ECAS 2019 Africa: Connections and Disruptions
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Anth01
Multiple African anthropocenes: universal concepts, local manifestations
Anth02
Hierarchies of knowledge production in academic collaborations between Africa and Europe [Panel of the Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development - APAD]
Anth03
Welfare, redistribution and new forms of the "public good" [Sponsored by AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institute]
Anth04
Urban policing and production of the city
Anth05
Conflict urbanisation and urbanity in Africa
Anth06
Islands of peace
Anth07
Politics at the periphery
Anth08
Urban enclaves and the middle class
Anth09
Continuities and disruptions in 'doing fatherhood' in Africa
Anth11
Questioning "norms" in/from Queer African Studies
Anth12
Continuities and disruptions in the home-making process of migration
Anth13
Experiencing violent conflicts over the life course and across generations: connections and ruptures
Anth14
Rethinking urban theory from African cities
Anth15
Cryptopolitics: exposure, concealment, and digital media
Anth16
Contesting legitimacy in Africa: accountability, transparency and responsibility
Anth18
Old age and migration: an African perspective
Anth20
Pan African identities in regards to aesthetic phenomena
Anth21
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Making a living on & off the road - trucking and the politics of movement and stoppage in Africa
Anth22
Fulbe connections: West African pastoralists between participation and disruption with society
Anth23
Sexual and reproductive rights: conflicting narratives and the future of gender in Africa
Anth24
Corporate sovereignty: connections and disruptions of corporate power in Africa
Anth25
Space infrastructures, science and technology in Africa
Anth27
The transnational politics and materialities of LGBT 'rescue' in Africa
Anth28
Le Mali "post Accord d'Alger" : dynamiques, récits et pratiques du politique entre ruptures et continuités
Anth29
Re-making citizenship: social security and refuge beyond the state
Anth30
Business at work: new ethnographies of private sector dynamics in Africa
Anth31
Decolonising Africanist migration research? [CRG AMMODI]
Anth32
Violent conflict and urban governance [CRG Violent Conflict]
Anth33
Intimate relationships, marriage, and social change in southern Africa
Anth34
African LGBTQ activisms: queer counter narratives and arts of resistance
Anth35
'We need electricity today': narratives and practices of electrical connections and outages in Africa
Anth36
Aspiring men: disrupting the narrative of African masculinity in crisis
Anth37
Ritual as performance space
Anth39
Stories of a rural African working class
Anth40
Photo archives: silence and blindness
Anth41
Materiality and spirit: exploring visuality, citizenship and power in urban Africa
Anth42
Solitude in Africa
Anth43
Encountering publics in African cities: embodied research and experiential learning
Anth44
Affective connections and the formation of new African citizens
Anth45
Ethical certification between traceability and transparency: the future of digital technologies in Africa
Anth46
Decolonizing the academy in future Africa [Roundtable]
Anth48
Crossing boundaries, crossing borders: subversion, disruption and LGBTQ migration on the African continent
Anth50
Troubling growth
Anth51
Kinship ties and networks on the move: strategies for mobility
Anth52
African Studies Associations in Europe - a critical revision of aims and future challenges [VAD Roundtable]
Anth53
Photographs as objects of affective connection and disruption
Anth54
African global travellers: (dis)connections, policies, and imaginations [CRG Africa in the World]
Art01
Friends with benefits? - a critical reflection on patronage and artistic agency in the visual arts
Art02
Breaking with the past: strategies of disruption in South African visual arts in the representation of a new social order
Art03
Diversifying the visual library: photographic presentations and representations of the African continent
Art04
Yorùbá culture and music as connections, identity formation and disruptions among African Americans
Art06
"Boomerangs and Roots" - rumba, rap and reggae as African or Afrodiasporic musics?
