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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Proofs! So this article will finally be published soon (after quite some delays) "Governing Refugee Mobility – Contrasting Genealogies of Encampment in Uganda and Kenya (1930s to 1990s)" in the Journal of Internal Displacement

Screenshot of an article and abstract.

Text:
Governing Refugee Mobility – Contrasting Genealogies of
Encampment in Uganda and Kenya (1930s to 1990s)
Jochen Lingelbach
Abstract
Most scholars and humanitarian practitioners agree that refugee encampment does more harm than good.
Nevertheless, camps are still a major dispositif to govern the mobility of refugees in Africa. However, there exist
striking differences in the refugee host policies of different African countries. One explanation for this difference can
be traced to the specific historical trajectories and genealogies of refugee encampments. This paper highlights these
differences by contrasting the histories of Kenyan and Ugandan encampment policies from the colonial to the
postcolonial period. In Uganda, the first refugee camps were established in the 1940s for Polish refugees, followed in
the 1950s by Sudanese and Rwandans fleeing violence related to independence conflicts. Especially in setting up the
camps for Rwandan refugees, Ugandan officials mainly followed existing plans for agricultural settlements. In the
context of the post-war “developmental colonialism” the Ugandan government regarded the refugees as assets for
settling underpopulated regions, combat animal diseases and increase productivity. In Kenya, the first refugee camps
were set up in the 1930s for Ethiopian refugees from the war with Italy. ...

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

Tomorrow, I will participate in an online roundtable on "‘Race’, Whiteness, and Holocaust Refugees in the Colonial World" organized by the #Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University Featuring Rosa de Jong (University of Utrecht), Jochen […] [Original post on h-net.social]

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

Gerade passend zur #Ölkrise und #spritpreis Debatten: 1973 fingen manche Tankstellen an Fahrräder zu verkaufen.. Bild aus diesem schönen Bericht: www.ziv-zweirad.de/wp-content/uploa…

Schwarz-Weiß-Foto einer Tankstelle an der vier Fahrräder zum Verkauf angeboten werden
Untertitel: "Wer erinnert sich? Ölkrise 1973 - Tankstellen erweitern ihre Produktpalette"

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

Es wird langsam real: Im März erscheint das von mir und Frank Wolff herausgegebene Heft von @WerkstattGeschichte zum Thema "grenzen internalisieren" Hier schon mal die Vorankündigung bei transcript […] [Original post on h-net.social]

Screenshot des Heftumschlags mit Vorder und Rückseite

Inhaltsverzeichnis

THEMA
Levke Harders: Grenzinternalisierung durch Bürokratie. Zugehörigkeit und Verwaltung im ersten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts
Maximilian Pichl: »Die Arbeiter haben kein Vaterland«. Zum Verhältnis von Klassenpolitik, Nationalismus und der Frage der Migration
Frank Wolff: The Ambiguities of European Integration between Peacebuilding, Cold War Bordering, and Coloniality
Jochen Lingelbach: Stacheldraht an der Grenze. Kurze Emotionsgeschichte eines gefährlichen Objekts zwischen Angst und Empathie
Sabine Hess: Von der polnisch-belarussischen Grenze zurückgeblickt Zur Genese des erweiterten deutsch-polnischen Grenzregimes seit 1990
IM GESPRÄCH
Agnès Arp, Axel Doßmann und Franka Maubach: Nach-Denken über LN. Ein Gespräch über Lutz Niethammer (1939–2025)
WERKSTATT
Katja Jana: Fedora, Kalpak, or Fez. Modern Ottoman Dress between National Authenticity and Bourgeois Universality
INTERVIEW
Sarah Frenking: Eine Geschichte von Ausgrenzung, Arbeitszwang und Abweichung.
DINGFEST
Emmanuel Nga Atangana, Dechanel Kouameney Tankeu und Richard Hölzl: Dzom So’o – eine kulturelle Entität im transnationalen Forschungsdialog
EXPOKRITIK
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen: Wow! Das neue Wien Museum
REZENSIONEN

