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…
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
DetailsEric 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…
DetailsJana 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/
DetailsJana Hönke participated in the GeSTalT workshop Global Security Technology Laboratories organised by the PRIO security research group with the Security Dialogue Associate Editors team. The event was part of PRIO’s 60’s anniversary celebrations. Link: https://www.prio.org/SecurityDialogue/Editors/
DetailsBeyond the Gatekeeper State: African Infrastructure Hubs as Sites of Experimentation Jana Hönke Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal A new article by Jana Hönke will appear in the special issue “Beyond the Gatekeeper State” of Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal. An early online version can already be consulted here.
Details“Rita Abrahamsen during INFRAGLOB lecture” (picture taken by Claudia Lopez). Last Wednesday April 18th, INFRAGLOB and the Centre for International Relations Research hosted a lecture by Professor Rita Abrahamsen on African Visions of World Order. In her talk, Rita Abrahamsen showed that as we fret about challenges to the current world order, we need to…
DetailsA new article published in Mobilities looks at ports as a key part of the logistical infrastructure of the global economy. It argues that both recent security and mobilities literatures are placing too much emphasis on supposedly all-encompassing global technologies to govern them. It uses a controversies approach to develop a greater sensitivity to the…
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