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Researcher

Karen Büscher

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67 Results

2026

Contentious urbanisation in Ethiopia : ethnic contestations and the politics of city making in Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa and Sheger

Ayehu Bacha TesoKaren BüscherDejene Gemechu Chala

Land under siege : militarized capitalism and urban land dispossession in the city of Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Benjamin MuhozaKaren BüscherSam Kniknie

A1 Journal Article in ANTIPODE

The politics of hidden urbanisation amidst conflict and forced displacement

2025

African Great Lakes Region Diaspora in Brussels (Belgium) and the Transnational Urban Translation of Violent Conflct and Ethnic Tension

Mineralised urbanisation : rural-urban linkages, migration and mobility, and the making and unmaking of cities in Africa

Cristina Udelsmann RodriguesKaren BüscherPatience Mususa

Bookchapter in Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South

Trajectories from conflict to order (and peace?) within cities

Emilian BeruttiKaren Büscher

Transnational urban landscapes of war across Congo and Belgium

2024

Contested ‘commune rurales’ : decentralisation and the (violent) struggle for public authority in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Karen BüscherStéphanie PerazzoneJeroen CuvelierStephane LumbuEspoir RwakiraPaul BulamboChrispin Mvano YabaumaGodefroid Muzalia Kihangu

A1 Journal Article in GLOBAL POLICY

Long-term monitoring of environmental and geophysical impacts in conflict-endured zones : a landscape perspective on Kivu Lake

Ivan Lizaga VilluendasBorja LatorreMontfort BagalwaBossissi NkubaSamuel BodéKarume KatchoHonoré CirabaOlivier EvrardKaren BüscherKoen Vlassenroot et al.

The logics of camp historicity in Uganda's Nakivale refugee settlement : coloniality, sanctuary, and the 'national order of things'

Jolien TegenbosKoen VlassenrootKaren Büscher

Transnational War Narratives on Eastern Congo (and Their Spatial Translations): From Goma to Brussels and Back

Wayward edges : a dissonant ethnography of protest on the streets of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

Sam KniknieKaren Büscher

2023

Boomtown urbanisation in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zambia : a comparative analysis of urban transformation

Goma under siege : witnessing the militarisation of a city

Karen BüscherDavid Bilembo

Peripheral urbanisation and central political stakes : politics of boomtown urbanisation in a context of war : case : Eastern DR Congo

Rebellious riots : entangled geographies of contention in Africa

Sam KniknieKaren Büscher

Bookchapter in Rebellious riots : entangled geographies of contention in Africa

Rebellious riots : entangled geographies of contention in Africa

Temporality and permanence of urbanisation in Africa

2022

Oost-Congolese stad Goma onder staat van beleg : militarisering van een stad

David BilemboKaren Büscher

The dynamics of hidden urbanization in Eastern DRC : new towns, conflict and politics

Karen BüscherStéphanie Perazzone

Violent conflict and the centrality of the African Peripheral urbanities

Karen BüscherStéphanie PerazzoneAyehu Bacha Teso

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 PechChristian LeversKaren BüscherBlake Walker

A1 Journal Article in LAND USE POLICY

Boomtown urbanization and rural-urban transformation in mining and conflict regions in Angola, the DRC and Zambia

Cristina Udelsmann RodriguesPatience MususaKaren BüscherJeroen Cuvelier

A1 Journal Article in SUSTAINABILITY

Goma, city of refuge

A4 Journal Article in PARANGOLÉ

2020

In search of chiefly authority in ‘post-aid’ Acholiland : transformations of customary authorities in northern Uganda

Sophie KomujuniKaren Büscher

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES

Violent conflict and urbanization in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo : the city as a safe haven

Bookchapter in Cities at war : global insecurity and urban resistance

2019

African cities and violent conflict : the urban dimension of conflict and post conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa

Bookchapter in Urban Africa and violent conflict : understanding conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an urban perspective

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

Humanitarian urbanism in a post-conflict aid town : aid agencies and urbanization in Gulu, Northern Uganda

Karen BüscherSophie KomujuniIvan Ashaba

Bookchapter in Urban Africa and violent conflict : understanding conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an urban perspective

Insecurity in Goma : experiences, actors and responses

Maarten HendriksKaren Büscher

Politique d'urbanisation, déplacement interne et conflit armé dans l'Est de la RDC: l'histoire de Kitchanga.

