ECAS7: 7th European Conference on African Studies

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P001

Hubs, Gateways and Bottlenecks - New Transport Infrastructures and Urbanities Respacing Africa I

P002

Rural despotism in democratic South Africa

P003

Precarious Inclusion: Inclusive Capitalism and African Informal Economies

P004

Labour (markets) in extractive industries

P005

The Rural-Urban Linkages in Africa's Quest for Industrialisation: Large Scale Land Acquisition, Capitalist Farming, and Agrarian Transformation in Comparative Historical-Sociological Context

P006

Africa and Higher Education - A Transnational Perspective

P007

Aftermaths: urban displacement and the poisoned promise of resettlement

P008

African capitalisms: Bringing the entrepreneur back in

P009

Border towns in Africa: Between division and integration (CRG ABORNE approved panel)

P010

Urban transformations in Rural Africa: The role of small towns in Sub-Saharan Africa - revisited

P011

60 shades of development assistance: remainings of projects and programs in urban and rural Africa

P012

Dynamics of growth, investment and violence in Eastern Africa's margins

P013

Rural Food Farmers in Urban Markets

P014

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Smart cities as national and regional growth poles in Africa

P015

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Urbanization for Africa's structural transformation

P016

Knowledge production for active urban citizenship

P017 CANCELLED

Gender transition and urban societal wellbeing in Eastern Africa

P018

Shifting Terrain: The Dynamics of National Land Policy in Africa

P019

(Street)Markets, Malls, and 'Exhibitions': Commerce and the transformation of African urban space

P020

Transformative research and economic transformation in Africa

P021

Mining and Urbanization in Rural Africa/Exploitation minière et urbanisation en Afrique rurale

P022

Metropolitan emergence: cities in the globalization, views from North and sub-Saharan Africa

P023

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Villes, inégalités et conflits en Afrique contemporaine

P024

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Local Government in decentralizing and urbanizing society (Le gouvernement local dans la société décentralisante et urbanisante)

P025

Changing spaces for rural and urban civil society movements in Africa

P026

Zimbabwe's politics and protests: writing the 'urban' back in

P027

Rural-urban cleavages in the Congolese conflicts

P028

Social media and the political sphere in Africa: reshaping democratic engagement?

P029

Time as politics: past present and future in African urbanism

P030

The State and the Media: surveillance and censorship in Africa's pasts and presents

P031

Managing militias: the (non)emergence of armed groups before, during, and after elections

P032

Capital politics: The political economy of African regional organisations

P033

Security in the city: Experiences of security pluralism in urban Africa

P034

The changing face of electoral manipulation in Africa

P035

The Political Economy of Land and Extraction

P036

Being a non-violent youth in conflict contexts

P037

The politics and policies of mobilization in authoritarian regimes: producing domination and consent

P038

Liberation diplomacy and the African city

P039

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Still Relevant? The European Union in Africa

P040

Creating Common Understanding - EU-Africa Responses to Urban Challenges

P041 CANCELLED

La recomposition des espaces politiques en temps de guerre

P042

Elites, Networks and Bargains: Explaining African trajectories at the intersection of agency and institutions

P043

'Electric scrambles', past and present: renovating the politics of the kilowatts and the megawatts across African polities

P044

Ideology and Armed Struggle in Contemporary Africa

P045

Judicial elites in Africa: appointments and careers at superior courts

P046

The Developmental State Strikes Back? The Rise of New Global Powers and African States' Development Strategies

P047

Speaking Africa, integrating Africa? Norms and power of the African Union

P048

Conspiracies and conspiracy theory. The politics of the unknown

P049

Urban Africa, Voice, and Politics

P050

A bottom-up perspective on military intervention in fragile states

P051

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Youth-led leadership and participation in Africa

P052

Demarcating political life? The rural-urban divide and its influence on political behavior

P053

Reading State through humanitarian a perspective: Boko Haram "ruralities war" and population displacement in the Lake Chad region

P054

Political Representation in Fragile and Transitional States

P055

Violent conflict and the politics of rural-urban transformation

P056

Party Politics under Authoritarian Rule

P057

Civil Wars and State Formation: Order and legitimacy during and after violent conflict

P058

Democracy, decolonisation and political contestation: the South African case

P059

The social life of identity documents in Africa

P060

The New Political Economy of Afro-Asian Ties

P061

Social Assistance Policies in Africa

P062

Violent Democracies? Understanding election-related violence in Africa

P063

Hubs, Gateways and Bottlenecks - New Transport Infrastructures and Urbanities Respacing Africa II

P064

Insurgent Citizenship: The politics of laying claim to urban spaces in historical perspectives

P065 CANCELLED

New forms of dependence in rural Africa?

