Benjamin Lawrance
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British historian
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Benjamin Lawrance's Degrees
- Masters History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Benjamin N. Lawrance is a legal historian who works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa, with a particular focus on West Africa. Until 2017, he was the Hon. Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Professor of International Studies in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He works on comparative and contemporary slavery and trafficking, citizenship, human rights, and the law of asylum and refugees. He is currently Professor of African History at the University of Arizona.
Benjamin Lawrance's Published Works
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- Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa (2015) (60)
- African asylum at a crossroads : activism, expert testimony, and refugee rights (2015) (53)
- "en proie à la fièvre du cacao": Land and resource conflict on an ewe frontier, 1922-1939 (2003) (27)
- La Révolte des Femmes: Economic Upheaval and the Gender of Political Authority in Lomé, Togo, 1931–33 (2003) (26)
- Autocracy, migration, and The Gambia's ‘unprecedented’ 2016 election (2017) (25)
- Adjudicating refugee and asylum status : the role of witness, expertise, and testimony (2016) (24)
- Ghana in Africa and the world : essays in honor of Adu Boahen (2003) (22)
- Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling (2015) (19)
- African Intermediaries and the ‘Bargain’ of Collaboration (2006) (18)
- Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa (2012) (16)
- Citizenship in Question : Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness (2016) (13)
- From Child Labor “Problem” to Human Trafficking “Crisis”: Child Advocacy and Anti-Trafficking Legislation in Ghana (2010) (13)
- BANKOE V. DOME: TRADITIONS AND PETITIONS IN THE HO-ASOGLI AMALGAMATION, BRITISH MANDATED TOGOLAND, 1919–39 (2005) (12)
- Introduction: Traversing the Local/Global and Food/Culture Divides (2011) (10)
- Most obedient servants. The politics of language in German colonial Togo (2000) (9)
- Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of Obligation in Political Asylum (2019) (9)
- A 'Neo-Abolitionist Trend' in Sub-Saharan Africa? Regional Anti-Trafficking Patterns and a Preliminary Legislative Taxonomy (2011) (8)
- The Ewe of Togo and Benin (2005) (7)
- INTRODUCTION: Law, Expertise, and Protean Ideas about African Migrants (2015) (5)
- Ebola’s Would-be Refugees: Performing Fear and Navigating Asylum During a Public Health Emergency (2018) (5)
- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status: Introduction: Witness to the Persecution? Expertise, Testimony, and Consistency in Asylum Adjudication (2015) (5)
- Boko Haram, Refugee Mimesis, and the Archive of Contemporary Gender-Based Violence (2016) (4)
- ‘All We Want is Make Us Free’ – The Voyage of La Amistad’s Children Through the Worlds of the Illegal Slave Trade (2011) (4)
- ‘A Full Knowledge of the Subject of Slavery’: The Amistad, Expert Testimony, and the Origins of Atlantic Studies (2015) (3)
- Anti-Trafficking Legislation in Sub-Saharan Africa:Analyzing the Role of Coercion and Parental Responsibility (2012) (3)
- Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity (2018) (3)
- “Sons of the Soil”: Cause Lawyers, the Togo-Cameroun Mandates, and the Origins of Decolonization (2019) (3)
- Contextualizing Trafficking in Women and Children in Africa (2012) (2)
- ‘To Know Where You Come from; That Is Divine’: Three New Documentary Films on the African Slave Experience (2015) (2)
- Vaccine Nationalism and the Future of Research in Africa (2021) (2)
- Structural Racism, Whiteness, and the African Studies Review (2020) (2)
- Inventing Human Rights: A History (review) (2010) (2)
- Language between powers, power between languages. Further discussion of education and policy in Togoland under the French mandate, 1919-1945 (2001) (2)
- The Griot's Craft: An Essay on Oral Tradition and Diplomacy (review) (2002) (2)
- Petitioners, ‘Bush Lawyers’ and Letter Writers: Court Access in British-Occupied Lomé, 1914-1920 (2006) (2)
- Humanitarian Claims and Expert Testimonies: Contestation Over Health Care for Ghanaian Migrants in the United Kingdom (2013) (2)
- “Your poor boy no father no mother”: ‘Orphans,’ Alienation, and the Perils of Atlantic Child Slave Biography (2013) (2)
- Asylum Courts, Transnational Petitioning, and Digital Dispersal in Africa (2020) (1)
- Reassessing Africa’s New Post-Coup Landscape (2022) (1)
- Statelessness-in-Question: Expert Testimony and the Evidentiary Burden of Statelessness (2016) (1)
- Trafficking in Slavery's Wake (2012) (1)
- Asylum and the 'Forced Marriage' Paradox: Petitions, Translation, and Courts as Institutional Perpetrators of Gender Violence (2011) (1)
- Land, Labor and Capital in Ghana: From Slave to Free Labor in Asante, 1807-1956 (review) (2007) (1)
- African Studies Keywords: An Introduction (2021) (1)
- The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources (2018) (1)
- How African is the African Studies Review? (2019) (1)
- Foodways, 'Foodism,' or 'Foodscapes': Navigating the Local/Global and Food/Culture Divides (2012) (1)
- The Global Dynamism of African Studies (2019) (1)
- Trading leather drag for lavender bullets (2000) (1)
- Ghana Freedom: Ghana Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (11 May–24 November 2019) by Nana Oforiatta Ayim (review) (2019) (1)
- 4. Asylum Courts And the “Forced Marriage Paradox”: Gender-Based Harm and Contemporary Slavery in Forced Conjugal Associations (2018) (1)
- Africa and the Diversity Turn (2021) (1)
- Citizenship-in-Question: Evidentiary Encounters with Blood, Birthright, and Bureaucracy (2016) (1)
- THE PROJECTION AND PERFORMANCE OF GHANAIAN NATIONHOOD (2019) (1)
- Acknowledgments (2016) (0)
