Latest Research in African studies and sociopolitical issues

31 research papers · 2026 median publication year

Top Research Topics in African studies and sociopolitical issues

Highest-Cited Papers

  1. Paths of war: Route ecologies and guerrilla mobility in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle, 1963–1979
  2. Predictors of Onward Migration in Multi-Stage Mobility: Evidence from Russia-Born Arrivals to Israel
  3. Democratic citizenship education under constraint: a critical phenomenological study of teacher agency and everyday resistance
  4. The Australian Union Movement and the Politics of Full Employment, 1945–1976
  5. Turbulent equilibria: the coexistence of civil and warring oligarchic modes of rule in Colombia’s Caribbean Coast
  6. "ESCAPING THE NATION": A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC DESPAIR AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN NIGERIAN "JAPA" DISCOURSE ON X
  7. Saving Democracy from Liberalism // Inner Dialogue Without a Mind
  8. A voice before the vote: Welsh women Poor Law Guardians, 1869–1928
  9. News Framing of Service Delivery Protests by the City Press in South Africa: 2005–2015
  10. ‘Extremely reactionary gentlemen’ amidst a ‘modern miracle’: was a compromise between labour and capital in British Hong Kong unthinkable?
  11. Doing and undoing borders: The case of a mid-sized city
  12. Aaron G. FountainJr., High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America The University of North Carolina Press, 2025. 380 pp.
  13. Brazil’s supreme court on content moderation: national sovereignty versus tech oligarchy
  14. Strategic appeals and audience alignment in government short videos: A corpus-based analysis
  15. Albanians From Kosovo in the United States: To Stay, Migrate, or Return
  16. International academic mobility and the temporality of contribution: a morphogenetic analysis of returnee scholars’ engagement in higher education
  17. Inside an Ottoman Waqf management: employment, investment, social expenditure and commodity prices in the imperial Hafsa Sultan Waqf
  18. Between Authoritarian Legacies and the Emerging Revitalization: The Chilean Trade Union Movement at More Than 50 Years Since the Coup d’État
  19. Beyond the Contract: Structural Vulnerability, Spatial Control, and the Affective Realities of the Nepali Diaspora in Romania
  20. Shifting Forms of Political Violence Across Socio-Spatial Configurations
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African studies and sociopolitical issues

31 papers

Top Topics (10)

Migration, Refugees, and Integration3
African studies and sociopolitical issues2
Migration and Labor Dynamics2
Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development2
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies2
Global Education and Multiculturalism1
Australian History and Society1
Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance1
Multilingual Education and Policy1
Embodied and Extended Cognition1

Top Publications (20)

1.Paths of war: Route ecologies and guerrilla mobility in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle, 1963–19792.Predictors of Onward Migration in Multi-Stage Mobility: Evidence from Russia-Born Arrivals to Israel3.Democratic citizenship education under constraint: a critical phenomenological study of teacher agency and everyday resistance4.The Australian Union Movement and the Politics of Full Employment, 1945–19765.Turbulent equilibria: the coexistence of civil and warring oligarchic modes of rule in Colombia’s Caribbean Coast6."ESCAPING THE NATION": A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC DESPAIR AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN NIGERIAN "JAPA" DISCOURSE ON X7.Saving Democracy from Liberalism // Inner Dialogue Without a Mind8.A voice before the vote: Welsh women Poor Law Guardians, 1869–19289.News Framing of Service Delivery Protests by the <i>City Press</i> in South Africa: 2005–201510.‘Extremely reactionary gentlemen’ amidst a ‘modern miracle’: was a compromise between labour and capital in British Hong Kong unthinkable?11.Doing and undoing borders: The case of a mid-sized city12.Aaron G. FountainJr., <i>High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America</i> The University of North Carolina Press, 2025. 380 pp.13.Brazil’s supreme court on content moderation: national sovereignty versus tech oligarchy14.Strategic appeals and audience alignment in government short videos: A corpus-based analysis15.Albanians From Kosovo in the United States: To Stay, Migrate, or Return16.International academic mobility and the temporality of contribution: a morphogenetic analysis of returnee scholars’ engagement in higher education17.Inside an Ottoman Waqf management: employment, investment, social expenditure and commodity prices in the imperial Hafsa Sultan Waqf18.Between Authoritarian Legacies and the Emerging Revitalization: The Chilean Trade Union Movement at More Than 50 Years Since the Coup d’État19.Beyond the Contract: Structural Vulnerability, Spatial Control, and the Affective Realities of the Nepali Diaspora in Romania20.Shifting Forms of Political Violence Across Socio-Spatial Configurations
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