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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
His22


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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
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