Kasper Hoffmann
@kasperhoffmann.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University. Conducts research on nexus between armed conflict, resources and identity. DR Congo, Uganda and Myanmar.
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Congolese traditional medicine, rooted in cultural heritage, is disappearing due to the dominance of modern medicine. In rural areas, traditional healers remain essential, yet their knowledge is largely undocumented and often undervalued.
** The views expressed are the author's.
Congolese traditional medicine, rooted in cultural heritage, is disappearing due to the dominance of modern medicine. In rural areas, traditional healers remain essential, yet their knowledge is largely undocumented and often undervalued.
** The views expressed are the author's.
The uncertain future of DRC’s traditional medicine, a heritage to save (commentary)
Congolese traditional medicine is disappearing. Not due to a lack of usefulness, but due to a lack of space in an increasingly standardized medical world. Faced with the rise of modern medicine,…
news.mongabay.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
[COMMENTARY]
Congolese traditional medicine, rooted in cultural heritage, is disappearing due to the dominance of modern medicine. In rural areas, traditional healers remain essential, yet their knowledge is largely undocumented and often undervalued.
** The views expressed are the author's.
Congolese traditional medicine, rooted in cultural heritage, is disappearing due to the dominance of modern medicine. In rural areas, traditional healers remain essential, yet their knowledge is largely undocumented and often undervalued.
** The views expressed are the author's.
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Really enjoyed acting as discussant for Durham Anthropology's 2025 Layton Dialogue today on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, with brilliant speakers Prof. Beth Rose Middleton Manning and Prof. Jay Mistry www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Layton Dialogue - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Really enjoyed acting as discussant for Durham Anthropology's 2025 Layton Dialogue today on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, with brilliant speakers Prof. Beth Rose Middleton Manning and Prof. Jay Mistry www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the situation in El-Fasher, North Darfur www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the situation in El-Fasher, North Darfur
The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court expresses its profound alarm and deepest concern over recent reports emerging from El-Fasher about mass killings, rapes, and other crim...
www.icc-cpi.int
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the situation in El-Fasher, North Darfur www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
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"The wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros or an SUV.
A citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"The wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros or an SUV.
A citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Our colleague @penelopeanthias.bsky.social will be speaking next month @camunigeography.bsky.social on the topic of 'Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia':
October 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Our colleague @penelopeanthias.bsky.social will be speaking next month @camunigeography.bsky.social on the topic of 'Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia':
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Inspired by the fabulous work of @gillianmathys.bsky.social @kasperhoffmann.bsky.social @denistull.bsky.social @judithverweijen.bsky.social @rogermacginty.bsky.social and many others not on here
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Inspired by the fabulous work of @gillianmathys.bsky.social @kasperhoffmann.bsky.social @denistull.bsky.social @judithverweijen.bsky.social @rogermacginty.bsky.social and many others not on here
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Well, this is reassuring. Light at the end of the tunnel?
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”
V-Dem data
V-Dem data
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Well, this is reassuring. Light at the end of the tunnel?
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I've written about the difficulties challenges in the various #DRC peace initiatives, and the bleak outlook.
🇨🇩 "The persistence of conflict in #DRC ’s eastern region isn’t due to a lack of peace initiatives. I argue that some initiatives suffer from flawed design, others from difficult implementation, and some from a combination of both."
💻 @kristoftiteca.bsky.social
theconversation.com/drcs-latest-...
💻 @kristoftiteca.bsky.social
theconversation.com/drcs-latest-...
DRC’s latest peace deal is breaking down and it isn’t the first – what’s being done wrong
Sustained diplomacy is needed to make current peace efforts work more effectively in the DRC.
theconversation.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I've written about the difficulties challenges in the various #DRC peace initiatives, and the bleak outlook.
🌍Proud to share our new article in Land Use Policy:
“Everyday Property-Making: Negotiating Land Rights, Precarity and Public Authority in Urban Congo”
📎 doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
#Property #Land #DRCongo #PublicAuthority #Precarity
@crg-ugent.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social
“Everyday Property-Making: Negotiating Land Rights, Precarity and Public Authority in Urban Congo”
📎 doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
#Property #Land #DRCongo #PublicAuthority #Precarity
@crg-ugent.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social
Redirecting
doi.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🌍Proud to share our new article in Land Use Policy:
“Everyday Property-Making: Negotiating Land Rights, Precarity and Public Authority in Urban Congo”
📎 doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
#Property #Land #DRCongo #PublicAuthority #Precarity
@crg-ugent.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social
“Everyday Property-Making: Negotiating Land Rights, Precarity and Public Authority in Urban Congo”
📎 doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
#Property #Land #DRCongo #PublicAuthority #Precarity
@crg-ugent.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social
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AFP | One of Myanmar’s most conflict-ravaged states has witnessed a “dramatic rise in hunger” after United States aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Programme said Tuesday.
