Project

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

Code

01N04619

Looptijd

01-01-2019 → 31-12-2022

Financiering

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Karen Büscher

Onderzoeksdisciplines

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

Trefwoorden

DRCongo stedelijk verzet etnografie conflict

Projectomschrijving

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.