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1 Beck, Kurt Roadside and travel communities. Towards an understanding of the African longdistance road (Sudan, Ghana)

2 Behrends, AndreaSchareika, NikolausBierschenk, Thomas

Significations of oil and social change in Niger and Chad: an anthropological cooperative research project on technologies and processes of creative adaptation in relation to African oil production

3 Bollig, MichaelMüller-Mahn, DetlefDoevenspeck, Martin

Translations of the ‘adaptation to climate change’ paradigm in Eastern Africa

4 Engel, Ulf Middell, Matthias

Changing stateness in Africa – practices and imaginations from Cameroon and Ghana

5 Giese, Karsten Marfaing, Laurence

Entrepreneurial Chinese migrants in urban West Africa – the impacts of intercultural interaction

6 Haferburg, Christoph Krüger, Fred

“Festivalisation” of urban governance: the production of sociospatial control in the context of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa

7

Hornberger, Julia Bürge, MichaelKirsch, Thomas

The anthropology of transnational crime control in Africa: the war on drugs, the fight against human trafficking and the combat against counterfeit medicines

8 Inhetveen, Katharina Refugee repatriation and local politics in Angola: conflict and creativity following the return of chiefs and party functionaries

9 Klute, GeorgTrotha, Trutz von Macamo, Elísio

African political cultures: a comparative study in Guinea-Bissau, Libya, South Africa, and Zambia

10 Mehler, AndreasTull, Denis

The local arena of power sharing. Patterns of adaptation or continued disorder

11 Rottenburg, Richard Translating Global Health Technologies in Uganda and Rwanda

12 Schlichte, Klaus Policing Africa: isomorphism or contexts?

Angaben der Teilprojekte in dieser Anordnung:

Roadside and travel communities. Towards an understanding of the African longdistance road (Sudan, Ghana)

The project departs from the insight that motor roads, together with their rules and conventions for using them, are quite literally cultural constructions. In this sense, the road regime in large parts of the African continent is still under construction. Road-making and road use draw from North Atlantic models but observation of the African road and preliminary research make clear that beyond the surface of

adaptation to the North Atlantic model lie large spaces of creative reinterpretations and modifications.

The project proposes an inquiry into the emerging socio-technological orders of the African road by examining quotidian users’ practices. Roadside and travel communities as well as their interactions are studied by opening four windows of inquiry on Ghana’s and Sudan’s long-distance roads: 1) the urban “lorry park”,2) the busy and well developed inter-regional highway,3) the unsurfaced back-country road and 4) the rest stop on overland roads.

The project builds on previous and ongoing research by the members of the team on road- and automobility-related practices in Ghana and the Sudan. As a guiding concept it uses the previously developed notion of appropriation which implies that technologies and their significations are open to significant modifications in the process of their transfer. It thereby contributes to 1) an understanding of the African road which is also expected to shed light on European road-related developments and 2) to a theory of adaptation and creativity in the context of global entanglements.

Starting date:

01.03.2011

Research areas:

Ghana (Accra und Nsawam)Sudan (North and West)

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Contact

Project leaders

Prof Dr Kurt BeckChair of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth95440 BayreuthFon 0049-921-55-4133/4, Fax -4136Kurt.Beck[at]uni-bayreuth.dehttp://www.ethnologie.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Beck_Kurt/index.html

Gabriel KlaegerInstitut für EthnologieFrankfurt UniversityGrüneburgplatz 160323 Frankfurt am Main, Fon 0049 -69798-33068, Fax -65g.klaeger[at]em.uni-frankfurt.de, http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb/fb08/ie/Mitarbeiter/wiss_Angestellte/Gabriel_Klaeger.htm

Project collaborators and research fellows

Michael StasikFaculty for Cultural StudiesDepartment of EthnologyUniversity of Bayreuth95440 BayreuthMichael.Stasik[at]uni-bayreuth.de

Individual research project:The xy of xy

For more information see: xy (link)

Rami WadelnourFaculty for Cultural StudiesDepartment of EthnologyUniversity of Bayreuth95440 Bayreuthrami.wadelnour[at]hotmail.com

