Call for Papers
7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS)
June 29 - July 1, 2017
Basel, Switzerland
https://ecas2017.ch/

*Panel: Rural and urban belonging from a life course perspective *(C50)

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2017/panels.php5?PanelID=5215

*Short Abstract*

Urban-rural relations have diverse meanings for people of different age 
and gender. The panel explores creation and dissolution of social 
belonging between the urban and the rural at different phases during the 
life course.


        Long Abstract

Ethnographic research in many African societies has shown that urban and 
rural lives are deeply interwoven. Nevertheless, in much of the academic 
discourse the continent's population is described as being either 
"urban" or "rural". In regarding people's biographies, it soon becomes 
clear that their lives are often rural and urban, with a focus on one or 
the other.

In some areas, children from villages are sent for several years to 
relatives in towns before coming back to get married. Rural youth 
migrate to urban areas for periods of time; some of the young migrants 
return home while others remain. Some elderly spending long parts of 
their life in towns or cities re-settle in their village of origin in 
their old age.

In this panel we are interested in why and how people combine rural and 
urban life during their lifetimes: children and youth, men and woman or 
elderly persons. At what points and in what life periods urban 
respectively rural relationships become important? How do people shape 
relationships between the urban and the rural and which meanings do they 
attach to them? When and why are they less important? In which periods 
of life, why and by whom are the respective relations seen as a resource 
or as a burden? Contributing to debates on rural-urban relationships in 
the face of contemporary changes we encourage theoretically founded and 
empirically based papers from different disciplines.

*Convenors*

Tabea Häberlein (University of Bayreuth. [log in to unmask])
Jeannett Martin (ZIF Bielefeld. [log in to unmask])


*Deadline for paper abstract submission is January 19, 2017.
If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.*

-- 
just published:
Generationen-Bande. Ordnung, Praxis und Geschichte der Generationenbeziehungen bei den Lama (Kabiye)
im nördlichen Togo. 2016. Lit-Verlag, Berlin.

Dr. Tabea Häberlein
Sozialanthropologie
Universität Bayreuth
D - 95440 Bayreuth

Tel.: 0921/55-4694
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]


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