Art07
Connecting image and imagination: the arts on/and African slavery
Art10
African feminisms today: connections and disruptions
Art11
Reconnecting African art and artefacts
Art13
Connections and disruptions: African contemporary expressive culture in the global context
Art14
Going beyond disruptions: the opportunities and challenges in researching African contemporary expressive culture [Roundtable]
Econ01
Non-state investments in natural resources extraction from Asian entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa: assessing their transformative and their disruptive effects at the local level
Econ02
The political economy of diversified business groups
Econ03
The afterlife of development
Econ04
Commodifying Africa: material and representational interests, influences and impacts
Econ05
Commodity frontiers and knowledge regimes in Africa, 1800 to present
Econ06
Disruptors in the financial markets: creating financial markets at the bottom of the pyramid
Econ07
Towards new hegemonies? The role of new actors in African development cooperation
Econ08
Regional integration in Africa and trade agreements
Econ09
Inside a construction boom: politics, responsibility and the temporalities of urban development
Econ10
Africa's enchantment with large-scale infrastructure projects - imperial aspirations re- or undone?
Econ11
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Non-existing public utilities that disrupt… and existing public utilities that are disrupted
Econ12
The crisis of land in South Africa
Econ13
Financialization and premature de-industrialization in the African context
Econ15
Digital extractivism and data-driven development in Africa
Econ16
Post-conflict reconstruction, peacebuilding and mine action: new worlds in the aftermath of conflict
Econ17
Disrupting the wage: post-work futures within and beyond Africa
Econ18
Domestic investors in large-scale investments in agriculture and extractives: new perspectives on connections and disruptions
Econ19
A new political economy in African higher education
Econ20
India's aid and soft power in Africa: connections and connectivities
Econ21
Integration of peasantry into the global market: inconspicuous connections and opportunities on the fringes of large-scale investments
Econ22
Resource nationalism in southern Africa: challenges and opportunities
Econ23
"Land grabbing" and political economy of investments in export horticulture in Africa
Econ25
Mining's connective and disruptive effects on human settlement in Africa
Econ26
The United Nations in Africa, and Africa in the UN: bureaucratic wrangling, translocal negotiations, and the politics of expertise
Econ27
Changing structural conditions in the periphery: African connections and disruptions within the global economy (towards Samir Amin's festschrift)
Econ28
Building and connecting Africa: Infrastructure construction and economic development in the XXIst century
Econ29
Disrupting models? "New" global players and the politics of development in Post-Washington consensus Africa
Econ30
The politics of governing oil in Africa: rupture and continuity?
Econ31
Continuity and disruption in public service provision
Econ33
Commercialising Africa: money, values, visions, dissonances
Econ34
Food, consumption and the home market in African industrializations
Econ35
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Tourism in Africa: new hopes, old stereotypes? [CRG Africa in the World]
Env01
Climate change as a vector of migration and conflict in Africa
Env02
Disruptive urbanisms
Env03
African waters: flows, frictions and disruptions
Env04
Spatial theory and African urban studies
Env05
Governing blue growth: maritime regimes and oceanic disruptions across African waters
Env07
New trends, patterns and dynamics of conflict in Africa: exploring the rise in conflicts between farmers and pastoralists
Env09
Space in time: changing patterns of land use, land rights, and landscape narratives
Env10
Rural transformations in Sub-Saharan Africa - spaces of future-making
Env11
Housing (in)security and (in)formality: the production of uncertainty in state-led housing projects in African cities
Env12
Taking the initiative in African cities: grassroots responses to rapid and mismanaged urbanisation
Env14
The Sahel in turmoil: political instability, resource conflicts and migration [CRG Drylands]
Env15
African drylands facing change: interdisciplinary research on climate change, food insecurity, political instability [CRG Drylands] [Roundtable]
Env16
The politics of life on the urban margins in South Africa
Hea02
The arts of dying and reviving institutions of health and well-being
Hea04
Circulation of biomedical knowledge and materiality between Africa and Asia
Hea05
(Dis)connecting healthcare from the bottom up: digital improvisation, creativity and disruption
Hea06
Madness in Africa: in official, everyday, & vernacular lives [Sponsored by AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institute]
Hea07
