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Bettina Engels is assistant professor in conflict and African studies atOtto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.Her research and teaching focusses on agrarian change, conflicts over land andmining, social movements and political protest, and qualitative researchmethods. She has conducted field research in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin,and Ethiopia. Her PhD thesis, submitted to the Department of Political andSocial Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, was titled “Motives of non-statearmed actors: The Forces Nouvelles rebellion in Côte d’Ivoire”.She is co-editing the Edward Elgar Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies(with Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, and Ben McKay, forthcoming 2020). Bettina Engels est professeure adjoint en études africaines à l’Otto SuhrInstitute for Political Science de la Freie Universität à Berlin. Sesrecherches comme ses enseignements portent sur les changements agraires, lesconflits liés au foncier et à l’extraction minière, ainsi qu’aux mouvementssociaux et protestataires. Elle recourt principalement aux méthodesqualitatives, sur des terrains variés au Burkina Faso, en Côte d’Ivoire, auBénin et en Ethiopie. Sa thèse, soutenue au Department of Political and SocialSciences de la Freie Universität, s’intitulait Motives of non-state armedactors: The Forces Nouvelles rebellion in Côte d’Ivoire. Elle a co-dirigé l’ouvrage Edward Elgar Handbook of Critical AgrarianStudies, à paraître en 2020. Recent publications include: A stolen revolution: Popular class mobilisation inBurkina Faso, in: LaborHistory 60 (2), 110-125 (2019)Nothing will be as before: Shifting politicalopportunity structures in protests against gold mining in Burkina Faso, in: The Extractive Industries and Society 5 (2),354-362 (2018)Contested Extractivsm, Society and the State:Struggles over Mining and Land, ed. Bettina Engels &#38; Kristina Dietz, London: palgrave macmillan(2017)Different Means of Protest, Same Causes: PopularStruggles in Burkina Faso, in:Review of African Political Economy, 42 (143), 92-106 (2015).E-mail: bettina.engels[at]fu-berlin.deWebsite: www.land-conflicts.netwww.mining-conflicts-burkina.net 