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Karen Büscher
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2026
Contentious urbanisation in Ethiopia : ethnic contestations and the politics of city making in Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa and Sheger
Ayehu Bacha Teso
Karen Büscher
Dejene Gemechu Chala
Dissertation
2026
2025
Mineralised urbanisation : rural-urban linkages, migration and mobility, and the making and unmaking of cities in Africa
Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
Karen Büscher
Patience Mususa
Bookchapter
in
Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South
2025
2024
Contested ‘commune rurales’ : decentralisation and the (violent) struggle for public authority in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Karen Büscher
Stéphanie Perazzone
Jeroen Cuvelier
Stephane Lumbu
Espoir Rwakira
Paul Bulambo
Chrispin Mvano Yabauma
Godefroid Muzalia Kihangu
A1
Journal Article
in
GLOBAL POLICY
2024
Long-term monitoring of environmental and geophysical impacts in conflict-endured zones : a landscape perspective on Kivu Lake
Ivan Lizaga Villuendas
Borja Latorre
Montfort Bagalwa
Bossissi Nkuba
Samuel Bodé
Karume Katcho
Honoré Ciraba
Olivier Evrard
Karen Büscher
Koen Vlassenroot
et al.
C3
Conference
2024
The logics of camp historicity in Uganda's Nakivale refugee settlement : coloniality, sanctuary, and the 'national order of things'
Jolien Tegenbos
Koen Vlassenroot
Karen Büscher
Dissertation
2024
Wayward edges : a dissonant ethnography of protest on the streets of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
Sam Kniknie
Karen Büscher
Dissertation
2024
2023
Goma under siege : witnessing the militarisation of a city
Karen Büscher
David Bilembo
Blog post
2023
Insights/observations from the field: Angola, DR Congo, Zambia - points of comparison/divergence
Karen Büscher
U
Conference
2023
Peripheral urbanisation and central political stakes: politics of boomtown urbanisation in a context of war. Case: Eastern DR Congo
Karen Büscher
U
Conference
2023
Rebellious riots : entangled geographies of contention in Africa
Sam Kniknie
Karen Büscher
Bookchapter
in
Rebellious riots : entangled geographies of contention in Africa
2023
Rebellious riots : entangled geographies of contention in Africa
Book editor
2023
Temporality and permanence of urbanisation in Africa
Karen Büscher
U
Conference
2023
2022
Oost-Congolese stad Goma onder staat van beleg : militarisering van een stad
David Bilembo
Karen Büscher
Newsarticle
2022
The dynamics of hidden urbanization in Eastern DRC : new towns, conflict and politics
Karen Büscher
Stéphanie Perazzone
C3
Conference
2022
Violent conflict and the centrality of the African Peripheral urbanities
Karen Büscher
Stéphanie Perazzone
Ayehu Bacha Teso
Other
2022
2021
Armed conflict and cross-border asymmetries in urban development : a contextualized spatial analysis of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gisenyi, Rwanda
Lisa Pech
Christian Levers
Karen Büscher
Blake Walker
A1
Journal Article
in
LAND USE POLICY
2021
Boomtown urbanization and rural-urban transformation in mining and conflict regions in Angola, the DRC and Zambia
Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
Patience Mususa
Karen Büscher
Jeroen Cuvelier
A1
Journal Article
in
SUSTAINABILITY
2021
Goma, city of refuge
Karen Büscher
A4
Journal Article
in
PARANGOLÉ
2021
2020
In search of chiefly authority in ‘post-aid’ Acholiland : transformations of customary authorities in northern Uganda
Sophie Komujuni
Karen Büscher
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES
2020
Violent conflict and urbanization in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo : the city as a safe haven
Karen Büscher
Bookchapter
in
Cities at war : global insecurity and urban resistance
2020
2019
African cities and violent conflict : the urban dimension of conflict and post conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa
Karen Büscher
Bookchapter
in
Urban Africa and violent conflict : understanding conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an urban perspective
2019
From rural rebellion to urban uprising? A socio-spatial perspective on Bujumbura's conflict history
Tomas Van Acker
Bookchapter
in
Urban Africa and violent conflict : understanding conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an urban perspective
2019
Humanitarian urbanism in a post-conflict aid town : aid agencies and urbanization in Gulu, Northern Uganda
Karen Büscher
Sophie Komujuni
Ivan Ashaba
Bookchapter
in
Urban Africa and violent conflict : understanding conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an urban perspective
2019
Insecurity in Goma : experiences, actors and responses
Maarten Hendriks
Karen Büscher
Book
2019
Politique d'urbanisation, déplacement interne et conflit armé dans l'Est de la RDC: l'histoire de Kitchanga.
