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Prof. Dr. Joschka Philipps
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology
Joschka Philipps is a Junior Research Group Leader at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, and interim professor in the fall term 2024/25 for the Sociology of Africa chair at the University of Bayreuth. His work focuses on youth, urban protests, conflict, uncertainty and rumours through the lens of interdisciplinary approaches, postcolonial theoretical debates, and transcontinental collaborations. His Junior Research Group “Politics of the Unknown. Conspiracism and conflict” combines photographic and other artistic approaches with social science methods to describe and analyse how information circulates in different contexts of emergency and conflict in West Africa and beyond. He also co-directs the project “Fluid Ontologies of Contestation” which addresses the role of social media in political protests in Burkina Faso and connects quantitative data scientific methods with qualitative social science approaches.
Joschka holds a PhD in Sociology from the Centre for African Studies in Basel, and an MA in Political Science from the University of Freiburg i.Br., Germany. Prior to coming to Bayreuth, he has worked as a senior researcher at the University of Basel and with the Swiss Peace Foundation (swisspeace). He has done extensive field research in Guinea, Uganda, and Burkina Faso, and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Les Afriques dans le Monde (Sciences Po Bordeaux) and as a doctoral researcher at Columbia University (New York, USA), and at the Nordic Africa Institute (Uppsala, Sweden). He has taught at the University of N’Zérékoré, Guinea and at the Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology
Publications
2024
Philipps, Joschka
Entering the Unknown : Youth within and beyond Capture
in Zeitschrift für Pädagogik volume 70 (2024) issue 1. - page 109-130
doi:10.3262/ZPB2401109 ...
Philipps, Joschka
Die Macht und Ohnmacht der Wissenschaft im postkolonialen Kontext
Wissenskulturen : Stile, Methoden und Vermittlung von Wissenschaft
Berlin : Peter Lang, 2024
Philipps, Joschka; Gillier, Aurélien
Modalities of Theorising : An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Conspiracy Theories
Africa*n Relations : Modalities Reflected
Bayreuth , 2024 (University of Bayreuth African Studies Online; 11)
https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/7499/1/BASO ...
2023
Boukari, Oumarou; Philipps, Joschka
"Complòóót?" Theorizing about Covid-19 conspiracies in Côte d'Ivoire
Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective
London : Routledge, 2023. - page 114-127
Philipps, Joschka; Sagnane, Saïkou Oumar
A disease of the rich and a disease of the poor : Comparing rumors about the coronavirus and eb ...
Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective
London : Routledge, 2023. - page 128-142
Foucher, Vincent; Philipps, Joschka; Somparé, Abdoulaye Wotem
Guinée : éléments pour une topographie politique et morale
in Politique Africaine volume 169 (2023) issue 1. - page 5-9
doi:10.3917/polaf.169.0005 ...
2023
La Guinée depuis Condé
publ: Foucher, Vincent; Philipps, Joschka; Somparé, Abdoulaye Wotem
Politique Africaine
2023
Philipps, Joschka
Whose Uncertainties? Dealing with Multiple Meanings in a Transnational Biography
in Historical Social Research volume 48 (2023) issue 4. - page 199-228
doi:10.12759/hsr.48.2023.45 ...
2022
Philipps, Joschka
reviewed by: Cohen, Adrienne J.: Infinite Repertoire : On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guine ...
in Anthropos volume 117 (2022) issue 2. - page 546-547
doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2022-2-546 ...
Philipps, Joschka
reviewed by: The urban politics of ruins: new imaginations of postmodern Monrovia
in Postcolonial Studies volume 25 (2022) issue 1. - page 169-173
doi:10.1080/13688790.2018.1539207 ...
reviewed: Hoffman, Danny: Monrovia modern : urban form and political imagination in Liberia. Durham, 2017
2021
Philipps, Joschka
Guinea
in Africa Yearbook Online volume 18 (2021)
https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/A ...
2020
Batan, Clarence M.; Cooper, Adam; Coté, James E.; France, Alan; Gilbert-Roberts, Terri-Ann; Hettige, Siri; Miranda, Ana; Nilan, Pam; Philipps, Joschka; Ugor, Paul
Global South Youth Studies, Its Forms and Differences among the South, and between the North an ...
