ECAS 2009
3
rd
European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009
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Round Table 5: The impact of APRM on good governance in Africa
Round Table 4: Global Trade and Regional Integration Challenges and Perspectives for Africa
Round Table 3: AEGIS Round Table: European-African dialogue on research cooperation
Round Table 2: The Occult
Round Table 1: Sudan at the Crossroads: Perspectives and Visions beyond Fragmentation
Panel 158: Modes of Message: Lives narrated, Memories performed, Bodies in speech and Women in action (Annekie Joubert)
Panel 157: Respacing the Local / Trade (Frederick Ahriweng-Obeng)
Panel 156: Regionalism and Borderlands in Africa: Challenging the Security and Integrity of the State (Nikolas Emmanuel)
Panel 154: Building places, reconfiguring spaces: exploring new forms of economic, social, and political life in Africa (Karel Arnaut)
Panel 153: Darfur, Chad and CAR - Spaces of war versus regionalisation and history (Roland Marchal)
Panel 151: Local Strategies of Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa (Irit Eguavoen)
Panel 150: New perspectives on urban studies in Africa (Laurent Fourchard / Scarlett Cornelissen)
Panel 149: Cross-border Trade in Africa: Indigenous Development or Criminality? (Kristof Titeca, Kate Meagher)
Panel 148: Reflections on Africa's Integration project (AISA / Matlotleng Matlou)
Panel 147: Transitions in Central and Southern Africa (2/3): Conflict and Identity in late 20th Century Central and Southern Africa (Miles Larmer / Ian Phimister)
Panel 146: Transitions in Central and Southern Africa (1): Democratisation, populism and power politics in Southern Africa (Henning Melber)
Panel 145: Disciplining Nature. Continuity and Change in Land and Environment Conservation Policies in sub-Saharan Africa (Mario Zamponi)
Panel 144: Social and Cultural Elements in Conflict Formation in the Sahel (Aleksi Ylönen)
Panel 143: Sports hunting in southern Africa: from colonial imagery to modern-day industry (Harry Wels / Marja Spierenburg / Chris Boonzaaier)
Panel 142: African waters - water in Africa, barriers, paths, and resources: their impact on language, literature and history of people (Manfred von Roncador)
Panel 140: Navigating Urban Space (Henrik Vigh / Mats Utas)
Panel 139: African Studies on the web - new possibilities and new services for academic research (Ulf Vierke / Hartmut Bergenthum)
Panel 138: Text, subtext and context: Considering the relation between text work and field work in research on African literary texts (Clarissa Vierke)
Panel 137: Ten Years into the African Union: Many Changes, No Breakthrough? (Klaas van Walraven / Ulf Engel)
Panel 136: African and Asian development paths (Jan Kees van Donge)
Panel 135: Poverty and Peace in the African Countries: debate on the possible correlations (Cristina Rodrigues Udelsmann)
Panel 134: India as Rising Power in Africa (Kumar Suresh)
Panel 133: Beyond "going native": challenges of empirical social science research in rural Africa (Till Stellmacher)
Panel 132: Contested Space in the Horn of Africa: regional and spatial conflicts in their economical, political and cultural contexts (Monika Maria Sommer / Alexander Meckelburg)
Panel 131: Transnational Influences on South African Resistance Politics (Thula Simpson)
Panel 130: New Directions in East African Legal History (Brett Shadle)
Panel 129: Transnational African Migrations, Inequality and Remittances (Ulrike Schuerkens)
Panel 128: States, diasporas, citizenship: New forms of political subjectivity in Africa (Katharina Schramm / Kristine Krause)
Panel 127: The Zimabwean Crisis beyond the first steps of political settlement (Beatrice Schlee)
Panel 126: Dynamics of disintegration and collapse: African Societies facing hunger, violence and migration (Ulrich Schiefer)
