ECAS2013: African dynamics in a multipolar world

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P001

African dynamics in multi-definitional governance, which governance and whose governance?

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Asian soft powers in Africa

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Courts and politics: dynamics and challenges for the effectiveness and legitimacy of Africa's judiciaries

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New players and management of natural resources

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Africa's resource blessing: pathways to autonomy in a conflicting donor world

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Large-scale land acquisitions and related resource conflicts in Africa

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African nationalisms as subjects of historical research

P008

Beyond checks and balances: policing democratic regimes in Africa

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The European Union in Africa: human security and crisis management

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Cartografias dos silêncios poéticas emergentes

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A new scramble for Africa? The rush for energy resources southwards of the Sahara

P012

Dynamics of contention: between state, society and the international

P013

Governing AIDS through aid to civil society: power, responsibilization and resistance

P014

Regional cooperation and integration in sub-Saharan Africa

P015

Exploring glottopolitical dynamics in Africa: the Spanish colonial past and beyond

P016

Religion, secularism and developmentalism: interrogating contemporary African philosophy of religion

P017

Reciprocal comparison for post-colonial Africa: colonial legacies, political trajectories

P018

The politics of history in contemporary African border disputes

P019

Fieldwork in conflict, conflict in fieldwork: methodological and ethical challenges in researching African warzones

P021

Conflict minerals, property rights and transnational resource governance: a new African 'resource curse'?

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Urbanisation and poverty in mining Africa

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Words, arts and migration in Africa: narrative exploration

P024

The revolutionary violence in southern Africa: regional conflicts and alliances

P025

African perspectives on Libya

P026

Aid and authoritarianism in Africa

P027

Territory and community: the scalar dimensions of political authority, identity and conflict in contemporary Africa

P028

Thinking about multipolarity through the boundaries of state and non-state power

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Body, culture and social tensions

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Literatures in African languages and nationhood

P031

The evolving social role of oral literatures in 21st century African communities

P032

Regional integration in Africa: challenges and opportunities

P033

Hidden dimensions: demographic trends and sexual culture in contemporary Africa

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Gender, sexuality and pleasure: postcolonial feminist approaches

P035

Angola in the aftermath of civil war: overcoming the impacts of protracted violence

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The African response to the choice of the language of instruction in the global world

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Diasporas and national development in Africa

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The African Union and the challenges of regional integration in Africa in a multipolar world

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Political change and ICT in Africa: methodological innovations and ethical challenges

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Acting in the name of the state: practices, practical norms and the law in books

P041

The nationalism of the 'five': the liberation struggle and post-independence trajectories

P043

BRICS and Africa: the increasing engagement of emerging powers in a resource-rich continent

P044

Policing, punishment and politics: movements across legal and extra-legal places and institutions

P045

African indigenous knowledge and languages: perpetuating communication and development

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New trends and dynamics in African civil societies

P047

Studying Islam and Christianity in Africa: comparisons and interactions (IAI panel)

P048

The social construction of practical norms: everyday practice at the margins of rules and laws

P049

Egypt's unfinished revolution: socio-economic policies after the fall of Mubarak's regime

P050

Agricultural export production, wage employment and certification schemes

P051

The ICT revolution: promises and possibilities for political growth in Africa

P052

Designing African creative cities

P053

Linguistic dynamics in Africa: varieties of Portuguese and Portuguese-related creoles

P054

Between internal and external: exploring the dialectics of peace-building and state-building in Africa

P055

Workers across Africa: global and transnational labour history and labour studies

P056

Middle classes in Africa: the making of social category and its social meaning and uses

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Cooperation under asymmetric conditions: Africa and the emerging powers

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Writing the world from another African metropolis: Luanda and the urban question

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Narrating political legitimacy in contemporary southern Africa

P060

Cape Verdean diaspora: dialogues and contemporary relationships

P061

Africa in the Indian Ocean

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New urban/rural linkages in a multi-polar Africa

P063

When food is short: rural and urban household strategies sustaining livelihoods

P064

Urban governance in Africa: a grounded inquiry

P065

Citizen participation, religion and development: new social actors for a changing world?

P066

Art and social engagement: aesthetic articulations in African urban spaces

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Voting beyond Africa: African migrants' political participation in the electoral processes of their countries of origin

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Interactivity and the formation of figures of legitimate authority in Africa

P069

Linking culture and development in Africa

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African experts in the international government of Africa

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African studies: scholars and programs

P072

Peacekeeping economics in Africa: sites of diffusion and exclusion?

P073

Large-scale agro-business meets African smallholder farmers: how can they enter happy marriages?

P074

The Lord's Resistance Army conflict after 2006: local and regional dynamics

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The 'silent revolution'?: the feminization of the labour force and gender dynamics in Africa

P076

Work ethics, labour and subjectivities in Africa

P077

Seeking strategies for Africa's growth and development within a multipolar world

P078

African resistance in an age of fractured sovereignty

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UN policies and local realities in contemporary Africa

P080

Compared political systems of sub-Saharan Africa: endogenous and exogenous factors in the construction of political frameworks

P081

Portuguese Jews and Africans within a connected world: can we speak of 'racial thought' with regard to late 16th and early 17th-century Guiné do Cabo Verde & Amsterdam?

