Ulf Engel
1999 Dr. phil. habil. (venia legendi in political science), Institute of Political Science, University of Hamburg, with a work on the German Africa policy 1949-1999
1994 Dr. phil., ditto., with a work on "The Foreign Policy of Zimbabwe"
1986 Diplom-Politologe, ditto., with a work on the debate about development policy in the opposition SPD
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rainer Tetzlaff, IPW, U Hamburg
Phone: +49 341 9737030
Address: Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig, Beethovenstrasse 15, D-04107 Leipzig
1994 Dr. phil., ditto., with a work on "The Foreign Policy of Zimbabwe"
1986 Diplom-Politologe, ditto., with a work on the debate about development policy in the opposition SPD
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rainer Tetzlaff, IPW, U Hamburg
Phone: +49 341 9737030
Address: Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig, Beethovenstrasse 15, D-04107 Leipzig
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perspectives on responses to the Covid-19 pandemic prevail. This also holds true for the dynamics unfolding on the African continent. In this paper a socio-spatial perspective is taken to better understand current transregional response dynamics to the virus in Africa. This is done against the backdrop of the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, and with a view to analyse the activities of the World Health Organisations’ Regional Office for Africa, the African Union’s Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and a case study on the transregional coordination efforts undertaken by the government of Ethiopia.
Der Band erscheint in der "Kleinen Reihe" des Leipziger DFG-Sonderforschungsbereichs 1199 "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition".
perspectives on responses to the Covid-19 pandemic prevail. This also holds true for the dynamics unfolding on the African continent. In this paper a socio-spatial perspective is taken to better understand current transregional response dynamics to the virus in Africa. This is done against the backdrop of the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, and with a view to analyse the activities of the World Health Organisations’ Regional Office for Africa, the African Union’s Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and a case study on the transregional coordination efforts undertaken by the government of Ethiopia.
Der Band erscheint in der "Kleinen Reihe" des Leipziger DFG-Sonderforschungsbereichs 1199 "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition".
innovative epistemological, conceptual and methodological approaches. Based on intellectual openness and an interest in transdisciplinary perspectives, the volume challenges existing orthodoxies, poses new questions and opens a discussion on actual research practice. Drawing on Global Studies and critical International Studies perspectives, the authors follow inductive approaches and let the empirical data enrich their theoretical frameworks and conceptual tools. In this endeavor they focus on actors, practices and narratives involved in African Peace and Security and move beyond the often Western-centric premises of research carried out within rigid disciplinary boundaries.
policy-makers who are interested in new articulations of state-making and politics in Africa.
Infrastructurein Africa presents research ndings from the
German Research Council’s Priority Programme 1448 “Adaptation
and Change in Africa” (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are
important new spatial practices that have emerged after the end of
the Cold War in the elds of conict, climate change, migration and
urban development, to name but a few, and their ordering efects
with regard to social relations. These ndings bear particular
relevance for the co-production of territorialities and sovereignties,
for borders and migrations, as well as infrastructures and orders.
Contributors are: Sabine Baumgart, Andrea Behrends, Marc
Boeckler, Martin Doevenspeck, Ulf Engel, Claudia Gebauer, Karsten
Giese, Katharina Heitz Tokpa, Shahadat Hossain, Anna Hüncke,
Gabriel Klaeger, Kelly Si Miao Liang, Andreas Mehler, Felix Müller,
Detlef Müller-Mahn, Wolfgang Scholz, Sophie Schramm, Jannik
Schritt, Michael Stasik, Florian Weisser, Julia Willers, and Franzisca
Zanker.
between promises and expectations must be negotiated in a context of fractures and hierarchies inherited by the legacy of apartheid and influenced heavily by dominant international blueprints.
The essays proposed here succeed to make connections between scholarly research and political and social action, between theory and practice. To show how state decision-making is influenced, and in what measure determined, by the nature and internal social changes and by government staying in power in regional and international relations. Connections that raise further relevant questions to stimulate the critique of the democratic process and on how these relations of power may influence, stall or even drive back, the path of autonomous emancipation, as it was and is embedded in the history of suffering and sacrifice of the population.
which is being held on 27-29 June 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal, of which
this book is partly a sneak preview, proposes to make the case that
African Studies are a vibrant, productive and meaningful research
and teaching area, uniquely capable of not only producing knowledge
about Africa, but of gauging the viability of the decision-making
processes, be it at grass-root or at the most macro of levels, through
detailed analysis, thoughtful understanding and – let us admit – personal
involvement.
The 2010s have witnessed the consolidation of most African states
and institutions. However, fifty years after the foundation of the Organization
of African Unity (OAU) in May 1963, the international
panorama and Africa’s position in it have changed considerably. The
world’s geopolitical and economic configuration has evolved, with new actors appearing in a new phase of globalization. Under these
conditions and given its own trajectory, the current challenges that
Africa faces include the promotion of peace and security, human
rights, democratic institutions and particularly the integration and
socio-economic development of Africans, as stated by the OAU’s successor, the 2000-established African Union.
the African Union has broken with the past of its predecessor, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), and has become very serious in
addressing violations of its shared values, in particular with regard to
unconstitutional changes of government. The new mediation practices
differ from past experience .... They are facing similar constraints, but also new opportunities. Conflict mediation in difficult terrain has become a major pre-occupation of various actors of the African peace and security as well as the African governance architectures, APSA and AGA. In this process the AUC itself has become the crucial actor. It slowly develops into a – still to be capacitated, strengthened and consolidated – centre of professionalization and mediation activity. The AUC is defining interests of its own which usually are negotiated in alliance, but when necessary increasingly also against AU member states. This is not surprising; it only confirms the expectations of some observers on the impact of “Africrats”, i.e. the continental organization’s bureaucrats, in the institutionalization of the African Union.
European Conferences on African Studies which are organised since
2005 every two years by the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary
Studies (AEGIS; www.aegis-eu.org). Th e fi rst volume, which coincided
with ECAS 1 held in London, dealt with violent confl ict in Africa; the
second volume, published for ECAS 2 in Leiden, Netherlands in 2007,
highlighted the issue of African agency. Th e present volume brings
together perspectives on space as an analytical category.
ECAS 3 was held between 4 and 7 June 2009 in Leipzig under
the rubric of ‘Respacing Africa’. Th is was meant as an invitation
to take stock of the impact of the spatial turn on African studies.
of Africa, as a continent both poor and violent, have tended to
distort our view of the ordinary African men and women who are successfully
managing their lives—making a living and giving a meaning
to what they do in an extraordinary demonstration of initiative and
creativity, every bit as impressive as in other parts of the world.
This book aims rst and foremost to stimulate the exploration of
African initiative and creativity and thus to serve as an introduction
to the themes taken up by the second AEGIS European Conference
on African Studies, held in Leiden on 11–14 July 2007.
to review the various approaches to conflict prevention or conflict
resolution and to discuss some of the practical difficulties in ending
violence. It brings together a wide range of scholars and practitioners,
with specialist knowledge of a large number of African countries.
The study of conflict and conflict resolution has, over the years,
resulted in the publication of a large volume of material, extending
from NGO reports to theories of war. As a result, books on the subject
often lack a clear focus. For this reason, the editors have been
careful to ask the contributors to address the question in a way that
would ensure not just that the chapters were complementary but that
the book as a whole should be coherent.
The intention here is to provide, within a single volume, a survey
of the various approaches to conflict in Africa, a systematic discussion
of some of the root causes of violence, as well as case studies on
the consequences of violence and the effects of conflict resolution.
The book is in four parts. The Introduction develops a political analysis
of violence in Africa. Part I discusses a variety of theories of conflict
and outlines the main approaches to conflict resolution. Part II
presents case studies of conflict management and resolution. The
Conclusion reviews the literature and offers an original way forward.