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CFP: “Translations of travelling legal, organisational, and techno-scientific models in African contexts” April 7-10, 2010 (Mainz, Germany)
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 May 2009.
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***Translations of travelling legal, organisational, and
techno-scientific models in African contexts*
Convenors: Richard Rottenburg, Andrea Behrends, Thamar Klein, Johanna
Mugler
While some scholars emphasize the importance of external influences on
the African continent, others try to show the independence, ingenuity
and, less often, responsibility of local agency. We invite papers that
seek to explore the plausibility of another approach with us; an
approach that avoids the juxtaposition between autochthonous and
imported social and cultural forms. We proceed from the assumption that
throughout Africa, like elsewhere, most social and cultural
transformations are entangled with transformations that take place on
other continents. In order to examine translocal entanglements we shift
our focus to interstitial spaces and forms of distributed agency. Within
this larger field, we have chosen to concentrate on legal,
organisational and techno-scientific dimensions of transformations in
African contexts, brought about by travelling elements of normative and
epistemic orders. While our main interest is to shed light on
present-day processes, we also invite papers dealing with historical
case studies. Besides papers from anthropology we encourage
contributions from history, history and sociology of science and
technology, law, political sciences, and economics. We invite papers
that explore one or more of the following subjects:
·The emergence of new relationships between bodies, politics and
biomedical technologies within the interstitial spaces where regimes of
governance, techno-scientific practices and social reproduction are
undergoing significant changes.
·The links between travelling models and local conflict dynamics. Which
available models are selected and which are rejected? How are they
translated, and what impact do they have on the local context? How does
the local translation contribute to the shaping of a globalized model?
·The practice of administration and adjudication of state law in African
countries, and in particular processes by which legal innovations are
translated into legal practice in African justice systems.
Kindly distribute the Call for Papers in your network and apologize any cross-mailing. We are looking forward to your interested response.
With best regards,
The Organizers
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Dr. Thamar Klein
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
PF 11 03 51
D-06017 Halle/Saale
Germany
Phone + 49 (0)345/2927-585
Fax + 49 (0)345/2927-202
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