ECAS2023: African Futures

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Anth01

Institutionalized authority, mobility and trajectories of future-making

Anth02

The shared future of Afropean lifeworlds

Anth03

The future of policing in Africa

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Imagining migratory futures - African youth and European migration information campaigns

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Conceptual issues in human security and local governance in Africa

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Beyond failure: exploring the heart of the Malawi state and its future trajectories

Anth07

Assembling the sustainable city: from sedimented injustices to just urban futures

Anth08

Under pressure: aspirations and stress in African metropoles

Anth09

From women experience and voices to conceptual vocabularies in the Horn of Africa

Anth10

The future of finance in Africa: imaginaries, social hierarchies, moralities, and (dis)connections

Anth11

Towards future philosophy

Anth12

Wilder futures? Rewilding and multispecies coexistence in rural Africa

Anth13

Futures of African textile and fashion markets

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Shaping African diasporas future through reproductive/non-reproductive practices

Anth15

African belongings in Central and Eastern Europe: focus on language and race

Anth16

Land governance in the era of Artificial Intelligence

Anth17

Future-making activism

Anth18

Publishing Africa: challenges and futures

Anth19

Digital public infrastructure and the future of African statehood: South-South circulations of new techno-imaginaries [CRG Africa in the World]

Anth20

African futures and the current decolonial turn

Anth21

You have no future here: on speculative place-making, future-making, and migration

Anth23

Tourism and the future - performances, expectations and resistance

Anth24

Hidden and counter narratives of African migration and return

Anth25

Media forerunners: reflecting on emerging socio-political youth leadership in times of conflict and digitalization

Anth26

Africa in Europe: the digital archives, their downsides, and the imagination of the future

Anth27

African perspectives on justice and a just transition in international trade

Anth29

The state and its economic futures in Africa: work, wealth, welfare [sponsored by AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institute]

Anth30

Narrating the city builder: rethinking value, capitalism and the urban

Anth31

Understanding African urban economies across conceptual boundaries

Anth32

Shaping African futures from the subsoils [CRG African Literatures]

Anth33

Global-African entanglement: transformation and continuity of social inequalities and labour practices

Anth34

Family memory and African futures

Anth35

Indigenous ontologies and nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa

Anth36

African futures and the new boundaries of the anthropology of development and social change

Anth38

Genre, race, religion et ethnicité dans l'espace nordafricain: questions présentes, enjeux futurs. Gender, Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in North Africa: Ongoing Issues, Future Challenges.

Anth39

Looking back. Looking ahead: dynamics of accumulation and development in post-colonial Africa

Anth40

Fakery, fiction, and futurism

Anth41

Creating futures: Revisiting (the transformation of) care networks in African countries

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Fulani as a security threat in the Sahel? How to derail established narratives and strengthen pastoralist/minority voices

Anth43

The transhumanism in Africa project: exploring the remaking of a continent from cradle of humankind to the playground of our futures

Anth44

The future in-between: mobility and the youth imagination in Africa

Anth45

Futures in madness

Anth46

Reproductive futures: aspirations, ancestors, and anxieties

Anth47

Lexicons of freedom, experiences of emancipation

Anth48

Migrant ruinations in African contexts [CRG AMMODI]

Anth49

Citylabs: 'making' futures in African cities

Anth50

Feminist sexual futures in the making

Anth51

Rethinking 'degrowth' from Africa

Anth52

Revolutions in Africa: creativity, subjectivities and political belonging beyond institutional change

Anth53

African sports migration: navigation, strategies and abilities among aspiring athletic migrants

Anth54

Voices of the periphery: epistemological, methodological, and ethical challenges in research

Anth55

Pastoralists for future

Anth56

Critique and African futures

Anth57

Museum struggles: the transforming museum and its publics

Anth58

Africa's energy futures: energy heterogeneity between enclave and entanglement

Anth59

Visual tools to empower participatory research

Anth60

Ethnographies of extraction and extraversion in Africa [Sponsored by the International African Institute/ Africa: the journal of the International African Institute]

Anth62

Humanitarian futures? Practices and imaginaries of diaspora emergency relief in Africa and its socio-technical infrastructures

Anth63

Visualizing mining worlds, envisioning mining futures [CRG- Resource Extraction in Africa]

Anth64

How to make Academic Cooperation Work

Arts01

Transmedia Storytelling and African futures - connecting past and present, defining the future

Arts02

Cultural and creative industries (re)shaping African futures

Arts03

What does it mean to be an Indian Ocean African? [CRG Africa in the Indian Ocean]

Arts04

Writing Africa: what is scholarship for?