The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. - page 55-76
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190930028.013.4 ...
Philipps, Joschka
Guinea
in Africa Yearbook Online volume 17 (2020)
https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/A ...
2018
Philipps, Joschka
A Global Generation? Youth Studies in a Postcolonial World
in Societies volume 8 (2018) issue 1
doi:10.3390/soc8010014 ...
2017
Philipps, Joschka
Politics of the Future - Riots of the Now : Temporal Horizons of Youth in Upheavals in England ...
Dealing with Elusive Futures : University Graduates in Urban Africa
Bielefeld : Transcript, 2017. - page 123-143
doi:10.14361/9783839439494-007 ...
Büchele, Julia; Philipps, Joschka
"We are too concerned with Africa" : Questioning and answering with Elísio Macamo
in Stichproben : Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien volume 17 (2017) issue 32. - page 95-115
doi:10.25365/phaidra.264_05 ...
2016
Philipps, Joschka
Crystallising contention : social movements, protests and riots in African Studies
in Review of African Political Economy volume 43 (2016) issue 150. - page 592-607
doi:10.1080/03056244.2016.1171206 ...
2016
Philipps, Joschka
Crystallizing Contention : A Cumulative Dissertation on Youth, Politics, and Urban Violence in ...
Basel : University of Basel, 2016
doi:10.5451/unibas-007085256 ...
Philipps, Joschka; Kagoro, Jude
The Metastable City and the Politics of Crystallisation : Protesting and Policing in Kampala
in Africa Spectrum volume 51 (2016) issue 3. - page 3-32
doi:10.1177/000203971605100301 ...
2015
Philipps, Joschka
reviewed by: Branch, Adam ; Mampilly, Zachariah: Africa Uprising : Popular Protest and Political Change. Lon ...
in Africa Spectrum volume 50 (2015) issue 3. - page 139-141
https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/arti ...
2014
Philipps, Joschka
Dealing with diversity : African youth research and the potential of comparative approaches
in Journal of Youth Studies volume 17 (2014) issue 10. - page 1362-1377
doi:10.1080/13676261.2014.918252 ...
Philipps, Joschka
Les Jeunes et la Sécurité
Diagnostic Local de Sécurité : Un outil au service de la Réforme de la Police Nationale Guinéenne
Geneve : COGINTA, 2014. - page 165-182
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&o ...
Philipps, Joschka
reviewed by: Newell, Sasha: The Modernity Bluff : Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d'Ivoire. Chic ...
in African Studies Quarterly volume 14 (2014) issue 3. - page 143-145
https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/site ...
2013
Philipps, Joschka
Ambivalent Rage : Youth Gangs and Urban Protest in Conakry, Guinea
Paris : Harmattan, 2013. - 244 page
https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig= ...
Philipps, Joschka
Youth Gangs and Urban Political Protests : A Relational Perspective on Conakry's "Axis of Evil"
Living the City in Africa : Processes of Invention and Intervention
Berlin : LIT, 2013. - page 81-98 . - (Schweizerische Afrikastudien; 10)
https://lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-80152-4/
2011
Weiland, Heribert; Priwitzer, Kerstin; Philipps, Joschka
Education in Fragile Contexts : Government Practices and Political Challenges
Freiburg : Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, 2011. - 230 page . - (Freiburger Beiträge zu Entwicklung und Politik; 39)
Philipps, Joschka; Weiland, Heribert; Priwitzer, Kerstin
Introduction
Education in Fragile Contexts : Government Practices and Political Challenges
Freiburg : Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, 2011. - page 13-28 . - (Freiburger Beiträge zu Entwicklung und Politik; 39)
Philipps, Joschka
Sweet talk or Street Riots? Education and Political Action by Youths in Conakry, Guinea
Education in Fragile Contexts : Government Practices and Political Challenges
Freiburg : Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, 2011. - page 131-165 . - (Freiburger Beiträge zu Entwicklung und Politik; 39)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Joschka Philipps
Interim Professor
Building: GW II, Office 01.11
E-mail: joschka.philipps@uni-bayreuth.de
Office hours: Thursday 14-15 after appointment.