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Apparently my book (and many others) are available with a 50% discount at Berghahnbooks right now. Berghahn on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v22iwfjbaz… Find all discounted books here […] [Original post on h-net.social]

Banner titled: "50% off January Sale" from Berghahn Books

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Mein Interview mit Manuela Bauche zum Erinnerungsort Ihnestraße @freieuniversitaet für @WerkstattGeschichte ist leicht überarbeitet im Gedenkstättenrundbrief @gedenkstaettenref.bsky.social erschienen. Zu finden hier […] [Original post on h-net.social]

Screenshot der ersten Halbseite des Interviews
Titel "Wissenschaft und Unrecht"

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025

One more picture from yesterday's #CriticalMass in #Nairobi. It was a really great 35km ride through the town. Here the group is stuck in traffic in front of the #Kenya National Archives and the Tom Mboya monument.

Group of cyclists on a street, mostly with helmets and bike clothes. Grey skies. In the background one older house with colums and another with a large billboard, some trees and buses

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

Still enjoying #CritcalMass #Nairobi. Pollution is heavy but the ride is fun and super organized.

Group of cyclists on a roundabout. Billboards, buses and highrise buildings in the background

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

The back side of the 50 Shillings note in #kenya features renewable energies and I love it! #solar #wind #geothermal #ClimateChange #renewables #africa

Foto of a 50 kenya shilling note. It is in red tones and features images of solt panels, wind mills and a geothermal power plant

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

It is slowly getting published: Proofs for my special issue on Camp Memories (all texts are already published online first) A first view on the TOC !! journals.sagepub.com/home/mss @histodons #histodon #histodons #MemoryStudies

Screenshot of a TOC page in the journal Memory Studies. Text:

"Volume 18 Number 5 October 2025
Contents
Special Issue: Camp Memories. Silencing, contesting and
memorializing past encampments in Africa and beyond
Guest Editor: Jochen Lingelbach
Editorial
Introduction: Camp memories in Africa and beyond 1133
Jochen Lingelbach
Special Issue Articles
Constructing, reconstructing and representing communities: Polish and 1152
Ukrainian memory activists from displaced person camps in Western Germany
and Austria after the Second World War
Sarah Grandke
Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia: Community initiatives, 1172
excavations, museum exhibitions and local memories
Mary Mbewe
El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from 1189
North Africa to Croatia
Marijana Hameršak and Jochen Lingelbach
Reconstructing the legacies of colonial detention: Digital heritage, memory, 1214
and the Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–1960
Bethany Rebisz
Remember Mboroma? Narrating a fragmented exile past via UNHCR 1233
and SWAPO camps
Christian A Williams"

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

So this is out now: "Intro: Camp Memories in Africa and beyond" my intro to a special issue on #MemoryStudies and the contested memorialization of #camps in #Africa and beyond @histodons #histodons […] [Original post on h-net.social]

screenshot of the beginning of the mentioned article. Text: Introduction: Camp memories
in Africa and beyond
Jochen Lingelbach
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Abstract
Introducing the special issue on the memorialization of camps in Africa and beyond, this text discusses key
questions of memory studies and the global history of encampment. Whatever their purpose, all camps
are meant to be exceptional, transitory and temporary. Camps are often connected to contested histories
and memorialization efforts by former inmates or others can lead to controversies and struggles over its
interpretation. Building on a range of empirical examples from Africa and beyond, dealing with camps ranging
from the most coercive to the benevolent and from the beginning of the twentieth century until today, this
special issue invites a comparative, globally entangled and actor-centred view on camp memorialization.