Gillian MathysKaren Büscher

Bookchapter in Conjonctures de l'Afrique centrale

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

The story of Kitchanga : spatial politics of presence, refuge and return in North Kivu, Eastern DRCongo

Gillian MathysKaren Büscher

To be a chief and to remain a chief: the production of customary authority in post-post conflict Northern Uganda

Sophie KomujuniKaren BüscherKoen Vlassenroot

Urban Africa and violent conflict : understanding conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an urban perspective

Urbanizing Kitchanga : spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo

Gillian MathysKaren Büscher

Bookchapter in Urban Africa and violent conflict : understanding conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an urban perspective

War, displacement and rural–urban transformation : Kivu’s Boomtowns, Eastern D.R. Congo

Karen BüscherGillian Mathys

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

2018

African cities and violent conflict : the urban dimension of conflict and post conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES

Brokering research with war-affected people : the tense relationship between opportunities and ethics

Julie SchiltzKaren Büscher

A1 Journal Article in ETHNOGRAPHY

Competition, patronage and fragmentation : the limits of bottom-up approaches to security governance in Ituri

Kasper HoffmannKoen VlassenrootKaren Büscher

A2 Journal Article in STABILITY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Humanitarian urbanism in a post-conflict aid town : aid agencies and urbanization in Gulu, Northern Uganda

Karen BüscherSophie KomujuniIvan Ashaba

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES

Intraurban development in a city under protracted armed conflict : patterns and actors in Goma, DR Congo

Lisa PechKaren BüscherTobia Lakes

A1 Journal Article in POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Urbanisation and the political geographies of violent struggle for power and control : mining boomtowns in Eastern Congo

A2 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY = REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE POLITIQUE DE DEVELOPPEMENT

Urbanizing Kitchanga : spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo

Gillian MathysKaren Büscher

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES

2017

A spatial reading of urban political-religious conflict : contested urban landscapes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Jep StockmansKaren Büscher

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES

African cities as critical sites of violent conflict and post-conflict reconstruction

Bookchapter in Urban Africa

Moving onward? Secondary movers on the fringes of refugee mobility in Kakuma refugee Camp, Kenya

Jolien TegenbosKaren Büscher

A2 Journal Article in TRANSFERS-INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF MOBILITY STUDIES

Urban geographies of Violent conflict: Emerging boomtowns and spatial productions of political ambitions in Eastern Congo

2016

Multi-layered security governance as a quick fix? The challenges of donor-supported, bottom-up security provision in Ituri (DR Congo)

Kasper HoffmannKoen VlassenrootKaren Büscher

A2 Journal Article in JSRP PAPER

Reading urban landscapes of war and peace: the case of Goma, DRC

Bookchapter in Spatializing peace and conflict : mapping the production of places, sites and scales of violence

2014

La dimension politique de l'urbanisation minière dans un contexte fragile de conflit armé: le cas de Nyabibwe

Karen BüscherJeroen CuvelierFranck Mushobekwa

Bookchapter in L'Afrique des grands lacs : annuaire 2013-2014

2013

Borderlands, identity and urban development: the case of Goma (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Koen VlassenrootKaren Büscher

A1 Journal Article in URBAN STUDIES

Indexical appropriations of Lingala

Karen BüscherSigurd D'hondtMichael Meeuwis

Navigating the Urban 'in-between space': local livelihood and identity strategies in exploiting the Goma/Gisenyi border

Karen BüscherGillian Mathys

Bookchapter in Violence on the margins : states, conflict, and borderlands

Recruiting a nonlocal language for performing local identity: indexical appropriations of Lingala in the Congolese border town Goma

Karen BüscherSigurd D'hondtMichael Meeuwis

A1 Journal Article in LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY

2012

Urban governance beyond the state: practices of informal urban regulation in the city of Goma, Eastern D.R. Congo

A2 Journal Article in URBAN FORUM

2011

Conflict, state failure and urban transformation in the Eastern Congolese periphery: the case of Goma

Karen BüscherKoen VlassenrootTheodore Trefon

The border city of Goma: zone of contestation or laboratory of change?

Koen VlassenrootKaren Büscher

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 BüscherBongania Richard

A4 Journal Article in REGARDS CROISES

Humanitarian presence and urban development: new opportunities and contrasts in Goma, DRC

Karen BüscherKoen Vlassenroot

A1 Journal Article in DISASTERS

2009

Identiteit, patronage en geweld in Oost-Congo

Koen VlassenrootKaren Büscher

Bookchapter in Etnisch geweld : groepsconflict in de schaduw van de staat

Identiteit, patronage en geweld in Oost-Congo

Koen VlassenrootKaren Büscher

Bookchapter in Etnisch geweld : groepsconflict in de schaduw van de staat

The city as a humanitarian space. The case of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

2008

Conflict en stedelijke impact in Oost-Congo: het voorbeeld van Goma

Bookchapter in Conflict en ontwikkeling : overleven in de grensgebieden van de globalisering

Identity and Mobility on the Congolese-Rwandan border. The Scaling of urban identification in Goma

Stedelijke identiteit in Goma

A4 Journal Article in AGORA (AMSTERDAM)

Urban Development and Identity in the eastern D.R. Congo periphery. The case of Goma