Publications
Theses
Habilitation Thesis: „Kigoma-Ujiji: a Global History of a Liminal Town.” Leipzig University, Faculty of History, Arts, and Area Studies, 2021, 305p.
(see Publications A11, A15, A16 & A25 – will be published as a monograph in English in 2024)
PhD Thesis History: „Moslims in Usumbura (1897-1962): sociale geschiedenis van de islamitische gemeenschappen van Usumbura in de koloniale tijd.“ Universiteit Gent, 2006, 254p. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luc François)
(see Publications A8, A22, A27 & A32 – will be published as a monograph in French in 2024)
Master Thesis History: „Ha-Tiqwah: De houding van de Joodse pers in België tegenover de staat Israël, 1965-1980.“ Universiteit Gent, 1997, 180p. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Romain Van Eenoo)
(s. Publication A1)
Master Thesis Oriental Studies: „Theoretische geschiedenis van het Ethiopische jodendom: Vergelijkendestudie van het wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de Beta Israel / Falashas in de tweede helft van de 20ste eeuw.“ Universiteit Gent, 2000, 109p. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Julien Klener)
(s. Publications A9 & R10)
Edited volumes and special issues
E9. Castryck, Geert (ed.). The Bounds of Berlin’s Africa: Space-making and Multiple Territorialities in East and Central Africa. Special Issue in: International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52, 1 (2019), p. 1–158.
E8. Castryck, Geert, Achim von Oppen & Katharina Zöller (eds.). Bridging Histories of East and Central Africa. Section in: History in Africa 46 (2019), p. 217–383.
E7. Castryck, Geert, Ulf Engel, Steffi Marung & Matthias Middell (eds.). „Part X: Transregional Studies and Narratives of Globalization.“ In: Matthias Middell (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies. Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, p. 607–666.
E6. Castryck, Geert (ed.). „Part II: Colonialism and Post-Colonial Studies.“ In: Matthias Middell (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies. Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, p. 91–146.
E5. Castryck, Geert, Silke Strickrodt & Kaja Werthmann (eds.). Sources and Methods for African History and Culture – Essays in Honour of Adam Jones. Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2016, 698p.
E4. Castryck, Geert (ed.). From Railway Juncture to Portal of Globalization: Making Globalization Work in African and South Asian Railway Towns. Special Issue in: Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 25, 4 (2015), p. 7-101.
E3. Sieveking, Nadine & Geert Castryck (eds.). Performing Space in Urban Africa. Part Special Issue in: Africa - Journal of the International Africa Institute 84, 1 (2014), p. 1-118.
E2. Castryck, Geert, Hein Vanhee & Luc François (red.). Afrikaanse geschiedenis - Belgische traditie / Histoire africaine - Tradition belge / African History - Belgian Tradition. In: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis XXXII, 3-4 (2002), p. 303-567.
E1. Castryck, Geert & Michiel Decaluwe (red.). De relatie tussen economie en ecologie: gisteren, vandaag en morgen. Gent, Academia Press - Vlaamse Geschiedkundige Kring - Vereniging voor Ecologische Geschiedenis, 1999, 196p. (Jaarboek Ecologische Geschiedenis 1998)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
A33. Castryck, Geert. „Imagining African Unity: From an Inter-Imperial Spatial Order to an International Organization.“ In: Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 33, 1 (2023), p. 19–31.
A32. Castryck, Geert. „Spheres of Life and Scales of Action among Gujarati and Omani Merchants in the African Great Lakes Region, 1920s–1930s.“ In: Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions 47, 1 (2023), p. 59-75.
A31. Castryck, Geert. „Mwami Musinga et la sauvegarde de la frontière de la Kagera entre le Rwanda et le Tanganyika : le tournant trans-impérial après la Première Guerre mondiale.“ In: Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique, 3 (octobre 2022), p. 129–143.
A30. Castryck, Geert. „Reinventing International Colonialism during a Crisis of Empire: Belgian-British Colonial Exchanges between Inter-Imperialism and Inter-Colonial Technical Cooperation, 1920s–1930s.“ In: The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 48, 5 (2020), p. 846–865.