Remembering Alma Ata? Revisiting 'health for all' amid aspirations for universal health coverage in Africa
Hea08
Disrupted minds: precarity, politics and psychiatry in Africa
Hea09
Health indicators, local knowledge and African cultural pluralism: a call for research
Hea10
Population control reloaded: the anti-politics of the family planning enterprise
His01
Connecting and disrupting African collections in European museums
His02
Storytelling and social order in Africa
His03
Alternative histories of decolonisation in Southern Africa
His04
From the ashes reborn: reconsidering the "Time of Troubles" in Southern Africa in the context of global history
His05
The Vietnam War in Africa, 1963-1975
His06
Late-apartheid South Africa or the 'long transition', 1984-1994: moments of rupture and continuity
His07
Pan-Africanism between Unity and Divergence (1950-60s)
His08
School education and the shaping of colonial and independent states and societies (19th century-1970)
His09
Labour and capital in African mineral production networks [CRG Resource Extraction in Africa]
His10
From global history to globalization: connections and disruptions in the African Indian Ocean [CRG Africa in the Indian Ocean]
His12
African borders: from conflict to coexistence
His13
Transport and travel - connections and disruptions
His14
The past is present: African primary sources and cultural materials in the digital age
His15
Refugee camps in African history
His16
Shaping hearts and minds : African elites' training from the colonial era to the present
His17
Connected decolonisations: networked approaches to anticolonial struggles in Africa, 1950s-80s
His18
Paving roads over well-trodden paths? The (dis-)use of everyday infrastructure from pre- to post-colonial Africa, 1800s to present
His20
Who belongs to the new nations? Inclusion, expulsion and xenophobia in early post-independence West Africa (1957-1973)
His21
Disruption and continuity in Cameroon: the Anglophone crisis
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What remains of labour: the changing and unchanging working realms of African societies
His23
Cultures of solidarity, or towards a bright new future: transnational exchange in African liberation networks
His26
Historical trajectories of borders, borderlands and frontiers (1830-1950) [CRG ABORNE]
His28
Mobility and the struggle for citizenship in colonial Africa. Connecting knowledge and social mobility in colonial Africa
His29
Morality and masculinity in eastern African times of connection and disruption (1800 - present)
His30
African students in European universities from c.1800 to present: uncovering lost histories, decolonising the academy
His31
Rural transformations in Sub-Saharan Africa - histories of future-making
His32
Mining, urbanism and globalised trade in antiquity and contemporary Southern Africa
His33
Knowledge contest: global development and local survival
Lang01
Connections and disruptions: a sociolinguistic perspective
Lang02
Limits and prospects of African humour
Lang03
Literary activism in twenty-first century Africa: networks, commons and publics
Lang04
The Politics of African Studies Publishing, the Challenges of Disciplinary, Geographic and Linguistic Boundaries, and Plan S [Sponsored by the International African Institute]
Lang05
Language and the political imagination: connections and disruptions
Lang06
Border crossings and identity
Lang07
Negotiating linguistic disruptions and connections
Lang09
Connecting people through academic writing - how to bridge the gap? [Roundtable]
Lang10
"Who do we write our research for?" Sharing reflections on decolonising engagement and access to research outputs in the field of African studies
Lang11
Teaching "Introduction to African Studies" [Roundtable]
Lang12
Turning down the heat: (mis-) representation of African migration in the media and the role of researchers [Roundtable]
Law01
Minority rights in Africa
Law02
LGBT human rights in Africa: struggles and strategies
Law03
Law in Africa: charting one's course of action in a field of multiple normative orders
Law04
Scrutiny of the main transitional justice laboratory: Africa
Law05
Courts, politics and African democracy
Law06
Legal Bureaucracies: connection and disruption in and beyond the state
Pol01
Studying China-Africa: new themes, new research trends, old problems
Pol02
Normative politics in Africa
Pol03
The inner life of African organizations: Innovative methods and approaches
Pol04
Refugees and the state in Africa
Pol05
Technology and democracy in Africa
Pol08
Election observation in Africa
Pol09
Urban citizenship and mobility between here and there: Understanding political belonging among Africa diasporas
Pol10
The politics of dynasties in Africa
Pol11
Relocating the state in rural Africa
Pol12
Social protests, 'dominant-party systems' and sociopolitical change
Pol13
Women's voices in politics and sexuality in Africa
Pol14
Regime change, democratic experiments and trends in succession politics in Africa
Pol15
Narratives of technological and infrastructure ruptures
Pol16
Who are African politicians?
