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Dear Colleagues -
I'd like to draw your attention to this call for papers for a panel on the
Horn of Africa at this year's biannual conference of the European
Association of Social Anthropologists.
*A regional crisis of global consequence: conflict and political imagination
in the Horn of Africa and its diaspora*
Short Abstract
Through ethnographically and historically grounded analyses, this workshop
analyses how local, regional, and global dynamics interface in the Horn of
Africa, and explores the ways that people in/of the Horn imagine and cope
with the multi-layered political field in which their lives are enmeshed.
Long Abstract
Often misunderstood and underrated local, regional, and global dynamics
interface in the Horn of Africa, comprised of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia,
Sudan and Djibouti. Throughout the region and its worldwide diasporas,
historical and political ferments collide with the global world (dis)order
to produce an array of political discourses and struggles. The so-called
'War on Terror' is only one of the crises with which the peoples of the Horn
contend. Their lives are beset by conflicts over borders, territories and
identities as well as militarization, food insecurity, and forced migration,
all which have dramatic consequences for states and populations within the
Horn of Africa, the wider East African region, and globally.
This workshop approaches these issues from local, global, and historical
perspectives to understand the dynamics of conflict in the Horn region, and
how they are related to global neo-liberal political-economic pressures and
trends like democracy, development, human rights, terrorism, and national
security and sovereignty.
In exploring how these pressures and trends - and the hopes and fears that
inhere within them - play out in the Horn of Africa and its diasporas,
address the following questions through ethnographically and historically
grounded, comparative analyses: How do people in/from the Horn perceive
these dynamics? How do they imagine and cope with the multi-layered
political field in which their lives are enmeshed? How do they think about
tensions and uncertainties and reason about their causes? What are their
individual and/or collective responses? How can scholars contribute to both
political debates and improving human security?
*Chair*: Tricia M Redeker Hepner
*Discussant*: Awet Weldemichael
You can find our page on the EASA website here:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=671
We look forward to hearing from any interested parties in the near future!
Yours,
David O'Kane
Visiting Research Associate,
Queen's University Belfast
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