The Nigeria police force: an institutional ethnography by Owen, O

“…The fieldwork evidence is also supported by analyses of public discourse, literature reviews, some formal interviews and historical research. …”

Reconstructing community: the intermediary role of Sahelian associations in processes of migration and rural development by Pratten, D

“…The material presented is based on fieldwork conducted in Mali, Sudan and Ethiopia between 1993 and 1995. …”

'The Arada have been eaten': living through marginality in Addis Ababa's inner city by Di Nunzio, M

“…Drawing on the ethnographic material from a 16-month-fieldwork between October 2009 and December 2010 on the street economy and streetlife in Arada, the old city centre of Addis Ababa’s inner city, I argue that marginalized subjects are not to be seen as social actors that inhabit and create alternative and parallel social, political and economic realities away from the mainstream society. …”

The politics of brokerage and transnational advocacy for LGBT human rights by Thoreson, R, Ryan R Thoreson

“…While a great deal is being written about the diffusion of LGBT politics and human rights discourses from the Global North, there are few ethnographic analyses of who is doing the exporting, how, and toward what ends. Based on a year of fieldwork in IGLHRC’s New York and Cape Town offices, I look at the history of IGLHRC, the interactions among brokers and how these shape their daily work, how brokers understand their mandate and the hybridity that it so often requires, and how partnership with groups in the Global South, the production, verification, and circulation of information, and the possibilities and constraints of the formal human rights arena all shape the work that brokers do. …”

‘Teeth and tongue jammed together’: Violence in relationships and its mediation in Freetown, Sierra Leone by Schneider, L

“…<p>Based on 13 months of fieldwork in households, communities, police stations, courts and the prison in Freetown, this thesis extends the classic model of gender complementarity by demonstrating how competing gender ideologies of household, community and state impact on partnerships in urban Sierra Leone that are interlaced with friction and violence.…”