Outputs (3)

Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, living and imagining identities through buildings (2022)
Book
Tomkinson, J., Mulugeta, D., & Gallagher, J. (Eds.). (2022). Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, living and imagining identities through buildings. James Currey. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2x4kp24

Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa. Buildings shape politics in the ways they define communities, enable economic... Read More about Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, living and imagining identities through buildings.

China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi: exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains (2022)
Book Chapter
Batsani-Ncube, I. (2022). China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi: exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains. In J. Tomkinson, D. Mulugeta, & J. Gallagher (Eds.), Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings (54-72). James Currey. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2x4kp24.11

The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia (2022)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J., Mulugeta, D., Melake-Selam, A., & Tomkinson, J. (in press). The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(1), 2 -24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2022.2068234

In this article, we attempt to understand the persistence of the ‘great tradition’ in describing what the state means to Ethiopians. We do this by examining stories about history, told by and about Ethiopia’s architecture. Within these stories we fin... Read More about The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia.