Dec212021

Collaborative research with Southern Africa Resource Watch: How do Chinese mining companies in Africa respond to public protest?

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In 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,…

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Dec142021

Edited volume in the making. ‘South-South Infrastructure Globalities. How Transnational Practices are (Re)Made in Africa’

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In 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…

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Dec12021

Presentation at the CrossArea Annual Conference: AFRICA’s ‘INFRASTRUCTURE GLOBALITIES’ Rethinking transnational practice from the Global South

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Jana 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…

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May272021

Call for book chapter contributions by African scholars – Brazilian, Chinese, and Indian infrastructure investments in Africa

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This 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…

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Apr72021

Jana Hönke’s talk at the event ‘Partnering with business to promote human security and the SDGs: comparative experiences’

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Jana Hönke will speak at the event ‘Partnering with business to promote human security and the SDGs: comparative experiences ‘ hosted by LSE IDEAS and Universidad del Rosario, supported by LSE KEIF. She will reflect the limitation and risks of such collaborations, drawing, among others from her paper, ‘Transnational Clientelism, Global (Resource) Governance, and the…

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Mar172021

Eric Cezne’s PhD Dissertation (with cum laude distinction) is Available Online

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We are excited to announce that on 1 April 2021, INFRAGLOB project member, Eric Cezne, has successfully defended his PhD dissertation ‘Assembling the South-South through Extraction: Mozambique and Brazil’s Mining Giant Vale S.A. amidst Multifaceted Tropical Connections across the South Atlantic’. Eric Cezne’s dissertation is now available online. To download and cite his work: https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/assembling-the-southsouth-through-extraction-mozambique-and-brazi Cezne,…

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Feb222021

Talk by Dr. Obert Hodzi on 24th February –”African Political Elites and the Making(s) of the China Model in Africa”

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African Political Elites and the Making(s) of the China Model in Africa the Talk For the Research Colloquium of the Chair for Sociology of Africa, University of Bayreuth, we will have a special guest, Dr Obert Hodzi, Lecturer of Politics at the University of Liverpool (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/staff/obert-hodzi/). He will be sharing with us his recently published…

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