
Tanja Hendriks
@tanjadhendriks
Africanist, anthropologist, gelukszoeker #Malawi š²š¼ #disaster #state #civilservants #bureaucracy #duty. @ITN_ANTHUSIA PhD, now Postdoc @KU_Leuven & @UNIMA_CSR
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Join us - online or in person - next week for the JSAS Special Issue Launch on #BeyondFailure: exploring the #heart of the #Malawi state, in Zomba University of Malawi (UNIMA). Registration details below!

In this article, Calum Fisher explores #Malawian MPsā narratives of how they got involved in politics. Motivated by a desire to serve their āhomeā communities, they often come to experience themselves as failures in the process representing constituents tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10ā¦

New article!!! Sam Farrell challenges depictions of distribution by electoral candidates in Malawi as #votebuying or #clientelism. Instead, they formed the moral grounds of #democratic relationships with constituents in a context of increasing inequality tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10ā¦

This Saturday, 24th May 2025, we are launching the Political Science Association's "Malawi Journal of Politics & Public Affairs". Venue is Wadonda Lecture Theatre at University of Malawi (UNIMA) Here is zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/87544805949?ā¦


Farrell & Tanja Hendriks argue for the need to move ā#BeyondFailureā to understand how the #Malawi #state is actually produced, enacted and experienced in practice.They suggest the concept of the #heart (#mtima) offers an alternative analytic to failure. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10ā¦

In their afterword Gerhard Anders and Happy Kayuni reflect on the contributions of looking at the #heart of the #Malawi #state as an #idea and in #practice. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10ā¦

Holding a paper copy feels so surreal! Join us this Tuesday afternoon University of Malawi (UNIMA) for the launch of this Journal of Southern African Studies Special Issue on #BeyondFailure: exploring the #heart of the #Malawi #state


We are ready for the launch of the Journal of Southern African Studies Special Issue on #BeyondFailure, exploring the #mtima of the #Malawi #state at University of Malawi (UNIMA) tomorrow! Join us between 14.00 - 17.00 in the Economics Cafeteria! Happy Kayuni Sara Elisa Fischer, PhD, @saraefischer.bsky.social Sociale Wetenschappen - Social Sciences KU Leuven Centre for Social Research (CSR), UNIMA Gerhard Anders
