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Researcher
Gillian Mathys
- Keywords:Africa, Colonial history, Rwanda, Decolonisation, Conflict, Pre-colonial history, Great Lakes, Congo, Violence
- Disciplines:History not elsewhere classified, Regional and urban history, African history
Affiliations
- Department of Conflict and Development Studies (Department)
Member
From11 Mar 2016 → 30 Sep 2016 - Department of History (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2010 → Today - Department of Modern history (Department)
Member
From1 Feb 2007 → 31 Dec 2009
Projects
1 - 5 of 5
- Violence work: Creating and Contesting Colonial Authority on the Ground in Africa through Everyday ViolenceFrom1 Jun 2023 → TodayFunding: Horizon Europe - European Research Council (ERC)
- Narrating the past in the African Great Lakes regionFrom1 May 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- BOF ZAP african historyFrom1 Feb 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - ZAP BOF mandates
- Plus que ça change, plus que ça reste la même chose? State-formation, post-colonial violence, and the local from a long-term perspective in the eastern Congo (c. 1850-today)'From1 Oct 2019 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
- Borderland(s) in motion: Borders, mobility and history in the Lake Kivu regionFrom1 Oct 2009 → 30 Sep 2013Funding: BOF - Other initiatives, FWO fellowships
Publications
1 - 10 of 16
- History by commission? The Belgian colonial past and the limits of history in the public eye(2023)
Authors: Gillian Mathys, Sarah Van Beurden
Pages: 334 - 343 - Au-delà de la résolution des conflits fonciers : vers la justice agraire dans l'Est de la RDC (Kivu)(2022)Series: Cahiers Africains = Afrika Studies
Authors: Gillian Mathys, Mathijs van Leeuwen, Gemma van der Haar, Lotje de Vries, Sarah Katz-Lavigne, Réginas Ndayiragije, Lucien Ramazani Kalyongo, Benjamin Chemouni
Pages: 239 - 272 - Voices from exile : the Mpadist Mission des Noirs in OshweU+2019s prison camps in the Belgian Congo (1940-1960)(2022)
Authors: Pieter De Coene, Gillian Mathys
Pages: 89 - 114 - Commission spéciale chargée d’examiner l’état indépendant du Congo et le passé colonial de la Belgique au Congo, au Rwanda et au Burundi, ses conséquences et les suites qu’il convient d’y réserver : rapport des experts(2021)
Authors: Gillian Mathys, Sarah Van Beurden, Elikia M'Bokolo, Mathieu Zana Etambala, Pierre-Luc Plasman, Laure Uwase
- Bijzondere commissie belast met het onderzoek over Congo-Vrijstaat (1885-1908) en het Belgisch koloniaal verleden in Congo (1908-1960), Rwanda en Burundi (1919-1962), de impact hiervan en de gevolgen die hieraan dienen gegeven te worden : verslag van de deskundigen(2021)
Authors: Gillian Mathys, Sarah Van Beurden, Elikia M'Bokolo, Mathieu Zana Etambala, Pierre-Luc Plasman, Laure Uwase
- Urbanizing Kitchanga : spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo(2019)
Authors: Gillian Mathys, Karen Büscher
Pages: 40 - 61 - Politique d'urbanisation, déplacement interne et conflit armé dans l'Est de la RDC: l'histoire de Kitchanga.(2019)Series: Cahiers Africains = Afrika Studies
Authors: Gillian Mathys, Karen Büscher, Sara Geenen, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, An Ansoms
Pages: 103 - 126 - People on the move : frontiers, borders, mobility and history in the Lake Kivu region 19th-20 century(2014)
Authors: Gillian Mathys
- War, displacement and rural–urban transformation : Kivu’s Boomtowns, Eastern D.R. Congo
Authors: Karen Büscher, Gillian Mathys
Pages: 53 - 71 - Urbanizing Kitchanga : spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo
Authors: Gillian Mathys, Karen Büscher
Pages: 232 - 253