The City The organizing commitee is looking forward to welcome you in Cologne – because

it is a great city. Those of you who have not been there before will soon get to know

why...

Cologne is rich in tradition and culture

Starting as a roman province in 50. AD and after surviving two world wars, Cologne

looks back to more than two millennia of eventful history which have shaped the

place substainably. Nowadays, it is the fourth largest city in Germany. It is famous for

it’s World Heritage Site the Cologne Cathedral, built between 1248 and 1880, and

offers a lot of more cultural highlights like theatre, opera and various museums.

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ConferenCe of the AfriCAn StudieS ASSoCiAtion in GermAny (VAd) TAGuNG DeR VeReINIGuNG FüR AFRIKAWISSeNSCHAFTeN IN DeuTSCHlAND (VAD e.V.)

embattled spacescontested orders

Campus der universität zu Köln university Campus Cologne

30/05/ - 02/06/2012

HauptgebäudeAlbertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Köln SeminargebäudeAlbertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Köln

About 40 events are planned for the conference with six to eight panels taking place at the same time. Additionally the scientific program will be accompanied by cultural side events like a film screening by the Royal Anthropological Insti-tute (RAI), london, a Coptic Poetry Performance and a concert by the band Kel Assouf.

Für die Konferenz wird ein viertägiges Tagungsprogramm erstellt. Insgesamt sind ca. 40 Veranstaltungen geplant, wobei jeweils sechs bis acht Panels paral-lel angeboten werden. Zusätzlich ist ein umfangreiches Kultur- und Begleitpro-gramm geplant, dass durch Sponsorengelder finanziert werden soll. Dazu zählen u.a. ein Filmprogramm des Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), london; eine Coptic Poetry Performance sowie ein Auftritt der Band Kel Assouf.

www.vad-ev.deuniversität zu Köln | Cologne African Studies Centre (CASC) | ulrike Wesch und Martina Gockel Hauptgebäude, Raum 5.003 | Albertus-Magnus-Platz | 50923 KölnTel.: ++221 470 7430 | Fax: ++221 470 5117 | vad-2012@uni-koeln.de

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embattled Spaces – Contested Orders/ um-kämpfte Räume – umstrittene Ordnungen

Transnational networking as well as processes of partial decoupling of such networks in some regions lead to new conflicts over the allocation and the con-stitution of physically, normatively, and virtually constituted spaces in Africa. Not only conflicts over protected areas, natural resources and corresponding reforms of land tenure but also conflicts over “tradition” and “culture” as economic re-sources and sources of normative orientation in local contexts dominate public debates and development discourses. African politicians, artists, and journalists as well as the populations of rural regions, of poor urban neighbourhoods, as well as inhabitants of elitist urban ghettos conceptualise current conflicts as contestations about spatial orders. They relate these to critical global and na-tional developments and present these spaces as embattled (or at least worth to be embattled) or they hope that cooperative solutions to these “spatial” problems will ameliorate their living standards substantially. The scarcity of land and other resources portrayed as crucial for development and wellbeing and the competition over them are dramatized and become politically exploited like

the loss of “authentic” cultural and ethical values. This loss has obviously been enhanced by intense media networking accelerated by fundamental changes in the media scene. Classic media (print, radio, and TV) become more diversified and the spread of mobile phones and the internet offer new opportunities. Thus, these discussions do not only deal with physical space but deal increasingly with virtual spaces, whose economic, social, and ideational utilization calls for new negotiation processes.Current processes of economic and cultural globalization and the rapid urba-nization as well as related discourses and violent conflicts hark back to former disputes which took place in pre-colonial and colonial times. However, specific historical aspects and forms of presentation and negotiation of conflicts are added. Social movements for example refer to globally promoted civil rights and personal freedom and repeat the call for democracy. The concept of a civil soci-ety is confronted with notions of autochthony. Such intra-societal contestations always deal with different conceptions of order: spatial structures in the sense of cultural landscapes, social and political order and religious modifications of imagined communities. These different conceptions of order converge and allow different actors, stakeholders, and national institutions to selectively lay claim on them and to use them for the implementation of their specific aims.

umkämpfte räume – umstrittene ordnungenTransnationale Vernetzungen, aber auch partielle Abkoppelungsprozesse in ein-zelnen Regionen, generieren neue Auseinandersetzungen um die Besetzung undGestaltung von physischen, normativen und medial-virtuell konstruierten Räumen in Afrika. Konflikte um geschützte Areale, um natürliche Ressourcen und daran gekoppelte landreformen, aber auch um „Tradition“ und „Kultur“ als ökonomische Ressourcen und Quellen lokaler Normativität dominieren öffentliche Debatten und entwicklungsdiskurse. Afrikanische Politiker, Künstler und Journalisten konstatieren ebenso wie die Bewohner ländlicher Regionen, städtischer Armutsviertel oder elitärer urbaner Ghettos Konflikte um Räume. Sie machen an ihnen problematische entwicklungen fest, stellen sie als um-kämpft (oder umkämpfenswert) heraus oder erhoffen sich von kooperativen lösungen dieser Probleme substantielle Verbesserungen des lebensstandards. landknappheit und Konkurrenz um land werden ebenso dramatisiert und po-litisch instrumentalisiert wie der Verlust „authentischer“ kultureller und ethi-scher Werte. letzterer scheint durch intensive mediale Vernetzung deutlich ver- stärkt worden zu sein, Medien werden aber auch zunehmend genutzt, um die-sen Verlust zu kompensieren. Zugleich ist die Medienlandschaft tiefgreifenden Änderungen unterworfen. Die klassischen Medien (Print, Radio und TV) sind zu-nehmend pluralisiert und mit der Verbreitung von Mobiltelefonen und Internet

bieten sich neue mediale Möglichkeiten. es geht also in diesen Diskursen nicht nur um physische Räume, sondern zunehmend auch um virtuelle Räume, deren ökonomische, soziale und ideelle Nutzung neuen Aushandlungsprozessen un-terworfen werden.Gegenwärtige Prozesse der ökonomischen und kulturellen Globalisierung und der rasanten urbanisierung sowie die damit einhergehenden Diskurse und ge-waltsamen Konflikte greifen ältere Auseinandersetzungen auf, die bereits in der vorkolonialen und kolonialen Vergangenheit stattfanden. Sie fügen diesen aber auch historisch spezifische Aspekte und Formen der Darstellung und Aushand-lung von Konflikten hinzu. Soziale Bewegungen beziehen sich auf die global propagierten Bürger- und Freiheitsrechte und erneuern die Forderungen nach Demokratie, wobei das Konzept einer Bürgergesellschaft mit Autochthonievor-stellungen konfrontiert wird. In solchen Auseinandersetzungen werden immer auch unterschiedliche Ordnungsvorstellungen thematisiert: Raumordnungen im Sinne von Kulturlandschaften, soziale und politische Ordnungen sowie religiös überformte Vorstellungswelten. Diese verschiedenen Ordnungsvorstellungen durchdringen sich gegenseitig und ermöglichen es verschiedenen Akteuren, Interessengruppen und staatlichen Institutionen, sie selektiv und situationsab-hängig für sich zu reklamieren und zur Durchsetzung ihrer spezifischen Ziele einzusetzen.