Arts05

Afrotopias - clearing pathways into African futures

Arts08

The politics of the past as future making in Zimbabwe

Arts09

Queer African futures: concepts, methods, politics

Arts10

Pop culture, gender and social media representation in 21st century Africa and beyond

Arts11

On the threshold: political aesthetics of futures past

Arts12

African artistic imaginaries, from the Jet Age to the Space Race

Arts13

Negative forms and future genres in African photographs, museums and art

Arts14

Impossible histories, possible futures: dealing with absence in museum collections

Arts15

New and sustainable approaches to commissioning works from living masquerade artists

Arts16

Rebuilding museums and museologies in Africa

Arts17

Towards a multiplicity of Afropean Renaissances: Restitutions as Rituals of Mourning

Arts18

Political song and its futures

Arts19

Experimental music based on concepts from African traditions: new directions in composition, pedagogy and technology

Arts20

Seeing Africa with new eyes: roadmap to the future through transformative recognition

Econ01

Governance in the era of the 4th industrial revolution in Africa

Econ02

African land futures

Econ03

Towards decolonizing African development futures: the place of indigenous knowledge

Econ04

Engendering (shiny?) terrestrial futures: African women and mining

Econ05

India in Africa: changing modalities of South-South Cooperation

Econ06

Informality and decent work

Econ07

Humanitarian futures: African, everyday, and decolonizing 'helping'

Econ08

Bretton woods SAPs and African crises, a déjà vu: seeking radical political economy critiques and alternatives

Econ09

The cost and impact of social cash transfers: efficiency, social service and poverty

Econ10

Africa's future is in its peoples: the role of education

Econ11

Social contract implications of state and non-state managed social cash transfers: history, citizenship, and in/exclusion

Econ12

African conservation futures post-Covid-19: building resilience in protected areas

Econ13

The future of social cash transfers: scaling, potentiality and possible impact

Econ14

Futures for food security in times of crises - new development pathways through regional food systems?

Econ15

Postcolonial civil society in Mozambique: who does it serve?

Econ16

Imagining resource frontiers: state, violence and extraction

Econ17

African cannabis futures?

Econ18

Interrogating ‘digital transformation’: datafication and digital rights in African futures

Econ19

Imagining and infrastructuring decolonial and anti-colonial futures in Africa

Econ20

The re-configuration of the agro-food systems and the implications for agrarian transition in contemporary Africa [Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA) network - www.yara.org.za ]

Econ21

Exploring the futuristic strategies implemented by libraries for sustainable information technology services

Econ22

Disrupting "modernity": towards alternative bioeconomic futures in Africa

Econ23

Ghost projects - ruined futures and the promises of development

Econ24

African digital futures

Econ25

Diversifying dependence or structural transformation: China's engagement in Africa

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Africa’s ecological futures - contestations of economics and politics of sustainability

Envi02

African artisanal and small-scale mining labour: comparative perspectives

Envi03

Conservation: a viable transformative vision for Eastern Africa?

Envi04

African futures: climate change and human mobility

Envi05

Shifting grounds – contestations around sand extraction in Sub-Saharan Africa

Envi06

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African Futures under climate change - what can we learn from local adaptation strategies to handle the climate crisis?

Envi07

Do imaginaries of the African future centre justice?

Envi08

Reconfiguring the role of state borders and species boundaries in nature conservation

Envi09

Africa under construction: critical perspectives on infrastructure and labour

Envi10

Adapting to and combating climate change in Africa's drylands

Envi11

Heterogeneous infrastructures for African futures

Envi13

Land conflicts in Africa

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Precarity, structures and struggles: lives affected by infrastructure projects in Africa

Envi15

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the future of food security in Africa

Heal01

COVID-19 and the restructuring of African Education systems. What does it mean for the future?

