Prof. Dr. Thomas Bierschenk 

 
 
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Area of Specialization
State construction and deconstruction in Africa and the Middle East, Sociology of Development Policy
Department ZEF/A - Department for Political and Cultural Change
Current Research Topics Everyday Corruption in Africa, Decentralisation in West Africa, Natural Ressource Management at the Periphery of African Cities
Further Research Topics Sociological Aspects of Biodiversity in the African Savannah, Islam and Social Change
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Publications
1998 Les pouvoirs aux villages. Le Bénin rural ente démocratisation et décentralisation , Paris: Karthala (ed. with J.-P. Olivier de Sardan)(see Politique Africaine no.74, June 1999, pp. 124 - 142 for an extensive review)  
2000 Courtiers en développement. Les villages africaines en quête des projets , Paris: Karthala (ed. with J.-P. Olivier de Sardan & J.-P. Chauveau)  
2002 Islam in Africa (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam. no. 4), Münster : LIT (ed. with Georg Stauth)  
1988 Development Projects as Arenas of Negotiation between Strategic Groups. A case of Study from Bénin, Sociologia Ruralis 38: 146 - 160  
1997 ECRIS: Rapid Collective Inquiry for the Investigation of Conflicts and Strategic Groups, Human Organization. Journal of Applied Anthropology 56: 238 - 245 (with J.-P. Olivier de Sardan)  
1997 Local Powers and a Distant State in Rural Central African Republic, Journal of Modern African History 35: 441 - 468  
2000 Herrschaft, Verhandlung und Gewalt im modernen Afrika. Zur politischen Soziologie einer afrikanischen Mittelstadt (Parakou, Benin) (Domination, negociation and violence in modern Africa. On the political sociology of a West African middle town), Afrika-Spektrum 34: 321 - 348  
2001 Institutionalising the PRSP appproach in Benin. Ch. 2 of ODI PRSP institutionalisation study) (with Elisabeth Thioléron & N. Bako-Arifari), in press  
2002 Hans-Dieter Evers und die Bielefelder Schule der Entwicklungssoziologie, Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit Oct. 2002  
Curriculum Vitae
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