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Christoph Veithen is a PhD researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven. His work focuses on the intersection of urban infrastructure, displacement, and socio-economic exclusion in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Funded by a PhD fellowship from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), he conducted seventeen months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork (2019–2022) to explore lived experiences of destruction and displacement caused by large-scale infrastructure projects like the Fourth Bridge and the Metro Construction Project. His research highlights the tensions between developmental promises and necropolitical realities of urban 'émergence' in Abidjan.
- Education
- Master’s degree in Sociology, KU Leuven
- Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, KU Leuven
Research interests include:
- Politics of infrastructure and displacement
- Neoliberal urban policies
- Affective and temporal dimensions of displacement
- Power relations and governmentalities
- Political inclusion in contexts of precarity
- Urban subjectivity and citizenship
Projects he has contributed to include:
- "Between Destruction and Development: Navigating the politics of infrastructure and displacement in the time of ‘émergence’ in Abidjan" (2018–2023)
- "Solidarity and precarity in times of pandemic" (2020–2021)
Scientific awards:
- FWO PhD Fellowship (2018–2023)
Publications reflect his focus on urban anthropology, pandemic response, and hybrid research methods. He also maintains a blog (Emergence and Displacement) to share fieldwork reflections. Collaborations include work with Bruno Meeus, Marjan Moris, and other KU Leuven researchers.