PAnelS bei der VAd-tAGunG 2012Commoditising Space – indigenising land01 Politics of Alternative land Reforms in Africa: Can the poor profit? (Friederike Diaby Pentzlin, Wolfram laube) | 02 African Animal Spaces (Winfried Speitkamp, Stephanie Zehnle) | 03 African mobile people, indigenous space & globalization (Dörte Weig, Thomas Widlok, Martin Solich) | 04 Indigenous Identities and em-battled spaces in Africa (Michaela Pelican, Junko Maruyama)

Contested environments – negotiating Spatiality and resources05 Bildungsräume in Afrika: Inklusion & exklusion, Kooperation & Konkurrenz/ educational Spaces in Africa: Inclusion & exclusion, Cooperation & Competition (Christel Adick) | 06 Africa’s land as Contested Arena for international and na-tional biofuel policies and actors (Michael Brüntrup, Kristina Dietz, Aaron leo-pold, Raoul Herrmann) | 07 The Politics of Climate Change in Africa: Negotiating Responsibilities, Cosmologies and Adaptation (Detlef Müller-Mahn, Sara de Wit, Mirjam de Bruijn, Wolfram laube, Martin Doevenspeck) | 08 Wasser und kulturelle Ordnung/ Water and cultural orders (Irit eguavoen, Hans P. Hahn) | 09 Migration and Resource Conflicts in Rural and urban Areas (Clemens Greiner, Gabriel Tati, Patrick Sakdapolrak) | 10 ‘Home Coming’ or new displacement:Politics of place, identity and belonging in the context of “return” migration (ulrike Schultz, Ka-taryna Grabska) | 11 “Staking Claims in everyday life“ – Technological Artefacts and trust in African urban settings (elísio Macamo, Stephanie Bishop, Pierrick leu) | 12 „Neue Akteure, neue Ordnung? Interaktionen chinesischer Migranten, afrikanischer unternehmer und lokaler Bevölkerung im urbanen Afrika“ (lau-rence Marfaing, Karsten Giese) | 13 ethnographies of the Resource Curse. An Anthropological Approach to African Oil Production (Andrea Behrends, Thomas Bierschenk, Nikolaus Schareika) | 14 Africa’s Disputed Borderlands: Responses from Multiple Disciplinary Perspectives (Alexander Zhukov, Aleksi Ylönen) | 15 large-Scale Infrastructure Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa- spatial inscriptions of imperialism and globalisation? (Birte Förster, Julia Tischler)

(de-)legitimised orders – new models of Governance/ Alternative moralities17 Neubewertung des religiösen und politischen Raumes im afrikanischen Kon-text (Helga Dickow, Andreas Heuser) | 18 Normative Turbulances: The African union and the Negotiation of New Normative Orders (Antonia Witt, ulf engel; Discussant: João Gomes Porto) | 19 um Ordnungen streiten: Das Zusammenspiel transnationaler, nationaler und lokaler Diskurse und Handlungsrepertoires (Jana Hönke) | 20 Security Governance and (Dis-)Orderly Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (Christoph Haferburg, Fred Krüger) | 21 understanding ‘Security’ in Africa (Julia Hornberger, Thomas G. Kirsch) | 22 Moving (at) the Borders: Körper, Wissen und Wege in den Migrationen nach europa (Kristin Kastner, Délia Nicoué, Magnus Treiber, Christian ungruhe, Michael Westrich; Discussant: Christian ungruhe) | 23 Changing Family Spaces in Africa (Thamar Klein, Sonja Gierse-Arsten, Ger-trud Boden, Martina Gockel-Frank; Discussants: erdmute Alber, Julia Pauli) | 24 Contested Peace Processes in local and National Arenas (Andreas Mehler, Denis Tull) | 25 Mobile Akteure und (post-) koloniale Ordnungen (Stefanie Mi-chels) | 26 Changing and Contested urban ethnic landscape: ethnic Residential Segregation in African Cities (George Owusu, Samuel Agyei-Mensah)