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

So this is really happening: Page Proofs! My intor to the special issue on Camp Memorialization is finally about to be published in Memory Studies @histodons @africanstudies #histodons #MemoryStudies #camps #refugees #africa #AfricanStudies #africanhistory

Screenshot of the page proof for the title page of the Special issue in Memory Studies. Text:

Introduction: Camp memories
in Africa and beyond
Jochen Lingelbach
University of Bayreuth, Germany

Abstract
Introducing the special issue on the memorialization of camps in Africa and beyond, this text discusses key
questions of memory studies and the global history of encampment. Whatever their purpose, all camps
are meant to be exceptional, transitory and temporary. Camps are often connected to contested histories
and memorialization efforts by former inmates or others can lead to controversies and struggles over its
interpretation. Building on a range of empirical examples from Africa and beyond, dealing with camps ranging
from the most coercive to the benevolent and from the beginning of the twentieth century until today, this
special issue invites a comparative, globally entangled and actor-centred view on camp memorialization.

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

New article out! 📝 El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from North Africa to Croatia published #OA in Memory Studies co-authored with Marijana Hameršak (#Zagreb ) We look into the history of a #WW2 #Yugoslav #refugee #camp in […] [Original post on h-net.social]

Screenshot of the article's title page with the abstract; content can be found under the link

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

Nice! I just learned that my forthcoming article (with Marijana Hamersak) will be #OpenAccess due to some agreement of @unibayreuth with SAGE. Coming soon in Memory Studies #ElShatt #croatia #egypt #RefugeeStudies #histodons #MemoryStudies

screenshot of a pdf.
Text:
Sage Creative Commons License
Contributor’s Publishing Agreement
Article El Shatt – Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan Refugee Camp Travelling
from North Africa to Croatia
DOI 10.1177/17506980251359585
Journal Memory Studies
Author(s) Marijana Hameršak , Jochen Lingelbach
This

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

Drei Tage #GEW #streik in #Berlin gegen die Kürzungen des Senats, Damit endlich mal was passiert, hier der Aufruf zur Demo heute in #neukolln

Plakat mit Aufruf zur Kundgebung
Dienstag, 13.5.
18-19 Uhr
vor der Otto-Hahn-Schule, Neukölln
#SchuleMussAnders

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2025

Map on the Polish-Belarus Border published by Badaczki i Badacze na Granicy (Researchers at the border, a network of critical Polish #BorderStudies researchers) Beautifully made representation of a violent space and a great resource for teaching on the #EU […] [Original post on h-net.social]

Screenshot der Seite. Eine Schwarz-Weiß-Zeichnung des Grenzgebiets mit Wald, Menschen, Lastern, Wegen und Stacheldraht

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2025

Helicopter taxis are the future of urban transport. A take that was already wrong in Dar es Salaam in 1946 (when at least it was a new invention) and still is (looking at #CDU in #Berlin and the former #fdp transport minister in Germany) Letter in the […] [Original post on h-net.social]

Press clipping from the Tanganyika Standard from January 12, 1946

"The world is progressing very fast and in the near future aeroplanes will play an important part as does the motor car today. It may be that the town planner will have to solve problems for open spaces, that will be needed in township and residential area for Helicopters to land and fly. These small aeroplanes are designed to land on terraces and do not require large aerodromes.
It is therefore very important to have a proper Town Plahning of our Capital City, arranging special sites for every purposes and viewing 100 years ahead for the needs of the coming generation.
Yours etc.
MAHOMEDALLY JIVANJEE
Imperial Service Depot,
January 1, 1944"

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2025

One of Europe's many #border walls The double fence topped with #barbedwire at the entrance of the #Eurotunnel at #calais Picture taken from inside the #eurostar to #London

Slightly blurry view outside a train window onto a double fence with narbed wire and some greenery in sunny weather

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2025

"Migrant Democracy: Constitutional Promise and Political Struggle in Contemporary Italy" Great new article by Maurizio Albahari in #Society ! On #border internalization and #migrant struggles as new forms of democracy in #Rome and the anti-fascist potential […] [Original post on h-net.social]

Screenshot of title and abstract of the linked article

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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2024

Picture of Kabaka Mutesa II, the king of #buganda and a group of #refugee children from #poland in the camp in #Koja #Uganda in 1944 Just found it in the #piasa #archives in #ny @histodons @africanstudies

Black and white foto showing a group of children and some adults in front of two houses with thatches roofs and some trees

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