Sam Kniknie

PhD candidate at @crg_crg | working on popular mobilization, youth and urban peripheries in eastern DRC

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

@JeroenAdam1 Thank you for the kind words Jeroen!

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

@Fayrouz_yousfi Thank you Fayrouz!

[@stephanieperazzone.bsky.social 🍉 🇨🇩 @sperazzone]

Colleagues & I just published a paper @Global_Policy on the linkages btw (post-)conflict decentralisation policies & violent competition for crafting & securing public authority in DR Congo 🇨🇩👇 @KarenBscher @JeroenCuvelier @GodefroidMuzal1 @ERwakira

https://t.co/Of0EgtSKhm

[Dr. Anissa Bougrea @Anissa_Bougrea]

Join the Palestinian Solidarity Network's teachout on Palestine at the UFO @ugent from 12h-15h this Friday 20/10 during the Global strike. 📢✊🏽 Consider skipping work/classes to attend. Share the poster & inform others. 🔄 The time for action is now. 🇵🇸

[Conflict Research Group @crg_crg]

Big day for CRG yesterday with the launch of the Insecure Livelihoods Fellowship programme in Bukavu. For the next six months 10 Congolese researchers will get a tailored mentorship programme to guide their research

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

@JamesMyfanwy Thanks pal!

[Kristof Titeca @KristofTiteca]

Happy to have this out (open access), in the Strategic Review for Southern Africa: "Russian influence, anti-Western sentiments and African agency: The struggle for influence in the Democratic Republic of Congo" https://t.co/lYauyw3zjz #DRC #Russia

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

One of the things I enjoyed most during my PhD research was witnessing some of my interlocutors translating their lives (and my research) into music. I am glad the article is finally out in Ethnography.

https://t.co/xTUdJNuatC

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

A stellar monograph turned into a book and Robin Thiers is presenting it next week at our department! Will there be free bananas? 🍌🍌🍌

[Conflict Research Group @crg_crg]

Dive into captivating tales of the #postplantation! Join @robin_thiers in conversation with @jeroen_adam and Patricio Abinales (@UHMAsianStudies) on June 21, 10-11am CEST/ 4-5pm PHT at our upcoming hybrid #CRGBookLaunch, co-organised with Ateneo de Manila #Philippinebananas (1/3)

[GICNetwork @theGICnetwork]

OPPORTUNITÉ pour cherhcheur. se.s 🇨🇩! Contribuez à notre série Insecure Livelihoods (ILS). 8 bourses de 6 mois, dans le cadre du programme Insecure Livelihoods Fellowship (ILF) / projet de recherche "Analyse des conflits à l’est de la RDC" financé par la GIZ (ProPaix II)

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

@sperazzone and @KarenBscher's take on peripheral urbanism and the particular forms of political contestation linked to it is brilliant as always! #ECAS2023

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

Thanks to all who made it for the thought-provoking questions!

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

We got to talk about our recently published volume Rebellious Riots with @emmaelfversson and @kieranmitton in Ghent today and it was a great conversation! Thanks to all who came and my fellow editor @KarenBscher of course.

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

Next Tuesday, don't forget!

[Conflict Research Group @crg_crg]

📚 Make sure not to miss the upcoming #CRGBookLaunch in Ghent (TUE, 30 May, 11-13h) where our @KarenBscher and @SamKnkn, together with co-authors @emmaelfversson and @kieranmitton, will present their new volume Rebellious Riots: Entangled Geographies of Contention in Africa (1/2)

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

We are extremely happy with the result! Take a look here: https://t.co/V9iy6WxHUY

[Sam Kniknie @SamKnkn]

On May 30, @KarenBscher and I present our new volume on the entanglements between protests and armed conflict! In conversation with contributors @emmaelfversson and @kieranmitton, we will talk about the ways in which different forms of contention come together.

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

Narratives about the debt crisis in Global South countries typically present it as a technical issue or the fault of “corrupt” or “incompetent” governments.

This intentionally erases colonialism in creating Global South debt, & how it is utilised as a form of neo-colonialism.