language and media - Signification and representation27 Representing the Rural-urban Divide: Relating Old and New Orders (Rose Marie Beck, Claudia Böhme, Nadine Sieveking) | 28 Spatial and Special Turns in the Topography of Africa. Postcolonial (Re-) Writing of Space, Place and land (Kira Schmidt, Bruno Arich-Gerz) | 30 Das Museum im 21. Jh. – Fragen des Sam-melns und der Repräsentation (Clara Himmelheber, Oliver lueb) | 32 (New) spaces and strategies for negotiating art and cultural knowledge in African ci-ties (Kerstin Pinther, larissa Förster) | 33 Religion, Media and Contested Space in Africa (Simone Pfeifer, Patrick Desplat; Discussant: Tilo Grätz) | 34 local festi-vals, new ethnic identities, and citizenship in Africa (ute Röschenthaler, Antoine Socpa) | 35 Perspektiven zu Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien in afrikanischen ländern (Nadia Cohen, Sophia Thubauville) | 36 African Geo/Graphies: The literary Production of (Other) Spaces (Antje Ziethen) | 37 Spaces of Death, Places of Power: The Politics of Mourning (Dorothea Schulz, ute luig)

Arab Spring38 Contested political orders. Post-revolutionary dynamics in North Africa and the Middle east (Cordula Weisskoeppel, Martin Zillinger)

round tables: Sahara Region (organized by Georg Klute, Dida Badi, Baz lecocq) | Arab Spring (organized by Cordula Weisskoeppel, Martin Zillinger) | The Politics of Mourning (orga-

nized by Dorothea Schulz) | Adaptation and Creativity in the Tanslation of Circulating technologies and significations (organized by Richard Rottenburg, ulf engel) | Conceptuali-zing Competing Social and Political Orders (organized by elke Grawert,Dieter Neubert)

the conference intends to reflect on these current and historically established processes on the basis of four topics of interest:

Commoditising Space – Indigenising land Contested environments - Negotiating Spatiality and Resources (De)legitimised Orders – New Models of Governance / Alternative Moralities language and Media – Signification and Representations

The City The organizing commitee is looking forward to welcome you in Cologne – because

it is a great city. Those of you who have not been there before will soon get to know

why...

Cologne is rich in tradition and culture

Starting as a roman province in 50. AD and after surviving two world wars, Cologne

looks back to more than two millennia of eventful history which have shaped the

place substainably. Nowadays, it is the fourth largest city in Germany. It is famous for

it’s World Heritage Site the Cologne Cathedral, built between 1248 and 1880, and

offers a lot of more cultural highlights like theatre, opera and various museums.

Cologne is jovial

The most important characteristic of the city, however, is its citizens who radiate a vi-

vacious and sociable way of life. The typical Rhenish temper makes everybody feel at

home at once. People are inclined to laugh and take life easy. The “5th season of the

year” which takes place in February when the whole city is celebrating “Karneval”

is merely the climax of an exceptionally cheerful and communicative atmosphere –

certainly a stimulating surrounding which suits the purpose of exchanging scientific

ideas with colleagues.

HauptgebäudeAlbertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Köln SeminargebäudeAlbertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Köln

About 40 events are planned for the conference with six to eight panels taking place at the same time. Additionally the scientific program will be accompanied by cultural side events like a film screening by the Royal Anthropological Insti-tute (RAI), london, a Coptic Poetry Performance and a concert by the band Kel Assouf.

Für die Konferenz wird ein viertägiges Tagungsprogramm erstellt. Insgesamt sind ca. 40 Veranstaltungen geplant, wobei jeweils sechs bis acht Panels paral-lel angeboten werden. Zusätzlich ist ein umfangreiches Kultur- und Begleitpro-gramm geplant, dass durch Sponsorengelder finanziert werden soll. Dazu zählen u.a. ein Filmprogramm des Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), london; eine Coptic Poetry Performance sowie ein Auftritt der Band Kel Assouf.

www.vad-ev.deuniversität zu Köln | Cologne African Studies Centre (CASC) | ulrike Wesch und Martina Gockel Hauptgebäude, Raum 5.003 | Albertus-Magnus-Platz | 50923 KölnTel.: ++49 221 470 7430 | Fax: ++49 221 470 5117 | vad-2012@uni-koeln.de

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