Heal02

Future hospitals imaginaries

Hist01

Past futures: new approaches to the history of development as 'future-making' in Africa

Hist02

Colonial (counter)insurgency as African future-making

Hist03

Enslaved pasts - imagined futures: trajectories of emancipation and abolition in 19th and 20th century tropical Africa

Hist04

Reinventing Uganda. Political imagination and social change after the fall of Idi Amin (1979-80)

Hist05

Archival futures: questions, practices and possibilities in the African archive

Hist06

"Merry, jolly and gay?" Non-official expectations of independence (1950-1975)

Hist07

African Anthropocenes? Lived experiences

Hist08

Gendered implications of matriliny in Africa, past and present

Hist09

Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and African decolonization: new perspectives

Hist10

Structures of violence: punishment in Africa from the colonial era to the present

Hist11

New forms of governmental rationality? Revisiting Africa's post-colonial futures

Hist12

Spatializing (post)colonial practices and imaginaries in 1950s–1990s Southern Africa

Hist13

Projecting posterity

Hist14

Liberation armies' imagined futures in southern Africa

Hist15

Some of the unusual suspects: African Studies in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Turkey

Hist16

Monetary multiplicity in Africa: past, present and futures

Hist17

Decolonizing the public space in Germany and its former African Colonies: memory, civil society and the arts

Hist18

African border festivals in comparative perspective: between everyday life and contestation [CRG ABORNE]

Hist19

The future in African media

Hist20

Boom to bust: the end of industrial mining in South Africa

Hist21

Imagining the future of slavery: African approaches toward slavery and abolition

Hist22

New approaches to transport in Africa

Hist23

Circulations of objects and knowledge in pre-colonial to present-day Cameroon

Hist24

Demystifying 'postracial' discourses on Africa: history, representations and trajectories

Hist25

The African labour movement at a historical crossroads: past and future of unionism, work and society in Africa

Hist26

Questioning the trauma. Mental disorders among African fighters (20th - 21st centuries)

Hist27

Does (European) African Studies have a future?

Hist28

Eastern Africa in global history: from “precolonial” to decolonial entanglements

Hist29

Making and unmaking the imperial museum

Hist30

The importance of African archives: how African archives strengthen research

Hist31

Used futures, silenced present and recreated pasts: participatory methods of archiving the past and the immediate present

Hist32

Understanding the present and moulding the future through interaction with the past: interdisciplinary approaches to identity, migrations and materialities

Lang01

Digital/social media and Afrophone literatures

Lang02

No hay camino hay que caminar

Lang03

Romans futuristes africophones: réécrire le passé, rouvrir les futurs

Lang04

Indigenous languages and disentanglement with African futures

Lang05

Multimodality in the past, present and future: entanglements between Africa and its diasporas

Lang07

The present future: prospects and constraints of African artistic creativity in digital media

Lang08

Bad genre: "counter literature", generic rewritings and imagining African futures [CRG African Literatures]

Lang09

Bringing together anglophone postcolonial ecocriticism and francophone écopoétique in West Africa [CRG African Literatures]

Lang10

African literatures: collective futures/ utopias [CRG African Literatures]

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Hope, despair, or beyond? The anxieties of African speculative fiction

Lang12

Sexuality in African popular arts, literature and culture: the past, the present and the future

Lang13

Imagination as rebellion: practices for a decolonized future of African Studies

Lang14

Crossing ontological borders: the Sahara Desert as a site of encounter, memory and identity

Lang15

Which future for African Literatures in Portuguese? African and Afrodescendant literatures at a theoretical and methodological crossroad

Lang16

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African Literature of the Environment in the 21st century: past, present and future

Lang17

African languages and the digital economy: opportunities and challenges

Law01

Beyond colonial plunder and postcolonial restitution: a legal pluralist approach

Law02

African futures and the economic law: inherited codes, economic sovereignty, and transformative legal initiatives

Law03

Environmental and climate rights in Africa: what happens when courts have a say

Law04

Negotiating the future: how to decolonise the African judicial system?

Poli01

African feminist futures: gendered electoral violence and women's political participation

Poli02

International dimensions of LGBTQ+ politics in Africa: rights, funding and futures

Poli03

Security in Cameroon: inter-disciplinary analysis of the growing risks of persistent insurgencies

Poli04

The future of authoritarianism in Africa

Poli05

Exploring public-private development interfaces in Africa

Poli07

Customary authorities, violent conflict and peace in Africa

Poli08

Global-local connections and the future of jihadi insurgencies in Africa

Poli10

The future of election observation in African countries

Poli11

Humour and politics: a future beyond resistance?

Poli12

Changing African ID systems and reshaped citizen futures

Poli13

Border closures in Africa: causes and consequences [CRG ABORNE]

Poli14

Afro-Futurism: political, philosophical and cultural dimensions

Poli15

Lawmakers' constituency service in Africa: fostering accountability, development, and democracy?

