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Call for Proposals: 60th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association: "Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa"
November 16-18, 2017
Chicago

The theme “Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa” engages local, national, and transnational scales and multiple temporalities: past, present, future. Where and how have institutions been constructed over time? How have their goals changed? How have they helped to build or constrain knowledge, development, cultural production, and the inclusion and production of difference? What hidden discourses do they contain? Looking ahead, what innovations are emerging? The organizers anticipate papers that examine how institutions promote or undermine existing gendered, racial, ethnic, class, and generational power differentials and the trends that have influenced the way power operates in Africa. Global and internal migration, social networking, and mobile banking are some of the new dynamics that influence patterns of cultural, economic and political exchange in Africa and beyond its borders. The organizers encourage scholarship on these emergent and diverse institutions.

Deadline to receive proposals: March 15, 2017

View the call for Proposals at https://networks.h-net.org/node/28765/discussions/165673/cfp-60th-annual-meeting-african-studies-association-institutions