Publications

  • Our edited volume 'Accommodating Workers and Urban Residents: The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa' will be published with deGruyter publishing house later this year. Editors: Martina Barker-Ciganikova, Kirsten Rüther, Daniela Waldburger, Carl Bodenstein. 
  • Martina Barker-Ciganikova: Introduction, in: Barker-Ciganikova, M.; Rüther, K.; Waldburger, D.; Bodenstein, C. (eds.), Accommodating Workers and Urban Residents: The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa. deGruyter. 
  • Kirsten Rüther: The rule of rent: The state, employers and the becoming urban dweller in Northern Rhodesia acting across a societal field of force, c. 1948–1962, in: Barker-Ciganikova, M.; Rüther, K.; Waldburger, D.; Bodenstein, C. (eds.), Accommodating Workers and Urban Residents: The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa. deGruyter. 
  • Daniela Waldburger: House, home, health and hygiene – social engineering of workers in Elisabethville / Lubumbashi (1940s to 1960s) through the lens of language usage, in: Barker-Ciganikova, M.; Rüther, K.; Waldburger, D.; Bodenstein, C. (eds.), Accommodating Workers and Urban Residents: The Politics of Housing in (Post-) Colonial Africa. deGruyter. 
  • Kirsten published an article - Kirsten Rüther: Asking Appropriate Questions, Reconsidering Research Agendas: Moving between London and Lusaka, in- and outside the Archive, in: ADMINISTORY. Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsgeschichte, Vol. 4, 2019, pp. 110–124. D O I : 10.2478/ADHI-2019-0007
  • Kirsten published an article - Kirsten Rüther: Stadt und Strukturen des Mobilen im (post)kolonialen Afrika, in: Schmidt-Lauber, Brigitta (ed.), Andere Urbanitäten: Zur Pluralität des Städtischen. Wien: Böhlau, 2018, pp. 61-76. Read more...
  • Daniela collaborated on an article - Meerts, Pierre, Ilungo, Edouard (eds.). En collaboration avec Daniela Waldburger.  Fleurs de Lubumbashi - Flowers of Lubumbashi – Maua ya Lubumbashi. Lubumbashi: Mediaspaul, 2019 (forthcoming).

Teaching

  • Lecture series 'Housing for Workers (and Others) in African Cities', Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, Winter Term 2017
  • Lecture series '20th Century Perspectives on Town Planning and Infrastructure in Africa in Colonial/Metropole divide', Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, Summer Term 2019
  • Lecture series 'Wohnraum, Wohnungsbau und Politik: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven mit Bezug auf Afrika', Joint class offered with Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies and Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna, Winter Term 2019-2020
  • 4th Vienna Ethnography Lab, Infrastructures: Imagination, Materiality, Process, Convenors: Kirsten Rüther, Tatjana Thelen, Peter Schweitzer, Department of Social and Cultrural Anthropology, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, 26.-28. September 2018. 
  • Daniela Waldburger, 'Kazi na kuwa mfanyakazi - Work as Home in Labour Settlements in Lubumbashi (DR Congo)', Lecture held for the International Lecture Series (be)coming home; Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, 10. April 2018
  • Erasmus+ Program, Staff mobility exchange between the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Zambia, Lusaka for the period 2018-2020

Conference presentations

  • Kirsten Rüther, The Ideology of Minimum Requirements, or, Do African Dwellers Need an Address? organised by the Middle Class Urbanism Project (MCU) at the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, December 2019
  • Daniela Waldburger, Experiences with “shared authority” with ex-mineworkers of the Départs Volontaire (ODV) in Lubumbashi (DR Congo) at Lubumbashi Today: Languages, Arts and Society organised by the "Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo" of the University of Naples "L'Orientale", Italy, October 2019
  • Daniela Waldburger and Carl Bodenstein, Comparing the Copperbelt-Conference organised by Oxford University in Lubumbashi, July 2019
  • Daniela Waldburger, Swahili in the Speech of Mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DR Congo) at Swahili Colloquium in Bayreuth, Germany, May-June 2019
  • Kirsten Rüther, Miete und Kolonialherrschaft im kolonialen Zambia at conference Zwischenräume als Perspektive und Gegenstand kulturwissenschaftlicher Stadtforschung  organised by Netzwerk kulturwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung, Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, February 2019
  • Carl Bodenstein, Divided Urbanism - On the Spatial Production of Transportation Infrastructures in Livingstone during Late Colonialism at the International Congress Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes in Lissabon, Portugal, January 2019
  • Daniela Waldburger, Big Cities, Small Languages international conference in Berlin organised by the SOAS World Languages Institute, UK, November 2018
  • Carl Bodenstein, On the Provision of Infrastructural Services in African Compounds in Livingstone during late Colonialism at the 4th Ethnographic Laboratories, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, September 2018
  • Carl Bodenstein, Congo Housing is for ‘Well-To-Do’ - Debates About the Application of the Elisabethville Housing Scheme in Northern Rhodesia as a  Symptom of Colonial Uncertainty at 14th Conference of European Association for Urban History in Rome, September 2018
  • Daniela Waldburger, Kazi na kuwa mfanyakazi  - c’était bien à l’époque – conception of work and life by Gécamines workers’ in Lubumbashi, Congo Research Network Conference held at St Antony's College at the University of Oxford, April 2018
  • Kirsten Rüther and Daniela Waldburger, 4. Tagung des Netzwerks „Afrikaforschung in Österreich, University of Vienna, April 2018

Core Workshops

  • Workshop 1: Studying Housing in Interdisciplinary Perspective, Department of African Studies, Vienna, November 2017
  • Workshop 2: Reviewing Housing from Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Department of African Studies, Vienna, November 2019