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Authored Books

Pottier, Johan (2002) Re-Imagining Rwanda. Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pottier, Johan (1999) Anthropology of Food: The Social Dynamics of Food Security. Malden, MA: Polity Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Cramer, Christopher, Hammond, Laura and Pottier, Johan, eds. (2011) Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges. Leiden: Brill. (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies)

Pottier, Johan, Sillitoe, Paul and Bicker, Alan, eds. (2003) Negotiating Local Knowledge: Identity and Power in Development. London: Pluto. (Anthropology, culture, and society)

Book Chapters

Klein, Jakob A., Pottier, Johan and West, Harry G. (2012) 'New Directions in the Anthropology of Food.' In: Fardon, Richard, Harris, Olivia, Marchand, Trevor H.J., Nuttall, Mark, Shore, Cris, Strang, Veronica and Wilson, Richard A., (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 293-302.

Hammond, Laura (2011) 'Four Layers of Silence: Counterinsurgency in Northeastern Ethiopia.' In: Cramer, Christopher, Hammond, Laura and Pottier, Johan, (eds.), Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges. Leiden: Brill, pp. 61-78. (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies)

Pottier, Johan (2004) 'Escape from Genocide: The politics of identity in Rwanda's 1994 massacres.' In: Broch-Due, Vigdis, (ed.), Violence and Belonging: The Quest for Identity in Post-colonial Africa. London: Routledge, pp. 195-205.

Spencer, Paul (2004) 'Keeping Tradition in Good Repair: the evolution of indigenous knowledge and the dilemma of development among pastoralists.' In: Bicker, Alan and Pottier, Johan, (eds.), Development and Local Knowledge. London: Routledge, pp. 202-217.

Pottier, Johan (2003) 'Modern Information Warfare Versus Empirical Knowledge: Framing 'the Crisis' in Eastern Zaire, 1996.' In: Pottier, Johan, Bicker, Alan and Sillitoe, Paul, (eds.), Negotiating Local Knowledge. Power and Identity in Development. London: Pluto Press, pp. 215-240.

Pottier, Johan (2003) 'Negotiating Local Knowledge: An Introduction.' In: Pottier, Johan, Sillitoe, Paul and Bicker, Alan, (eds.), Negotiating Local Knowledge: Identity and Power in Development. London: Pluto, pp. 1-29. (Anthropology, culture, and society)

Marchand, Trevor H.J. (2003) 'A possible explanation for the lack of explanation; or 'Why the Master Builder can't explain what he knows': Introducing the Informational Atomism against a 'definitional' definition of concepts.' In: Pottier, Johan, Bicker, Alan and Sillitoe, Paul, (eds.), Negotiating Local knowledge: Power and Identity in Development. London: Pluto Press, pp. 30-50.

Campbell, John (2002) 'Interdisciplinary research and GIS: Why local and indigenous knowledge are discounted.' In: Bicker, Alan, Pottier, Johan and Sillitoe, Paul, (eds.), Participating in Development: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge. London: Routledge, pp. 189-205.

Pottier, Johan (2000) 'Gerra dell informazione e violenza nella regione dei grandi laghi.' In: Buttino, M., Ercolessi, Maria Cristina and Triulzi, A., (eds.), Uomini in Armi: Costruzioni etniche e violenza politica. Napoli: L'ancora del Mediterraneo, pp. 157-187.

Pottier, Johan (2000) 'Reporting the New Rwanda: The rise and cost of political correctness, with reference to Kibeho.' In: Doom, Ruddy and Gorus, Jan, (eds.), Politics of Identity and Economics of Conflict in the Great Lakes Region. Brussels: VUB University Press, pp. 121-148.

Pottier, Johan (1998) 'The Self in Self-Repatriation: Closing down Mugunga Camp Eastern Zaire.' In: Black, Richard and Koser, Khalid, (eds.), The End of the Refugee Cycle? Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 142-170.

Pottier, Johan (1997) 'Towards an Ethnography of Participatory Appraisal.' In: Grillo, R. D. and Stirrat, R. L., (eds.), Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives. Oxford: Berg, pp. 203-227.

Journal Article

Pottier, Johan (2008) 'Displacement and ethnic reintegration in Ituri, DR Congo: challenges ahread.' Journal of Modern African Studies, 46 (3). pp. 1-24.

Pottier, Johan (2008) 'Discorso globale e contesti locali. Quale futuro per il programma di riforma agraria in Ruanda? [Global Discourse, Local Contexts: Which way for Rwanda’s land reform programme?].' Antropologia (Special volume on Violence), 8 (9-10). pp. 137-155.

Pottier, Johan (2007) 'Rights Violations, Rumour, and Rhetoric: Making Sense of Cannibalism in Mambasa, Ituri (Democratic Republic of Congo).' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13 (4). pp. 825-843.

Pottier, Johan (2006) 'Land Reform for Peace? Rwanda's 2005 Land Law in Context.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 6 (4). pp. 509-537.

Pottier, Johan (2006) 'Roadblock Ethnography: Negotiating Humanitarian Access in Ituri, Eastern DR Congo, 1999-2004.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 76 (2). pp. 151-79.

Pottier, Johan (2002) 'Everybody needs good neighbours: understanding the conflict(s) in Eastern DRC.' Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2. pp. 141-166.

Pottier, Johan (1996) 'Relief and Repatriation: Views by Rwandan refugees; lessons for humanitarian aid workers.' African Affairs, 95 (380). pp. 403-429.