Position: Assistant Professor

Academic Interests:

Karen Büscher's area of research interest is the relationship between violent conflict and urbanization in Eastern D.R. Congo. More specifically she focuses on urban governance in civil war, humanitarian urbanism, urban impacts of forced displacement and rural-urban transformation.

Courses:

Contact:

T +32(0)9 264 67 94

F +32(0)9 264 69 97

Karen.Buscher@UGent.be

Current Research Projects:

• The politics of hidden urbanisation in D.R. Congo
• Changing urban residency
• The urban outcome of conflict mobilities in North and South Kivi, DRC
  
• Humanitarian urbanism: the urban effects of protracted humanitarian intervention in Northern Uganda

Projects under supervision:

• The dynamics of urbanisation, development and ethnic contestation in peri-urban Ethiopia (contact: Ayehu Bacha)

Past Research Projects:

• Conflict, State Failure an Urban Transformation in Goma, eastern DRC

Publications: Ghent University Academic Bibliography