ANR XenAfPol Closing conference: The Politics of Xenophobic Exclusion – University of Cambridge – 16-18 December
ANR XenAfPol Closing conference:
The Politics of Xenophobic Exclusion:
Mobilisations, Local Orders and Violence
Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT
16-18 December 2013
Monday 16 December
9:00 Registration & welcome
- Harri Englund, Director Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge
- Adam Higazi, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge
- Laurent Fourchard, LAM, Sciences Po Bordeaux & Aurelia Segatti, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, coordinators of ANR XenAfPol Project
9:30 – 13:00 The making and unmaking of insiders and outsiders
Chair: Laurent Fourchard
- Adam Higazi, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, and Jimam Lar, University of Bayreuth: Managing difference: understanding patterns of conflict and co-existence in Bauchi and Gombe states, North-East Nigeria
- Rufus Akinyele, Department of History, University of Lagos: Lagos is our Land:Indigeneship associations and the protection of the rights of Lagosians since 1950.
- Sandrine Vinckel, Science-Po, University of Paris 1: The Memory of Xenophobic Violence and Everyday Interactions between Katangese and Kasaïans during the November 2011 Election Time in Likasi and Kolwezi (DRC)
Discussant: David Pratten, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford
14:00 – 17:00 Place, institutions and the making of difference
Chair: Richard Banégas
- Laurent Fourchard, Les Afriques dans le Monde, Bordeaux Institute of Political Science: The bureaucratization of autochthony: producing and bypassing certificates of indigenes in Nigeria
- Miriam Di Paola, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand: A labour perspective on xenophobia in South Africa. A case study of the Metals and Engineering industry in Ekurhuleni
- Caitlin Blaser, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand: Xenophobia, government and local politics In South Africa
Discussants: Ruth Watson, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge
17:30 – 18h 30 Public lecture:
Peter Geschiere, A Global Conjuncture of Belonging? – Autochthony and Its Different
Trajectories since the Post-Cold War Moment
Tuesday 17 December
9:00 – 13:00 Violent mobilisation, exclusion techniques and the production of difference
Chair: Aurelia Segatti
- Philip Olayoku The politics of exclusion and xenophobic relations among the residents of Zangon Kataf, Kaduna State, Nigeria
- Tamlyn Monson, Violence and the borders of citizenship: squatter politics and violence against foreigners in South Africa
Discussants: Egodi Uchendu, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge and Olly Owen, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Break
- Caroline Kihato, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand: Go back and tell them who the real men are! Gendering our understanding of Kibera’s violence (to be confirmed)
- Jacques Tshibwabwa-Kuditshini, Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Kinshasa : Invasion-rébellion, mobilisations violentes et exclusion en République Démocratique du Congo : Kinshasa et la chasse aux Tutsi.
Discussant: Peter Geschiere Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
14:00 – 16:00 Insurgent citizenship and new political subjectivities
Chair: Adam Higazi
- David Pratten, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford: Youth, gangs and exclusion in Nigeria: Between generative and insurgent politics
- Aurelia Segatti, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand: “Mobutu’s Ghost”: Mobilising against foreign retailers in Kinshasa (DRC). Indigenization, autochthony and emerging urban subjectivities.
Discussant: Richard Banégas, CERI-Science Po
Wednesday 18 December
9:00 – 11:00 State responses to xenophobia
Chair: Rufus Akinyele
- Lydie Cabane, Les Afriques dans le Monde, Bordeaux Institute of Political Science: Protecting the ‘most vulnerable’? Disaster, migrants and the reach of the state in South Africa
- Prisca Kamungi, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand: Autochthony, territoriality and solutions to internal displacement in Kenya
Discussant: Emma Hunter, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge
11:30 – 13:30 Final discussion
Chairs: Laurent Fourchard & Aurelia Segatti
- Final overview Wale Adebanwi, African American and African Studies, UCDavies and Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge
- General discussion and way forward