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- Convenors:
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Corentin Cohen
(University of Oxford)
Côme Salvaire (Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM), Sciences Po Bordeaux)
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- Format:
- Panel
- Disciplinary streams:
- Economy and Development
Short Abstract
The aim of this panel is to encourage discussion about organisational forms that have often been overlooked in the literature on the continent, particularly fraternities, brotherhoods, sisterhoods, and professional guilds.
Long Abstract
The aim of this panel is to encourage discussion about organisational forms that have often been overlooked in the literature on the continent, particularly fraternities, brotherhoods, sisterhoods, and professional guilds.
These forms of organisation have long and varied histories across the continent. We seek to explore whether, and under what conditions, they may have regained salience in contemporary contexts, in the organisation of economies, power, social relations, and ecologies. In particular, we are interested in how processes of globalisation, migration, state and economic restructuring, and growing pressures on natural resources may have contributed to the renewed salience and vitality of these organisational forms.
We welcome contributions from all disciplines and on organisations operating across all sectors, provided they draw on original or first-hand empirical materials. Papers may explore the internal dynamics, aesthetics, membership, and practices of these organisations, as well as their roles in governance and in the making of citizenship. We are particularly interested in contributions examining how such organisations shape crafts and occupations, markets and value chains, spaces, politics, and broader social milieus.
Papers that engage comparatively with unions, syndicates, political parties, cartels, or other organisational forms are also particularly welcome. We encourage contributions that question established analytical categories and examine the boundaries, overlaps, and transformations between these different forms of collective organisation.
Please submit a detailed abstract outlining the empirical materials on which the paper draws and its central argument. Depending on the papers and authors’ interests, we will aim to publish these papers as a SI.