We are happy to announce that INFRAGLOB team member Jana Hönke is going to share her work on ‘Frontier Zones of ‘the Global’? China in Africa and the (security) governance of transnational economic hubs‘ in the workshop ‘Production and Value Chains and Security Apparatuses: On the Intersection of Value and Violence in the 21st Century’,…
DetailsWe 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 the Bayreuth International Summer School. This year’s Bayreuth International Summer School features courses on Africa-Asia relations. This year’s African studies courses will approach Africa-Asia relations from two different angles to…
DetailsWe are happy to announce that the joint paper by Jana Hönke and Eric Cezne ‘The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction: The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique’ has just been published online first in World Development. Therefore, we would like to provide you with a brief preview of what it is…
DetailsWe 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 politics and situational publics in South-South relations. Within this broader endeavor, you will have the opportunity to develop and conduct a research project on contentious politics and transnational situational publics in…
DetailsIn November 2021 we initiated a collaborative research project with the Johannesburg-based Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW). SARW is a leading NGO in the area of extractive industries, working towards participation, transparency, accountability, and environmental and human rights in the sector. The research is spearheaded by Claude Kabemba, Georges Mukuli, and Joseph Cihunda from SARW. Together,…
DetailsIn 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. How Transnational Practices Are (Re)made In Africa’ at the University of Bayreuth. Authors from four continents (Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe) and eleven countries shared and discussed the first…
DetailsJana Hönke and Mia Yang had the pleasure to present the INFRAGLOB project and selected, preliminary research results at the CrossArea Annual Conference that was held in Bayreuth on 18 and 19 November. This year’s conference took place under the topic ‘Africa’s Entanglement in the World’. The CrossArea association is a German umbrella organization of…
DetailsThis 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 Globalities (INFRAGLOB) project at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. The edited volume proposes to refine understandings about the management of Africa’s transnational infrastructure projects and business-society encounters within a framework…
DetailsIf you are a postdoc interested in Global Political Sociology (of Africa) and /or Peace and Conflict Studies/ Critical Security Studies and would like to combine working with us at Bayreuth University plus a stay at another research institution abroad of your choice, please get in touch! At our chair group, we pursue a variety…
DetailsTransnational activism within the Global South Panel proposal for the ISA 2022, Nashville Organized by Jana Hönke and Jan Sändig (University of Bayreuth) There is a long-standing and insightful research agenda on transnational activism. But still, most of the research and public interest has focused on the impacts of NGOs and social movements from the…
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