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Jedlowski Alessandro

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Main Referenced Co-authors
Röschenthaler, Ute (2)
Thomas, Michael W. (2)
Ashagrie, Aboneh (1)
Olaoluwa, S. (1)
Paasche, E. (1)
Main Referenced Keywords
Nollywood (4); African cinema (2); Italy (2); migrant cinema (2); Nollywood, African creative industries (2);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi (2)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Anthropology (65)
Communication & mass media (25)
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others (3)

Publications (total 92)

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Jedlowski, A. (2011). When the Nigerian video film industry became “Nollywood”: Naming, branding and the videos’ transnational mobility. Estudos Afro-Asiaticos, 33 (1-2-3), 225-251. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/175606

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46 citations (Scopus®)

Jedlowski, A. (2013). From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of transnationalization in the Nigerian video film industry. In M. Krings (Ed.), Global Nollywood: Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry (pp. 25-45). Bloomington, United States: Indiana University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/175611

Jedlowski, A. (2020). Media studies, globalization, and African realities. In S. Chiumbu & M. Iqani (Eds.), Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches. Oxford University Press.
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Jedlowski, A., Olaoluwa, S., & Paasche, E. (2020). TK at 70: An interview with Túndé Kèlání. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32 (4), 429-441. doi:10.1080/13696815.2019.1700782
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Jedlowski, A. (2019). Anthropological approaches to media in Africa. In R. Grinker (Ed.), A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa (pp. 351-374). Blackwell-Wiley.
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Jedlowski, A. (2019). Toward new African languages of protest: African documentary films and human rights. In M. Hjort, African Cinema and Human Rights (pp. 70-88). Indiana University Press.
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Jedlowski, A. (2019). Latin American telenovelas and African screen media: from reception to production. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32 (2). doi:10.1080/13696815.2018.1549829
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Rubbers, B., & Jedlowski, A. (Eds.). (2019). Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities, and Conflicts. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berghahn.

Jedlowski, A. (2018). African videoscapes: Southern Nigeria, Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire in comparative perspective. In K. Harrow, Companion to African Cinema (pp. 293-314). Blackwell-Wiley.
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Jedlowski, A. (2018). Cinéma et relations sud-sud: Les interactions entre Nollywood et Bollywood [Paper presentation]. Nouvelles territorialités entre l'Asie et l'Afrique, EHESS, Paris, France.

Jedlowski, A. (2018). La révolution vidéo en Afrique subsaharienne. Nigéria, Ethiopie et Côte d'Ivoire. Sociétés politiques comparées, 43, 1-20.
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Jedlowski, A. (January 2018). Post-imperial affinities and neoliberal convergences: Discourses and practices of collaboration between the Nigerian and the Indian film industries. Media, Culture and Society, 40 (1), 23-40. doi:10.1177/0163443717703794
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Jedlowski, A. (2018). Moral publics: Human trafficking, video films and the responsibility of the postcolonial subject [Paper presentation]. ASAUK 2018, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Jedlowski, A., Thomas, M. W., & Ashagrie, A. (Eds.). (2018). Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa. United States: Michigan State University Press.

Jedlowski, A. (2018). Ethiopian cinema and the politics of migration, at home and abroad. In M. Thomas, Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa (pp. 161-180). Michigan State University Press.
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Jedlowski, A. (2018). Introduction. In M. Thomas, Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa. Michigan State University Press. doi:10.14321/j.ctv1fxmf1.3
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Jedlowski, A. (2018). The afterlife of Kung Fu films in Abidjan [Paper presentation]. Karin Barber Lab, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Jedlowski, A. (2018). Moral Publics: Human trafficking, video films, and the responsibility of the postcolonial subject. Visual Anthropology, 31, 236-252. doi:10.1080/08949468.2018.1445369
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Jedlowski, A. (01 September 2017). African media and the corporate takeover: Video film circulation in the age of neoliberal transformations. African Affairs, 116 (465), 671-691. doi:10.1093/afraf/adx017
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Jedlowski, A., & Thomas, M. W. (2017). Representing ‘otherness’ in African popular media: Chinese characters in Ethiopian video films. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 29 (1), 63-80. doi:10.1080/13696815.2016.1241704
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Röschenthaler, U., & Jedlowski, A. (Eds.). (2017). Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America: Economic Networks and Cultural Interactions. London, United Kingdom: Zed Books.