P066

Sentiments of Justice in Africa: Contestations at the Intersection of Rural and Urban Imaginations

P067

New mobilities and translocal social practices of African (post)pastoralist societies

P068

Strangers Among Us: Negotiating/Shifting Race and Ethnic Relations in Urban and Rural African Spaces and Places

P069

Bus stations in Africa

P070

Enfants au travail dans les villes africaines: stratégies, droits et mobilités

P071

Secondary cities in Africa: Between metropolises and small towns

P072

Different Localities, Different Identities? Rural-Urban Mobilities and the (Re)Production of Class

P073

The unemployed in Africa: redistribution, time, and the meaning of productivity

P074

Making the African City: Leisure, Security and Ordinary Urbanities

P075

Transnational migration and its implications for education in contemporary Africa

P076

The Role of Networks in Rural-Urban-Transnational Encounters: The Mobility of People, Ideas and Spaces

P077

(Infra)structures of Extraction in Africa

P078

A desire for the authentic: urban and rural lives as categories of social distinction

P079

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Innovations in connectivity and social change in Africa: new ways to bridge the urban and rural in historical perspective

P080

African bureaucrats and emotions at work

P081

Africa and the city. Constrained urbanisation through forced displacement

P082

Africa's Nocturnal Cities

P083

Coming of Age in a Time of Change: New Forms of Gendered Self-Accomplishment in (East) Africa and beyond

P084

Youthful agency, art practices and the right to the city

P085

Rethinking African ageing: Growing old in an urbanising Africa

P086

Villes et projets urbains en Afrique : politiques de la culture / cultures du politique

P087

Thinking through time. Large-scale technological innovations in Africa

P088

Urban governance: new arrangements in African cities of all sizes

P089

Contested waterfronts in Kenya, Cameroon and Côte d´Ivoire

P090

Who Owns the City? Political Leverage for Informal Workers in Urban Africa

P091

African Cities and Urban Theory

P092

Contemporary politics of informality: encounters between the "formal" and "informal" African city

P093

Cameroonian cities: conviviality and contradictions

P094

Unspectacular Youth - Practicing the everyday in urban/rural Africa

P095

Social science perspectives on One Health in Africa

P096

Revisiting "moral economy": perspectives from African studies.

P097

Classes urbaines et fabrique des global south consumers

P098

Gender, body politics and humanitarian fields in Africa

P099

Traditional Chiefs and Democratic Political Culture for Africa

P100

The struggle on memory. Biographies, locations/places, archives, monuments and museum in today´s Africa

P101

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Conflict Over Natural Resources and Food (In)Security: How do conflicts influence urban food-provision?

P102

Urban elites and the legacies of slavery

P103

The urban images of rural life: its materials and materiality, its actors and its practices / L'imaginaire de «la brousse» en milieu urbain: matérialités, acteurs, pratiques

P104

Strangers in African Cities

P105

Rural and urban belonging from a life course perspective

P106

Respatializing informality in urban Africa

P107

After the Crisis? Ethnographies of Post-Crisis Situations in Africa

P108

Youth, work and making a living in sub-Saharan cities

P109

Fashioning sexuality in popular culture

P110

Food cultures in Africa: food production, consumption, and prestige ranking in the age of development

P111

Notions of gender equality in African contexts

P112

Engineering the Middle Classes: State Institutions, Wealth, and Aspirations of Citizenship

P113

Local Resistances to International Agendas on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa

P114

CRG Africa in the World: Global Village, African City. How to read Africa's changing global connections in the African cityscape

P115

Social Sciences Research Institutions in Post-independence Africa as subjects of research

P116

Questioning legitimating discourses and practices in the international aid context

P117

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Teaching peace after conflict: the effect of teachers' agency and social identity on the effectiveness of peace education

P118

LGBTI Activism in Lusophone Africa and beyond: organization and dynamics in urban contexts

P119

The Practice and Politics of DIY Urbanism in African Cities

P120

From village schools to univer-cities: Rural-urban dynamics in education and knowledge production in Africa

P121

The ones who moved to the town: Informal DDR through urbanisation

P122

Global scientific encounters: The quest for sustainable research cooperations

P123

The urban and the rural in biographical constructions of urban African middle classes

P124

Rising African Urban Middle Classes: Narrative Mirage or Social Reality?

P125

Everyday Citizenship: entanglements of state power, space and citizenship in contemporary Africa

P126

Land commodification, Land tenure and Gender in Africa

P127

Raising revenue: everyday taxation in urban Africa

P128

The Rise of African Transnational Traders

P129

Why is research from Africa invisible?

