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• 19 jan 2017

  Basel

  Call for papers - Africa

  Interrogating Land Value Capture in the African peri-urban Interface: towards a new political Economy?

  7th European Conference on African Studies 2017 – Panel L01

  This panel adopts land as a conflictual entry point onto the peri-urban research agenda in Africa. It sheds light on the political economy of land accumulation and value capture, in a context of urban sprawl, increasing land grabs, rampant speculation, new land uses and models of planning for cities

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• 18 jan 2017

  Basel

  Call for papers - History

  Urban scenographies of political power in Africa before 1900

  This panel focusses on African cities before 1900, examining through an interdisciplinary approach how political power is materially embodied and symbolically staged in the urban space through a variety of architectural interventions, visual representations, discourses and cultural practices.

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