Prof. dr. M.E. (Mirjam) de Bruijn
- Professor
- History of Africa
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 3360 |
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| E-Mail: | bruijnm@ascleiden.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Algemene Geschiedenis |
| Office Address: |
Pieter de la Court gebouw Wassenaarseweg 52 2333 AK Leiden Room number 3.B55 |
Research
Mirjam de Bruijn is an anthropologist whose work has a clearly interdisciplinary character. She has done fieldwork in Cameroon, Chad and Mali and an important theme throughout is how people manage risk (drought, war, etc.) in both rural and urban areas. She focuses on the interrelationship between agency, marginality and mobility. Her specific fields of interest are: nomadism, youth and children, social (in)security, poverty, marginality/social and economic exclusion, violence, slavery, and human rights. In Mali she worked in the Mopti area with the Fulbe (Peul) and in Menaka with the Tamacheck (Tuareg), while in Chad she has worked in N'djamena (the capital) and in Central Chad with Hadjerai and Arab groups. In Cameroon she works in the Grassfields and the north. Her new research programme is a comparative study of the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and ICT's interrelationship with agency, marginality and mobility patterns in Central and West Africa.
Dr Mirjam de Bruijn has been appointed Professor of Contemporary History and Anthropology of West and Central Africa at the Faculty of Arts at Leiden University as of 15 June 2007. She pronounced her inaugural lecture "De telefoon heeft benen gekregen; Mobiele communicatie en sociale veranderingen in de marges van Afrika" op 5 september 2008.
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Download the text of the inaugural lecture
As of August 2010 Mirjam de Bruijn has been appointed honorary fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Key publications
M.E. Bruijn and J.W.M. van Dijk, 'The multiple experiences of civil war in the Guera region of Chad, 1965-1990'
In: Sociologus, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 61-98, 2007.
M.E. de Bruijn and N. Djindil, 'État nutritionnel et histoire de vie des "enfants de la rue" à N'Djamena (Tchad)'
In: Psychopathologie Africaine 2005-2006, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 183-211, 2006.
M.E. de Bruijn, R.A. van Dijk and D.W.J. Foeken (eds.), Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond, Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 1, 2001.
M.E. de Bruijn and J.W.M. van Dijk, Arid ways : cultural understandings of insecurity in Fulbe society, Central Mali, Wageningen: CERES, CERES-series ; no. 1, 1995.