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Dear Colleagues,
Please find below details of a panel at the European Conference on African Studies that may be of interest. The deadline for paper proposals is 19 January.
Cheers,
Will
Dr. William Monteith
Senior Research Associate
School of International Development
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7599 820211
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European Conference on African Studies, Basel, 29 June - 01 July 2017
Panel C48: Strangers in African Cities
All cities are to a certain extent an assemblage of diasporas. As African societies continue to urbanise, diverse populations encounter each other within highly restricted spatial parameters, producing new patterns of collaboration and competition, sociality and distance. However, different groups experience these patterns in different ways. Rather than predetermined, the category of the stranger in the African city is actively negotiated by urban African inhabitants. It may be invoked to rationalise the alienation of others, for example from workplaces, support networks and supply chains, but also to facilitate self-alienation, for example from regimes of government taxation and social obligation.
This panel explores the production of 'strangeness' and difference in urban African environments. Taking inspiration from the classic work of Simmel (1908), as well as the recent contributions of Whitehouse (2012) and Hammar (2014), it seeks to unpack taken-for-granted markers of urban difference — related for example to gender, religion and nationality — and to situate them within the emerging social, cultural and political economies of African cities.
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2017/panels.php5?PanelID=5208
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