrarian Kenya,” Angelique Haugerud & Caroline Mwangi, in AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institute tinyurl.com/open-access-ar…

✨ERC_Regional Futures invite you online to join fellow academics, professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders from Kenya, Africa and beyond on 24th June 9am EAT to explore and discuss Digital Technologies for Land Administration 👉Register tinyurl.com/RegFut-confere…

"An anthropology essay isn’t “public anthropology” simply because it doesn’t have jargon or because it’s Open Access. Essays don’t read themselves. People need to know that the essays exist." culanth.org/fieldsights/in…

The Annual Reviews has kindly just released what could be considered James Scott’s last brief autobiographical notes.👇 Thanks Margaret Levi for making this happen. I took the liberty of adding Scott’s picture. Free download: annualreviews.org/docserver/full…

Our new blog article with Angelique Haugerud and Caroline Mwangi Democracy in Africa discusses opportunities for digital democracy and reflects on offline challenges to electronic #land registries democracyinafrica.org/digital-democr…

Why digital technology is not a politically neutral or easy fix for long-standing land registry woes & social justice challenges. NEW article in Democracy in Africa by Angelique Haugerud, Daivi Rodima-Taylor & Caroline P. Mwangi tinyurl.com/yb3bc2zd

If you read THE DIVIDE, you might like this new Afterword that summarizes many of the things I would include if I could write a new edition now. Complete with links to new research. Enjoy! jasonhickel.org/blog/2024/7/19…

Calling graduate students for the 2024 SAW Eric R. Wolf Prize! Due Sept 1, the #prize honors excellence in graduate student research that integrates political economy and bold political action into the analysis of social life. #anthro saw.americananthro.org/pub/2024-wolf-…

SAW's journal Anthropology of Work Review is seeking a new editor or editorial collective. Information below. We hope to receive nominations by September 15th. There would be an onboarding process with current editors to help the new editor(s) find their footing. Spread widely.

Join this month’s SCA Fridays event on Friday, September 20th at 11am EDT: Achieving Global Open Access with Stephen Pinfield, moderated by Marcel LaFlamme & Tim Elfenbein and discussed by Eleana Kim, Anand Pandian, & Alberto Corsín Jiménez. Register: zoom.us/meeting/regist…

New from #JamesCurrey, Matatu Work by Meghan E. Ference focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, #matatu. buff.ly/3YdMptu

Are you interested in editing our open-access, peer-reviewed journal and editors' forums? We just issued a call for our next editorial collective to take the helm for publishing our journal from 2027-2030: culanth.org/about/about-th…

Top Africa Stories of the Year 2024, by Jeffrey Paller open.substack.com/pub/thisweekin…

2024: Year in Review africanistperspective.com/p/2024-year-in…

It’s finally here! Today we celebrate #IDSAt60, six decades of #research, #policy impact, and bold ideas that have shaped #development discourse in #Africa & beyond. Join us as we look back, reflect & imagine the future. 🔗Link: shorturl.at/HOKmp 📍UoN & online | 8–9 Oct

Warm congratulations IDS-UON on 60 years of intellectual dynamism & brilliant contributions to dev studies Karuti Kanyinga Winnie Mitullah & so many more.