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What passes for theory in African Urban Studies is dominated predominantly by cases and examples from Western cities and critics. Thus we find that thinkers like Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre, Edward Soja, and Michel Foucault are the main theorists that are drawn upon whereas African cities tend to elude much of this theory.
Long gone seem the days when empires were described as political entities tightly controlled by metropolitan elites. On the one hand, some imperial historians stress that empires cooperated in collective (or condominial) imperialism. On the other hand, microhistories of people operating across imperial boundaries, and against the grain of imperial policies, provide a more nuanced understanding of how empires were also constructed, co-opted and constrained from below.
Dear H-Africa Community Members,
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Thank you to all who maintain updated profiles.
Best,
Lorna Zukas
H-Africa Editor
Macalester College, History
Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professorship in African History
CFP Deadline for Papers and Panels: December 31, 2018
Imperial Legacies of 1919
Contact: imperial1919unt@gmail.com
Conference Date: April 19-20, 2019 (Denton, TX)
Roundtable participant proposal deadline: 31 January 2019
Journal of Eastern African Studies
Volume 12, Issue 4
Table of Contents
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjea20/12/4
Post-imperial statecraft: high modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia’s pastoral frontier
Asebe Regassa & Benedikt Korf
Pages: 613-631
https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2018.1517854
Michigan State University Libraries invites applications for research fellowships for the summer of 2019. These fellowships are to support the financial needs of visiting scholars who live more than 100 miles from East Lansing and whose research would benefit from on-site access to materials housed in MSU Libraries’ Special Collections.
Dear Readers,
A new book that might be of interest, Africa's Cause Must Triumph: The Collected Writings of A.P. Mda by Robert Edgar and Luyanda ka Msumza
Published by Best Red/HSRC Press, 2018
