Call for Applications – Student Assistants (20h or 40h/month) for the ERC-INFRAGLOB project, Chair for Sociology of Africa The Chair for Sociology of Africa (Prof. Jana Hönke) is offering positions for Student Assistants (20h or 40h/month) starting from April 1st, 2021 (or earlier). The positions are within the ERC-INFRAGLOB project (www.infraglob.eu), which examines governance practices…
DetailsAfter months of preparation, we are happy to announce that the Workshop,’ Infrastructure Globalities: The Remaking of Transnational Practices in Africa’, will take place next week (on 25th and 26th of November)! Description and program of the workshop can be found here: https://infraglob.eu/events-infraglob/ We would like to give special thanks to all the authors for…
DetailsThe INFRAGLOB project welcomes its newest member! Jan Sändig is a postdoctoral researcher in Peace and Conflict Studies. Jan’s research centers on social mobilization, protest, and violence in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, he has been studying the varied means, framings, dynamics, and outcomes of contentious politics from the local to the transnational arena. Welcome, Jan!
DetailsOur upcoming workshop is planned to take place on 25-26 November. Panels will be arranged around three topics, namely, 1) the politics of infrastructure, 2) practice and communities of practice, and 3) African agencies. Here is the introduction of the workshop and its three focal areas. Infrastructure Globalities. The Remaking of Transnational Practices in Africa…
DetailsINFRAGLOB will host its first virtual workshop on “South-South relations, situational publics and digital methods” on 30 April. Publics is an important but overlooked element of ‘infrastructure globalities’. Digital methods will enable researchers to trace the flows of information between nodes to identify the structure of debates.Dr. Mykola Makhortykh (Bern University) will discuss “Infrastructure controversies…
DetailsIngraglob researchers, Jana and Raoul, will present our paper Chinese Multinationals and CSR: Mimicking or Reworking the ‘Universal’? at the 36th European Group for Organisational Studies Colloquium “Organizing for a Sustainable Future: Responsibility, Renewal & Resistance” in Hamburg, Germany, July 2-4, 2020. We are part of an exciting sub-theme: Contesting Hegemonies in Organizing Social Responsibilities.
DetailsThis coming September, INFRAGLOB researchers Jana and Raoul will organize a panel (see the abstract below) for the 14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, hosted by the European International Studies Association (EISA). Jana and Raoul will present a paper on Chinese Multinationals and CSR. Here is the abstract of the panel. The Making of…
Details3-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…
DetailsSince 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,…
DetailsInfraglob now collaborates with Dr. Mykola on its research on digital methods and infrastructure publics. Mykola Makhortykh
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