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“Africa's Disputed Borderlands: Responses from Multiple Disciplinary Perspectives” Conference of the African Studies Association Cologne, Germany May 30-June 2, 2012 (Deadline: November 30, 2011)
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You are kindly invited to submit paper proposals for Panel #14 titled "Africa's Disputed Borderlands: Responses from Multiple Disciplinary Perspectives" at the upcoming Conference of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD). Titled “Embattled Spaces – Contested Orders”, it will be held May 30-June 2, 2012 at the University Campus Cologne, Germany.



Our Panel 14 aims at exploring the complexity of present-day border disputes in Africa and their legacy (i.e. economic, political, social, and cultural) for the borderlands in question, both in comparative perspective and through the single case study approach. It will be co-chaired by Alexander Zhukov (Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) and Aleksi Ylönen (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (HSFK).



For the past half a century, post-colonial borders have been a major “apple of discord” between tates in Africa, leading to numerous political disputes and, in extreme cases, unilateral attempts to seize the contested borderlands by force. Although most of these territorial conflicts, generally considered as the legacy of colonialism, have by now disappeared from the official agenda of inter-state relations, they still cause tensions at the grassroots level and appear to offer

political base for secessionist movements. This is the case, inter alia, of the Cameroonian Bakassi peninsula and the Ogaden region of Ethiopia.



On the contrary, border disputes that have grown out of disintegration processes of the last two decades, rather than the colonial politics, tend to be more important for the present-day intergovernmental relations. A “frozen” border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the problem of the border zone and the special status territories (such as Abyei, South Kordofan, and Blue Nile) between North and South Sudan, a territorial dispute between the unrecognized state of

Somaliland and the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, as well as the status of Awdalland within Somaliland itself, may serve as eloquent examples herewith. While the issue of borderlands in Africa has traditionally been the focus of research for many historians, economists, and political scientists particularly interested in the post-colonial history of Africa and contemporary African development, it has also drawn considerable attention of social and cultural

anthropologists, whose interests include various aspects of conflict of identity and the interrelation between state borders and social borders. The panel aims at exploring the complexity of present-day border disputes in Africa and their legacy (i.e. economic, political, social, and cultural) for the borderlands in question, both in comparative perspective and through case study approach.



By taking the comparative perspective, presenters shall explore the commonalities and differences between the disputed territories in question and the political and socioeconomic paths they have followed prior to and after the beginning of the conflicts.



The complexity of the problems to be addressed by the panel requires an interdisciplinary setting. Papers are invited on a wide range of related issues, such as local socioeconomic changes caused by inter-state and intra-state conflicts, cross-border trade and migration, arms smuggling and inter-communal violence, ethnic identity and mobilization in “politically sensitive” borderlands etc., both in the recent history and current contexts.



Please send your paper proposals (not more than 300 words) by November 30, 2011 to the following address:



VAD-2012@uni-koeln.de with the indication of the panel number.



Further information on the conference and instructions for paper-givers at:

http://www.vad-ev.de/2012/index.php/...-for-abstracts
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