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

Panel 28: Negotiating distances, reshaping immediacy. FulBe communities in emerging translocal settings (Riccardo Ciavolella / Lotte Pelckmans)

Panel Organiser: Riccardo Ciavolella / Lotte Pelckmans

This panel aims to analyze how new practices and meanings of mobility are reshaping relatedness in FulBe networks. Emerging forms of translocality are affecting social immediacy and proximity. The negotiations over physical and social distances reconfigure both emic ideas and practices of relatedness. Translocal networks in particular play a relevant role in influencing social dynamics both ‘at home’ and in ‘host regions’.

Accepted Abstracts

La diaspora haalpulaar/peul de Mauritanie. Ecrire et/ou reecrire l'histoire (Reinvention quotidienne d'une societe imaginee)
Mobility, processes of integration and intra-ethnic differentiation among the Wodaabe
Fulbe Communities in Strange Lands: Institutions for Collective Action for Overcoming Grazing Constraints in Southwest Nigeria
 
YIMBE DANDI: Fulbe migrants in Gabon
The contribution of Fulbe studies to African Studies: From an exotic to a modern 'tribe'?