Pol17
Secessionism in African politics: aspiration, grievance, performance, disenchantment [roundtable] [CRG African History]
Pol18
The rural frontiers of Jihad: militant careers, political economies and network governance in West and Central Africa
Pol19
Politics after war: armed actors in post-conflict societies [CRG African Politics and International Relations]
Pol20
Archives, governance and policy-making on the African continent
Pol21
Decolonization and pedagogy - disruptions and connections in the classroom
Pol22
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Migration and inequality: the African migrant and access to public services
Pol23
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Emergenc(i)es: Disruptive events and their consequences in African politics
Pol24
Political orders in the making: cases from inside and across the Sahara [CRG ABORNE]
Pol25
Urban governments coping with the New Urban Agenda: connections and disruptions
Pol26
Democratic and autocratic disruptions
Pol27
Playing to the crowd: performance and the politics of campaign rallies
Pol30
Populism and democracy in Africa [CRG African Politics and International Relations]
Pol31
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Digital technologies and the politics of data in Africa
Pol32
Convergences and divergences of African state-making trajectories
Pol33
International security assistance in Africa: views beyond the policy [CRG Violent Conflict]
Pol34
Political settlements, growth coalitions, and social networks: exploring the role of elites for state trajectories
Pol35
Parties and organisational power: understanding variation in party organisation and intra-party politics
Pol37
Civil society participation in peace initiatives of African intergovernmental organisations
Pol38
Connecting states and citizens: the impact of political brokerage on African governance
Pol40
The politics of national narratives: performing and challenging dominant ideas of the state in Africa
Pol42
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New frontiers of political economy in Southern Africa
Pol43
The politics of funding knowledge production in Africa
Pol44
Race and racial relations: Africa and beyond
Rel01
Religious activism and disrupted social relations: exploring religion and alienation in Africa
Rel02
Religion and progressive activism concerning gender and sexuality in Africa
Rel03
Religion multiple: continuities, flows, and "religious diversity"
Rel04
Gathering and separating in the name of god? Instrumentalization of religious rights in contemporary Africa
Rel05
Entanglements of informality and religion in African cities
Rel06
Mediation and the construction of religious heritages
Rel07
Religion, citizenship and everyday practices in Africa
Rel08
Religious organizations as moral agents in urban Africa
Rel09
Continuities or disruptions? The role(s) of women in African religions
Rel10
Religion and secularism in Africa: challenges to the political order
Rel11
Religiosity on University campus
Soc02
New surplus populations in Africa: ruptures and continuities in rural transitions
Soc03
Continuities and disruptions in urban land governance: the rise of the middle-class in Sub-Saharan Africa
Soc04
Education and African youth's 'return' mobilities
Soc05
Epistemic disruptions and connections: dialogues on decoloniality in/and feminist African studies
Soc06
It is not about housing (only)! affordable housing policies and the resettlement of informal settlements
Soc07
Disruptions in primary school education in Africa
Soc08
The African diaspora: to live away to exist at home?
Soc09
'Innovation or irrelevance'? An analysis of new strategies being used by African trade unions to defend the interests of labour
Soc10
Epistemological legacies of empire: interrogating Eurocentrism in African studies [Roundtable]
Soc11
Pastoralists' formal and non formal education, between preservation of cultural heritage and needs for opening up to a globalized world
Soc12
Connecting African studies and mobility studies: theoretical considerations and empirical insights
Soc13
Western citizens and African subjects?
Soc14
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Deepening connections among critical change makers in Africa: experiences from the MasterCard foundation scholars program
Soc15
Foreign powers, journalism and the new scramble for Africa
Soc16
Demographic dynamics in Africa: between continuity and rupture