Stephanie Kitchen
Biographic Data
| ID | 163707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Kitchen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitchen |
| SIGNATURE | KITCHEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-7047-3476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Extraversion of African Academic Journals: Donors, Dependencies, and Multinational Publishers
Since the 1990s, donors and multinational publishers have entrenched an extraverted academic publishing economy across Africa. Postcolonial optimism around independent African publishing was extinguished by two decades of structural adjustment, austerity, and higher education cuts. Then came the so-called “book famine.” Recognising the severity of the crisis, the International African Institute sought donor funding to support endogenous African j…
Publishing and politics under apartheid and the CIA
Elizabeth le Roux has compiled an insightful case study of Ravan Press, a South African anti-apartheid publisher of fiction and nonfiction books that flourished and then floundered through the apar
The past and future of Journal of African Cultural Studies
This editorial announces a new phase in the life of the Journal of African Cultural Studies, and introduces the revised editorial and management structure as well as the journal’s new affiliation w
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics explores the drastic efforts being made by elites to contain online activism, as well as how ‘fake news’, a failed digital vote-counting system and the incumbent president’s recruitment of Cambridge Analytica contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy from the African perspective, Nyabola’s ground-breaking work opens up new ways of understanding our current global online era…
The great African land grab?: Agricultural investments and the global food system
“Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines in media reports across the world. Land that only a short time ago seemed of little outside interest is now being sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Private-sector expectations of higher world food and commodity prices and government concerns about longer-term national food and energy securit…
War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone
The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have challenged scholars and members of the international community to come up with explanations. Up to this point, though, conclusions about the nature of the war are mainly drawn from accounts of civilian victims and commentators who had access to only one side of the war. The present study addresses this currently inco…
The past and future of Journal of African Cultural Studies
This editorial announces a new phase in the life of the Journal of African Cultural Studies, and introduces the revised editorial and management structure as well as the journal’s new affiliation w
War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone
The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have challenged scholars and members of the international community to come up with explanations. Up to this point, though, conclusions about the nature of the war are mainly drawn from accounts of civilian victims and commentators who had access to only one side of the war. The present study addresses this currently inco…
The great African land grab?: Agricultural investments and the global food system
“Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines in media reports across the world. Land that only a short time ago seemed of little outside interest is now being sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Private-sector expectations of higher world food and commodity prices and government concerns about longer-term national food and energy securit…
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics explores the drastic efforts being made by elites to contain online activism, as well as how ‘fake news’, a failed digital vote-counting system and the incumbent president’s recruitment of Cambridge Analytica contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy from the African perspective, Nyabola’s ground-breaking work opens up new ways of understanding our current global online era…
The past and future of Journal of African Cultural Studies
This editorial announces a new phase in the life of the Journal of African Cultural Studies, and introduces the revised editorial and management structure as well as the journal’s new affiliation w
Publishing and politics under apartheid and the CIA
Elizabeth le Roux has compiled an insightful case study of Ravan Press, a South African anti-apartheid publisher of fiction and nonfiction books that flourished and then floundered through the apar
The Extraversion of African Academic Journals: Donors, Dependencies, and Multinational Publishers
Since the 1990s, donors and multinational publishers have entrenched an extraverted academic publishing economy across Africa. Postcolonial optimism around independent African publishing was extinguished by two decades of structural adjustment, austerity, and higher education cuts. Then came the so-called “book famine.” Recognising the severity of the crisis, the International African Institute sought donor funding to support endogenous African j…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Africa (2 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)