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Jochen Lingelbach
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Historian of human mobility in East Africa, East-Central Europe and elsewhere // author of On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial […]

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One more picture from yesterday's #criticalmass in #nairobi. It was a really great 35km ride through the town.
Here the group is stuck in traffic in front of the #kenya National Archives and the Tom Mboya monument.
Group of cyclists on a street, mostly with helmets and bike clothes. Grey skies. In the background one older house with colums and another with a large billboard, some trees and buses
November 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Still enjoying #critcalmass #nairobi. Pollution is heavy but the ride is fun and super organized.
Group of cyclists on a roundabout. Billboards, buses and highrise buildings in the background
November 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Joining #criticalmass #nairobi today!
Safety in numbers
A group of cyclists on a highway in Nairobi under a bridge
November 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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The back side of the 50 Shillings note in #kenya features renewable energies and I love it!

#solar #wind #geothermal #climatechange #renewables #africa
Foto of a 50 kenya shilling note. It is in red tones and features images of solt panels, wind mills and a geothermal power plant
October 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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It is slowly getting published:
Proofs for my special issue on Camp Memories (all texts are already published online first)
A first view on the TOC !!

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mss

@histodons #histodon #histodons #memorystudies
Screenshot of a TOC page in the journal Memory Studies. Text: "Volume 18 Number 5 October 2025 Contents Special Issue: Camp Memories. Silencing, contesting and memorializing past encampments in Africa and beyond Guest Editor: Jochen Lingelbach Editorial Introduction: Camp memories in Africa and beyond 1133 Jochen Lingelbach Special Issue Articles Constructing, reconstructing and representing communities: Polish and 1152 Ukrainian memory activists from displaced person camps in Western Germany and Austria after the Second World War Sarah Grandke Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia: Community initiatives, 1172 excavations, museum exhibitions and local memories Mary Mbewe El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from 1189 North Africa to Croatia Marijana Hameršak and Jochen Lingelbach Reconstructing the legacies of colonial detention: Digital heritage, memory, 1214 and the Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–1960 Bethany Rebisz Remember Mboroma? Narrating a fragmented exile past via UNHCR 1233 and SWAPO camps Christian A Williams"
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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So this is out now:

"Intro: Camp Memories in Africa and beyond"

my intro to a special issue on #memorystudies and the contested memorialization of #camps in #africa and beyond

@histodons
#histodons […]

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screenshot of the beginning of the mentioned article. Text: Introduction: Camp memories in Africa and beyond Jochen Lingelbach University of Bayreuth, Germany Abstract Introducing the special issue on the memorialization of camps in Africa and beyond, this text discusses key questions of memory studies and the global history of encampment. Whatever their purpose, all camps are meant to be exceptional, transitory and temporary. Camps are often connected to contested histories and memorialization efforts by former inmates or others can lead to controversies and struggles over its interpretation. Building on a range of empirical examples from Africa and beyond, dealing with camps ranging from the most coercive to the benevolent and from the beginning of the twentieth century until today, this special issue invites a comparative, globally entangled and actor-centred view on camp memorialization.
October 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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So this is really happening: Page Proofs!

My intor to the special issue on Camp Memorialization is finally about to be published in Memory Studies

@histodons @africanstudies #histodons #memorystudies #camps #refugees #africa #africanstudies #africanhistory
Screenshot of the page proof for the title page of the Special issue in Memory Studies. Text: Introduction: Camp memories in Africa and beyond Jochen Lingelbach University of Bayreuth, Germany Abstract Introducing the special issue on the memorialization of camps in Africa and beyond, this text discusses key questions of memory studies and the global history of encampment. Whatever their purpose, all camps are meant to be exceptional, transitory and temporary. Camps are often connected to contested histories and memorialization efforts by former inmates or others can lead to controversies and struggles over its interpretation. Building on a range of empirical examples from Africa and beyond, dealing with camps ranging from the most coercive to the benevolent and from the beginning of the twentieth century until today, this special issue invites a comparative, globally entangled and actor-centred view on camp memorialization.
September 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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New article out! 📝

El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from North Africa to Croatia

published #oa in Memory Studies

co-authored with Marijana Hameršak (#zagreb )

We look into the history of a #ww2 #yugoslav #refugee #camp in […]

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Screenshot of the article's title page with the abstract; content can be found under the link
September 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Nice! I just learned that my forthcoming article (with Marijana Hamersak) will be #openaccess due to some agreement of @unibayreuth with SAGE.

Coming soon in Memory Studies

#elshatt #croatia #egypt #refugeestudies #histodons #memorystudies
screenshot of a pdf. Text: Sage Creative Commons License Contributor’s Publishing Agreement Article El Shatt – Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan Refugee Camp Travelling from North Africa to Croatia DOI 10.1177/17506980251359585 Journal Memory Studies Author(s) Marijana Hameršak , Jochen Lingelbach This
July 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Drei Tage #gew #streik in #berlin gegen die Kürzungen des Senats,

Damit endlich mal was passiert, hier der Aufruf zur Demo heute in #neukolln
Plakat mit Aufruf zur Kundgebung Dienstag, 13.5. 18-19 Uhr vor der Otto-Hahn-Schule, Neukölln #SchuleMussAnders
May 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Map on the Polish-Belarus Border published by Badaczki i Badacze na Granicy
(Researchers at the border, a network of critical Polish #BorderStudies researchers)

Beautifully made representation of a violent space and a great resource for teaching on the #eu […]

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Screenshot der Seite. Eine Schwarz-Weiß-Zeichnung des Grenzgebiets mit Wald, Menschen, Lastern, Wegen und Stacheldraht
March 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Apropos of nothing:

#generalmood
Book cover of Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Mainly red
March 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Helicopter taxis are the future of urban transport.

A take that was already wrong in Dar es Salaam in 1946 (when at least it was a new invention) and still is (looking at #cdu in #berlin and the former #fdp transport minister in Germany)

Letter in the […]

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Press clipping from the Tanganyika Standard from January 12, 1946 "The world is progressing very fast and in the near future aeroplanes will play an important part as does the motor car today. It may be that the town planner will have to solve problems for open spaces, that will be needed in township and residential area for Helicopters to land and fly. These small aeroplanes are designed to land on terraces and do not require large aerodromes. It is therefore very important to have a proper Town Plahning of our Capital City, arranging special sites for every purposes and viewing 100 years ahead for the needs of the coming generation. Yours etc. MAHOMEDALLY JIVANJEE Imperial Service Depot, January 1, 1944"
February 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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One of Europe's many #border walls

The double fence topped with #barbedwire at the entrance of the #eurotunnel at #calais
Picture taken from inside the #eurostar to #london
Slightly blurry view outside a train window onto a double fence with narbed wire and some greenery in sunny weather
February 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#b2501 #berlin gegen den Rechtsruck
Foto von der Demo vor dem Brandenburger Tor im halbdunkeln
January 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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"Migrant Democracy: Constitutional Promise and Political Struggle in Contemporary Italy"

Great new article by Maurizio Albahari in #society !

On #border internalization and #migrant struggles as new forms of democracy in #rome and the anti-fascist potential […]

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Screenshot of title and abstract of the linked article
January 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Picture of Kabaka Mutesa II, the king of #buganda and a group of #refugee children from #poland in the camp in #koja #uganda in 1944

Just found it in the #piasa #archives in #ny

@histodons @africanstudies
Black and white foto showing a group of children and some adults in front of two houses with thatches roofs and some trees
November 13, 2024 at 7:14 PM