P130

Urban technologies and technologies of urbanity in Africa

P131

Popular claim-making, public authority and governance in urban Africa

P132

Between Rural and Urban: Building the state in secondary towns

P133

Towns build around and on concentration camps: The War in German Southwest-Africa and its urban trajectories

P134

Urban scenographies of political power in Africa before 1900 (double panel)

P135

African Ivory; Connecting cosmopolitan spaces in a globalized Atlantic: trade, art and visual discourses

P136

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Mémoire multiple et participation politique: L' « histoire locale » dans la voie africaine de la démocratie

P137

Port Cities and Coastal Towns along the African Indian Ocean Coast

P138

Encounters of the Urban and the Rural: Labour in Durban/KwaZulu

P139

Transregional and Transnational Histories of Commodity Cultures in Urban Africa

P140

Being and Making 'Good Citizens': Concepts and Practices of Citizenship in Africa Past and Present

P141

Lines of Control - Lines of Desire: Towards an Integrated History of Fencing in Southern Africa

P142

Migration and "in-between" Logistics: Recruiters, Agencies, Brokers and Transport Workers

P143

Urbanisation and Africa's "Agrarian Question": Rural-Agricultural Development in the Twentieth Century

P144

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Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean

P145

African Women Interpreting and Redefining Public Health in late 20th and early 21st century Africa

P146

The Bureaucratic City: The Politics of Organising Urban Life in colonial and postcolonial Africa

P147

Dichotomic 'Fault Lines': Exploring the Mutual Constitution of Binary Formulations in African Histories

P148

Economic and Financial Histories of Central Africa I (double panel)

P149

The importance of biography in African historical studies

P150

The monument in the African Town: its origin, place and part

P151

Historicizing Humanitarianism, Development, and Colonial Legacies

P152

Geographies of violence and the migration of conflict

P153

Religious Minorities in Africa. Urban areas as crossroads: meeting points, safe heavens, and stages

P154

Schools and education at the core of the city (20th C.)

P155

Identity and Soldiering: Making armies in southern Africa

P156

Debts and the city

P157

Non-Penal Confinement in Africa

P158

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Transforming Urban and Rural Memorialization in Southern Africa

P159

Between the Rural and the Urban: Critiquing Discourses of Development in Hunting, Conservation and Architecture in Namibia and South Africa

P160

Political Cultures in the Central African Copperbelt

P161

Power in travel, powering travel

P162

Photographs and Photographers in Africa Visual Entanglements of the Urban and the Rural

P163

Urban artists with rural links: Contemporary art and social practice

P164

Creative Boundaries: Traveling between Urban and Rural Identities

P165

Rethinking the dialectics of Rural and Urban in African Art Scholarship

P166

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Cultivating African cities: On a decolonial potential of urban cultural elites

P167

Digital (Sound)Pictures in/on/about Urban Africa

P168

Rural-urban sexuality and power dynamics in African literature and culture

P169

Rethinking Periphery(ies) in Portuguese-speaking cinemas

P170

The visibility and violence of sexual diversity in Africa

P171

Urbanized African Sociolinguistics - Questioning research foci

P172

African indigenous languages as urban youth languages: the rural-urban exchange

P173

The Urban African Space and Its Marginal Literatures/Performances

P174

Managing linguistic diversity in the African city

P175

The Urban Space and the African Short Story in English

P176

Mobility within Africa: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

P177

Idealizing the Rural? Emerging Consciousness to Relocate African Theoria to the Village Square

P178

The Plural and Relational in Religious Practices, Concepts, and Spaces in Africa

P179

Urbanity, Religiosity and Inter-Religiosity in Contemporary Africa

P180

Disability and Technology in Urban and Rural Settings

P181

Local Knowledge: development opportunities coming from the countryside? Methodological and political strategies and challenges in the health area

P182

Ageing in Sub-Sahara Africa: Shifting Landscapes of Moral Neoliberal Reforms

P183

Innovation and urban health in Africa

P184

Local health-care governance in troubled times

P185

In pursuit of "wellness"

P186

Interrogating Land Value Capture in the African peri-urban Interface: towards a new political Economy?

P187

Urban-rural migration, movement and livelihoods revisited in a context of crisis

P188

Mass rapid transit (MRT) in African Cities: A contribution towards inclusiveness?

P189

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Impact of tourism development on urban and rural communities in Africa

P190

Futures of nature in African rural and urban spaces in the post-independence era

P191

Exploring Crime and Poverty Nexus in Urban Africa

P192

Food System Links Between the Rural and Urban Africa

P193

Boundaries, Links, and Flows: the Materiality and Political Meaning of Distinctions between Urban, Suburban, and Rural Africa

P194

Soft constraint and the reshaping of the urban political space: relocated urban dwellers in African cities' peripheries

P195

Food Markets in rural-urban Africa

P196

African migration imaginaries: rumours, cosmologies, representations

P197

How to govern the making of urban space in Africa between informality and mobility?

P198

"Creative commons destruction?" - Large-scale investments, new commons, and distributive institutions

P199

Towns, public areas and discards. Encounters of the rural and the urban

P200

Sustainable Cities in Africa: plans, dreams, and practices

P201

Contested justice: Legal and judicial pluralism in urban settings and renegotiations of the law from urban to rural domains

P202

Taking rules seriously: Between formality and informality in African bureaucracies

P203

Uncovering the merits of African approaches to foster democracy, human rights, and conflicts resolutions in Africa

P204

Urban property disputes in fragile and transitional settings in Africa

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