African Studies Association 2023 Panel CfP - Decolonization and the Underground
Call for Abstracts
African Studies Association Annual Meeting
African Studies Association 2023 Panel CfP - Decolonization and the Underground
Call for Abstracts
African Studies Association Annual Meeting
November 30 – December 2, 2023
San Francisco, CA
Organizers:
Fatoumata Seck (Chair, Stanford University), Mark Drury (Georgetown University), and Erin Pettigrew (New York University Abu Dhabi)
Panel Title: “Decolonization and the Underground”
Panel Abstract:
ANK: Webinar Series Secrecy and Knowledge: Social and Cultural Responses to Secrecy, online (24.02. – 09.03.2022)
Webinar Series Secrecy and Knowledge: Social and Cultural Responses to Secrecy
National Security Archive: “After Ayotzinapa” Investigates Horrific Mexican Atrocity
New Podcast Explores Pursuit of Justice for 43 Disappeared Students
National Security Archive partners with Reveal News to investigate 2014 mass disappearance in Mexico – and the ongoing struggle for truth and accountability in the Ayotzinapa tragedy
Mexican prosecutor fights to break “pact of silence” that prolonged cover-up of the atrocity
Ayotzinapa students became collateral damage in Mexican drug wars
Edited by Kate Doyle
CFP [Extended Deadline]: Secrecy and Knowledge: Social and Cultural Responses to Secrecy: A series of webinars (15.12.2021)
Secrecy and knowledge: social and cultural responses to secrecy
Reviewer:
David H. Price
Price on Jütte, 'The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800'
Daniel Jütte. The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800. Translated by Jeremiah Riemer. New Haven: Yale University Press, June 9, 2015. 448 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-19098-4.
Reviewed by David H. Price (Vanderbilt University) Published on H-Judaic (November, 2016) Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus
Abramo Colorni and the Economy of Secrets
Reviewer:
Mahir Saul
Saul on De Jong, 'Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal'
Ferdinand De Jong. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. x + 228 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-35172-2.
Reviewed by Mahir Saul (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) Published on H-Africa (June, 2010) Commissioned by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Reviewer:
Elizabeth Berges
Berges on Stratton, 'Chanda's Secrets'
Allan Stratton. Chanda's Secrets. New York: Annick Press, 2004. 193 pp. $10.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55037-834-4; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55037-835-1.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Berges (Middle School Teacher) Published on H-AfrTeach (August, 2005)
A Teenager's Struggle
H-Diplo/ISSF Article Review 152 on “To Disclose or Deceive? Sharing Secret Information between Aligned States.”
H-Diplo | ISSF Article Review 152
issforum.org
Editor: Diane Labrosse
Commissioning Editor: Seth Offenbach
Production Editor: George Fujii
Melinda Haas and Keren Yarhi-Milo. “To Disclose or Deceive? Sharing Secret Information between Aligned States.” International Security 45:3 (Winter 2020/2021): 122-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00402
CFP: Secrecy and Knowledge: Social and Cultural Responses to Secrecy: A series of webinars (30.11.2021)
How can we know the unknowable? How do people respond to the secrecy of hegemonic forces? What knowledge do actions of counter-secrecy, such as gossip, rumours, implied suggestions, give rise to, and in what ways and between whom does such knowledge spread?
