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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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• 31 jan 2014

  Basel

  Call for papers - Modern

  Revisiting the Historical Connections between Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a Global Context

  The workshop posits that after 1945, the interconnectedness of questions of nutrition, agriculture and poverty became a central aspect of international governance, and that issues of food and agriculture posed particular challenges to national sovereignty. We thus approach the history of FAO as a history of the ideas and practices of economic and social ‘development’ embedded in local, regional, national, and global contexts and with implications on all these levels. We propose to examine the process by which the FAO facilitated the institutionalisation and globalisation of debates on agricultural production and food security, how it integrated previous international and transnational networks, and how it navigated the tension between agrarian commercialisation and rural welfare during the Cold War and Decolonisation.

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• 15 nov 2013

  Basel

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Residential plurilocalities and local populations

  Cahiers de démographie locale, 2013 annual journal (due for publication 2014)

  Le millésime 2013 des Cahiers de démographie locale est consacré aux plurilocalités résidentielles et spécifiquement à leur diversité et à leur impact à l’échelle locale. Pour autant qu'il y ait eu des études pionnières – notamment en France celles des chercheurs ayant participé à l’ouvrage collectif « d’une maison l’autre » en France – la plurilocalité résidentielle a été peu présente dans les analyses démographiques. Les raisons sont techniques et épistémologiques. Mais aujourd’hui des données en France (Bonnin and Villanova, 1999) – notamment l’Enquête Famille et Logements de 2011 - et dans d’autres pays d’Europe permettent de dépasser ces difficultés. Ce numéro des Cahiers de démographie locale a pour but de contribuer à la meilleure connaissance de ce thème méconnue et d’actualité.

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