Jedlowski, A. (2017). Le cinéma ethiopién : Des premiers films aux développements récents [Paper presentation]. Les Internationalismes au miroir des littératures et des cinémas (Asie, Afrique et Amérique latine), EHESS, Paris, France.

Jedlowski, A. (2017). Human trafficking and prostitution in Nollywood [Paper presentation]. Crime goes to the movies: The case of Nollywood, University of Oslo, Olso, Norway.

Jedlowski, A., & Röschenthaler, U. (2017). China–Africa media interactions: media and popular culture between business and state intervention. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 29 (1), 1-10. doi:10.1080/13696815.2016.1268953
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Jedlowski, A. (2017). Les transformations de la circulation de films vidéos nigérians en Côte d’Ivoire : Du commerce informel aux grandes sociétés internationales. In P. Caille, Regarder des films en Afrique (pp. 259-274). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
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Jedlowski, A. (2017). StarTimes au Nigéria : Aspects politiques et économiques de la pénétration d’une compagnie chinoise dans la production et la distribution des vidéos nigérianes [Paper presentation]. International conference: “Produire en/avec l’Afrique et le Moyen Orient", University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.

Jedlowski, A. (2017). Showcasing Lagos: New Nollywood’s reinvention of the African metropolis [Paper presentation]. LAGOS: From the Pepperfarm to the Megacity (and Beyond): An Interdisciplinary Conference on Space, Society, and the Imagination of an African Crossroads, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.

Jedlowski, A. (2017). L’économie de l’occulte dans les films nigérians [Paper presentation]. Faits religieux, faits économiques, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.

Jedlowski, A. (2017). Post-imperial affinities: Interactions between the Nigerian and the Indian film industries [Paper presentation]. India-Africa, a new soft power?, EHESS, Paris, France.

Jedlowski, A. (2017). Nollywood e l'esplosione della produzione video «made in Nigeria». Economia della Cultura: Rivista Trimestrale dell' Associazione per l'Economia della Cultura, (4/2017), 527-540.
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Jedlowski, A. (2016). Nollywood. L'industria video nigeriana e le sue diramazioni transnazionali. Napoli, Italy: Liguori.

Jedlowski, A. (2016). Regulating mobility, reshaping accessibility: Nollywood and the piracy scapegoat. In M. Diawara & U. Röschenthaler (Ed.), Copyright Africa: How Intellectual Properties, Media and Markets Transform Immaterial Cultural Goods (pp. 292-310). Oxford, United Kingdom: Sean Kingston.
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Jedlowski, A. (2016). Post-imperial affinities and film production: Discourses and practices of collaboration between the Nigerian and the Indian film industries [Paper presentation]. New directions in Nollywood and Nigerian cinema, Columbia University, New York, United States.

Jedlowski, A. (2016). Savoirs "traditionnels" et normes locales de la propriété intellectuelle : le cas de Nollywood [Paper presentation]. 9° REASOPO workshop: « La propriété intellectuelle : nouvelles formes, nouveaux enjeux, Reaseau d'Analyse des Societés Politiques (REASOPO), Paris, France.

Jedlowski, A. (2016). The moral public: Performativity, audiences, and the politics of direct address in Nigerian video films [Paper presentation]. Annual symposium of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Atlanta, United States.

Jedlowski, A. (2016). La construction pentecôtiste du monde dans les vidéos nigérianes sur la migration [Paper presentation]. Corps, mémoires, liens : Comment les migrants fabriquent leur présent ?, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Jedlowski, A. (2016). Street gang culture and the afterlife of kung fu films in Abidjan [Paper presentation]. 4th binannual international conference of the Italian Association of African Studies (ASAI), Italy.

