Re-configurations of African societies after conflict

Dozent/in Till Förster
Veranstaltungsart Seminar
Wann Mo 10-12 Uhr
Ort Ethnologisches Seminar
Sprechstunde

nach Vereinbarung

   
 
Inhalt
Since the end of the cold war, many African societies have gone through periods of conflict and crisis. These crises did not fit into the schemes of civil war and East–West confrontation that dominated the analysis until then. New social actors emerged and more often than not, they profoundly transformed the social and political structure at the national as well as at the local level. Economies had to adapt to the rapidly changing societal situation, too. Last but not least, the crises left questions of belonging, trust and reconciliation. The co-existence of old and new stakeholders led to a re-configuration of society that cannot be cast into old versus new or rupture versus continuity.
This seminar examines cases from Africa and looks at conceptual frameworks for their analysis.
 
Programm

 

date

topic

speaker

2.4.07

No meeting

9.4.07

Easter Monday

16.4.07
Ž8–12 a.m.

Double Session, Introduction:
Transformation through crisis:
A distinct type of social change?
(comparative and theoretical,
obligatory reading:
& Schmidt/Schröder 2001, introduction)

Till Förster

23.4.07

No Peace – No War:
Conceptualisations of Precarious Times after Conflict
(comparative and theoretical,
obligatory reading:
& Richards 2005, Porter 2005)

Dominik Marosi


30.4.07

No meeting

7.5.07

No meeting

14.5.07
Ž8–12 a.m.

Double Session:
Re-Integration:
Demobilising the military and private military companies (
Africa general and one case study, & Maley et al. 2003)

Re-gaining civil security:
Emerging public orders and social structure
(Case study of
Sierra Leone or Sudan, & Basedau 2005, contributions on Africa)



Alain Schwab
Mario Seger


 

Mirella Mahlstein
Eliane Kurz


21.5.07
Ž8–12 a.m.

Double Session:
Re-ordering the economy:
Securing survival, health and the future
(Case study of
Uganda or Angola, & Berdal/Malone 2000)

Re-establishing justice:
Negotiating responsibility, acknowledging guilt
(Case study of
Rwanda or South Africa, & Wilson 2001)

Ibrahim Abdelati


 

Stefanie Saladin
(Rwanda)
Fiona Pfeiffer
(S. Africa)

28.5.07

Pentecost

4.6.07

Reflections of Culture:
Memory and Rituals of Coping with War
(
Africa general and one case study, & Cairns 2003, Nicolini 2006)

Kristina Würth Sabine Schultz

11.6.07

Restoring Peace:
Success Stories in Southern Africa?
(Case study of Namibia or Mozambique,
& Paris 2004)

Judith Chan

Emilie Buri

18.6.07

At the edge: How to do research in a war zone
Resume and General Discussion

Kathrin Heitz
all

 
Literatur

General reading:

Basedau, Matthias/Mattes, Hanspeter/Oettler, Anika (eds.), 2005: Multiple Unsicherheit: Befunde aus Asien, Nahost, Afrika und Lateinamerika, Hamburg: DÜI.

Berdal, M. / Malone, D.M., 2000: Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars. London: Lynne Rienner.

Cairns, Ed et al. (eds.), 2003: Memory in ethnic conflict. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Connerton, Paul, 1996: How Societies Remember. Cambridge: CambridgeUniv. Pr.

Duffield, M. (ed.), 22002: Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security. London: Zed Books.

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi et al. (eds.), 2005: Post-conflict economies in Africa. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Harrison, Graham et al., 1999: Violence and conflict resolution in Africa. Basingstoke: Carfax Publishing.  

        Lederach, J.P., 1997: Building Peace. Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies. Washington: US Institute of Peace Press

      Nicolini, Beatrice (ed.), 2006: Studies in Witchcraft, Magic, War and Peace in Africa: 19th and 20th Centuries. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Pr.

        Paris, Roland, 2004: At War’s End: Building Peace after Civil Conflict. Cambridge: CambridgeUniv. Pr.

Porter, Elisabeth Joy et al. (eds.), 2005: Researching Conflict in Africa: Insights and Experiences. New York: United Nations Univ. Pr.

Richards, Paul, 2005: No Peace, No War: an anthropology of contemporary armed conflicts. AthensOhioUniversity Pr. 

Schmidt, Bettina / Schröder, Ingo W. (eds.), 2001: Anthropology of Violence and Conflict. London: Routledge.

 
Bemerkungen
Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung (BSF - Ethnologie)
Modul Konflikt/Kooperation (BSF - Gesellschaftswissenschaften)
BA Gesellschaftswissenschaften: erst ab 5. Semester
Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (MSF - Ethnologie)
Modul Theorie der Ethnologie (MSF - Ethnologie)
Modul Social Anthropology (MSG - African Studies)

Teaching will be in English, but papers may be written in German, English or French. Basic knowledge of African societies required.

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