This report summarizes the results of ethnographic research that I carried out in 2011-12 on the music recording industry in Nairobi, Kenya, under the auspices of the European Research Council-funded Music Digitisation Mediation (MusDig) project. For more on MusDig, visit http://musdig.music.ox.ac.uk.

This paper represents an early attempt at pulling together ethnographic data collected during a year of fieldwork on digital music production and distribution in Nairobi, Kenya. An early version was presented at “Popular Expression in the ‘Silicon Savannah’: Perspectives on the Digitisation of Art and Life in Kenya,” Goethe InstitutK Nairobi…[Read more]

In the late nineteenth century, France experienced concurrent revolutions in domestic politics and international affairs. Anti-parliamentary, anti-capitalist and anti-Semitic movements corroded the liberal foundations on which the Republican project rested. Meanwhile, France concluded an alliance with its longtime geopolitical and ideological…[Read more]

Examines competing projects to manage late imperial Kiev’s multi-ethnic society and their political consequences.

Explores how migration changed the political landscape of late imperial Kiev.

Explores the relationship between the Ukrainian nation-building process and the tsarist state.

Explores what the complex entangled histories of Russia and Ukraine can teach us about their trouble relationship today.

Despite the passage of relatively uniform copyright legislation throughout East Africa and the formation of regional organizations meant to further standardize these laws, the protection of musical works in East African creative industries has varied significantly within and between Tanzania and Kenya. While enforcement remains weak throughout…[Read more]