Individual research project:Xy in xy

For more information see: xy (link)

Partners / cooperations:

Dr Osman Mohamed Osman AliDepartment of Anthropology and SociologyUniversity of KhartoumPOB 321, KhartoumSudanosmanmohamedosman[at]yahoo.comhttp://www.xy

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Further information on the project (link)

Oil and social change in Niger and Chad:An anthropological cooperative research project on technologies, signification and processes of creative adaptation in relation to African oil production

Project Director Halle: Dr. Andrea Behrends (Institute for Anthropology and Philosophy)Project Director Göttingen: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Schareika (Institute for Anthropology)

Project Director Mainz: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bierschenk (Department for Anthropology and African Studies)

PhD Candidate Göttingen: Jannik Schritt, M.A.Cooperation:

with Chad: CRASH (Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie et Sciences Humaines) Remadji Hoinathy, M.A.

with Niger: LASDEL (Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Sociales et leDéveloppement Locale)Prof. Dr. Mahaman Tidjani AlouProf. Dr. Jean Piere Olivier de SardanDr. Hadiza Moussa

First Project Phase: 01.03.2011 bis 28.02.2013Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) as a subproject to the DFG priority program 1448 “Adaptation and Creativity in Africa”

Research aimsOil will remain the central carrier of energy in global industry and the provision of services in the foreseeable future. Crude oil is also the basis for uncountable materials and thus essential for modern commodity production. Against the background of finite and – at least in public perception – diminishing reserves, increasing demand in countries like China and India and, connected to that, rising oil prices, hitherto untapped and less lucrative reserves are dramatically rising in significance. The African continent and its coastlines with their enormous potential in oil reserves are now the focus of new explorations and exploitations by multinational and national oil companies. Niger and Chad, landlocked neighbours in the Sahel region, are two of these new petro-states. The research project studies in a regionally comparative and ethnographically rich perspective, which processes of social, political and cultural change – particularly during the early phase – are triggered by oil production and the new flow of oil revenues.On a theoretical basis, the project aims at adding a decidedly anthropological perspective to the economics and political-science dominated expertise on oil in Africa. In a sense, what we are hoping for is to produce an anthropology of the African oil-based rentier state. To this end, the project will conduct ethnographic long-term studies about social and political practice on the local level as well as processes of signification and the creative adaptation of interpretative and practice oriented models in relation to oil production.

Research themes1. Modes of central governance and financeOil revenues significantly increase the national budget available to the governments of Niger and Chad, and thereby their scope of action. Therefore, the research lays one focus on governance and the financial sector. Special emphasis will be on key actors and administrative structures in the ministry of mining and their dynamic processes of change induced by oil production. 2. Local governanceA fixed part of the oil revenues goes to local communities in the oil region, intended to further development (15% of oil revenues in Niger for communities in the Diffa region and 5% for the oil region around Doba in southern Chad). Against this background new actors and also new conflicts are expected to emerge in which positions of authority and local power, political ideologies and interests are negotiated. In all probability, these conflicts will bear directly and indirectly on the day-to-day practices of local governance (i.e. the allocation of public goods and services). The objective is an ethnographically rich comparative analysis of local power structures, expectations and significations in relation to oil production in Niger and Chad.3. ResistanceExperience from other petro-states has shown that oil production can trigger resistance and (military) rebellion organised along both local and global structures. This is true for Niger and Chad as well. One focus of the research project will therefore concentrate on conflict and forms of resistance and rebellion against the state and multinational or national oil companies respectively, caused or aggravated by oil production. 4. Emerging oil zone working relations and cultures Beginning with the construction phase of oil wells, pipelines and refineries as well as supportive infrastructures like airports, water supply, schools, hospitals or tree nurseries etc., new possibilities of employment are not only created, but they generate expectations and hopes, attract migrant workers and service providers and thus lead to the formation of communities in newly devised social structures. This

part of the research project will look at the socio-cultural background of workers and migrants, their expectations and perceptions in relation to their future in the oil zone and their ways of handling relations and conflicts with each other and with their employers. The project will also analyse how social institutions like family, inheritance, age groups, gender, education and marriage change, particularly with the inflow of oil-money.

