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…
DetailsThe 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)…
DetailsOn 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…
DetailsThe biannual conference of the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) will be held at the University of Bayreuth from September 30th to October 2nd, 2024. Hosted by the Institute of African Studies, the conference theme is Reconfigurations in Africa – and in African Studies. Gathering a wide range of scholars as well…
DetailsThe Infraglob team, represented by Jan Sänding, will participate in the International Conference on Land Governance & Future in Landau (Pfalz), Germany, on the 4th and 5th of June. The conference will be held at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, with over a dozen scholars and young academics from diverse disciplines such as political science, geography, peace and…
DetailsThe 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,…
DetailsThe academic journal The Extractive Industries and Society has published an article by our associate researcher Dr. Eric Cezne together with Dr. Ana Saggioro Garcia from the Institute of International Relations, PUC-Rio, Brazil. The article “The rise and fall of Brazilian extractivism in Africa: Taking stock of Vale’s mining operations on the continent (2004-2022)” deals with the…
DetailsThe Chair for Sociology of Africa (Prof. Jana Hönke) is offering a position for a Student Assistant (20h/month) starting from January 1st, 2024. The position is part of the ERC-funded INFRAGLOB project (www.infraglob.eu), which examines governance practices and controversies over South-South investments in Africa. The advertised position has two thematic foci: first, conflicts around Chinese mining projects…
DetailsReflecting on a vibrant exchange of ideas and expertise, we would like to give you a review of INFRAGLOB’s diverse contributions to the 2023 Pan-European Conference of the European International Studies Association held in Potsdam from 5 to 9 September. At the conference, Jan Sändig participated in the inspiring section on ‘Infrastructures and Global Order’.…
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