A29. Castryck, Geert. „German-African Entangled Histories.“ In: Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 30, 2 (2020), p. 160–170.
A28. Jones, Adam, & Geert Castryck. „Mission Spaces in German East Africa: Spatial Imaginations, Implementations, and Incongruities against the Backdrop of an Emerging Colonial Spatial Order.“ In: Philip Clart & Adam Jones (eds.). Transnational Religious Spaces: Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, p. 51–83.
A27. Castryck, Geert. „Children of the revolution: the citizenship of urban Muslims in the Burundian decolonization process.“ In: Journal of Eastern African Studies 14, 2 (2020), p. 185–203.
A26. Castryck, Geert. „Disentangling the Colonial City: Spatial Separations and Entanglements inside Towns and across the Empire in Colonial Africa and Europe.“ In: Matthias Middell & Steffi Marung (eds.). Re- spatializations under the Global Condition. Towards a typology of spatial formats. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2019, p. 183–204.
A25. Castryck, Geert. „Bordering the Lake: Transcending spatial orders in Kigoma-Ujiji.“ In: International Journal of African Historical Studies 52, 1 (2019), p. 109–132.
A24. Castryck, Geert. „Introduction - The Bounds of Berlin’s Africa: Space-making and Multiple Territorialities in East and Central Africa.“ In: International Journal of African Historical Studies 52, 1 (2019), p. 1–10.
A23. Castryck, Geert. „Global Urban History.“ In: Konstanze Loeke & Matthias Middell (eds.). The Many Facets of Global Studies: Perspectives from the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Programme. Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2019, p. 139–144.
A22. Castryck, Geert. „Living Islam in Colonial Bujumbura: The Historical Translocality of Muslim Life between East and Central Africa.“ In: History in Africa 46 (2019), p. 263–298.
A21. Castryck, Geert, Achim von Oppen & Katharina Zöller. „Introduction - Bridging Histories of East and Central Africa.“ In: History in Africa 46 (2019), p. 217–229.
A20. Castryck, Geert, Ulf Engel, Steffi Marung & Matthias Middell. „Introduction: Transregional Studies and Narratives of Globalization.“ In: Matthias Middell (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies. Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, p. 607–610.
A19. Castryck, Geert. „Indian Ocean Worlds.“ In: Matthias Middell (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies. Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, p. 102–109.
A18. Castryck, Geert. „Introduction: Colonialism and Post-Colonial Studies.“ In: Matthias Middell (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies. Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, p. 91–94.
A17. Castryck, Geert. „'Als een wereld zo groot, waar uw vlag staat geplant': Kunnen we het Belgisch koloniaal verleden dichterbij brengen?“ In: Hermes: Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, 20, 60 (September 2016), p. 54–63.
A16. Castryck, Geert. „‘My Slave Sold all of Kigoma’: Power relations, Property rights and the historian’s Quest for understanding.“ In: Geert Castryck, Silke Strickrodt & Kaja Werthmann (eds.). Sources and Methods for African History and Culture – Essays in Honour of Adam Jones. Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2016, p. 317–336.
A15. Castryck, Geert. „The Belgian Base at Kigoma’s Railhead (1920s–1930s): Territorial Ambivalence in an Inland Indian Ocean Port.“ In: Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 25, 4 (2015), p. 70–86.
A14. Castryck, Geert, „Introduction – From Railway Juncture to Portal of Globalization: Making Globalization Work in African and South Asian Railway Towns.“ In: Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 25, 4 (2015), p. 7–16.
A13. Castryck, Geert, & Nadine Sieveking. „Introduction: Performing Space in Urban Africa.“ In: Africa – Journal of the International Africa Institute, 84, no. 1 (2014), p. 1–16.
A12. Castryck, Geert, Nils Duquet & Maarten Van Alstein. „Peace Education in Flanders, Belgium: Grassroots Organizations at Work in Schools.“ In: Ian M. Harris (ed.) Peace education from the grassroots. Charlotte, Information Age Publishing, 2013, p. 79–100.
