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2009
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Ghent University(Current)
Ghent University Hospital
Karen Büscher is an author at Ghent University specializing in social sciences, anthropology, and urban planning.
Top concepts
Social SciencesAnthropologyUrban PlanningPoliticsEducationUrban GeographyColonialismGeopoliticsPublic PolicyUrban Development
Publications per year
2009–2021
Recruiting a nonlocal language for performing local identity: Indexical appropriations of Lingala in the Congolese border town Goma
Karen Büscher, Sigurd D’hondt, Michael Meeuwis · Language in Society · 2013 · 129 citations · Full text
Language Policy, Colonialism, New Indexical Values +25
Humanitarian presence and urban development: new opportunities and contrasts in Goma, DRC
Karen Büscher, Koen Vlassenroot · Disasters · 2010 · 122 citations
Urban Development, Education, Social Sciences +17
African cities and violent conflict: the urban dimension of conflict and post conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa
Karen Büscher · Journal of Eastern African Studies · 2018 · 82 citations
Borderlands, Identity and Urban Development: The Case of Goma (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Koen Vlassenroot, Karen Büscher · Urban Studies · 2013 · 64 citations
Colonialism, Urban Development, Border Sites +17
Brokering research with war-affected people: The tense relationship between opportunities and ethics
Julie Schiltz, Karen Büscher · Ethnography · 2016 · 39 citations
Reflexive Ethics, Ethical Dilemma, Education +19
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