Panel 125: Imagining Islamic Centers : Reshaping Locality through Shifting Affiliations (Tabea Scharrer / Britta Frede)
Panel 124: Taxation in Tropical Africa – the colonial disrupting mark (Maciel Santos / Alexander Keese)
Panel 122: Reviewing the African frontier: XXI century new and old 'citizenries' (Albert Roca)
Panel 121: Textwork / fieldwork : on swahili and other horizons (Alain Ricard)
Panel 120: The Significance of Model United Nations (MUNs) for Respacing Africa (Conrad Rein)
Panel 119: The impact of 'Space' on Culture and Politics in Southern Africa (Monika Reif-Huelser)
Panel 118: Children and migration in Africa: an interdisciplinary perspective (Elodie Razy / Marie Rodet)
Panel 117: Philosophical Perspectives on Re-scaling and Re-shaping Africa (Gail Presbey)
Panel 116: "Beijing-Cosensus" versus "Post-Washington Consensus"? China's Impact on Africa's socio-economic spaces (Christian Post / Benita Krebs)
Panel 115: Towards an African Peace and Security Regime: Institutionalisation, norm promotion and Continental embeddedness of the AU’s Peace and Security Architecture (Joao Gomes Porto)
Panel 113: Place, scale and reward: Africa’s role in the global economy (Stefano Ponte)
Panel 112: Reshaping Africa-exhibits (Barbara Plankensteiner)
Panel 110: Fighting poverty at the urban local level in Southern Africa: experiences from below (Antonio Pezzano)
Panel 109: Post-war rehabilitation processes in Sub-Saharan Africa: challenges and learned lessons (Karlos Pérez de Armiño)
Panel 108: The conflict in Darfur: destruction or re-struction? (Regine Penitsch / Karin Willemse)
Panel 107: Absence as space of emergence. Day-to-day coping with social exclusion, transnationalism and globalization (Cristiana Panella / Clemens Zobel)
Panel 106: Writing the oral: The building of history and the notions of 'past' and 'present' (Manuela Palmeirim / Manuel JOÃO RAMOS)
Panel 105: Conflicts and Conceptions of African Identities (Oyeniyi Okunoye)
Panel 104: Sex, silence, gender, power (Signe Arnfred / Elina Oinas)
Panel 103: Globalization and African Self Determination (Severus Ifeanyi Odoziobodo)
Panel 102: The link between development and indigenous knowledge: An African rebirth (Francis Ondit Odari)
Panel 101: Peace Building in Africa: National, Regional and Global Perspectives (Cyril Obi / Kwesi Aning)
Panel 99: Connecting technologies and social change: empirical findings and theoretical analysis (Dieter Neubert / Rijk van Dijk)
Panel 98: Violent Respacing in Kenya? History, Dynamics and Future Implications of the 2007-08 Post-Election Crisis (Dieter Neubert / Axel Harneit-Sievers)
Panel 97: Contesting Global Hegemony, Popular Culture and Citizenship in Africa (Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni)
Panel 96: Towards a harmonization of urban statistical indicators in Western Africa (Francois Moriconi-Ebrard)
Panel 95: A critical appraisal of Lusofonia as seen through cultural practices in Portuguese-speaking Africa (Marissa Moorman)
Panel 94: Testing for and Treating HIV/AIDS: Social and Cultural Explanations for Failure (Fraser McNeill)
Panel 93: A Continent Transformed?: The Utility of the “Neo-Liberal” Explanation in African Studies (Jason Sumich)
Panel 92: African Migration to Europe (Robert McKenzie / Alessandro Triulzi)
Panel 91: Spatialities of Hip Hop Music in Africa (Jenny F. Mbaye)
Panel 90: (Re-)mapping Eritrea in the Cultural Imagination: narratives of the nation in literature, theatre, film, and the new media (Christine Matzke)
Panel 89: Africa’s Interregional South-South Relations (Frank Mattheis)
Panel 88: Patrimonial Issues and Territorial Recompositions (Jean-Luc Martineau / Laurent Manière)
Panel 87: The transformation of power relations in the social, religious and economic recompositions of North- and West-African societies (Laurence Marfaing)
Panel 85: Risk awareness, discourses and the constitution of new social spaces (Elisio Macamo / Lena Bloemertz)
