ECAS 2019 Africa: Connections and Disruptions

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

1

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

1

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

1

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

1

Migration and inequality: the African migrant and access to public services

Pol23

1

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

1

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

1

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

3

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