Michelle Engeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 195191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Engeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Engeler |
| SIGNATURE | ENGELER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Migration drivers and migration choice: Interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa
The notion of migration as being at least partly about 'choice' is deeply rooted in both academic thought and public policy. Recent contributions have considered migration choice as step-wise in nature, involving a separation between 'aspiration' and 'ability' to migrate, whilst stressing a range of non-economic factors that influence migration choices. But such nuances have not prevented the emergence of a significant area of public policy that …
Between Afropolitans and new Sankaras
Using the notion of Afropolitanism, which refers to highly mobile and well-connected "Africans of the world," this article examines the relative privileges of university graduates within Burkina Faso across generational divides. Comparisons emerge between cohorts graduating in the 1970s and the 2010s. While graduates of the 1970s enjoyed access to a privileged status through their local university education and a related network of global cosmopo…
Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front
This book deals with the topic of child soldiers, a phenomenon that has been known about for a long time and widely discussed in contexts all over the world, but has a particular significance for African studies. Myriam Denov focuses on the lives and realities of a group of child soldiers in Sierra Leone, both boys and girls, and traces what happened to these children both during and following the eleven-year civil war. The book provides a broad …
The Geography of Warscape
This article elaborates a heuristic approach to understanding the geography of warscape from a theoretically informed perspective. It argues that agency in protracted civil war emerges at the ambiguous interface of different, competing systems of power and authority. In order to account for the multiple trajectories of threat and opportunity that warscapes offer to different social actors and at different times and places, the article proposes th…
Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and citizenship in Africa, edited by Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent
The making of African nation states is a major theme in contemporary African studies. Rather than labelling these processes as ‘failed’, the authors of this volume try to draw a more differentiated picture. Their intention is not to deconstruct the African state but rather to understand its permanence. As ‘there is scarcely a country on the continent where the state of the nation and the boundaries of inclusion/exclusion have not been debated in …
Guinea in 2008: The unfinished revolution
Guinea in 2008: The Unfinished Revolution
La transition politique guinéenne paraît ne jamais devoir s'achever. En 2008, grèves, émeutes et affrontements ont touché le pays et l'État. Mais à la lumière des événements précédents de 2006 et 2007, il est difficile de savoir si la « révolution » est arrivée à son terme en 2008 ou si elle est encore en cours. À l'intérieur et au-delà de ces interprétations, l'armée guinéenne joue un rôle important mais tout à fait imprévisible. De quelque mani…
The Geography of Warscape
This article elaborates a heuristic approach to understanding the geography of warscape from a theoretically informed perspective. It argues that agency in protracted civil war emerges at the ambiguous interface of different, competing systems of power and authority. In order to account for the multiple trajectories of threat and opportunity that warscapes offer to different social actors and at different times and places, the article proposes th…
Migration drivers and migration choice: Interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa
The notion of migration as being at least partly about 'choice' is deeply rooted in both academic thought and public policy. Recent contributions have considered migration choice as step-wise in nature, involving a separation between 'aspiration' and 'ability' to migrate, whilst stressing a range of non-economic factors that influence migration choices. But such nuances have not prevented the emergence of a significant area of public policy that …
Guinea in 2008: The Unfinished Revolution
La transition politique guinéenne paraît ne jamais devoir s'achever. En 2008, grèves, émeutes et affrontements ont touché le pays et l'État. Mais à la lumière des événements précédents de 2006 et 2007, il est difficile de savoir si la « révolution » est arrivée à son terme en 2008 ou si elle est encore en cours. À l'intérieur et au-delà de ces interprétations, l'armée guinéenne joue un rôle important mais tout à fait imprévisible. De quelque mani…
Between Afropolitans and new Sankaras
Using the notion of Afropolitanism, which refers to highly mobile and well-connected "Africans of the world," this article examines the relative privileges of university graduates within Burkina Faso across generational divides. Comparisons emerge between cohorts graduating in the 1970s and the 2010s. While graduates of the 1970s enjoyed access to a privileged status through their local university education and a related network of global cosmopo…
Guinea in 2008: The unfinished revolution
Guinea in 2008: The Unfinished Revolution
La transition politique guinéenne paraît ne jamais devoir s'achever. En 2008, grèves, émeutes et affrontements ont touché le pays et l'État. Mais à la lumière des événements précédents de 2006 et 2007, il est difficile de savoir si la « révolution » est arrivée à son terme en 2008 ou si elle est encore en cours. À l'intérieur et au-delà de ces interprétations, l'armée guinéenne joue un rôle important mais tout à fait imprévisible. De quelque mani…
Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and citizenship in Africa, edited by Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent
The making of African nation states is a major theme in contemporary African studies. Rather than labelling these processes as ‘failed’, the authors of this volume try to draw a more differentiated picture. Their intention is not to deconstruct the African state but rather to understand its permanence. As ‘there is scarcely a country on the continent where the state of the nation and the boundaries of inclusion/exclusion have not been debated in …
The Geography of Warscape
This article elaborates a heuristic approach to understanding the geography of warscape from a theoretically informed perspective. It argues that agency in protracted civil war emerges at the ambiguous interface of different, competing systems of power and authority. In order to account for the multiple trajectories of threat and opportunity that warscapes offer to different social actors and at different times and places, the article proposes th…
Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front
This book deals with the topic of child soldiers, a phenomenon that has been known about for a long time and widely discussed in contexts all over the world, but has a particular significance for African studies. Myriam Denov focuses on the lives and realities of a group of child soldiers in Sierra Leone, both boys and girls, and traces what happened to these children both during and following the eleven-year civil war. The book provides a broad …
Between Afropolitans and new Sankaras
Using the notion of Afropolitanism, which refers to highly mobile and well-connected "Africans of the world," this article examines the relative privileges of university graduates within Burkina Faso across generational divides. Comparisons emerge between cohorts graduating in the 1970s and the 2010s. While graduates of the 1970s enjoyed access to a privileged status through their local university education and a related network of global cosmopo…
Migration drivers and migration choice: Interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa
The notion of migration as being at least partly about 'choice' is deeply rooted in both academic thought and public policy. Recent contributions have considered migration choice as step-wise in nature, involving a separation between 'aspiration' and 'ability' to migrate, whilst stressing a range of non-economic factors that influence migration choices. But such nuances have not prevented the emergence of a significant area of public policy that …
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · International Development and Aid (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works)