INFRAGLOB co-organizing China-Africa Entanglements Summer School
We are happy to announce that the INFRAGLOB team members Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke and Dr. Raoul Bunskoek co-organize this year’s African Studies courses of …
New article out online first in World Development: The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique
We are happy to announce that the joint paper by Jana Hönke and Eric Cezne ‘The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in …
PhD position within the INFRAGLOB-Team: Transnational contentious politics and situational publics in South-South relations
We are very happy to announce that the research group ‘AFRICA’s INFRASTRUCTURE GLOBALITIES’ offers a PhD position (m/f/d) on the subject of transnational contentious …
Collaborative research with Southern Africa Resource Watch: How do Chinese mining companies in Africa respond to public protest?
In November 2021 we initiated a collaborative research project with the Johannesburg-based Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW). SARW is a leading NGO in the …
Edited volume in the making. ‘South-South Infrastructure Globalities. How Transnational Practices are (Re)Made in Africa’
In November, the Infraglob editorial team (Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, and Yifan Yang) hosted a virtual authors’ workshop for the edited volume ‘South-South Infrastructure Globalities. …
INFRAGLOB at international Conferences this Year – A Selection
This summer and autumn have been busy months for the INFRAGLOB team. Despite the challenging context of the ongoing pandemic, we had the opportunity to …
Presentation at the CrossArea Annual Conference: AFRICA’s ‘INFRASTRUCTURE GLOBALITIES’ Rethinking transnational practice from the Global South
Jana Hönke and Mia Yang had the pleasure to present the INFRAGLOB project and selected, preliminary research results at the CrossArea Annual Conference that was …
Publication: ‘Community of Common Destiny’ as Post-Western Regionalism: Rethinking China’s Belt and Road Initiative from a Confucian Perspective
ERC INFRAGLOB team member Raoul Bunskoek and co-author Chih-yu Shih, Professor in Political Science at National Taiwan University, have recently published the article, ‘‘Community of …
Call for book chapter contributions by African scholars – Brazilian, Chinese, and Indian infrastructure investments in Africa
This is a call for contributions to the edited volume Africa’s Infrastructure Globalities: Remaking Transnational Practices through South–South Relations?, organized by the ERC Africa’s Infrastructure
Call for Collaboration – Prime Scholarship for Postdocs
If you are a postdoc interested in Global Political Sociology (of Africa) and /or Peace and Conflict Studies/ Critical Security Studies and would like to