Panel 84: Itineraries and the constitution of spaces: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on mobilities in Africa and beyond (Alexandra Lübcke)
Panel 83: Regionalizing Africa. Developing Theory and Empiricism on Region-Building (Ulrike Lorenz / Fredrik Söderbaum)
Panel 82: Trans-local entanglements and local disputes Muslims in contemporary Africa (Roman Loimeier)
Panel 80: Religious NGOs as new agents of change in African societies (Marie Nathalie LeBlanc / Muriel Gomez-Perez)
Panel 79: African Health Worker Migration to Europe: Problems, Prospects, Policies (Andrew Lawrence )
Panel 78: New Research in Ghanaian Colonial History (Dennis Laumann)
Panel 76: Visualising Migration, Exclusion, and Representation in South Africa (Loren Landau)
Panel 75: Refiguring Mobility, Space, and Sovereignty in Southern Africa (Loren Landau)
Panel 74: Restructuring and re-inventing the public in Africa: translocal and transnational gendered spaces (Gudrun Lachenmann / Dorothea Schulz)
Panel 72: ‘Respacing Zimbabwe: the Zimbabwean diaspora and its transnational activities in the United Kingdom’ (Jenny Kuhlmann)
Panel 71: The worlds missionaries made? (Silke Strickrodt)
Panel 70: Re-imagining and re-configuring the nation (Reinhart Kössler)
Panel 69: Revisiting the African frontier (Benedikt Korf / Tobias Hagmann)
Panel 68: Death, deceit and other personal disasters: When connections backfire (Gabriel Klaeger / Julie Soleil Archambault)
Panel 67: Spaces of (In)Security (Thomas Kirsch)
Panel 66: Locating and re-locating the poor: spatial dimensions of economic interaction (Robert Kappel)
Panel 65: Reclaiming religious space: the Africanization of Christianity in West-Africa (Werner Kahl)
Panel 64: African literacies (Kasper Juffermans / Yonas M. Asfaha)
Panel 63: European and African Spatial Knowledge: Cartography of Africa 1850-1914 (Adam Jones)
Panel 62: Historical Roots of Poverty and Well-Being in African Countries (Morten Jerven)
Panel 61: African Studies and Perspectives on Comparative Literature (Matthew Iwuchukwu)
Panel 60: Topographies of Rule (Jana Hönke)
Panel 58: Diasporic political engagement in Africa Social and economic remittances and their roles in ‘development’, ‘democratization’, and ‘peace building’ (Markus Höhne)
Panel 57: Engendering respaced Africa, respacing gender in Africa - how do we articulate gender and spatial perspectives? (Elisabeth Hofmann)
Panel 56: Fragmented and fluid urbanities (Christine Hentschel)
Panel 55: Pasting the Landscape: Posters, archives and visualities (Dag Henrichsen)
Panel 54: The location of Africa : historicity of the localities on the move (Benoit Hazard)
Panel 53: News, Networks and Nationalism: Print Cultures in West Africa 1860-1960 (Charlotte Hastings)
Panel 52: Africa and the Indian Ocean (Patrick Harries / Preben Kaarsholm)
Panel 51: Spatial transformations in African towns (Holly Hanson / Alessandro Gusman)
Panel 50: Chiefs as Politicians and Developers: Postcolonial Transformations in Local Arenas in West Africa (Sten Hagberg)
Panel 49: Changing mediascapes and new media entrepreneurs in Africa (Tilo Grätz / Birgit Meyer)
Panel 48: Waterscapes in Africa. The respacing of basins, markets and networks (Olivier Graefe / Detlef Mueller-Mahn)
Panel 47: Reinventing the International in Africa? (Marie Gibert / Julia Gallagher)
Panel 46: From Porters and Canoe-men to Busboys and Railwaymen, towards a social history of Labour and Transport in Africa (Jan-Bart Gewald)
Panel 45: From Nation-building to The Politics of Belonging : Citizenship, Governmentalities and Biopolitics (Richard Banegas / Armando Cutolo / Peter Geschiere)
Panel 44: On Biomedicine, Governance and Experimentation (3): Experimental subjectivity: emerging forms of citizenship in African contexts (Wenzel Geissler)
