CRC-TRR Future Rural Africa at ECAS 2023

May 4, 2023

As ECAS 2023 is set to begin in Cologne on May 31, we are not only thrilled to announce that the CRC Future Rural Africa will be kicking-off the conference with a public panel discussion on the future of African Energy on 30 May 2023, but we will also be participating in a total of 28 panels at the largest African studies conference in Europe, if not the world. Here is a detailed overview of the CRC’s involvement at ECAS 2023:

Panels with Participation of the CRC-TRR 'Future Rural Africa' at ECAS 2023

Anthropology

The shared future of Afropean lifeworlds(Anth02)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Thomas Widlok (Project C05)

Under pressure: aspirations and stress in African metropoles (Anth08)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Mario Schmidt (Project C06)

Wilder Futures? Rewilding and multispecies coexistence in rural Africa (Anth12)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Romie Nghitevelekwa (Project A04)
Léa Lacan (Project A04 / ERC Rewilding)
Julia Brekl (Project A04 / ERC Rewilding)
Emilie Köhler (Project A04 / ERC Rewilding)

Global-African entanglement: transformation and continuity of social inequalities and labour practices (Anth33)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Ulrike Lindner (Project C07)

Indigenous ontologies and nature conservationi initiatives in Southern Africa (Anth35)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Sabrina Msangi (Project C05)

Looking back. Looking ahead: dynamics of accumulation and development in post-colonial Africa (Anth39)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Rene Vesper (Project C03)

Pastoralists for future (Anth55)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Hauke-Peter Vehrs (Project A04)

Africa's energy futures: energy heterogeneity between enclave and entanglement (Anth58)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Frankline Ndi (Project C02)

Ethnographies of extraction and extraversion in Africa [Sponsored by the International African Institute/ Africa: the journal of the International African Institute] (Anth60)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Paula Alexiou (Project A04/ERC Rewilding)

Economy and Development

African land futures (Econ2)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Rene Vesper (Project C03)

African land futures (Econ4)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Julia Wummel (Project C02)

African conservation futures post-Covid-19: rethinking nature tourism in protected areas (Econ12)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Linus Kalvelage (Project C01)
Selma Lendelvo (Project A04)

Futures for food security in times of crises - new development pathways through regional food systems? (Econ14)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Carolin Hulke (Project C01)
Javier Revilla Diez (Project C01)
Godfrey Tawodzera (Project C01)
Ndapewa Fenny Nakanyete (Project C01)
Michael Brüntrup (Project B05)

Interrogating ‘digital transformation’: datafication and digital rights in African futures (Econ18)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Astrid Matejcek (Project C04)

The re-configuration of the agro-food systems and the implications for agrarian transition in contemporary Africa (Econ20)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Peter Dannenberg (Project C01)
Enock Sakala (Project C01)

Ghost projects - ruined futures and the promises of development (Econ23)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03)
Eric Kioko (Project C03)
Theo Aalders (Project C03)
Emma Minja (Project C03)

Diversifying dependence or structural transformation: China's engagement in Africa (Econ25)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Gideon Tups (Project C01)

Environment and Geography

Conservation: a viable transformative vision for Eastern Africa? (Envi03)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Hauke-Peter Vehrs (Project A04)
Peter Wangai (Project A04)
Lea Lacan (Project A04)

Shifting grounds – contestations around sand extraction in Sub-Saharan Africa (Envi05)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Kennedy Mkutu (Project B03)
Evelyne Owino (Project B03)

Africa under construction: critical perspectives on infrastructure and labour (Envi09)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Gideon Tups (Project C01)
Evelyne Owine (Project B03)
Theo Aalders (Project C03)

Adapting to and combating climate change in Africa's drylands (Envi10)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Dennis Otieno (Project A05)
Christina Bogner (Project A05)
Tanja Kramm (Project Z02)
Lisa Biber-Freudenberger
Nicodemus Nyamari

Heterogeneous infrastructures for African futures (Envi11)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03)
Arne Rieber (Project C03)

Land conflicts in Africa (Envi13)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Franklinde Ndi (Project C02)
Conrad Schetter (Project B03)
Lucy Massoi (Project C03)
Venance Shillingi (Project B03)

Precarity, structures and struggles: lives affected by infrastructure projects in Africa (Envi14)

Participating CRC Researchers:

History

Past Futures: new approaches to the history of development as 'future-making' in Africa (Hist01)

Participating CRC Researchers:

Jonathan Jackson (Project A02)
Maximilian Chuhila (Project C03)
David Anderson (Project A02)
Veronica Kimani (Project C07)

Colonial (counter)insurgency as African future-making (Hist02)

Participating CRC Researchers:

David Anderson

Archival futures: questions, practices and possibilities in the African archive (Hist05)

Participating CRC Researchers:

David Anderson (Project A02)

Spatializing (post)colonial practices and imaginaries in 1950s-1990s Southern Africa (Hist12)

Participating CRC Researchers:

David Anderson (Project A02)

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