5. Transformations of rural livelihoods Oil production, transport, and refining do not happen in deserted spaces, but affect various groups of people living in these areas (nomadic herders, farmers), whose ecological, economical and social environment changes with drilling of oil wells and the construction of oil production plants. People in rural zones are typically exposed to phenomena like land grabbing, conflicts over compensation payments, environmental pollution, rising prices, the arrival of new groups of actors (wage workers, traders), or new market possibilities. This sub-theme takes a look at the rural situation, the changes in the population’s social and political environment and the resulting competition for power and regional influence.

Contact of project directors

Halle/SaaleDr. Andrea BehrendsMartin-Luther-Universität Halle-WittenbergSeminar für EthnologieReichardtstraße 1106114 Halle (Saale)Germany

Tel: +49 (0)345 5524184email: andrea.behrends@ethnologie.uni-halle.dehomepage: http://www.ethnologie.uni-halle.de/

GöttingenProf. Nikolaus SchareikaGeorg-August-UniversitätInstitut für Ethnologie Theaterplatz 1537073 GöttingenGermany

Tel.: +49(0)551-39 7893Email: nschare@gwdg.deWebsite: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/28822.html

MainzProf. Thomas BierschenkJohannes-Gutenberg-UniversitätInstitut für Ethnologie und AfrikastudienForum universitatis 655099 MainzGermany

Tel.: +49 (0)6131-39 22798Email: biersche@uni-mainz.deWebsite: http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/index.html

Project members

altogether: 11 members

GermanyAndrea Behrends, project directorThomas Bierschenk, project directorNikolaus Schareika, project directorJannik Schritt, PhD candidate

ChadRemadji Hoinathy, PhD candidateMahamad Titimbaye, Master’s student

NigerMahaman Tijani Alou, ProfessorHadiza Moussa, Post docJean Pierre Olivier de Sardan, ProfessorNN, Master’s student or PhD candidateNN, Master’s student or PhD candidate

Places of research

in Chad:

N’DjamenaDoba (original oil region)Bongor (new oil region)AbéchéAdré

in Niger:

NiameyZinderDiffaN’guigmiNgourtiAgadem Oilfield

Andrea Behrends

Nikolaus Schareika

Translations of the ´adaptation to climate change´ paradigm in Eastern Africa -Summary-

The project starts from the observation that society-environment relations in Africa are currentlyfacing an intense re-shaping through a multitude of climate related programmes, conceptuallydeveloped at an international level, translated into projects and programmes at the national level and negotiated and appropriated ideologically, socially and economically at the local level. It takes the global concept of ‘Adaptation to Climate Change’ (ACC) as a travelling idea that was initially designed by scientists in the North and is presently “travelling” to the South. The project is based on the following hypotheses:

1) The ‘travelling’ of the global ACC paradigm to Africa is an ambiguous and contestedtranslation process in which the idea undergoes reinterpretation, modification and appropriationso that it matches experiences, needs and interests of stakeholders at multiple levels in Africa.2) Translation processes are structured by translation regimes that are constituted by a specific set of actors, networks of communication, institutional patterns of interaction, and knowledge resources.3) Translations and their social, technological and environmental materializations willimply fundamental changes in the way people exploit, manage and conserve their environment and thus be accompanied by conflicts between different social groups with their respective interests.

The key question that links the project to the overall objective of the priority program is twofold and asks on the one hand how actors in different translation regimes in Ethiopia,

Tanzania and Rwanda are able to unfold their capacities of adaptation and creativity in the process of translation of the ACC idea and on the other hand how the mobilisation and transformation of these capacities shape environmental governance and thus a re-ordering ofstate-society-environment relations in these countries.

The specific objectives of the project are• to understand the processes of translation by identifying the translators, analyzing their translation practices and their multi-scalar networks in and through which the idea of ACC travels and is translated,• to understand diverse ACC translations as an expression of local creativity and adaptation in different translation regimes,• to trace impacts of ACC translations on environmental governance and thus on state-societyrelations by identifying emerging and/or re-shaped structures of e.g. environmental surveillance, action groups and land use changes,• to understand the interactions of different significations of ‘adaptation’ and• to contribute to the structural and conceptual aim of the priority programme 1448/1 through an interdisciplinary and theoretical informed approach of comparative empirical fieldwork.

