Kasper Hoffmann

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My research focuses on three main issues: The formation of political identities, the production of political authority and territory, and emerging forms of governance in conflict settings. Specifically, I focus on the intersection between the formation of ethnic identities and processes of territorialisation and on emerging forms of rebel and land governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar.

I am a researcher on the research project entitled: “Peacebuilding, Public Authority, and Forests in Myanmar.” This project is funded by Danida Fellowship Centre. It seeks to understand how authority is produced through the governance of land, natural resources, and people in areas of prolonged armed conflict and contested statehood through a case-study of Tanintharyi region of Southeast Myanmar. Furthermore, I am part of the Centre for Public Authority research programme based at the LSE, which is funded by the UK’s Economic Social Research Council.

Selected publications

1. Published

   Ethnogovernmentality: The making of ethnic territories and subjects in eastern DR Congo

   Hoffmann, Kasper, 2021, In: Geoforum. 119, p. 251-267 17 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

2. Published

   Rebel rule: A governmentality perspective

   Hoffmann, Kasper & Verweijen, J., 2019, In: African Affairs. 118, 471, p. 352–374 23 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   Courses au pouvoir: The struggle over customary capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

   Hoffmann, Kasper, Vlassenroot, K. & Mudinga, E., 2020, In: Journal of Eastern African Studies. 14, 1, p. 125-144 20 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

4. Published

   Myths set in motion: The moral economy of mai mai governance

   Hoffmann, Kasper, 2015, Rebel Governance in Civil War. Arjona, A., Kasfir, N. & Mampilly, Z. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 158-179 22 p.

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

5. Published

   Taxation, stateness and armed groups: public authority and resource extraction in Eastern Congo

   Hoffmann, Kasper, Vlassenroot, K. & Marchais, G., 2016, In: Development and Change. 47, 6, p. 1434–1456 23 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review