Our upcoming workshop is planned to take place on 25-26 November. Panels will be arranged around three topics, namely, 1) the politics of infrastructure, 2) practice and communities of practice, and 3) African agencies. Here is the introduction of the workshop and its three focal areas. Infrastructure Globalities. The Remaking of Transnational Practices in Africa…
DetailsINFRAGLOB will host its first virtual workshop on “South-South relations, situational publics and digital methods” on 30 April. Publics is an important but overlooked element of ‘infrastructure globalities’. Digital methods will enable researchers to trace the flows of information between nodes to identify the structure of debates.Dr. Mykola Makhortykh (Bern University) will discuss “Infrastructure controversies…
DetailsIngraglob researchers, Jana and Raoul, will present our paper Chinese Multinationals and CSR: Mimicking or Reworking the ‘Universal’? at the 36th European Group for Organisational Studies Colloquium “Organizing for a Sustainable Future: Responsibility, Renewal & Resistance” in Hamburg, Germany, July 2-4, 2020. We are part of an exciting sub-theme: Contesting Hegemonies in Organizing Social Responsibilities.
DetailsThis coming September, INFRAGLOB researchers Jana and Raoul will organize a panel (see the abstract below) for the 14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, hosted by the European International Studies Association (EISA). Jana and Raoul will present a paper on Chinese Multinationals and CSR. Here is the abstract of the panel. The Making of…
Details3-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/
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