Prof. dr. G.J. Abbink

Iedere vrijdag

E-mail ASC:abbink@ascleiden.nl

Afdelingswebsite

Informatie in Engels

Specialisatie

• Democratisering
• Migratie
• Xenofobie
• Conflict
• Geweld
• Etniciteit
• Identiteit
• Inheemse volken
• Ontwikkelingssamenwerking
• Politiek
• Politieke cultuur
• Veiligheid
• Religie
• Regionaal: Ethiopië, Afrika, Midden-Oosten

• Leerstoel Processen van etnisering en identiteitsvorming in Afrika
   

Onderzoek

Research interests in: anthropology and etnohistory of Northeast Africa
Violence and culture
Ethnic Relations
Religious relations and politics in Northeast Africa
Member of CERES

Onderwijs in 2011/2012

Geen onderwijstaak bij SCA in 2011-2012

Publicaties

Publicaties (Bron: METIS VU)

• 2009  Law against reality? Contextualizing the Ethiopian-Eritrean border problem.
  In: Andrea de Guttry, Harry Post & Gabriella Venturini, eds., The 1998–2000 War Between Eritrea and Ethiopia: An International Legal Perspective, pp. 141-158. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2009  Tourism and its discontents: Suri-Tourist encounters in southern Ethiopia.
  In: S. Bohn Gmelch, ed., Tourists and Tourism: a Reader. Second Edition, pp. 115-136. Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press., Inc.
• 2009  The Islamic Courts Union: the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement.
  In: S. Ellis & I. van Kessel, eds,  Movers and Shakers. Social Movements in Africa, pp. 87-113. Leiden – Boston: Brill Publishers.
• 2009 The fate of the Suri: conflict and group tension the Southwest Ethiopian frontier.
  In: G. Schlee & E.E. Watson, eds, Changing Identifications and Alliances in Northeast Africa. Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya. Oxford – New York: Berghahn Books.
• 2009 Suri images: the return of exoticism and the commodification of an Ethiopian “tribe”. 
  Cahiers d’Études Africaines 49(4), 196: 893-934.
• 2009  The Ethiopian second republic and the fragile ‘social contract’. 
  Africa Spectrum 44(2): 3-28.
• 2008  Muslim monasteries? Some aspects of religious culture in northern Ethiopia.
  Aethiopica (Hamburg) 11: 117-133.
• 2008  Darfur: de weerslag van genocidaal geweld.
  In de Marge – Tijdschrift voor Levensbeschouwing en Wetenschap 17(1): 64-74.
• 2008  Edited, with A. van Dokkum,
  Dilemmas of Development. Conflicts of Interest and their Resolution in Modernizing Africa, pp. 1-15. Leiden: African Studies Centre.
• 2008  Edited, with A. van Dokkum
  Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, Conflict en de Grenzen van de Staat, pp. 3-15.
  Diemen: AMB Publishers.
• 2007 Culture slipping away: violence, social tension and personal drama in Suri society, southern Ethiopia.
  In: A. Rao, M. Bollig & M. Böck, eds, The Practice of War: Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence, pp. 53-72. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 

Bijzondere leerstoel

Processen van etnisering en identiteisvorming in Afrika