A11. Castryck, Geert. „Ex-Centring the Global: Liminality and Interconnectedness in Urban Kigoma.“ In: Matthias Middell (ed.) Self-Reflexive Area Studies. Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2013, p. 59–78.
A10. Castryck, Geert. „Binnenste-buitenland: De Belgische kolonie en de Vlaamse buitenlandberichtgeving.“ In: Vincent Viaene, David Van Reybrouck & Bambi Ceuppens (red.), Congo in België: Koloniale cultuur in de metropool. Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2009, p. 271–281 (Alfred Cauchie Reeks, 10)
A09. Castryck, Geert. „Dialectique de l'historiographie des Béta-Israël.“ In: Daniel Friedman (dir.). Les Juifs d'Ethiopie: De Joseph Halévy à nos jours. Paris, Editions du Nadir, 2007, p. 139–160 (Collection Voix).
A08. Castryck, Geert. „The Hidden Agenda of Citizenschip: African Citizenship in the Face of the Modern Nation State.“ In: Steven G. Ellis, Guðmundur Hálfdanarson & Ann Katherine Isaacs (eds.). Citizenship in Historical Perspective. Pisa, Edizioni Plus - Sixth Framework Network of Excellence CLIOHRES.net, 2006, p. 189–202.
A07. Castryck, Geert. „Whose History is History? Singularities and Dualities of the Public Debate on Belgian Colonialism.“ In: Csaba Lévai (ed.). Europe and the World in European Historiography. Pisa, Edizioni Plus - Sixth Framework Network of Excellence CLIOHRES.net, 2006, p. 71–88.
idem in: Sven Mörsdorf (ed.), Being a Historian: Opportunities and Responsibilities, Past and Present. CLIOHRES-ISHA Reader II. Pisa, CLIOHRES.net, 2010, p. 1–18
A06. Castryck, Geert. „Mensen, macht en mondialisering in het Afrikaanse Grote Merengebied.“ In: Hermes: Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, 9, no. 3-37 (2005), p. 35–38.
A05. Castryck, Geert. „Een geheugen als een olifant: ROM- en RAM-geheugen van de koloniale tijd in Tervuren.“ In: Mededelingenblad van de Belgische Vereniging voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 27, no. 1 (2005), p. 5–13.
idem in: Hermes: Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, 9, no. 3-37 (2005), p. 30–34.
A04. Castryck, Geert. „Waarom Kongo geen Nederlands spreekt: De gelaagdheid van Vlaamse taalinitiatieven in een koloniale context (1945-1962).“ In: Verslagen & mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 114, no. 3 (2004), p. 453–467.
A03. Vanhee, Hein, & Geert Castryck. „Belgische historiografie en verbeelding over het koloniale verleden.“ In: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 33, no. 3-4 (2002), p. 305–320.
A02. Castryck, Geert, & Isabel Rotthier. „Spelenderwijs: Maatschappelijk simulatie als totale didactische werkvorm.“ In: Instrumenten voor begeleide zelfstudie: Een greep uit het bestaande instrumentarium als inspiratie voor bevlogen lectoren. Leuven, ACCO; Brussel, VVKHO, 2000, p. 93–112 (H-ogelijn Cahiers: Jaargang 2, 2000, nr. 2).
A01. Castryck, Geert. „Een wolf in schaapskleren? De Shoah en Israël in de Belgisch-Joodse pers (1965-1980).“ In: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 39, no. 3-4 (1999), p. 385–424.
Book Reviews and Review Articles
R16. “Review Miles Larmer, Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt (Cambridge 2021).” In: H-Soz-Kult – Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-114999), 30 June 2022.
R15. Castryck, Geert. „Review Francis Dube, Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940: African Experiences in a Contested Space (Cham 2020).” In: H-Soz-Kult – Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-96813), 31 May 2022.
R14. Castryck, Geert. “Review Richard Hölzl, Gläubige Imperialisten. Katholische Mission in Deutschland und Ostafrika (1830–1960) (Frankfurt 2021).” In: H-Soz-Kult – Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-49938), 15 February 2022.
