Benjamin Kirby | @benjaminkirby.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. @UniBt @ClusterAfrica | religious politics, (de)globalisation, infrastructure, urban life, Islam, immersion, Dar es Salaam, ethnography.
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Call for Papers: Urban-religious Worldmaking in Africa (16-20 September 2025)—— An interdisciplinary Point Sud conference hosted by Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in Stellenbosch, South Africa
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RT @marcodinu: So it seems my new book Unjust Developments is forthcoming, and going to be published with @FordhamPress . This new book exa….
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RT @PrinceGuma: Moritz Kasper and team organizing a fully funded five-day workshop on infrastructure at Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Dakar,….
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RT @PrinceGuma: Nice to see that my paper on ‘everyday infrastructures of urban life’ is now in print at @IJURResearch. I reiterate the n….
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RT @BarbaraBompani: Book launch of two fab manuscripts in the 'Religion in Transforming Africa' book series: .Brenner 'Histories of Religio….
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RT @skestenbaum: In which I work a Tennessee tent revival… and go long on devils, ghouls, spirit possession, deliverance, showbiz, satanic….
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@ddehanas @RssJournal @y_holz And here is my extended conceptual discussion of religion and infrastructure.
Happy to see that my contribution to our special issue—"Religious Infrastructure"—is now published open access @RssJournal. More on the rest of the special issue v. soon!.
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Special thanks are due to @ddehanas, Marat Shterin, Stella Rock, and Lina Liederman for overseeing such a smooth publication process—I would highly recommend @RssJournal. I'm also v. grateful to my co-editors Yanti Hoelzchen @y_holz and Matteo (Teo) Benussi.
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The articles are grounded in sustained empirical fieldwork conducted in Ghana, India, Madagascar, Nigeria, Russia, Serbia, and Tanzania. Our authors represent disciplines as varied as anthropology, urban planning, theology, African studies, and the study of religion.
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Our special issue—Religious Infrastructure—has dropped @RssJournal!.Over nine articles, we examine a diverse range of configurations, incl. social media algorithms, a radio tower, residential areas, indigenous religious shrines, and historic monasteries.
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RT @tingguowrites: Overjoyed that our special issue is officially out (vol 83 [2] May 2024) @jas_tw! . Grateful for the editorial foreword:….
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Happy to see that my contribution to our special issue—"Religious Infrastructure"—is now published open access @RssJournal. More on the rest of the special issue v. soon!.
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RT @marcodinu: In a week time, the exhibition #Arada // Street Smart will open at @Centrala_space . This exhibition is an attempt to preser….
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RT @StuartElden: @samar42 Al-Bulushi, War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States and the War on Terror - @stanfordpress, November….
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Since Kenya's invasion of Somalia in 2011, the Kenyan state has been engaged in direct combat with the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, conducting airstrikes in southern Somalia and deploying...
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RT @clairecmercer: Absolutely thrilled that this book will be coming out - open access - with @ucpress in September 2024. The Suburban Fr….
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RT @JEASjournal: In their contribution, @kirby_benjamin, Erik Meinema & Hans Olsson critically examine expressions of dissent in three area….
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RT @IGeographies: The next speaker, Michael Degani, in our Infrastructural Geographies series. Wednesday the 28th of February at 3:00.….
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RT @JEASjournal: Now online (Open Access): .Muslim political dissent in coastal East Africa: complexities, ambiguities, entanglements by Be….
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@ErikMeinema @hgolsson @JEASjournal . and for anyone interested in discussing these issues further, do consider submitting an abstract to the below panel!.
Call for papers on expressions of Muslim political dissent in Eastern Africa @VAD_eV #VAD2024 w/ Hassan Mwakimako & Jannis Saalfeld. Deadline 31 January. Further details here:
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