Dear colleagues,

the CALL FOR PAPERS for the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 
2017) in Basel has just opened.
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2017/panels.php5

I would like to draw your attention to the panel below.
Many thanks and kind regards,
Michaela Pelican

*Panel C04: New mobilities and translocal social practices of African 
(post)pastoralist societies*
*
**Short Abstract*
This panel addresses the role of rural-urban, regional and international 
migration and translocal social practices as drivers of change in 
African (post)pastoralist societies. We invite empirically based 
contributions to assess the relevance of these phenomena across cases 
and regions.

*Long Abstract*
African pastoralism is changing at rapid pace, as many researchers have 
demonstrated. Relatively little is known about the impact of 
rural-urban, regional or international migration on these changes. This 
is surprising for a number of reasons: First, the usually remote and 
sparsely settled nature of pasture areas implies that income and 
educational opportunities are rare at local level and thus engender 
processes of migration. Second, population growth, environmental change 
and gradual loss of rangeland are observed in many pastoral areas and 
increase the pressure to find alternative sources of income. Third, 
African pastoralists - the same as any other people - are affected by 
today's processes of globalization and partake in a variety of 
translocal social networks.
With conceptual approaches changing from bounded and isolated units 
towards their integration into wider global phenomena, migration and 
translocality have become increasingly important research foci in the 
social sciences and the humanities. Recent research points to the 
increasing importance of migration and migration-related effects, such 
as remittances, socio-economic stratification, cultural change and 
part-time pastoralism, which are often related to ever growing 
entanglements that bridge the rural-urban divide. However, little effort 
has been done so far to systematically assess the relevance of these 
phenomena across individual cases and regions. This panel seeks to start 
closing this research gap by understanding the role of (domestic, 
rural-urban and international) migration and ensuing translocal 
practices as drivers of change in African (post)pastoralist societies. 
We invite empirically based contributions from a broad range of 
disciplinary fields and regional backgrounds.

*Convenors*
Clemens Greiner (University of Cologne)
Michaela Pelican (University of Cologne)

-- 
Michaela Pelican, Junior Professor of Anthropology
University of Cologne, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology
Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany
phone: +49 (0)221-470-3515
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
website: www.michaela-pelican.com

Director of the University of Cologne Forum "Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Perspectives from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe", website: www.forum-ethnicity.uni-koeln.de

Latest publications:
Pelican, Michaela. 2015.
MASKS AND STAFFS: Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields. New York, Oxford: Berghahn.
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=PelicanMasks
Introduction: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/PelicanMasks_intro.pdf

University of Cologne Forum "Ethnicity as a Political Resource" (ed.). 2015.
ETHNICITY AS A POLITICAL RESOURCE: Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods. Bielefeld: Transcript.
http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3013-8/Ethnicity-as-a-Political-Resource#
Introduction: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/d67f135ec55d36ace8cb9fc0483fff07.pdf


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