Conference: Land governance and conflicts in West Africa
Organizers: the fellows of the Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on "Land Governance in West Africa through Interdisciplinary Empirical Lenses" (IFG 6)
Past Events
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Public Lecture: Bangui’s Everyday Statehood: Citizens and public authority in a context of chronic political crisis, Speaker: Lotje de Vries (Wageningen University)
Abstract:
While the state in the Central African Republic is characterized by what can be called chronic political instability, everyday life and administration in the capital Bangui seems quite steady. In this lecture, I analyze the various relations between citizens and public authorities in mundane interactions to investigate what I call ‘everyday statehood’. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews, I will elaborate on how public authorities and citizens build relations and manage expectations in urban Bangui, despite a rather absent central state.
Policy Conference “Policies for a sustainable rural transformation in Africa”
Organized by: Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), at the University of Ghana, Legon/Accra, Ghana
In collaboration with: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana; German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Germany
Keynote speeches by:
Prof. Awudu Abdulai, University of Kiel, Germany
Prof. Eva-Marie Meemken, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
Program Committee:
Dr. Fred Dzanku, ISSER