Poli16

African regional organizations and their politics under the global condition

Poli17

Management consultants, developers and politics in Africa

Poli18

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Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West African Province: past, present and future

Poli19

Identity difference and special status: minorities, marginalisation and Indigeneity

Poli20

Infrastructural futures: situating Africa within global connectivity initiatives [CRG African Politics and International Relations]

Poli21

Norms, values and beliefs and the future of social protection in Africa

Poli22

Elite configurations and political regimes in Africa: the roles, structures and network dynamics of African Political Elites

Poli23

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The impact of discourse on identity and perception of the Russian-Ukraine conflict in Africa and Europe

Poli24

Trials and transformations: the futures of citizenship in Africa

Poli25

Engaging with complexity and imagined futures: local perceptions of African peace interventions

Poli26

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New geopolitics in the Red Sea region

Poli27

Conflict framing as a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Poli28

Separatism and irredentism: rethinking the past, present and future of the nation-state in Africa

Poli29

Future borders in the Horn of Africa

Poli30

Communal conflict and peacebuilding in the Horn of Africa: contested governance, gender relations, and political agency at the periphery

Poli33

Conviviality, identity and stagnation

Poli34

The 'Yen a marrisation' in Africa: interrogating the assessment of democratic processes from the perspective of alternative social movements

Poli35

Territories at war. Disputed and shared territories in Ethiopia

Poli36

The West African Sahel - future-making in a time of conflict and uncertainty Le Sahel Occidental - construire l'avenir en période de conflit et d'incertitude

Poli37

Pasts and futures of research ethics in the African contexts

Poli38

‘Localizing’ the state: interrogating state formation in and from secondary cities in Africa

Poli39

Is the developmental state back? How post-neoliberal extractivism reshapes social contracts in Africa

Poli40

Towards shifting Africa's position in the global science and research ecosystem: shaping "African Futures" by transforming knowledge production

Poli41

Research and war: methodological challenges, ethical dilemmas, and political implications

Poli42

Socio-political transformations in the African Great Lakes Region in the postcolonial perspective

Poli44

When chiefs fall apart: understanding and deconstructing the role of traditional leaders in conflict areas

Poli45

The legacies and futures of soldiers, rebels and militias from central & southern Africa’s armed conflicts

Poli46

africologneDIALOGFORUM @ ECAS conference : Recognition, Restitution and Reparation

Pub02

European-African b/or/ders - Back to the future?

Pub03

Biodiversity Protection and Increasing Food Demand

Pub04

Artist Collective CATTPC, White Cube Museum Lusanga, Rep. Congo

Reli01

Green religious activism in Africa

Reli02

Training for good life or a good society? Religious students’ individual and collective aspirations in public universities in sub-Saharan Africa

Reli03

Religious engineering – the making of alternative futures

Reli04

Futures of religion in and from Africa: exploring religious futures and decolonial theories

Reli05

Islam in Africa in global context: African engagements at the intersection of the local, the transregional, and the global

Soci01

African youths and leadership: trapped (im)mobilities, deferred futures

Soci02

Futures of citizenship in the Horn of Africa: near-diaspora between memory, liminality and aspirations

Soci03

Transgressive futures: movements across sub-Saharan and North Africa

Soci04

Heroes, villains and the imagining of futures in Africa

Soci05

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China-Africa supply chains disrupted by Covid: manufacturing restructuring and new trade routes

Soci06

Developing future development knowledge

Soci07

East African queer and trans displacements

Urba01

Planning challenges in informal settlements [CRG African Urban Dynamics] [CLOSED]

Urba02

Urban futures: inhabiting the metropolitan periphery

Urba03

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Infra-spacing African urban futures beyond "concrete" visions

Urba04

Urban futures: land acquisition, subdivision and economic anticipation in urban peripheries

Urba05

Peripheral pedagogical practices

Urba06

Climate change and changing urban dynamics in Africa's cities: current trends and future prospects [CRG African Urban Dynamics]

Urba07

The search for sustainability and emerging systems of urban water governance in SSA

Urba08

African statecraft at the intersection of urbanization and financialization

Urba09

'Future proofing urban marginalisation'

Urba10

Contesting urban heritage, memories, and belonging across tourism landscapes in African cities

Urba11

Temporality and permanence of urbanisation in Africa

Urba12

Creative and critical: engaging African youth and their futures through collaborative research

Urba13

Migration and the making of urban futures in Africa

Urba14

Labour mobilities across and between secondary cities in Africa

Urba15

The Cities Yet to Come? : Alternative Urban Futures in Africa

Urba16

Africa's urban futures and positionalities towards Global Urban Policies

Urba17

African urban spaces and futures of democratic citizenship

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