John Njenga Karugia
Institute of Asian and African Studies Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
E-mail: karugiaj@hu-berlin.de
Institute for Asian and African Studies (IAAW)
Invalidenstr. 118
10115 Berlin
Office: Georgenstr. 23, 10117, Berlin

Research Interests
- Memory Studies
- New Area Studies
- Transregional Studies
Vita
John Njenga Karugia, PhD is a researcher, lecturer and documentray film-maker based at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. He researched and lectured at University of Leipzig and Goethe University Frankfurt. He has intensively researched on China-Africa relations, Afrasian interactions, transregional Indian Ocean memory politics and transregional memory ethics. He was a visiting scholar at Duke University and Shanghai Maritime University. His current research focuses on transregional politics, memory politics and memory ethics of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with amongst other aims, to contribute to Area Studies and Transregional Studies scholarship.
Selected Publications
- Karugia, John Njenga et.al (2021) Afrasian Connectivities - Entangled Cultures, Literatures and Politics Between Africa and India, in, Matatu Journal for African Culture and Society, BRILL, Leiden.
- Karugia, John Njenga et.al (2021) Towards a Transregional Polylogue, in, Matatu Journal for African Culture and Society, BRILL, Leiden.
- Karugia, John Njenga (2021) The Indian Ocean as a Memory Space; A Conversation With Neera Kapur-Dromson, Brill, Leiden.
- Karugia, John Njenga / Erll, Astrid 2020: 'Afrasian Sea Memories: Between Competitive and Multidirectional Remembering, in, Afrasian Transformations: Transregional Perspectives on Development Cooperation, Social Mobility, and Cultural Change, BRILL, Leiden.
- Karugia, John Njenga (2018) 'Connective Afrasian Sea Memories: Transregional Imaginaries, Memory Politics and Complexities of National "belonging"', Memory Studies, 11 (3), pp. 328-341. doi: 10.1177/1750698018771864.
- Karugia, John Njenga / Schulze-Engler Frank / Malreddy, Pavan Kumar (2018) "Even the dead have human rights": A Conversation with Homi K. Bhabha, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54:5, 702-716, DOI: 1080/17449855.2018.1446682.
- Karugia, John Njenga (2018) 'Silent North, Loud South: Reflections on Transnational Research in Afrasian and Afrabian Spaces, in, Mawdsley, Emma / Nauta, Wiebe 'Researching South-South Development Cooperation: The Politics of Knowledge Production', Routledge, London.
- Karugia, John Njenga (2018) 'Oman, the Indian Ocean and Zanzibar: Memory Politics of Past Relations'; in Habari Nr. 03, Beziehungen Gestern und Heute Tansania Indien Oman, Tanzania Network E.V Berlin.
- Karugia, John Njenga / Khamis, Ramadhan (2018) Afrasian Memories in East Africa, a Documentary Film by Africa's Asian Options (AFRASO) Goethe University Frankfurt and Community Images Nairobi
- Karugia, John Njenga (2017) Interaktionsraum Indischer Ozean, in, Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur, Göttsche, Dirk / Dunker, Axel und Dürbeck, Gabriele, Metzler, Stuttgart