Rakhine State sees 'dramatic' hunger rise after aid cutbacks
One of Myanmar's most conflict-ravaged states has witnessed a "dramatic rise in hunger" after United States aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Progr...
www.frontiermyanmar.net
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
AFP | One of Myanmar’s most conflict-ravaged states has witnessed a “dramatic rise in hunger” after United States aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Programme said Tuesday.
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So sad, Callon was such an important figure in STS. Who can forget those scallops? I met him once at the École des Mines, Bruno Latour introduced us, around 1990 - that was it. I wish I'd gotten to know him, too late now - yet the scallops and ANT live on
#STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social
#STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social
The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
August 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
So sad, Callon was such an important figure in STS. Who can forget those scallops? I met him once at the École des Mines, Bruno Latour introduced us, around 1990 - that was it. I wish I'd gotten to know him, too late now - yet the scallops and ANT live on
#STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social
#STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social
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Funny piece. It's actually stunning how incompetent people can end up influencing African policy just because they cultivate proximity with decision-making circles. Paris has its Phams, too
The grift tank
In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, lobbyists, and frauds.
africasacountry.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Funny piece. It's actually stunning how incompetent people can end up influencing African policy just because they cultivate proximity with decision-making circles. Paris has its Phams, too
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Fishing is an important food production system that's most vulnerable to climate change, and yet governments lack data to help fishers adapt.
To address that gap, the global research partnership CGIAR recently launched its Asia Digital Hub.
To address that gap, the global research partnership CGIAR recently launched its Asia Digital Hub.
A new data hub helps small-scale fishers adapt to climate change
Roughly 40% of the global fish catch comes from small-scale fisheries. It’s one of the food production systems most vulnerable to climate change, and governments are lacking data to help fishers…
news.mongabay.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Fishing is an important food production system that's most vulnerable to climate change, and yet governments lack data to help fishers adapt.
To address that gap, the global research partnership CGIAR recently launched its Asia Digital Hub.
To address that gap, the global research partnership CGIAR recently launched its Asia Digital Hub.
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In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, produced in record time in Portuguese & English with chapters by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence.
www.cmi.no/publications...
www.cmi.no/publications...
Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change
As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, s...
www.cmi.no
June 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, produced in record time in Portuguese & English with chapters by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence.
www.cmi.no/publications...
www.cmi.no/publications...
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This is your once in a life time chance to work with top scholars on a super important topic!
🚨 Job alert 🚨Join @emorier.bsky.social, @vincentfoucher.bsky.social, @corinnajentzsch.com and me, and be part of a new exciting research project on jihadism in Africa. Two more positions will follow. Feel free to approach @emorier.bsky.social if you have questions. Please circulate widely
Job profile
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May 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This is your once in a life time chance to work with top scholars on a super important topic!
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Very important, this. News do not show up naturally, they are allowed (or disallowed) by a variety of social processes. When it comes to violence in the Lake Chad Basin, there is good reason to suspect it is seriously underestimated even in the best data bases.
Another mass murder perpetrated by the army in Mali. Here, ethnic targeting is demonstrated. (Also, a friend lost six of his close relatives in this massacre)
« Ils les ont tous égorgés un à un » : à Diafarabé, au Mali, chronique d’un massacre ordinaire
Le 12 mai, dans le centre du Mali, une trentaine de civils ont été arrêtés avant d’être sommairement exécutés, parce que peuls et soupçonnés de collusion avec les groupes jihadistes, témoignent leurs proches. Jeune Afrique a reconstitué, à partir de témoignages recueillis sur place, le déroulé de cette nouvelle tuerie.
www.jeuneafrique.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Very important, this. News do not show up naturally, they are allowed (or disallowed) by a variety of social processes. When it comes to violence in the Lake Chad Basin, there is good reason to suspect it is seriously underestimated even in the best data bases.