Jedlowski, A. (2016). Cultural entrepreneurship in Nollywood [Paper presentation]. Exploring the Creative Economy in Africa, King's College, London, United Kingdom.

Jedlowski, A. (2016). Migration, prostitution and the representation of the black female subject in Nigerian video films about Italy. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 4 (1), 9-23. doi:10.1386/jicms.4.1.9_1
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Jedlowski, A. (2016). All for a container! Return migration, transport technologies, and love affairs. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 6 (2), 94-111. doi:10.3167/TRANS.2016.060207
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Jedlowski, A. (2016). Small media distribution and capital flows: Shifting biographies of Nigerian video films’ circulation in French-speaking Africa [Paper presentation]. First winter school of the "Chaire Afrique", Ecole de Gouvernance et Economie, University Mohammad VI, Rabat, Morocco.

Jedlowski, A. (2016). The cinema of the ‘modern warriors’: Kung fu films and the politics of street gang culture in Abidjan [Paper presentation]. International conference: "Représentations du cinéma et pratiques spectatorielles en Afrique francophone", Marrakech, Morocco.

Jedlowski, A. (2016). Studying media ‘from’ the South: African screen media and global perspectives. Black Camera, 7 (2), 174-193.
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Jedlowski, A. (Ed.). (2015). Lagos calling: Nollywood e la reinvenzione del cinema in Africa. Rome, Italy: Aracne.

Jedlowski, A. (2015). The women behind the camera: Female entrepreneurship in the southern Nigerian video film industry. In U. Röschenthaler (Ed.), Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa (pp. 245-263). New York, United States: Routledge.
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Jedlowski, A. (2015). Nigerian migrants, Nollywood videos and the emergence of an ‘anti-humanitarian’ representation of migration in Italian cinema. In E. Bond (Ed.), Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative (pp. 397-414). Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang. doi:10.3726/978-3-0353-0657-6
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Jedlowski, A. (2015). Ethiopian cinema and the politics of migration: The work of Tewodros Teshome and Dagmawi Yimer [Paper presentation]. 19° international conference of the Association of Ethiopian Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Jedlowski, A. (2015). Avenues of participation and strategies of control: Video film production and social mobility in Ethiopia and southern Nigeria. In M. Banks (Ed.), Production Studies II, The Sequel (pp. 175-186). New York, United States: Routledge.
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Jedlowski, A. (2015). The Bollywood connection: Transnational collaborations and the impact of the ‘Indian model’ on the southern Nigerian video film industry [Paper presentation]. International conference: “Africa-Asia: A new axis of knowledge”, University of Accra, Accra, Ghana.

Jedlowski, A. (2015). Au tribunal de la morale : la ‘mise en scène’ de la responsabilité dans les films nigérians sur la migration [Paper presentation]. Régimes de responsabilité en Afrique: Généalogies, rationalités et conflits, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.

Jedlowski, A. (2015). Between soft power and strategic opportunism: collaborations between the Indian and the Nigerian film industries [Paper presentation]. Beyond the ‘North-South’: New territorialities between Africa and Asia, EHESS, Paris, France.

Jedlowski, A. (2015). Marketing in Nollywood. In N. Mingant (Ed.), Film Marketing Into the Twenty-First Century (pp. 76-79). London, United Kingdom: British Film Institute/Palgrave McMillan.
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Jedlowski, A. (2015). Screening Ethiopia: A preliminary study of the history and contemporary developments of film production in Ethiopia. Journal of African Cinemas, 7 (2), 169-185.
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Jedlowski, A. (2015). Editorial: Across media: Mobility and transformation of cultural materials in the digital age. Journal of African Media Studies, 7 (1), 3-9.
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Jedlowski, A. (2015). Changing biographies of video films’ circulation in Francophone Africa: From ‘informal’ distribution to corporate business [Paper presentation]. International symposium of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Montreal, Canada.