Panel 43: On Biomedicine, Governance and Experimentation (2): Africa as a laboratory: questioning implementation research and humanitarian innovation (Virginie Tallio)
Panel 42: On Biomedicine, Governance and Experimentation (1): Biomedicine and governance: theorizing the relations between science and administration (Babette Mueller-Rockstroh)
Panel 41: African cities: urban and social transformation (Sonia Frias)
Panel 40: Circuits of Success: Figures of Political and Cultural Innovation, I and II (Bodil Folke Frederiksen)
Panel 39: Urban Visual Culture (Till Förster)
Panel 38: Re(-)Placing Theory in African Studies: Ifa Divination Corpus, Origins, Universality and the Integration of Epistemology (Nelson Fashina)
Panel 37: The coming back to power of divine kingship in Africa (Albert Farrè Ventura)
Panel 36: Africa in the Emerging Space of Globalism: Rethinking the Philosophy of Globalization (Muyiwa Falaiye)
Panel 35: Transformations, Continuities and Dilemmas for the Capeverdean Contemporary Society. Some issues for the social sciences (Iolanda Maria Alves Évora)
Panel 34: Youth as a political factor in post-colonial Africa (Birgit Englert)
Panel 33: Art scenes in Africa and the global art world (Ficquet Eloi)
Panel 31: ‘Indigenous’ African borders: empirical examples and theoretical interpretations (Gregor Dobler)
Panel 30: Aid (in)efficiency and challenges to state rehabilitation (Tom De Herdt)
Panel 28: Negotiating distances, reshaping immediacy. FulBe communities in emerging translocal settings (Riccardo Ciavolella / Lotte Pelckmans)
Panel 27: CREATING FP7 Project on East african territorial integration (Bernard Charlery de la Masselière)
Panel 26: Doing research in African spaces as young researchers (Fanny Chabrol / Edrich-Nathanaël Tsotsa)
Panel 25: Re-locating Africa in the Indian Ocean World (Gwyn Campbell)
Panel 24: Counselling Africa: Speech and Contestations over Family, Sexuality, Health and the Body (Marian Burchardt / Rijk Van Dijk)
Panel 23: In Between War and Peace – Spaces of Transition in Africa (Anna-Maria Brandstetter / Susanne Buckley-Zistel)
Panel 22: The ‘deviant’ children of Africa: Youth, crime and the juridical/penitentiary system in Africa (Lorenzo Bordonaro)
Panel 20: States, public bureaucracies and civil servants: Organisational fields and actors' practices (Thomas Bierschenk)
Panel 19: Translating Conflict (Andrea Behrends)
Panel 18: Political parties and the space in Africa (Anika Moroff / Sebastian Elischer)
Panel 17: Violent actors and the re-shaping of political orders in Africa (Kerstin Bauer)
Panel 16: Medicine, Science, and the Location of Africa (Manuela Bauche / Stefan Hoffmann / Mari K. Webel)
Panel 15: Conflict and Space: Secessionist and autonomy conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa (Matthias Basedau)
Panel 13: Space and Place in African Sports (Susann Baller)
Panel 12: The role of schools in the reconfiguration of territories (Céline Badiane-Labrune)
Panel 11: ‘We Tried but they Failed’ - Critical Perspectives on Interventionism in Africa (Jan Bachmann)
Panel 10: Africa And Neoliberal Conduct - Reexamining Governmentality (Jan Bachmann)
Panel 9: A Bitter Neoliberal Pill: Land Titling and Conflict in Africa (Kelly Askew)
Panel 8: Preserving Economic Policy Space in Africa (Helmut Asche)
Panel 6: Representation e self-representation in lusophone african space (Livia Apa)
Panel 5: Natural resources and livelihoods of the poor in the Great Lakes Region: Orphans of the quest for growth in the era of globalisation? (An Ansoms)
Panel 4: Children's Rights in Ghana: Rhetoric or Reality? (Robert Ame / Agbenyiga DeBrenna)
Panel 3: Globalisation and African mode of Revisiting Traditional ‘Science’ (Adebisi Ademakinwa)
Panel 2: Alternative Economic Spaces: Africa's Emerging Markets (Caryn Abrahams)
Panel 1: Contested Public Spaces: Politics and religious movements in contemporary Northeast Africa (Jon Abbink / Alexandra M. Dias)