Daniel Künzler

PhD

daniel.kuenzler@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 8386
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-2406

Drivers and varieties of social policies, sub-Saharan Africa, popular culture, rap, video films

Lecturer
Department of Social Work, Social Policy and Global Development

STA 01 bu. 0.102
Rte Bonnesfontaines 11
1700 Fribourg

STA 01, 0.102

+41 26 300 8386

Research and publications

Publications

41 publications

Internal migration, formal sector employment and social security for old age in Kenya
Daniel Künzler, sozialpolitik.ch (2024) | Journal article

Social Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Non-Globalization of World Society , in After Globalization: The Future of World Society
Daniel KÜNZLER (2024) | Book chapter

Deception and Morality in Charismatic Pentecostal Churches in Kenya , in Moral Collectives
Daniel Künzler (2023), ISBN: 9783658401467 | Book chapter

Natural resources, authoritarian regimes, social services and the limits of cash transfers in Middle Africa
Daniel Künzler, Global Social Policy (2022) | Journal article

Social policies driven by labour scarcity: colonial social policies in the concession economies of the United Nation subregion Middle Africa and their legacy
Daniel Künzler, Global Political Economy (2022) | Journal article

Editorial: Social Sustainability: An Ambiguous Concept, Areas of Tension and Ways Forward
udowski and Künzler Daniel, tik.ch (2022) | Journal article

Colonialism, nominal socialism and social policies with a focus on civil servancts in the Republic of Congo
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Universalism in Social Policies: A Multidimensional Concept, Policy Idea or Process
Social Inclusion (2020) | Journal article

The Influence of Colonialism and Donors on Social Policies in Kenya and Tanzania , in From Colonialism to International Aid. Global Dynamics of Social Policy
(2020), ISBN: 9783030381998 | Book chapter

Movies on the Move: Transnational Video Film Flows and the Emergence of Local Video Film Industries in East Africa
Stichproben (2019) | Journal article

Täuschung und Moral in charismatischen Pfingstkirchen in Kenia , in Wissen, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft
(2019), ISBN: 9783658229771 | Book chapter

Nationalsozialistische und protofaschistische Sympathien an der Universität Freiburg i. Ü.: Die Ausweisung von Josef Spieler und die Neubesetzung des Lehrstuhls für Heilpädagogik durch Eduard Montalta
sozialpolitik.ch (2019) | Journal article

Hip-Hop in Cameroon
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), ISBN: 9781501342028 | Book chapter

The “socialist revolution” in the Seychelles
sozialpolitik.ch (2018) | Journal article

Research Note: Measuring the Impacts of Colonialism: A New Data Set for the Countries of Africa and Asia
Journal of World-Systems Research (2017) | Journal article

Varieties and drivers of social welfare in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical assessment of current research
sozialpolitik.ch (2017) | Journal article

« L’entrepreneur de lui-même » et les polyphonies politiques du rap kenyan
Daniel Künzler and Sandrine Perrot, Politique africaine (2016) | Journal article

Social security reforms in Kenya: Towards a workerist or a citizenship-based system?
International Social Security Review (2016) | Journal article

The Politics of Health Care Reforms in Kenya and their Failure
sozialpolitik.ch (2016) | Journal article

Health and Old Age in Latin America and Africa - Introduction to the Issue
sozialpolitik.ch (2016) | Journal article

Kontinuität, Konvergenz oder Divergenz? Veränderungen und Beständigkeiten in der globalen Bildungsdiskussion , in Bildung und ungleiche Entwicklung. Globale Konvergenzen und Divergenzen in der Bildungswelt
(2015), ISBN: 978-3-7003-1935-1 | Book chapter

Militia(wo)men: A New Figure of Success or a Form of (Dis-)Militia(wo)men: A New Figure of Success or a Form of (Dis-) , in Tradition vs Modernity in Contemporary Africa
(2014) | Book chapter

Impacts of Colonialism: A Research Survey
Journal of World-Systems Research (2013) | Journal article

The African footballer as visual object and figure of success: Didier Drogba and social meaning
Soccer & Society (2012) | Journal article

Fußball in Afrika: Hintergründe zu "Elefanten", "Leoparden" und "Löwen"
Daniel Künzler (Frankfurt: Brandes & Apsel Verlag, 2012), ISBN: 978-3-86099-906-6 | Book

“Mr. President”: Musical Open Letters as Political Commentary in Africa
Künzler and Reuster-Jahn, Africa Today (2012) | Journal article

Intergenerational Relations and Cameroonian Rap Music: “This Country Kills the Young People” , in L'Afrique des générations
(2012), ISBN: 9782811106317 | Book chapter

South African Rap Music, Counter Discourses, Identity, and Commodification Beyond the Prophets of Da City
Journal of Southern African Studies (2011) | Journal article

Rapping against the lack of change: Hip Hop in Mali and Burkina Faso , in Native Tongues: An African Hip Hop Reader
(2011), ISBN: 978-1-59221-837-0 | Book chapter

Fußball in Afrika: Hintergründe zu "Elefanten", "Leoparden" und "Löwen"
Daniel Künzler (Frankfurt, M.: Brandes & Apsel, 2010), ISBN: 978-3-86099-670-6 | Book

Des événements du Cabinda à la star Drogba
Afrique contemporaine (2010) | Journal article

Football et développement
Afrique contemporaine (2010) | Journal article

Vocational Training in the "informal" sector in Benin: Problems of quality and quantity , in Africanists on Africa. Current Issues
(2010), ISBN: 978-3-643-10682-7 | Book chapter

Bildungskonvergenz in der globalen Gesellschaft? , in Soziologie der globalen Gesellschaft. Eine Einführung
(2010), ISBN: 978-3-85476-311-6 | Book chapter

Sustitución de importaciones y piratería mediática. El caso de la industria nigeriana del vídeo (Nollywood)
Archivos de la filmoteca (2009) | Journal article

"The State has resigned." Transformations in the educational system of Benin, West Africa , in Viva Africa 2008
(2008), ISBN: 978-80-8709409-9 | Book chapter

“Nothing actually really changed”? Die kenianische Bildungsreform von 2003 im Lichte der sozialen Ungleichheit
Africa Spectrum (2007) | Journal article

L’éducation pour quelques-uns ?: Enseignement et mobilité sociale en Afrique au temps de la privatisation : le cas du Bénin
(L'Harmattan, 2007), ISBN: 978-2296048997 | Book

The “lost generation“. African Hip Hop movements and the protest of the young (male) urban , in Civil Society – Local and Regional Responses to Global Challenges
(2007) | Book chapter

Nigerianische Komödien als Allegorien für kulturelle Trans¬formationen , in Werkschau Af¬rikastudien 6 – Le forum Suisse des africanistes
(2007), ISBN: 3-8258-0584-5 | Book chapter

Wo die Elefanten tanzen, leidet das Gras
Daniel Künzler (Münster: Lit2004) | Thesis

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