Jedlowski, A. (2014). Multi-sited ethnography, comparative research and fieldwork methodologies in the analysis of sub-Saharan African media production [Paper presentation]. Research methodologies on visual cultures, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Jedlowski, A. (2014). Between parody and social criticism: Interpreting representations of Chinese characters in Ethiopian video films [Paper presentation]. International conference of the research network "Chinese in Africa/Africans in China", University of Jinan, China.

Jedlowski, A. (2014). The circulation of Nigerian videos in francophone Africa: The Lagos-Abidjan connection [Paper presentation]. International conference: “Film Distribution in Nigeria", Pan-Atlantic University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Jedlowski, A. (2014). The tycoon and the outsider: Media entrepreneurship and the politics of film production in Ethiopia [Paper presentation]. International conference of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK), University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.

Jedlowski, A. (2013). Exporting Nollywood: Nigerian video filmmaking in Europe. In P. Szczepanik (Ed.), Behind the Screen: European Contributions to Production Studies (pp. 171-186). New York, United States: Palgrave McMillan.
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Jedlowski, A. (2013). Nigerian videos in the global arena: The postcolonial exotic revisited [Paper presentation]. European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Jedlowski, A. (2013). Nigerian videos in the global arena: The postcolonial exotic revisited. Global South, 7 (1), 157-178.
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Jedlowski, A. (2013). Nigerian video filmmaking in Italy: Media activism and commercial strategies [Paper presentation]. Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Jedlowski, A. (2013). The moral politics of direct address in Nigerian videos [Paper presentation]. International conference of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), University of Prague, Czechia.

Jedlowski, A. (2013). Oltre la migrazione: Alla ricerca di un cinema popolare afroitaliano. In L. De Franceschi (Ed.), L’Africa in Italia. Per una controstoria postcoloniale del cinema italiano (pp. 207-220). Rome, Italy: Aracne.
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Jedlowski, A. (2013). All for a container! Technological mediations, transnational business, and love affairs [Paper presentation]. Technology and mobility in Africa: Exploring a new analytical field, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Jedlowski, A. (2013). From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of transnationalization in the Nigerian video film industry. In M. Krings (Ed.), Global Nollywood: Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry (pp. 25-45). Bloomington, United States: Indiana University Press.
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Jedlowski, A. (2013). Nigerian migrants, Nollywood videos and the emergence of an ‘anti-humanitarian’ representation of migration in Italian cinema [Paper presentation]. International conference: “Crossroads: Europe, Migration and Culture”, University of Copenaghen, Denmark.

Jedlowski, A. (2013). The challenges of digital film production in sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative perspective [Paper presentation]. Film production and distribution in Ethiopia, Rift Valley University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Jedlowski, A. (2012). Videos in motion: Processes of Transnationalization in the Southern Nigerian Video Industry: Networks, Discourses, Aesthetics [Doctoral thesis, Università di Napoli "L'Orientale]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/177490

Jedlowski, A. (2012). Small screen cinema: Informality and remediation in Nollywood. Television and New Media, 13 (5), 431-446. doi:10.1177/1527476412443089
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Jedlowski, A. (2012). Hegemonies and complementarities: The Ghanaian and southern Nigerian video industries in comparative perspective [Paper presentation]. Annual international conference of the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), Paris, France.

Jedlowski, A. (2012). Small screen cinema: Informality and remediation in Nollywood [Paper presentation]. International conference of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Jedlowski, A. (2012). On the periphery of Nollywood: Nigerian video filmmaking in Italy and the emergence of intercultural aesthetics. In C. Lombardi-Diop (Ed.), Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity (pp. 239-252). New York, United States: Palgrave McMillan.
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Jedlowski, A. (2011). When the Nigerian video film industry became “Nollywood”: Naming, branding and the videos’ transnational mobility. Estudos Afro-Asiaticos, 33 (1-2-3), 225-251.
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Jedlowski, A. (2011). From Nollywood to Nollyworld: The cosmopolitan aura of the new Nigerian cinema [Paper presentation]. European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Uppsala, Sweden.

