We are very happy to currently have Prof. Chih-yu Shih from National Taiwan University here at the University of Bayreuth for a week. On Wednesday, 21.09.2022 he will give a talk titled, ‘Constituting Autocratic Governance Through Ideas and Personality: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Mass-line Sensibilities’. Time is 13:30-15:30 and location is room S 6 (Raum-Nr.…
DetailsWe 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…
DetailsWe are very happy to share with you the exciting news that the paper “Liminally Positioned in the South: Reinterpreting Brazilian and Chinese with Relations with Africa” by INFRAGLOB team members Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne and Mia Yifan Yang has been published online in Global Society. The paper is open access and can be accessed free…
DetailsWe are happy to share with you that INFRAGLOG researcher Jana Hönke will give a talk on the topic of “Africa’s Multiple Globalities: Chinese Companies and Practices of Securing Economic Infrastructure” at the departmental seminar of the Institute of Political Sciences of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. The talk takes place tomorrow, 29 June. You…
DetailsRecently, Jan Sändig, postdoctoral researcher at INFRAGLOB, gave an interview for the series “Alumni of the Month” of his Alma Mater, the University of Potsdam. In the interview, he gives us insights into his exciting research trips to areas of crisis and reflects on his path in academia. Read the full interview in German and…
DetailsAt the EISA PEC 2022, taking place in Athens 1-4 September this year, INFRAGLOB team members Prof. Jana Hönke (University of Bayreuth) and Dr. Raoul Bunskoek (University of Bayreuth), organize the panel on Worlding Orders of Worth: (Transnational) Justifications Around the Globe. This panel is to start a conversation on a framework that moves beyond Western-centrism…
DetailsWe 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…
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