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Dr. Komlan Agbedahin

Dr Komlan Agbedahin

Email: K.Agbedahin@ru.ac.za

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5715-1879

 

Komlan Agbedahin is currently a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Sol Plaatje 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, and a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网. He holds a BSc and an MSc in Sociology from Université de Lomé (Togo), an MSc in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies from the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Ibadan (Nigeria), and a PhD in Sociology from Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (South Africa).

Komlan has taught empirical research methods, sociology and economic sociology courses at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, and worked at the United Nations as Protection and Field Officer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Monitoring and Reporting Officer in Haiti. He also worked as Lecturer and Director of Studies at Alliance Française in Nigeria. He is a convenor of the South African Sociological Association (SASA) Crime, Violence and Security Working Group, a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and a Presidential Fellow of the African Studies Association (ASA).

Komlan also worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Development at the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of the Western Cape, in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, and at the Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice at the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of the Free State.

He is currently working on an edited volume titled Interrogating Migration Politics, Crime and Security in South Africa: The Threats and Opportunities of the Zama Zamas Phenomenon.

His scholarly interests include Social Theory; Empirical Research Methods; Social and Cultural Change; Visual and Digital Sociology; Political Economy; Global Sociology; Social Policy; Institutional Ethnographies; Politics of Injury and Social Justice; War, Violence and Security; Critical Criminology and Gender Studies; Transnationalism; African Politics; Contemporary Geoeconomics, Geostrategy, Multilateralism and International Peace; South-South Cooperation and Development Antinomies.

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Agbedahin, K. (2023). Beyond Paradoxes: The South African Military Involvement in the Fight against Covid-19. In S. Arndt, Y. Banhoro, T. Lawanson, E. Msindo, & P. T. Simatei (Eds.), Covid-19 in Africa: Governance and Containment (pp. 55-80). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2022). Civic Friendship as a Remedy for the Cult of Mediocrity. Peace Review, 34(3), 402-412. DOI: 10.1080/10402659.2022.2092400

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2022). Africa’s Code of Honour and the Protection of Women. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 34(2), 214-226. DOI: 10.1080/10402659.2022.2049004

 

  • KomlanAgbedahin (2021) “Covid-Preneurship” and the Imperative Return to Ubuntu, Peace Review, 33:1, 80-87, DOI: 1080/10402659.2021.1956133

 

  • Agbedahin, K., & Akalu, B.T. (2021). Migrant as Architect of his own Comfort. In J. Kurzwelly, & L. Escobedo, Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa (pp.217-237). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

 

  • Escobedo, L., Kurzwelly, J., & Agbedahin, K. (2021). Transcending social categories: Reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories. In J. Kurzwelly, & L. Escobedo, Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa (pp.19-32). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2020). Beyond Livelihoods. Peace Review, 32(2), 204-211.

 

  • Agbedahin, AV. & Agbedahin, K. (2020). Prospect of military educational roles during public health crises: Lessons from the covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 36(3), 1-15.

 

  • Agbedahin, A. V., & Agbedahin, K. (2020). Food Waste in 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Spaces. Peace Review, 31(4), 532-538.

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2020). Crisis of human dignity and mega sporting events tragedies. In J. Kocián, J. Mlynár, & P. Hoffmannová (Eds.), Malach Center for Visual History on its 10thAnniversary: Compendium of Papers of the Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2020 (pp. 119-132). Prague: MatfyzPress.

 

  • Escobedo, L., & Agbedahin, K. (2020). 'Contigo Perú' as Trickle-Up Grassroots Diplomatics. Peace Review, 31(3), 312-321.

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2020). Shared Complicities, Decolonisation and Collective Futures of West African Borders. In Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), Annual Young Scientist Conference 2019: Migration, Displacement and Mobility in Africa: Complex Issues in Current Times(pp. 31-33). Pretoria: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2019). The Haiti Cholera outbreak and Peacekeeping Paradoxes. Peace Review, 31(2), 190-198.

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2019). Boys and Girls in the Bush, Bosses in Post-Conflict Society: Liberian Young Veterans Rising to Power. In D.-V. N. Botchway, A. Sarpong, & Quist-Adade, New Perspectives on African Childhood: Constructions, Histories, Representations and Understandings (pp. 109-132). Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.

 

  • Agbedahin, K., & Agbedahin, A. V. (2019). South African 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 History: Challenges and the Danger of a Masquerade of Transformation. In G. Fomunyam, Decolonising Higher Education in the Era of Globalisation and Internationalisation(pp. 207-230). Cape Town: SUN MeDIA.

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2019, April 28). The old ways of reintegrating young veterans need to be abandoned. Retrieved from The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/the-old-ways-of-reintegrating-young-veterans-need-to-be-abandoned-115243
  • Agbedahin, K. (2018). Un destin foudroyé : Un footballeur dans l'enfer du terrorisme by Kodjovi Obilalé. Acta Academica. 50(2), 152-154.

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2018). Drawing paradise from hell: War retentions and post-conflict reintegration of young veterans in Africa. African Security Review, 27(3-4), 212-225.

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2014). From control to parasitism: Interrogating the roles of border control agencies of the Ghana-Togo border. African SecurityReview, 23(4), 370-380.

 

  • Agbedahin, K. (2014). Interrogating the Togolese historical sex strike. International Journal on World Peace, 31(1), 7-25.

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