- The Potentials and Pitfalls of the “Virtual Turn” (2022) (0)
- A Reaffirmation of Rigorous Scholarly Integrity (2018) (0)
- West African Narratives of Slavery: Texts from Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth Century Ghana (review) (2013) (0)
- The Origins Of Amistad’s Orphans (2015) (0)
- Local Foods Meet Global Foodways : Tasting History (2012) (0)
- Piot, Charles. -- Remotely Global : Village Modernity in West Africa. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1999, index, bibl. (2000) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1988) (0)
- Editor's Introduction: The Buzz of Africanist Energies Renewed (2019) (0)
- Making Men in Ghana (2007) (0)
- Randy J. Sparks. Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World. (2017) (0)
- A (Re)turn to Older Conversations in African Studies (2021) (0)
- “A Genius without Direction”: The Abortive Exile of Dugmore Boetie and the Fate of Southern African Refugees in a Decolonizing Africa (2021) (0)
- Termine / CFP: Exit Strategies: Nationalism, Secession, and Deglobalization (2016) (0)
- Jacob Dlamini. The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020. 375 pp. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Index. $29.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9780674916555. (2021) (0)
- Most Favourite Cargoes (2015) (0)
- Reiland Rabaka, ed. Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism. London: Routledge, 2020. xix + 568 pg. Index. $269.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-367-03066-7. (2021) (0)
- Miescher Stephan F., Making Men in Ghana . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xxxii + 320 pp. Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. (2007) (0)
- Reinvigorating Europe-Africa Partnerships for Knowledge and Development (2022) (0)
- Guantánamo Diary and African Studies (2020) (0)
- Refreshing Historical Accounts of Human Rights in Africa (2004) (0)
- Amistad's Orphans (2017) (0)
- The Terrorist Album: Apartheid's Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police by Jacob Dlamini (review) (2022) (0)
- The Amistad Saga: A Transatlantic Dialogue (2021) (0)
- Country of Origin Information, Technologies of Suspicion, and the Erasure of the Supernatural in African Refugee Claims (2019) (0)
- All very confusing: Queerying African gender identity (2001) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Douglas J. Falen. African Science: Witchcraft, Vodun, and Healing in Southern Benin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. 240 pp. 16 black and white images. $79.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9780299318901. (2021) (0)
- Editor's introduction: The Global Dynamism of African Studies (2019) (0)
- Incredible Until Proven Credible: Mental Health Expert Testimony and the Systemic and Cultural Challenges Facing Asylum Applicants (2015) (0)
- Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks (2016) (0)
- Tyler Fleming. Opposing Apartheid on Stage: King Kong the Musical. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2020. Bibliography. $125.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-58046-985-2 (2021) (0)
- The Enslavements of Amistad’s Orphans (2015) (0)
- Gareth Austin, Land, Labor and Capital in Ghana: from slave to free labor in Asante, 1807–1956 [Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora]. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb £50.00, $75.00 – 9 781580 461610). 2005, 589 pp. (2007) (0)
- Teamwork Makes the Dream Work (2021) (0)
- Unfreedom Papers: Trafficking, Refugee Protection, and Expertise after Neo-Abolitionism (2017) (0)
- The Return of Amistad’s Orphans (2015) (0)
- So Long and Farewell: An Editor’s Final Introduction (2022) (0)
- The Liberations of Amistad’s Orphans (2015) (0)
- Making Men in Ghana (review) (2007) (0)
- Colonialism and African Childhood (2018) (0)
- Resisting Patriarchy, Contesting Homophobia: (2016) (0)
- Editor's Introduction: Guantánamo Diary and African Studies (2020) (0)
- Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope (2016) (0)
- A Welcome from the New Editorial Team (2018) (0)
- Boko Haram, Asylum, and Memes of Africa (2015) (0)
- INTRODUCTION (2016) (0)
- Opposing Apartheid on Stage: King Kong the Musical by Tyler Fleming (review) (2021) (0)
- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status: “Health Tourism” or “Atrocious Barbarism”? Contextualizing Migrant Agency, Expertise, and Medical Humanitarian Practice (2012) (0)
- Historicizing as a Legal Trope of Jeopardy in Asylum Narratives and Expert Testimonies of Gender-Based Violence (2017) (0)
- Documenting Child Slavery with Personal Testimony: Anti-Trafficking NGOs and the Origins of Contemporary Neo-Abolitionism in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011) (0)
- The History of Ghana (review) (2006) (0)
- Viral video ‘blood chocolate’ activism, millennial anti-trafficking, and the neoliberal resurgence of shaming (2018) (0)
- Atlantique dir. by Mati Diop (review) (2020) (0)
- Editor's Introduction (2020) (0)
- Language Between Powers, Power Between Languages (2001) (0)
- Mati Diop, director. Mati Diop and Olivier Demangel, writers. Atlantique. 2019. 104 mins. French, Wolof, Senegal, France, Belgium. Ad Vitam and Netflix. No price reported. (2020) (0)
- Editor's Introduction (2020) (0)
- The Journeys of Amistad’s Orphans (2015) (0)
- Richard B. Allen, European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850. Indian Ocean Studies Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. (2016) (0)
- Citizenship in Question (2017) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Roger S. Gocking, The History of Ghana . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (hb $45.00, £25.99 – 0 313 31894-8). 2005, 331 pp. (2006) (0)
- Beyond Expert Witnessing: Interdisciplinary Practice in Representing Rape Survivors in Asylum Cases (2015) (0)
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