Quinta-feira, 28 de Março de 2024
Congressos

Maputo | CFP Workshop Revisiting Dams in Africa

Início: Fim: Data de abertura: Data de encerramento: Países: Moçambique

Chamada para trabalhos, Ciências Sociais, Estudos Africanos

CfP Workshop Revisiting Dams in Africa

17 a 19 de junho de 2018, Maputo, Moçambique

Point Sud Centre, Goethe-University of Frankfurt/DFG e Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

As barragens, por sua própria natureza, conectam diferentes questões que vão desde dimensões ambientais, de engenharia, económicas, políticas, legais e sociais. No entanto, este workshop interdisciplinar quer concentrar-se no relacionamento estado-sociedade-ambiente, prestando especial atenção às trajetórias históricas das barragens africanas, às experiências atuais e às aspirações futuras. Este nexo dinâmico é moldado pelos seguintes aspectos focados no workshop:

  • Revisitando os debates sobre as barragens africanas e os futuros energéticos;
  • Os processos sociopolíticos das infraestruturas e o deslocamento induzido pelo desenvolvimento;
  • Os transtornos e protestos das pessoas civis ou afetadas; as redes globais contra as barragens;
  • Novas visões para o desenvolvimento de África e o envolvimento da China na construção de barragens;
  • Responsabilidade social (pessoas, meio ambiente).

Os organizadores convidam para a apresentação de propostas empíricas ou teóricas no âmbito de todas as ciências sociais.

O objetivo principal do workshop é fornecer uma plataforma para discutir as relações entre o estado, sociedade e o meio ambiente e os seus atores envolvidos. O workshop tem como objetivo abrir múltiplos diálogos entre disciplinas, pesquisadores jovens e seniores e estudiosos e ativistas, para enriquecer o debate e fortalecer as redes de pesquisa. A chamada de trabalhos visa integrar particularmente o trabalho de jovens pesquisadores sobre barragens recém-construídas ou planejadas em África.

O workshop é financiado pela Fundação de Pesquisa Alemã (DFG) e realiza-se no âmbito do Centro Point Sud para pesquisa de conhecimento local, que financiará a hospedagem e as despesas de viagem razoáveis. O workshop será realizado no Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, em Maputo. Como resultado do workshop, está prevista uma publicação conjunta.

As pessoas interessadas deverão enviar um resumo de 300 palavras para Tamer Abd Elkreem <tamer.246@hotmail.com>, Valerie Hänsch <valerie.haensch@ethnologie.lmu.de>, Inês Macamo Raimundo <inesmacamo@gmail.com> e Eléusio Viegas Filipe <eleusioviegasfilipe@gmail.com> > até 10 de março de 2018.

Confira abaixo a chamada completa, em inglês, para mais informações.


CfP Workshop Revisiting Dams in Africa

June 17–19, 2018, Maputo, Mozambique

Point Sud Centre, Goethe-University of Frankfurt/DFG and Centro de Estudos Africanos, University Eduardo Mondlane

The construction of high dams in Africa has tremendously increased since the turn of the new millennium. In colonial and postcolonial Africa dams have been perceived as the main engine of modernity, serving the urban economy and industries, and eventually spurring the electrification of nation states and granting the transmission of energy across the continent. During the last two decades, the emergence of new global players in funding and building dams (e.g. China), as well as the global concern for climate change, has reinvigorated the interest in dams as a source of clean and renewable energy, serving poverty reduction and food security. However, present and past dam constructions have also generated massive displacements, impoverishment of the affected communities and environmental hazards. The controversial legacy of large dams has not yet been satisfactorily revisited in a way that connects issues of state, society, environment, developmental paradigms and their related knowledge production.

African dams are still governed by imported visions of modernization, neo-liberal and developmental state models that do not consider the specificity of the region and the wider sociopolitical conditions within which these projects are pursued and implemented. That is the problematic knowledge gap we aim to fill by bringing together different disciplines and actors who are closely, yet separately, involved in those debates. During the last decades, a diversified set of actors such as environmentalists, civil society, and affected communities are gradually trying to take part and shape the way in which the projects are being planned and implemented.

Dams by their very nature connect different issues ranging from environmental, engineering, economic, political, legal, and social dimensions. However, in this interdisciplinary workshop, we want to focus on the state-society-environment nexus by paying particularly attention to African dams’ historical trajectories, current experiences, and future aspirations. This dynamic nexus is shaped by the following aspects on which the workshop concentrates:

  • Revisiting the debates over African dams and energy futures
  • Infrastructures’ socio-political processes and development-induced displacement
  • Escalating civil or affected people's unrest and protests, global anti-dam networks
  • New visions for Africa’s development (competing developmental models, neoliberal vs.East Asian developmental state) and China’s involvement in dam building
  • Questions of social responsibility (for people, environment, by whom).

We invite empirical or theoretical contributions from across the social sciences to explore experiences of dam-induced displacement and to analyze the complex relations between planning/implementation processes and socio-political processes by focusing on the state-society-environment nexus and the resulting question of responsibility. By attending to dam-related complex assemblages of heterogeneous knowledge and actors at various levels we wish to go beyond the de-contextualized, de-historicized and de-politicized legacy we observe in the dam-related literature and the developmental paradigms.

The primary aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for discussing state-society-environment relations and their involved actors. The workshop aims to open multiple dialogues between disciplines, young and senior researchers, and scholars and activists, to enrich the debate and to strengthen research networks. The call for papers addresses particularly junior researchers working on newly built or planned dams in Africa.

Each participant contributes a paper to thematic sessions. The workshop is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and takes place in the framework of the Point Sud Centre for research on local knowledge, which will account for lodging and reasonable travel expenses. The workshop will be held at the Centre for African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. As an outcome of the workshop, we envisage a joint publication.

If interested, please send a 300-word abstract to Tamer Abd Elkreem <tamer.246@hotmail.com>, Valerie Hänsch <valerie.haensch@ethnologie.lmu.de>, Inês Macamo Raimundo <inesmacamo@gmail.com> and Eléusio Viegas Filipe <eleusioviegasfilipe@gmail.com> by March 10, 2018.

Fonte: h-net-org

Informação relacionada

Enviar Informação

Mapa de visitas