Gillian Mathys
Karen Büscher
Bookchapter
in
Conjonctures de l'Afrique centrale
2019
The politics of everyday policing in Goma: the case of the Anti-gang
Maarten Hendriks
Bookchapter
in
Urban Africa and violent conflict : understanding conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an urban perspective
2019
The story of Kitchanga : spatial politics of presence, refuge and return in North Kivu, Eastern DRCongo
Gillian Mathys
Karen Büscher
Blog post
2019
To be a chief and to remain a chief: the production of customary authority in post-post conflict Northern Uganda
Sophie Komujuni
Karen Büscher
Koen Vlassenroot
Dissertation
2019
Urban Africa and violent conflict : understanding conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an urban perspective
Book editor
2019
Urbanizing Kitchanga : spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo
Gillian Mathys
Karen Büscher
Bookchapter
in
Urban Africa and violent conflict : understanding conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an urban perspective
2019
War, displacement and rural–urban transformation : Kivu’s Boomtowns, Eastern D.R. Congo
Karen Büscher
Gillian Mathys
A1
Journal Article
in
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
2019
2018
African cities and violent conflict : the urban dimension of conflict and post conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa
Karen Büscher
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES
2018
Brokering research with war-affected people : the tense relationship between opportunities and ethics
Julie Schiltz
Karen Büscher
A1
Journal Article
in
ETHNOGRAPHY
2018
Competition, patronage and fragmentation : the limits of bottom-up approaches to security governance in Ituri
Kasper Hoffmann
Koen Vlassenroot
Karen Büscher
A2
Journal Article
in
STABILITY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT
2018
Humanitarian urbanism in a post-conflict aid town : aid agencies and urbanization in Gulu, Northern Uganda
Karen Büscher
Sophie Komujuni
Ivan Ashaba
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES
2018
Intraurban development in a city under protracted armed conflict : patterns and actors in Goma, DR Congo
Lisa Pech
Karen Büscher
Tobia Lakes
A1
Journal Article
in
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
2018
Urbanisation and the political geographies of violent struggle for power and control : mining boomtowns in Eastern Congo
Karen Büscher
A2
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY = REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE POLITIQUE DE DEVELOPPEMENT
2018
Urbanizing Kitchanga : spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo
Gillian Mathys
Karen Büscher
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES
2018
2017
A spatial reading of urban political-religious conflict : contested urban landscapes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Jep Stockmans
Karen Büscher
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES
2017
African cities as critical sites of violent conflict and post-conflict reconstruction
Karen Büscher
Bookchapter
in
Urban Africa
2017
Moving onward? Secondary movers on the fringes of refugee mobility in Kakuma refugee Camp, Kenya
Jolien Tegenbos
Karen Büscher
A2
Journal Article
in
TRANSFERS-INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF MOBILITY STUDIES
2017
Urban geographies of Violent conflict: Emerging boomtowns and spatial productions of political ambitions in Eastern Congo
Karen Büscher
C3
Conference
2017
2016
Multi-layered security governance as a quick fix? The challenges of donor-supported, bottom-up security provision in Ituri (DR Congo)
Kasper Hoffmann
Koen Vlassenroot
Karen Büscher
A2
Journal Article
in
JSRP PAPER
2016
Reading urban landscapes of war and peace: the case of Goma, DRC
Karen Büscher
Bookchapter
in
Spatializing peace and conflict : mapping the production of places, sites and scales of violence
2016
2014
La dimension politique de l'urbanisation minière dans un contexte fragile de conflit armé: le cas de Nyabibwe
Karen Büscher
Jeroen Cuvelier
Franck Mushobekwa
Bookchapter
in
L'Afrique des grands lacs : annuaire 2013-2014
2014
2013
Borderlands, identity and urban development: the case of Goma (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Koen Vlassenroot
Karen Büscher
A1
Journal Article
in
URBAN STUDIES
2013
Indexical appropriations of Lingala
Karen Büscher
Sigurd D'hondt
Michael Meeuwis
C3
Conference
2013
Navigating the Urban 'in-between space': local livelihood and identity strategies in exploiting the Goma/Gisenyi border
Karen Büscher
Gillian Mathys
Bookchapter
in
Violence on the margins : states, conflict, and borderlands
2013
Recruiting a nonlocal language for performing local identity: indexical appropriations of Lingala in the Congolese border town Goma
Karen Büscher
Sigurd D'hondt
Michael Meeuwis
A1
Journal Article
in
LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY
2013
2012
Urban governance beyond the state: practices of informal urban regulation in the city of Goma, Eastern D.R. Congo
Karen Büscher
A2
Journal Article
in
URBAN FORUM
2012
2011
Conflict, state failure and urban transformation in the Eastern Congolese periphery: the case of Goma
Karen Büscher
Koen Vlassenroot
Theodore Trefon
Dissertation
2011
The border city of Goma: zone of contestation or laboratory of change?
Koen Vlassenroot
Karen Büscher
C1
Conference
2011
2010
Gouvernance sans gouvernmenet? Le rôle de l'État Congolais dans la gouvernance urbaine semi-autonome: état des lieux et réflexcions sur l'avenir
Karen Büscher
Bongania Richard
A4
Journal Article
in
REGARDS CROISES
2010
Humanitarian presence and urban development: new opportunities and contrasts in Goma, DRC
Karen Büscher
Koen Vlassenroot
A1
Journal Article
in
DISASTERS
2010
2009
Identiteit, patronage en geweld in Oost-Congo
Koen Vlassenroot
Karen Büscher
Bookchapter
in
Etnisch geweld : groepsconflict in de schaduw van de staat
2009
Identiteit, patronage en geweld in Oost-Congo
Koen Vlassenroot
Karen Büscher
Bookchapter
in
Etnisch geweld : groepsconflict in de schaduw van de staat
2009
The city as a humanitarian space. The case of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
Karen Büscher
C3
Conference
2009
2008
Conflict en stedelijke impact in Oost-Congo: het voorbeeld van Goma
Karen Büscher
Bookchapter
in
Conflict en ontwikkeling : overleven in de grensgebieden van de globalisering
2008
Identity and Mobility on the Congolese-Rwandan border. The Scaling of urban identification in Goma
Karen Büscher
C3
Conference
2008
Stedelijke identiteit in Goma
Karen Büscher
A4
Journal Article
in
AGORA (AMSTERDAM)
2008
Urban Development and Identity in the eastern D.R. Congo periphery. The case of Goma
Karen Büscher
C3
Conference
2008