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)
Organizers: the fellows of the Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on "Land Governance in West Africa through Interdisciplinary Empirical Lenses" (IFG 6)
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.
Abstract:
Abstract:
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
MIASA Public Lecture Series in collaboration with the Department of Political Science in Celebration of the Day of Scientific Renaissance of Africa
Abstract:
Keynote: Professor Bénédicte Savoy (Technical University Berlin), author (with Felwine Sarr) of The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics, known as the Sarr-Savoy Report (2018) and Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat (2022).
Chair: Professor Wazi Apoh (University of Ghana)
Abstract:
Abstract:
In this lecture I will outline the theoretical background of my MIASA project about ‘Christianity’, ‘feminism’, and associated terms, in the English-speaking YWCA movement on the continent. I aim to outline the epistemological basis for taking a narrative approach to researching ethics and identity in African contexts referring to African/a, Black, and decolonial feminist theory. I will then explain how this relates to identity, and why identity is significant for thinking about ethics, taking ‘Christianity’ and ‘feminism’ as illustrations.
Sponsored by:
Copyright © 2024. Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa
Powered by UGCS