Panel 154: Building places, reconfiguring spaces: exploring new forms of economic, social, and political life in Africa (Karel Arnaut)
Panel Organiser: Karel Arnaut
This multidisciplinary panel sponsored by
the Ghent Africa Platform (GAP) explores new forms of connecting and
withdrawing, networking and insulating that produce new places of collaboration
and contention, and bring about new spaces of varying magnitude in different
parts of Africa and in social, economic, and political domains of life.
Accepted Abstracts
Into Africa: Islamic finance and the integration of
the North-African regional economy
Governance by spectacle: urban militias building new
violent public spaces and reconfiguring democracy in Cote d'Ivoire
The city as frontier: urban development and identity
processes in Goma (D.R. Congo)
Morocco in the age of globalization. The global market
integration of cities, social protest and the security - development nexus.
Rethinking the colonial city. Spatialized histories of
urban and racial segregation in colonial Kinshasa and Lubumbashi
The power of the local in cross border practices: a
case study from Central Africa
