Apr 9Dependence in the age of coronavirus: how a global pandemic is unsettling African buildingsBy Dr Joanne Tomkinson In February 2020, I was conducting research in Ethiopia for the African State Architecture (ASA) project. My area of focus was the cou...
Apr 3Professor Julia Gallagher's latest book: Zimbabwe’s International Relations - now in paperbackJulia Gallagher’s latest book, Zimbabwe’s International Relations: fantasy, reality and the making of the state, has just been released in paperback. Synopsi...
Mar 13Who owns the Zimbabwean Parliament building?by Innocent Batsani Ncube Parliament building in Harare, Zimbabwe seen from Nelson Mandela Avenue One of the most enduring legends in Zimbabwean politics is ...
Feb 21ASA double panel at BISA conference in June 2020 The ASA team is putting on a double panel at the British International Studies Association annual conference 17-19 June 2020. The panel is called ‘Architectu...
Feb 14ASA Post-doctoral researcher Daniel Mulugeta publishes a book 'The Everyday State in Africa'.This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and reveals the complexi...
Jan 20ASA exhibition on state architecture in South AfricaState-ments, an exhibition that draws on Julia Gallagher’s research on popular ideas of state buildings, has just finished a tour of five public locations ar...
Dec 9, 2019ASA exhibition on state architecture in South AfricaState-ments, an exhibition that draws on Julia Gallagher’s research on popular ideas of state buildings, has just finished a tour of five public locations ar...
Dec 9, 2019Politics of Architecture in Africa workshopEighteen scholars working on politics and architecture in Africa met for a week-long workshop at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies in early Dec...
Dec 9, 2019Julia Gallagher appointed as Senior Research Fellow at Johannesburg Institute for Advanced StudiesJulia Gallagher has been appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies, part of the University of Johannesburg.
Nov 25, 2019STATE-MENTS: a public exhibition about South Africa's state buildingsState-ments is a series of exhibitions in and about South African cities, which explores citizens' perceptions of their diverse and historically complex stat...
Nov 22, 2019Daniel Mulugeta Gebrie article published in the Journal of Critical African Studies.Daniel Mulugeta has published an article, 'Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: corruption discourses, moral idioms and the ideals of mengist' in t...
Nov 15, 2019 Public Lecture: Nation-building: a cloudy view of the pastPublic Lecture: Nation-building: a cloudy view of the past ASA is hosting a public lecture exploring the relationship between politics and architecture in Af...
Nov 8, 2019The Politics of Architecture in Africa - Workshop, Paper Presentations, Exhibition The Politics of Architecture in Africa Workshop, Paper Presentations, Exhibition 1-8 December 2019. The Politics of Architecture in Africa Workshop will be h...
Oct 28, 2019Gallagher appointed specialist advisor to Parliamentary InquiryJulia Gallagher has been appointed as specialist advisor for a UK inquiry into UK-Africa relations being carried out by the UK House of Lords International R...
Oct 15, 2019Daniel Mulugeta's new article on state-society relations in EthiopiaDaniel Mulugeta has published an article, 'Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: paradoxes of community empowerment and participation in irrigatio...
Sep 26, 2019Gallagher discusses Mugabe's legacy on Australian radioJulia Gallagher contributes to a programme on the economic situation in Zimbabwe for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Her comments focus on how Zimba...
Aug 27, 2019Daniel and Gallagher to present at ASA in BostonDaniel Mulugeta Gebrie and Julia Gallagher will present papers at the annual Africa Studies Association Conference in November 2019 in Boston. Gallagher’s pa...
Aug 27, 2019Manful wins grant to digitise endangered architectural documents in AccraKuukuwa Manful has been awarded a grant by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme for a project entitled 'Building Early Accra: Preserving Histori...
Aug 27, 2019Ncube to present at ASAA in NairobiInnocent Batsani Ncube will attend the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) Third International Biennial Conference 2019. The conference takes place ...
Aug 23, 2019Building Bureaucracies in west Africa by Julia GallagherAmos Rapaport says that it’s possible to read politics through the ‘non-verbal cues’ offered by buildings: their position in the city, the materials they are...