3-Year Postdoc Transnational Publics / Digital Methods with focus on Global South. We are seeking to employ a postdoc researcher (m/f/d) on the INFRAGLOB project: “Africa’s Infrastructure Globalities: Rethinking the Political Geographies of Economic Hubs from the Global South” (www.infraglob.eu, funded by the ERC). Job description You will coordinate and conduct research on transnational publics…

Since the 1st of October 2019, the INFRAGLOB project has a new home. We are now based at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where we join the newly launched Chair for Sociology of Africa. We are also happy to contribute to Bayreuth’s renowned Cluster of Excellence in Africa Studies, titled “Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies”. In October,…

Infraglob now collaborates with Dr. Mykola on its research on digital methods and infrastructure publics. Mykola Makhortykh

Eric Cezne will present at the ERC-funded WorkinMining Workshop on ‘The micropolitics of South-South relations: negotiating ‘cooperation’ and making space around Vale S.A. in Mozambique’. The workshop will be held at the University of Liège, Belgium, from 11-13 September.  It addresses the micropolitics of mining in four core areas that have been undertheorized: the ways…

Jana Hönke got a paper on Infrastructure Globalities accepted in the International Practices section of the European International Studies Association conference, to take place from 11-14 September 2019 in Sofia. Link: http://eisapec19.org/

At the beginning of the 21st century, Africa experienced a fundamental change: while development aid and foreign investment used to come mainly from the West, now economic relations with the emerging countries of the global South, including China and Brazil, became increasingly important. The deepening and expansion of these relations led to a geographical reorientation,…

By Eric Cezne In recent years, Brazil has been affected by a struggling economy and considerable political turmoil (Boito and Saad-Filho, 2016; Garmany and Pereira, 2018). In the meanwhile, Brazilian mining giant Vale S.A. (henceforth Vale) has faced a series of setbacks and negative appraisals in light of the destructive and lethal tailings dam tragedies at iron…

By Eric Cezne During my first field trip to Mozambique in May and June this year, it was clear that the country has been through quite some change since I left as a kid nearly 20 years ago.  Back then in the early 90s, my parents were there working in development cooperation and aid projects…