Victoria Jones

Name:	Victoria Jones
Affiliation:	University of Cambridge
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	Mon Jan 20 11:52:12 +0000 2020

Public lists managed by Victoria Jones

• Africa Research Forum
• Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
• Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
• Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks
• The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies
• The Smuts Memorial Fund Lecture

Talks given by Victoria Jones

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• From Rebel Movement to Political Party: UNITA's Social Engagement in Post-War Angola

Talks organised by Victoria Jones

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• Contestations for Popular Accountability in the Contemporary Ethiopian Political Transition
• What Nigeria can teach us about good governance: how ethnography can be used for political theory
• Village identity papers and the production of moral homelands in Uganda
• Long-distance citizenship and external voting: African case studies
• The Organizational Roots of Persistent Electoral Violence in Africa
• War, peace and political representation: An analysis of popular political thinking in Burundi (1993-2015)
• Rebel Lives, photographs from inside the Lord's Resistance Army
• Between the Moral and Market Economy: Rebel Taxation as a Technology of Governance
• Title TBC
• How do African states think about heritage? Historical and ethnographic views from southern Africa
• Sermonizing on Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Post Colonial Sub Saharan Africa
• Decolonise what? Archaeology, heritage and the elusive pursuit of locally centred African past(s)
• Decolonising the Missionary Road? An Archaeology of Heritage at the Kuruman Moffat Mission, South Africa
• The Formula for the 2018 Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace: New Beginning or Resumption of a Suspended Process?
• Archaeology, Hybrid Knowledge and Community Engagement in Africa: Thoughts on Decolonizing Practice
• Book Launch: “Transforming Rwanda: Challenges on the Road to Reconstruction”
• Co-creating “Effective” Archaeologies: Reflections from a Digital Heritage Initiative in Banda, Ghana
• "Accra to Lagos; Lagos to London": African Engagements with the Higher Education industry *culled from the titles of two music volumes by Mr Eazi
• Anti-Africanism in Twentieth-Century Dominican Republic'
• 'Ise Olokun Esin: Self-apprehension and the belligerent poor in colonial Lagos'
• Out of the Shadows, and Towards a New World: The Congress of Black Writers at 50"
• Panel Discussion - 'Slavery and its Legacies at Cambridge'
• "Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James"
• 'Questions of Decolonisation'
• Mining, waste and environmental thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950-2000'
• Blindspots: Or, is it ethical for white people to study Africa'
• Memories of Ashura: A photographic essay from Zanzibar before and after the Revolution
• Power, authority, and community participation in primary health-care centres: contrasting evidence from health facility committees in South Kivu (DR Congo) and Burundi
• Atomic Junction: The Road to Nuclear Power (documentary film, 30 mins)
• Problematizing The Ebola Virus Disease in the Mano River Basin: Sierra Leone Health Infrastructure on the Eve of Ebola
• Towards a Relational Understanding of Participation in Social Health Protection
• Policy of No Policy: Disability and Technology Translation Dilemmas in Uganda
• Metabolic disorder, global health and ‘noncommunicable’ disease in Malawi
• Colonist Strategies in the Making of the Oyo Empire (West Africa), ca. 1590-1790
• Decolonising African Studies: Revisiting Archie Mafeje on Theory and Method
• Rethinking African Studies: The Wisdom of the Elders
• Activism and scholarship: Fahamu's role in shaping knowledge production in Africa
• How to know Africa(s) in an age of youth hybridity
• Reframing African Studies through Languages and Translation: Overcoming Barricades to Knowledge and Knowledge Management
• Book launch 'Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis'
• The state-market dichotomy, development and transition in Africa
• Fashion as Transnational Feminist Methodology for African Studies
• Can We Decolonise the Academy from Within?
• Henri Breuil and the Imagination of Prehistory in Southern Africa
• Youth and generational conflict in South African historiography
• ‘Voice, Deliberation and Efficacy’: Social Media and the Politics of Devolution in Kenya
• Epistemology and the Dance Archive in Colonial Central Kenya
• The Whigs and Jacobins of Africa: Traditional Authorities across Francophone and Anglophone Sub- Saharan Africa and the Different Conceptions of Political Order
• Nelson Mandela: Romantic Hero, Tragic Hero Returning Mandela to Black History - Co-hosted with the Critical Theory and Practice Series
• 'On the Ethics and Politics of Decolonization in South Africa' - Co-hosted with the CRASSH Decolonizing the Curriculum Group
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Control in Kenya and South Africa
• Party Politics, Capital Mobilization and the Rise of ‘Small Boys’ Capitalists in Ghana’s Fourth Republic
• arty politics, capital mobilization and the rise of ‘small boys’ capitalists in Ghana’s Fourth Republic
• 'It's Not My Story to Tell': Ownership, Legitimacy, and the Politics of History in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique
• 'It's not my story to tell': ownership, legitimacy, and the politics of history in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique
• ZANU’s Post-1980 Legitimation Strategies: Post-Liberation Demobilization via Development Discourse (with Book Launch)
• ZANU’s post-1980 legitimation strategies: post-liberation demobilization via development discourse (with book launch)
• The Politics of Moving On: Legitimacy and Contestation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kenya
• The politics of moving on: Legitimacy and contestation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kenya
• From Hidden Dissent to Open Renegotiation and Contestation: Local Actors Interacting with Agrarian Modernisation in Rural Rwanda
• From hidden dissent to open renegotiation and contestation: Local actors interacting with agrarian modernisation in rural Rwanda
• What Is Supreme about the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM)? Challenging the practices of representativeness amongst Muslims in Kenya
• What Is Supreme about the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM)? Challenging the practices of representativeness amongst Muslims in Kenya
• From Rebel Movement to Political Party: UNITA's Social Engagement in Post-War Angola
• From rebel movement to political party: UNITA's social engagement in post-war Angola
• 'Livelihood strategies and signatures of vulnerability and resilience in eastern African landscapes'
• 'War, displacement, and heritage: a post-conflict material culture in northern Uganda'
• 'Addressing the Spirit of Discernment: Pentecostal transformation of demonic objects into modern heritage in Sierra Leone
• 'The "colonial moment" in the lives of Swahili objects'
• 'The Long Southern African Past: Enfolded Time and the Challenges of Archive'
• 'Borders, frontiers, crossroads. Making the Sudanese-Ethiopian borderland'
• Mau Mau: The Face of International Terrorism in the 1950's in the Contemporary Perspective'
• Freedom Without Equality: Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World
• 'South Africa's Political Crisis: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles'
• The rifle, the quill, and the rosary: competing sources of political legitimacy in Mali'
• Suburbs of distinction: middle class boundary work in Dar Es Salaam
• An inverted social contract. Development, political authoritarianism and the production of marginality in inner city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• “If there were no black people wandering about, you might think you were finding yourself in a European port.” Urban Space, race and society in the colonial port city of Matadi, DR Congo
• Comparing the Central African Copperbelts: social history and knowledge production in the Zambian copperbelt and Haut Katanga
• Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices
• Labels and definitions: reflections on urban dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa
• South Africa and the Politics of African Polygamy
• Writing a history of African popular culture
• Social media and the making of the New-Baraza; mediatisation of Kenya’s local administration
• Media influences in contemporary Rwandan dance performances
• On folles, swageurs and other ambiançeurs; popular culture and queer extraversion in urban Congo
• The rifle, the quill, and the rosary; competing sources of political legitimacy in Mali
• Crime fiction, mythomania, and the criminalisation of the South African state
• Disruptive listening in times of conflict: the poetics of war and citizenship in Dinka cattle songs in South Sudan
• Talk on the American Presidency