Journal articles
Boehi, Melanie, “Radical Stories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Emergent Ecologies’ Challenges to Colonial Narratives and Western Epistemologies,” Environmental Humanities (2021) 13(1): 66-92. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8867208.
Boehi, Melanie, and Phakamani m’Afrika Xaba, “Decolonising Kirstenbosch: confronting the violent past of South Africa’s botanical gardens,” The Architectural Review (February 2021), 40-44. https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/decolonising-kirstenbosch-confronting-the-violent-past-of-south-africas-botanical-gardens
Edited book
Ramutsindela, Maano, Giorgio Miescher and Melanie Boehi (eds.), The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien 2016). muse.jhu.edu/book/48278.
Contributions to books
Boehi, Melanie, “Arrangements for an African Anthropocene: Multispecies storytelling at the Adderley Street flower market in Cape Town,” in Ida Bencke and Jørgen Bruhn (eds.), Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices (Punctum Books, 2022), 151-173. https://punctumbooks.com/titles/multispecies-storytelling-in-intermedial-practices/
Boehi, Melanie, “Multispecies histories of South African imperial formations in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden,” in Uriel Orlow and Shela Sheikh (eds.), Theatrum Botanicum (Berlin: Sternberg Press 2018), 81-87.
Maano Ramutsindela, Giorgio Miescher, Melanie Boehi and Tanja Hammel, “Introductory notes on the politics of nature and science,” in Ramutsindela, Maano, Giorgio Miescher and Melanie Boehi (eds.), The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien 2016), 9-19. muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1879074
Boehi, Melanie, “‘Flowers are South Africa’s silent ambassadors’: flower shows and botanical diplomacy in South Africa,” in Maano Ramutsindela, Giorgio Miescher and Melanie Boehi (eds.), The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien 2016), 149-176. muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1879083
Boehi, Melanie, “Blumendiplomatie, Pflanzenausstellungen und der südafrikanische botanische Komplex,” in Isabel Kranz, Alexander Schwan and Eike Wittrock (eds.), Die Sprachen der Blumen: Medien floraler Kommunikation (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2016), 371-387.
Boehi, Melanie, “Who cut down Margaret Thatcher’s tree?,” in Veit Arlt, Stephanie Bishop and Pascal Schmid (eds.), Explorations in African History: Reading Patrick Harries (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien 2015), 71-74. muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1611530
Boehi, Melanie, “Ich folge meinem Instinkt,” in Shelley Berlowitz, Elisabeth Joris and Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli (eds.), Terra incognita: Treffpunkt schwarzer Frauen in Zürich, (Zurich: Limmat 2014), 268.
Edited magazine
Boehi, Melanie and Kadiatou Diallo (eds.), A* Magazine - *Art, *Africa, *Analysis (Basel: Centre for African Studies Basel 2017).
Contributions to journals, books, blogs and newspapers
Boehi, Melanie, “Green Shadows in the Kiya Kiya Republic: Money-spitting snakes and heat in Farai Mudzingwa’s climate fiction,” NewZWire, 24.09.2022, https://newzwire.live/book-digest-green-shadows-in-the-kiya-kiya-republic-money-spitting-snakes-and-heat-in-farai-mudzingwas-climate-fiction.
Boehi, Melanie, Luciano Concheiro San Vicente and Phakamani m’Afrika Xaba, “Botanical gardens re-imagined go beyond simply displaying plants,” Mail & Guardian Thought Leader, 13.09.2020. https://thoughtleader.co.za/botanical-gardens-re-imagined-go-beyond-simply-displaying-plants
Boehi, Melanie, “The silent ambassadors,” Chimurenga Chronic (special issue: The Invention of Zimbabwe), April 2018, 10-13.
Boehi, Melanie, “Cape Town floriography,” Newsletter of the Swiss Society for African Studies (2016) 2, 57-60. https://www.sagw.ch/africa/community/newsletter/details/news/newsletter-sgas-ssea-2016-2
Boehi, Melanie, “Remembering apartheid’s botanical diplomacy at the Chelsea Flower Show,” Daily Maverick, 31.05.2016. dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2016-05-31-remembering-apartheids-botanical-diplomacy-at-the-chelsea-flower-show/ - .V07uuWa6zMF
Boehi, Melanie and Susanne Hubler Baier, “Das Ruth Weiss Archiv in Basel – ein Archivgespräch mit Ruth Weiss” in Anni Kropf and Günter Springer-Kropf (eds.), Ein Leben für Freiheit und Frieden: Die Zeitzeugin Ruth Weiss. Zum 90. Geburtstag (Aschaffenburg: Ruth Weiss Realschule 2014), 28-30.
Boehi, Melanie, “The flower sellers of Cape Town: a history,” Veld & Flora 99 (2013) 3, 132-136. journals.co.za/content/veld/99/3/EJC143279
Boehi, Melanie, “‘A city can only exist to those who can move around it’: Edgar Pieterse and Teresa Caldeira, Views from the Periphery,” JWTC Blog, 05.07.2013. jhbwtc.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-city-can-only-exist-for-those-who-can.html
Boehi, Melanie, “We can all be messiah individually if we give up our self-preserving sense,” JWTC Blog, 05.09.2012. jhbwtc.blogspot.ch/2012/09/we-can-all-be-messiah-individually-if.html
Boehi, Melanie, “Politics of flower-selling at the Cape,” Cape Times, 22.07.2011, 11.
Boehi, Melanie, “Politricks in the Stadium,” Chimurenga Chronic/Chimurenga 16 (2011). http://chimurengachronic.co.za/politricks-in-the-stadium
Boehi, Melanie and Susanne Hubler Baier, “Archivgespräch/Archive talk,” in Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Jahresbericht Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien 2011), 50-52.
Book reviews
Boehi, Melanie, review of Sarah Ives, Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea (Durham: Duke University Press 2017), Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 6 (2019) 1, 186-187. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/725921
Boehi, Melanie, review of Saul Dubow, Apartheid, 1948-1994 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014), H-Soz-Kult, 02.03.2016. hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-24759