The team is delighted to welcome Kadara Swaleh to the Infraglob project. Kadara Swaleh is in the advanced stages of his Doctoral studies at Freie Universität, Berlin, within the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. His dissertation explores the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Kenya, focusing on the Standard Gauge…
On June 3, 2024, Jana Hönke, director of the INFRAGLOB project, was hosted by the University of Coimbra in Portugal to give a seminar titled: “Africa’s Global Infrastructures: South-South Transformations in Practice.” This was a great opportunity to discuss the research conducted within the INFRAGLOB project and to showcase it beyond borders.
Karen Smith from the University of Leiden has reviewed the recently published book ‘Africa’s Global Infrastructures: South-South Transformation in Practice‘ co-edited by Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, and Yifan Yang from the Infraglob team. “Africa’s Global Infrastructures goes beyond simple binaries of South-South cooperation as either challenging the Western-dominated global order or not, adopting a nuanced…
The Infraglob’s researchers, Jana Hönke and Yifan Yang, have published a chapter in the book Asia-Africa: Multifaceted Engagement in the Contemporary World, edited by Ute Fendler and Yongkyu Chang. By utilizing Rumelili’s concept of ‘liminality,’ the chapter, titled Liminally Positioned In/Towards the South: Chinese Relations with Africa, provides insightful understandings of China (as a state)…
On the 12th of April 2024, the AISAC Conference 2024, themed “Africa and China: Actors, Methods, and Geopolitics in the Everyday,” will take place in Padua. This conference aims to provide a platform for various researchers from disciplines such as development studies, African and Chinese studies, anthropology, international relations, and more to come together. Throughout…
The Infraglob team is delighted to announce the release of the book Africa’s Global Infrastructure. Resulting from research conducted within the project, this volume is co-edited by Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, and Yifan Yang. However, the book itself is a global project. We thank our authors –from Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe—for beautiful chapters,…
As you might already know, our project is working on an edited volume together with our great contributors. Now that our book has a title and a contract, we are thrilled to share with you a first preview! In the post-2000s, Africa has witnessed a radical diversification away from primarily Western-centric funding and frameworks of…
We were very happy to welcome Professor Chih-yu Shih from the Department of Political Science at the National Taiwan University at the University of Bayreuth some weeks ago where he gave a public talk titled “Constituting Autocratic Governance Through Ideas and Personality: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Mass-line Sensibilities”. In the following, we would like to…
We are very happy to announce the publication of the article “The South-South investment that never happened: Vale in Guinea” by Eric Cezne and Mathias Alencastro in The Extractive Industries and Society. In this article, the authors approach the (failed) extractive ambitions by the Brazilian mining giant Vale in Guinea. Thus, they provide clues on the…
