We finish 2025 in beauty with the publication of PhD candidate Thijs Costers' first article 🥳 "Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962)" is now available in OA in the Journal of Eastern African Studies tinyurl.com/2xdnnjnd
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This paper traces the ways in which colonisation transformed banana beer in Burundi. Through the framework of energy circulations, inspired by eco-Marxists such as Fischer-Kowalski, it analyses how...