R13. Castryck, Geert. “Review Carola Lentz & David Lowe (eds.), Remembering Independence (Abingdon, 2018).” In: Connections – A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists (https://www.connections.clio-online.net/searching/id/reb-27581), 3 January 2020.
R12. Castryck, Geert. „Review article - Vlaanderens wereld: een caleidoscoop van geschiedenisjes tussen Frankrijk, Nederland en België.“ In: Contemporanea, 42, 3 (2020) – https://www.contemporanea.be/nl/article/20203-reviewnl-geert-castryck
R11. Castryck, Geert. „Revue de livre Breitinger Jan C., Zwischen Nutzung und Niedergang : Der Lake Victoria als Ressource in Wissenschaft, Kolonial- und Entwicklungspolitik, 1927–1988.“ In: 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire, 3, 147 (2020), p. 187–188.
R10. Castryck, Geert. „Review James Quirin, The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: A History of the Beta Israel (Falasha) to 1920.“ In: Ethiopian Journal of Religious Studies, 1 (2017), p. 155–159.
R09. Castryck, Geert. Review Jelmer Vos, „Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913. The Breakdown of a Moral Order (2015).“ In: Connections – A Journal of Historians and Area Specialists (https://www.connections.clio-online.net/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-28726), 14 December 2018.
R08. Castryck, Geert. „Review Thomas Bierschenk & Eva Spies (eds), 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Afrika: Kontinuitäten, Brüche, Perspektiven (2012).“ In: Africa Spectrum, 50, 2 (2015), p. 152–54.
R07. Castryck, Geert. „Review Michael Mann - Sahibs, Sklaven und Soldaten: Geschichte des Menschenhandels rund um den Indischen Ozean (2012).“ In: Comparativ - Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 24, no. 1 (2014), p. 87–91.
R06. Castryck, Geert. „Double Review: Matthew G. Stanard - Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism (2011) & Guy Vanthemsche - Belgium and the Congo 1885-1980 (2012).“ In: geschichte-transnational (http://geschichtetransnational.clio-online.net/rezensionen/id=17029), 21 December 2012.
R05. Castryck, Geert. „Review: James C. Scott - The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2009).“ In: geschichte-transnational (http://geschichtetransnational.clio-online.net/rezensionen/id=15706), 02.09.2011.
R04. Castryck, Geert. „Review: Nigel Eltringham - Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda (2004).“ In: Africa - Journal of the International African Institute, 75, no. 3 (2005), p. 444–445.
R03. Castryck, Geert. „Mind and Forest over the Twentieth Century. Review: Tamara Giles-Vernick - Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest (2002).“ In: The Journal of African History, 45, no. 3 (2004), p. 512–513.
R02. Castryck, Geert. „Van joods tot Belgisch in drie bedrijven: Recensie van Errerra-Bourla Milantia - La famille Errerra: une histoire juive (2000).“ In: Mededelingenblad van de Belgische Vereniging voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 22, no. 3 (2000), p. 19–20.
R01. Castryck, Geert. „La brousse est plus forte que le canon: Recensie van Etemad Bouda - La possession du monde: Poids et mesures de la colonisation (2000).“ In: Mededelingenblad van de Belgische Vereniging voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 22, no. 2, (2000), p. 23–26.
Various Publications (Selection)
V3. Castryck, Geert. „Seuche, Raum und Kolonisierung in Afrika.“ [Epidemics, Space, and Colonization in Afrika] In: ReCentGlobe-Blog (https://www.recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/zentrum/detailansicht/artikel/blog-5-seuche-raum-und-kolonisierung-in-afrika-2020-04-07), 7 April 2020.
V2. Castryck, Geert, & Nils Duquet. „On positive and negative peace: Peace Education for primary and secondary schools in Flanders: concept definition and analysis of the offer of projects.“ Brussels, Flemish Peace Institute, 2010, 124p. [original version in Dutch]
V1. Castryck, Geert. „Remembrance education in Flanders: an argument in favour of Holocaust remembrance, history teaching and peace education?“ Brussels, Flemish Peace Institute, 2009, 23p. [original version in Dutch]