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This dissertation delineates a political economy of refugee return migration to South Sudan by examining refugees' shifting practices of production, social reproduction and exchange, their spatialization and their intersection with various axes of difference. My work builds on t…

This is a study of institutional variation, differentiation, and evolution in natural resources management in two post-conflict African states. A historical analysis of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Ethiopia and Namibia, the dissertation examines how and…

When Eritrean refugees began to return to their country from Sudan at independence in the early 1990s, they came to inhabit places that had been imagined from afar for as many as 30 years--for the younger generation, their entire lives. However, returnees shared a history of col…