P082

Moving markets, travelling goods: exploring the paths of trade in Africa

P083

Revolution 3.0: iconographies of utopia in Africa and its diaspora

P084

Press freedom and right to information in Africa

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Living in transnational families between Africa and Europe: the centrality of a gender approach

P086

Challenges and prospects for the EU-Africa partnership in the coming years

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3

The African standby force ten years after its creation: between obstacles and prospects

P088

Breaking knowledge barriers: Africans and Africanists and the politics of collaboration

P089

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Institutional transformations in southern Africa since 1990

P090

Migration and memory in/from Africa

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Crude moves: social fields of global oil

P092

Contestation and political change: exploring patterns across borders and regions

P093

Security complexes and complexities in the eastern DRC

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The road to perdition: road danger and predatory transport policies in Africa

P096

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Promoting sustainable urbanization in Africa

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Waging peace: using military resources for conflict resolution in Africa

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The role of regional economic communities for political and security issues

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Local politics and national identities: South and southern Africa

P102

Heritage, partrimonialization and preservation of tangible and intangible culture

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Mobilities and trans-border cultural identities: contesting boundaries and postcolonial restrictions

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Repatriating from camps to post-conflict societies in southern Africa

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Uncertain transitions: democracy and the challenge of poverty in southern Africa

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The making and unmaking of the postcolonial African archive in a transnational world

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The transformation and redefinition of honour, status and moral authority patterns in contemporary Africa

P108

Moving jobs, moving workers: examining the threats and opportunities of globalization for workers in Africa

P109

Global and transnational connections in contemporary African arts and creative practice

P110

Pressure on and support for Africa's non-democratic regimes

P111

Alternative ideas on Portuguese Africa development in late colonialism

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Mutual aid practices in African space: analysing economic and social impacts

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Multi-polar urban spaces in Africa: everyday dynamics, creativity and change

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Borders show business: performing states in the borderlands

P115

Neglected tropical diseases and African development

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Intergenerational relationships and inequalities in old age in Africa: contrasted views

P118

Africa's changing educational landscape in a multipolar world

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Afro-Brazilian readings: multiple analyses of the African diaspora in Brazil

P120

Secession: the key to unlocking Africa's potential?

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Spirit of place

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Unspectacular politics of land: actors, sites, struggles

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Intergenerational relations amongst African migrants in Europe

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New players in sub-Saharan Africa: the influence of South-South investors and immigrant firms on local development

P125

The politics of whiteness in Africa

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The idea(s) of Africa(s) in a multipolar world: ways beyond the predicament of essentialism

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African women's commitment to internationalisation and transnational movements

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Health and governance in sub-Saharan Africa

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Possession by dispossession: interrogating land grab and protest in Africa

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Urban imaginaries in Africa

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Africa's maritime domain securitization

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The roots of Horn of African conflicts

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Tourist mobilities in contemporary Africa

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Regionalism in Africa: beyond EU-centrism

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African urban spaces

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African studies and social media

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Recovering the dynamism of African people: contemporaneous history (20th and 21st centuries)

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Therapeutic technologies in contemporary Africa: creativity, appropriation and emerging forms of practice

P141

African studies in a multipolar world: is there a European perspective?

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Housing suburbs in African cities: new urban paradigms

P143

The dynamics of the popular: social media, popular communication and challenges to power in contemporary Africa

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Medical innovations and health inequalities: sexual and reproductive health put to the test of facts

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The theory and methodology of representation(s): the analytical potential of a concept for contexts of transformation and innovation in contemporary Africa

P146

International and domestic actors in the reconstruction of Angola

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Dynamics of African educational systems: compromise between quantity and quality

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How much development through aid?

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History and contemporary memory in Angola

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Heroes in Africa

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Administrative and legal documentation in pre-colonial Africa and beyond

P153

The entrails of 'beautiful' and 'proper' cultural heritage: diggers, middlemen and white collars in the grey trajectories of the transnational African art trade

P154

Multinational enterprises in Africa: corporate governance, social responsibility and risk management

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Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa

P157

Philosophy in lusophone Africa

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Native legislations and repressive realities: the indigenato and colonial labour in comparative perspective (1890-1961)

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Rethinking Islam and Islamic militancy in contemporary Africa

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ICT and networks in Africa

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Cultural productions in the context of slavery: slave narrative, narrative of the self and religious configurations

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Digipolities: conflict and media in Africa

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Defining peace, security and democratization: the African Union and multi-layered arenas

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Novel spaces for African youth: creativity, entrepreneurship and political action

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South-South linkages: Africa and the emerging powers

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Managing other people's money: financial services in sub-Saharan Africa after structural adjustment

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Religion and media in twentieth-century Africa

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Multipolar religious production: old and new trends

P172

Drug trade, control and consumption in Africa

P173

Inequalities and multi-governance levels in education public policies in Africa

P174

New topographies of African migration: education, entrepreneurship and trade from Africa towards East and West

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Diaspora in East-Central Africa: histories of memory, mobility and belonging

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