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