Ascleiden.nl Website Review

The African Studies Centre Leiden is the only multidisciplinary academic knowledge institute in the Netherlands devoted entirely to the study of Africa. It has an excellent library that is open to the general public. The ASCL is an interfaculty institute of Leiden Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Professor Henrietta Moore on 6 December, the ASCL Library has created a web dossier Prosperity in Africa. In recent decades, the realization that economic growth does not necessarily lead to better lives for all has become increasingly widespread. This web dossier showcases resources that challenge traditional economic models of growth, and that seek alternative ways Just out: Nature conservation in Southern Africa. Morality and Marginality: Towards Sentient Conservation? scholars from Southern Africa and Europe take a refreshing look at (the history of) nature conservation in Southern Africa. On the basis of overwhelming scientific evidence, they suggest that we should enter a new phase in nature conservation: sentient conservation. For although the subjectivity of people has been rendered visible in earlier publications on histories of conservation in Southern Africa, the subjectivity of an*mals is hardly ever seriously considered or explicitly dealt with. New in the ASCL Africanist Blog: The politics of race and identity in the former ‘Rainbow Nation’ politicians in South Africa appear to be more than prepared to resurrect the terms, identities and categories of the past. It seems as if the centre-ground has been abandoned in the interests of extreme positions on the outer fringes of the political spectrum, in which race and ethnic identity have once again been allowed to come to the fore. Read the latest contribution to the ASCL Africanist Blog the coming months. From Wednesday 5 December 2018, 30,000 books from the ASCL collection will be temporarily moved to Leiden University Libraries at the Witte Singel 27. All books can be requested and picked up either at the ASCL Library or at the Witte Singel. From 2