Peter Lambertz joins SHOC as a postdocoral researcher and will be appointed on our Foragency project.
Peter holds an MA in History (ULB Brussels), an MA in Global/African Studies (Leipzig-Stellenbosch-Wroclaw) and a PhD in African Studies/Religious Studies (Utrecht - Leipzig). After his PhD on a spiritual movement in Kinshasa (Seekers and Things, Berghahn Books 2018), Peter started to research the inland waterways of Congo, in particular the origins, propulsion system and everyday management of the wooden river boats called baleinières. His research interests include hard technologies, infrastructure, socio-technical entanglements in the field of transport and mobility, but also logistics and its governance, bureaucracy, trade, and religious movements. He has held postdoc positions at the GHI Paris/Crepos Dakar, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, KULeuven (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology) and ULB (Centre d'anthropologie culturelle). Within the Foragency team, Peter is leading the sub-study on the ‘Environment and/as infrastructure on Congo’s inland waterways’. He meanwhile teaches environmental and development anthropology as a substitute lecturer at the ULB in Brussels, and he is a visiting professor at the Université de Kisangani (department of anthropology). He also coordinates the action-research initiative mobeka.org.
Latest Publications:
Lambertz, Peter (2023), "Les baleinières du fleuve Congo : circulations, transport fluvial et infrastructure artisanale”, Anthropologie & développement 54: 165-182. https://journals.openedition.org/anthropodev/2359#0