ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

Panel 107: Absence as space of emergence. Day-to-day coping with social exclusion, transnationalism and globalization (Cristiana Panella / Clemens Zobel)

Panel Organisers: Cristiana Panella / Clemens Zobel

This panel describes the production of social practices as responses to the disengagement of the State (subsidiarity and economic liberalisation). The main features are the concept of absence as a lack od representation (social exclusion, political sub/mis-representation) and the shift between central and peripheral conditions in a local and transnational perspective.

Accepted Abstracts

La privatisation de la filiere coton au Mali
 
 
Cultural heritage at the Margins. The wood-carvers of the 'Maison des Artisans' in bamako (Mali) between reification and survival economies
 
Municipal planning and political accountability in three Malian communes
 
Encadrer l'invisible: la part des sans part dans le cinema et dans le travail de l'image des blogs au Mozambique et en Angola
 
Presence of absents? Alien 'Abbusivi' Traders Marking the City out in Venice
 
Can the Absent be Accountable? Sahel Marginal Populations' Political Imaginaries of a distant State
 
 
 
Beyond the Pale of Property: Gold miners meddling with mountains in Burkina Faso Sabine Luning, Universiteit Leiden