Dear Colleagues,
Our panel (co-organised with David Pratten at Oxford and Paul Ugor at Illinois), entitled “Through the Prism of Popular Culture: Living Extractivisms in the Gulf of Guinea,” has been accepted as part of a stream of panels sponsored by AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institute, the premier journal devoted to the study of African societies and culture. These panels will be part of the forthcoming biannual conference of the African Studies Association in the United Kingdom (ASAUK), from 8-10 September 2020 at Cardiff University Cardiff (see the link here: http://www.asauk.net/asauk-2020/).
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ASAUK
African Studies Association of the UK
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Our panel focuses on states within the Gulf of Guinea. This is an expansive area covering the northeastern part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean of West Africa and comprises Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanophone countries totaling 15 states (including Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Congo Republic, DR Congo, and Angola). Extractivism (crude oil, diamond, gold, coal, copper, rubber, etc.) is an important feature of everyday life in all these countries and we seek contributions that examine how on popular cultural forms (popular music, movies, literary productions, theatre, stories in the mass media, etc.) are used to narrate life under such conditions of extractivism.
If you work in the Gulf of Guinea along the themes outlined above, please consider submitting an abstract to our panel. You can find out more about the submission procees here: http://www.asauk.net/asauk-2020/call-for-papers-and-panels/ and if you do decide to submit go here to create a user account with the conference organisers and make your submission https://www.conference-service.com/ASAUK2020/access.html.
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28th ASAUK biennial conference
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Of course, do not hesitate to contact me or my co-organisers for help with the submission process if you run into any difficulties.
Rogers Orock (email: [log in to unmask]), David Pratten (email: [log in to unmask]), and Paul Ugor (email: [log in to unmask])
Best regards,Rogers------------------------------------------------------
Rogers Orock,
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
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Postgraduate Coordinator
Department of Anthropology,
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, Rep. of South Africa
Associate Editor (Social Science)- NordicJournal of African Studies (www.njas.fi)
Editorial Board- Africa: The Journal of theInternational Africa Institute (Cambridge University Press, www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa)
Editorial Board- HAU: Journal of EthnographicTheory and Hau Books (University of Chicago Press, www.haujournal.org)
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Private Bag 3, WITS, 2050, South Africa
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University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
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