Jedlowski, A. (2011). Pirated transnationalism in the Nigerian video industry: Successes and limits of informal distribution strategies [Paper presentation]. Piracy and informal media economies, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Jedlowski, A. (2011). Una nuova voce nel cinema italiano? L’emergenza di forme di cinema migrante in Italia. In V. Lanari (Ed.), Camera Africa: Classici, noir, Nollywood e la nuova generazione del cinema delle Afriche (pp. 69 – 76). Verona, Italy: Cierre Edizioni.
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Jedlowski, A. (2011). On the periphery of Nollywood: Nigerian video filmmaking in Italy and the emerging of intercultural aesthetics [Paper presentation]. Lights! Tystnad! Azione! Practices, sites and careers in European film production, University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Jedlowski, A. (2010). Beyond the Video Boom: New Tendencies in the Nigerian Video Industry.

Jedlowski, A. (2010). Nollywood abroad: The Nigerian video industry and the role of the diaspora [Paper presentation]. International workshop: “Thinking Africa Today”, Procida, Naples, Italy.

Jedlowski, A. (2010). Pirated Transnationalism: Piracy, Nigerian videos and the creation of a Pan-African popular culture [Paper presentation]. AEGIS (European network of African Studies) summer school, Cortona, Italy.

Jedlowski, A. (2010). Nollywood in and out of Italy: Interpreting the production of popular media in the diaspora [Paper presentation]. Media interpretation workshop, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Jedlowski, A. (2010). Al di là del video boom: Nuove tendenze dell’industria video nigeriana fra transnazionalismo e pirateria [Paper presentation]. 1st biannual international conference of the Italian Association of African Studies (ASAI), University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy.

Jedlowski, A. (2010). Nollywood vs Lagos: The reciprocal influences between the Nigerian megacity and the video industry [Paper presentation]. International conference of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), Istanbul, Turkey.

Jedlowski, A. (2010). New tendencies in the Nigerian film industry: Nollywood, global cinema and the impact of the diaspora [Paper presentation]. International conference AVANCA/CINEMA 2010, Avanca, Portugal.

Jedlowski, A. (2010). Creating normative orders locally: Informal distribution, pirated transnationalism and copyright legislation in the Nigerian video industry [Paper presentation]. Intellectual property, Normative Orders and Globalization, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.

Jedlowski, A. (2010). Nollywood all’italiana: La nascita di un’estetica interculturale fra media-attivismo e strategia commerciale [Paper presentation]. Antropologia e società civile: I movimenti sociali nell’Italia contemporanea, University of Milan "Bicocca", Milan, Italy.

Jedlowski, A. (2009). Alla periferia di Nollywood. L'esperienza della migrazione nei video nigeriani prodotti in Italia [Paper presentation]. Coercizione e soggettivazione, University of Turin, Italy.

Jedlowski, A. (2009). Re-imagining space from a situated position: A critique of ‘lusophone space’ [Paper presentation]. European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), University of Leipzig, Germany.

Jedlowski, A. (2009). Suole di vento. Jean Rouch fra antropologia e cinema. Achab : Rivista di Antropologia, XIV, 29-35.
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Jedlowski, A. (2009). La rappresentazione della violenza nel Nollywood nigeriano [Paper presentation]. Economie morali della violenza, Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies, Naples, Italy.

Jedlowski, A. (2008). Constructing artworks. Issues of authorship and articulation around Seydou Keïta’s Photographs. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 17 (1), 34-46.
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Jedlowski, A. (2007). Teatro, violenza e resistenza in Congo Brazzaville. Il percorso di Dieudonné Niangouna. Turin, Italy: L'Harmattan Italia.

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