- Convenors:
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Marieke van Winden (conference organiser)
(African Studies Centre Leiden)
Ato Onoma (CODESRIA)
Rahmane Idrissa (African Studies Centre Leiden)
- Stream:
- E: Transdisciplinary debates
- Start time:
- 3 February, 2021 at 10:00 (UTC+1)
- Session slots:
- 1
Short abstract:
Long abstract:
The Sahel is currently a site of intense securitization in response to the counter-insurgency priorities of several regional and global entities. This securitization is however built on a generalized misunderstanding of the broad evolution of the Sahel as a spatial reality that reflects and captures the flows and ruptures that define a deeper history and reveal deeply embedded and complex livelihoods that are currently under stress. This panel will seek to re-imagine the Sahel as a place that defies easy generalizations, challenges statist assumptions (with their heavy security narrative) and as a place that accommodates multiple temporal and spatial realities. The panel locates the Sahel as a connector in Africa and will use the historic role of endogenous knowledge in the region to illustrate this.