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Origination and Africa's International Relations: Gatemaking and Airport Politics in Ethiopia and Ghana (2023)
Journal Article
Tomkinson, J. (2024). Origination and Africa's International Relations: Gatemaking and Airport Politics in Ethiopia and Ghana. Third World Quarterly, 45(1), 133-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2213642

This article explores Africa’s shifting international relations through two important international gateways to the continent: Kotoka International Airport in Accra and Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa. Case studies drawing on archival, fiel... Read More about Origination and Africa's International Relations: Gatemaking and Airport Politics in Ethiopia and Ghana.

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.

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. (2022). 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.