Dear colleagues,
as the German African Studies Conference (VAD) 2020 had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will now take place virtually from 7 to 11 June 2021 we are happy to re-open the call for papers for our panel "Challenging the Rule of Law: The African Laboratory".
We warmly invite you to apply with an abstract before 15 March and to forward the call to other interested colleagues.
Best regards,
Jonas Bens and Leonie Benker
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VAD Conference 2020 "Africa Challenges“
virtual conference from 7 to 11 June 2021 (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
Panel 08:
Challenging the Rule of Law: The African Laboratory
Co-Convenors:
Jonas Bens ([log in to unmask]), Leonie Benker ([log in to unmask])
Submission Deadline: 15 March 2021
Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, international rule of law interventions in postcolonies have become a central part of an emerging global justice and human rights regime. The African continent has been the main laboratory in which this instrument has been applied, tested and transformed. Examples are interventions of international criminal justice institutions in Africa, the facilitation of national constitution-making processes, the implementation of security sector reforms, the promotion of various human rights programs and other legalized and legalistic forms of development policies. Many in Africa and beyond view the implementation of international rule of law regimes as an illegitimate and neo-colonial North-South intervention and there is a call for “African justice” instead of “Western justice”. Such counter-movements include the African Union’s attempt to create an African criminal court, the rise of alternative (neo-)traditional justice systems, and a growing movement of decolonial approaches to law and statehood in academic discourses. International rule of law interventions have become a major trope in discourses on peace and security as well as wider issues of law, rights, and governance in Africa and beyond. This panel invites papers investigating the phenomenon of Africa as the laboratory of international rule of law interventions. From different disciplinary perspectives papers should explore how these interventions have challenged Africa and/or how Africa has challenged the understanding of the “rule of law” more generally.
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Dr. Jonas Bens
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology | Freie Universität Berlin
Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies (DFG-SFB 1171)
Habelschwerder Allee 45 | D-14195 Berlin | room: JK 30/203
fon: +49 (0) 30 838 59310 | skype: jonasbens | twitter: jonas_bens
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