Project

Understanding urban protest in a context of war: An ethnographic analysis of ‘urban political terrains’ in Eastern DRC

Code
01N04619
Duration
01 January 2019 → 31 December 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Other economics and business not elsewhere classified
    • Citizenship
    • Democratisation
    • Local and urban politics
    • National politics not elsewhere classified
    • Political engagement, political participation
    • Democratic innovations
    • Political thought
    • Public management
    • Other political science not elsewhere classified
Keywords
DRCongo urban resistance ethnography conflict
 
Project description

This research project offers a theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of the complex forms of urban political resistance, activism and protest in the war-torn region Congo. This will be operationalized by an ethnographic study in three cities in Eastern DRC.