Latest Publications

2024

Braun, Lesley and Anna Magdalena Vollmer Mateus. 2024 (forthcoming). "Contemporary Ethnographic Aesthetics: The TikTok Turn" Visual Anthropology 37(3).

Braun, Lesley. 2024 (forthcoming). Digital Sirens. London: Routledge.

2023

Braun, Lesley. 2023. "Chains of Dependency: Changing Importation Practices in the DRC." In World Society Studies (a series edited by the World Society Foundation Zurich, Switzerland).

Braun, Lesley Nicole. 2023. Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

2022

Augusto, Asaf and Lesley Braun. 2022. "Women and cross-border trade between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo." In The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration Beyond Western Research, edited by Saskia Sassen, Natalia Ribas-Mateos, and Robert S. Lynd. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Vollmer Mateus, Anna. 2022. African Worlds in Istanbul: A workshop report.


Braun, Lesley Nicole, Xiao Meng, and Anna Vollmer Mateus. 2022. "Ethnographic research with TikTok." University of Basel, June 13th.
https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Blog/TikTok-als-Quelle-fuer-ethnografische-Untersuchungen.html 

2021

Braun, Lesley Nicole and Heidi Østbø Haugen. 2021. "The Weight Women Carry: Research on the Visible and Invisible Baggage in Suitcase Trade between China and Africa." The Professional Geographer: 1-7.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2021.1950554

Braun, Lesley Nicole. 2021. "Window of the World: Sino-African Encounters through Copies and Simulations." Journal of Asian and African Studies 57(2): 352-368. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096211019085

2019

Braun, Lesley Nicole. 2019. "Wandering women: the work of Congolese transnational traders." Africa 89(2): 378-397. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972019000135

Funding

This project has received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) as part of the Ambizione grant. It is hosted by the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel.