Call for Panelists
Of Streets and Streeters: New Horizons in African Urban Space Politics
The 7th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference
Conference Theme
Rethinking Decoloniality: African Decolonization and Epistemologies in the 21st Century
Format
Hybrid (In person, University of Lagos and Virtual) Date June 20-24, 2023
Abstract Deadline: April 1
Panel Organizer: Bankole Wright (Florida International University)
This panel seeks new ways of (re)conceptualizing African streets beyond their conventional framing as significant sites of political and economic power. It moves beyond the commonplace argument that the street is a microcosm of the broader state power that rewards, punishes, and distributes resources based on primordial, among other sentiments. It is interested in engaging with the African street from its practical, physical, and metaphoric dimensions, in time perspective, and within overlapping variables of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, among other dynamics. In intellectualizing the African street, the panel asks for innovative epistemological framings that center previously unknown actors and ideas or rethink existing ones.
To participate in this panel, send a 250-word abstract and short bio to Bankole Wright (bbank015@fiu.edu) by April 1, 2023.
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