Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
Published by one of the worlds leading publishers on African issues, Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa is an exciting new series that seeks to provide accessible but in-depth analysis of key contemporary issues affecting countries within the continent. Featuring a wealth of empirical material and case study detail, and focusing on a diverse range of subject matter from conflict to gender, development to the environment the series is a platform for scholars to present original and often provocative arguments.
Editorial board
Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa); Morten Boas (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs); David Booth (Overseas Development Institute); Padraig Carmody (Trinity College Dublin); Neil Carrier (University of Oxford); Fantu Cheru (Leiden University); Kevin Dunn (Hobart and William Smith Colleges); Amanda Hammar (University of Copenhagen); Alcinda Honwana (Open University); Paul Jackson (University of Birmingham); Gabrielle Lynch (University of Warwick); Zachariah Mampilly (Vassar College); Henning Melber (Dag Hammarskjld Foundation); Garth A. Myers (Trinity College Hartford Connecticut); Lonce Ndikumana (UMass Amherst); Cyril Obi (Social Science Research Council); Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town); Mareike Schomerus (Overseas Development Institute); Laura Seay (Morehouse College); Howard Stein (University of Michigan); Mats Utas (Uppsala University); Alex de Waal (Tufts University)
Forthcoming titles:
Agricultural Development in Rwanda: Authoritarianism, Markets and Spaces of Governance , Chris Huggins
Liberias Female Veterans: War, Roles and Reintegration , Leena Vastapuu and Emmi Nieminen
Development Planning in South Africa: Policy Challenge in the Eastern Cape , John Reynolds
Food Aid in Sudan: A History of Power, Politics and Profit , Susanne Jaspars
Kakuma Refugee Camp: Humanitarian Urbanism in Kenyas Accidental City , Bram Jansen
Slum Africa: Life and Governance at the Margins in Accra , Paul Stacey
About the editors
Ute Rschenthaler is a professor of anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, a member of the AFRASO project Africas Asian Options and the cluster of excellence The Formation of Normative Orders at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published on cultural mobility, trade networks, intellectual property rights, entrepreneurship and the emerging markets in Africa.
Alessandro Jedlowski is a FNRS postdoctoral research fellow in anthropology at the University of Lige, Belgium, and a former Marie Curie/Cofund fellow at the same university. He has a PhD in African Studies from the University of Naples LOrientale. His research interests include African cinema and media, urban cultures, media and migration, and SouthSouth media exchanges.
Mobility between
Africa, Asia and
Latin America
Economic Networks and Cultural Interactions
Edited by Ute Rschenthaler
and Alessandro Jedlowski
Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America: Economic Networks and Cultural Interactions was first published in 2017 by Zed Books Ltd, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR, UK
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Contents
Ute Rschenthaler and Alessandro Jedlowski
Li Anshan
Gijsbert Oonk
Azeez Olaniyan
Raphalle Chevrillon-Guibert
Bernarda Zubrzycki
Renu Modi
Ute Rschenthaler
Mohamadou Sall
Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel
Sarah Hanisch
Philip Ademola Olayoku
Adams Bodomo
Hauke Dorsch
Livio Sansone
Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
About the Contributors
Adams Bodomo , a native of Ghana, is professor of African languages and literatures at the University of Vienna, where he is also director of the universitys research platform for Global African Diaspora Studies (GADS). He founded and directed the African Studies programme at the University of Hong Kong, where he served as associate professor of linguistics and African studies between 1997 and 2013.
Raphalle Chevrillon-Guibert is a research fellow at the Research Institute for Development (IRD). She works at the PRODIG Joint Research Unit (UMR) in Paris. She researches patterns of Islamist hegemony in Sudan, the Sudanese Islamist alliances, the implementation of new Sudanese economic policies towards agriculture and extractive activities, and contemporary trade dynamics in Sahelian and northern Africa countries.
Hauke Dorsch is director of the African Music Archives in Mainz, and teaches at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research focuses on diasporas, African and world music, transnationalism and migration, post-colonialism, the anthropology of globalization, and fieldwork methods.
Sarah Hanisch is a research assistant at the Department of East Asian Studies/Chinese Studies at the University of Vienna and a research fellow at the University of Free State. Her research interests include SouthSouth migration and Sino-African relations, with a special focus on Chinese migration to Lesotho and South Africa.
Li Anshan is professor at the School for International Studies of Peking University, vice-president of the International Scientific Committee of UNESCO GHA Vol. IX, chair of the Chinese Society of African Historical Studies, and vice-chair of the Chinese Association of Asia-African Studies. He has published on the history of overseas Chinese in Africa and AfricaChina relations.
Laurence Marfaing is a senior research fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg. She works on mobility, trans-local spaces, sociability, migration in West Africa, and informal trade. Her research focuses on Mouride networks and strategies of male and female merchants in West and North Africa, and she has a rich fieldwork background in West African cities.
Renu Modi is senior lecturer and former director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Mumbai. Her areas of research interest include economic relations between India and Africa, diasporas, development and displacement, and SouthSouth development cooperations. She has published on agricultural development and food security in Africa, and the impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian investments.
Azeez Olaniyan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Ibadan. His research interests centre on issues related to peace and conflict, social movements, ethnic politics, democracy and governance. He has published on the FulaniKonkomba conflict in Ghana.