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Aung Naing Soe, a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Burma living and working in exile, joined the DVB Newsroom to discuss the new book he co-authored with Joe Freeman called Frontline Poets: The literary rebels taking on Myanmar’s military.
Read more: english.dvb.no/resistance-a...
Read more: english.dvb.no/resistance-a...
May 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Aung Naing Soe, a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Burma living and working in exile, joined the DVB Newsroom to discuss the new book he co-authored with Joe Freeman called Frontline Poets: The literary rebels taking on Myanmar’s military.
Read more: english.dvb.no/resistance-a...
Read more: english.dvb.no/resistance-a...
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'The DRC – born under Belgian colonial rule, remade as a Cold War theatre, now shaped by external financial flows – remains deprived of anything resembling real sovereignty.'
Ben Radley & Nicholas Fairwood contextualise the conflict in the Congo:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Ben Radley & Nicholas Fairwood contextualise the conflict in the Congo:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Ben Radley & Nicholas Fairwood, Colonial Legacies — Sidecar
Understanding the DRC.
newleftreview.org
May 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
'The DRC – born under Belgian colonial rule, remade as a Cold War theatre, now shaped by external financial flows – remains deprived of anything resembling real sovereignty.'
Ben Radley & Nicholas Fairwood contextualise the conflict in the Congo:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Ben Radley & Nicholas Fairwood contextualise the conflict in the Congo:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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[1/8] @justinebrabant.bsky.social et Joseph Confavreux s'entretiennent avec Gilles Dorronsoro (Université Paris 1/CESSP), politiste spécialiste des guerres civiles. Dans Le Plus Grand des Maux, il analyse les logiques politiques, sociales et internationales de ces conflits. #HGGSP #civilwar
Gilles Dorronsoro : « Poutine est un idéologue qui ne terminera pas sa guerre par des accords économiques »
Spécialiste de l’Afghanistan et de la Syrie, le chercheur analyse dans son nouveau livre les dynamiques des guerres civiles contemporaines. Il constate qu’en la matière, « la politique étrangère occi…
www.mediapart.fr
May 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
[1/8] @justinebrabant.bsky.social et Joseph Confavreux s'entretiennent avec Gilles Dorronsoro (Université Paris 1/CESSP), politiste spécialiste des guerres civiles. Dans Le Plus Grand des Maux, il analyse les logiques politiques, sociales et internationales de ces conflits. #HGGSP #civilwar
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A much more complicated history than most people imagine. A piece of mine following an interview with him: www.nytimes.com/1996/06/02/w...
May 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
A much more complicated history than most people imagine. A piece of mine following an interview with him: www.nytimes.com/1996/06/02/w...
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Are Indigenous peoples always forest guardians? Or can they also become forest destroyers? Fergus O'Leary Simpson #UAntwerp explores the nuanced reality through the case study of the Batwa community in the Democratic Republic of Congo. @iobua.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Indigenous Forest Guardians or Destroyers? A More Nuanced Story — with Fergus O'Leary Simpson
Podcast Episode · Intertwined · 04/26/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Are Indigenous peoples always forest guardians? Or can they also become forest destroyers? Fergus O'Leary Simpson #UAntwerp explores the nuanced reality through the case study of the Batwa community in the Democratic Republic of Congo. @iobua.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Check out this fantastic post doc opportunity working with @judithverweijen.bsky.social ⬇️
I am hiring a 2-year postdoc for my NWO-funded (Vidi) project "Centring Armed Organizations in the Climate-Conflict Nexus" (CLIMCON) which will be implemented in the DR Congo-Burundi and Uganda borderlands: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Postdoc in Climate & Conflict Studies – CLIMCON
Join Utrecht University as a postdoc in the CLIMCON project and explore how armed groups shape the climate-conflict nexus in a dynamic, interdisciplinary team.
www.uu.nl
April 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Check out this fantastic post doc opportunity working with @judithverweijen.bsky.social ⬇️
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Roberto Casati, The Cognitive Life of Maps - @mitpress.bsky.social, 2024 (print and open access)
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
review at NDPR by Ben Blumson
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
review at NDPR by Ben Blumson
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-...
The Cognitive Life of Maps
The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what they are and how they work.In a sense, maps are temp
direct.mit.edu
April 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Roberto Casati, The Cognitive Life of Maps - @mitpress.bsky.social, 2024 (print and open access)
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
review at NDPR by Ben Blumson
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
review at NDPR by Ben Blumson
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-...