-Sub-project managers-

Müller-Mahn, Detlef, Prof. Dr. Professor

University of BayreuthInstitute for Geography, Dept. of Social Geography

Universitätsstraße 3095440 Bayreuth

Telephone: +49 (0)921-552278Fax: +49 (0)921-552269

E-Mail: muellermahn@uni-bayreuth.de

HP: http://www.geographie.uni-bayreuth.de/de/index.html or: http://www.bevsozgeo.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/01_Mueller-Mahn_Detlef/index.html

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Bollig, Michael, Prof. Dr. Professor

University of Köln Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology

Albertus Magnus Platz50923 Cologne

Telephone: +49 (0)221/470-3501 Fax: +49 (0)221/470-5117

E-Mail: michael.bollig@uni-koeln.de

HP: http://www.ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/or: http://www.ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/mitarbeiter/bollig.shtml>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Doevenspeck, Martin, Dr. Assistant Professor

University of Bayreuth Institute for Geography, Dept. of Social Geography

Universitätsstraße 3095440 Bayreuth

Telephone: +49 (0)921-552281Fax: +49 (0)921-552269

E-Mail: doevenspeck@uni-bayreuth.de

HP: http://www.geographie.uni-bayreuth.de/de/index.html or: http://www.bevsozgeo.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Doevenspeck_Martin/index.html

-Research fellows-

M.A. Julia Willers (Universität Bayreuth): julia.willers@uni-bayreuth.de

MA Claudia Gebauer: (Universität Bayreuth): claudia.gebauer@uni-bayreuth.de

MA Sara de Wit (Universität zu Köln): saradewit@gmail.comM.A. Florian Weisser (Universität Bayreuth): florian.weisser@uni-bayreuth.de

-Starting date- 01.04.2011

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Die genauen Untersuchungsregionen in den Ländern stehen noch nicht fest. Bzw. wird es aufgrund des methodischen Designs einer mobilen Ethnographie nicht immer möglich sein eine einzige Region zu bestimmen.

Teilprojekt Changing stateness in Africa

Kurzbeschreibung Ihres Teilprojektes (diese Kurzbeschreibung darf sich natürlich an der Projektskizze für die Antragsstellung orientieren, sollte aber den derzeitigen Stand des Projekts und ggfs. Änderungen berücksichtigen)

Predominantly the debate in the humanities and social sciences on the state in Africa is highly normative. Based on a Weberian understanding of what a state ought to be a model of statehood, which seemingly exists in the OECD world, is transferred to Africa. The state in Africa then is measured in terms of deviations from this model. The academic (and political) debate is focused on phenomenologies which are descriptive rather than analytical, but rich in metaphors. Not surprisingly the state in Africa is seen as deficient; “juridical” trumps “empirical” statehood; the conventional narrative is one of “state decay” or “state failure”. Within this logic, it would hardly make sense to talk about adaptation and creativity.The point of departure of this project is following the change of perspective advocated by the SPP 1448. Intensified processes of globalisation and the way Africa is integrated into these processes are causing various re-territorialisations of different localities in African states, from the capital to ports to small towns. Globalisation is respacing Africa and is setting the conditions under which states, at different scales, have to adapt to changing expectations into their functions. Our epistemology is based on historical and recent empirical observations in which, in line with postulates developed through the so-called spatial turn, territoriality and sovereignty is de-linked; different forms of sovereignty are practiced beyond the state and by a variety of non-state actors. In Africa the state is just one actor among many other authorities. People address only certain, but not all of their expectations into the provision of (semi- or para-)public goods to the state. Meta-theoretically speaking this allows us to pull the rug out from under Weber’s feet. In contrast to traditional Weberian-inspired approaches to the study of the state in Africa, we develop an actor-centred perspective. On the one hand we are interested in how state institutions, under conditions of continuous respacing, master the adaptation and cultural coding of creativity when they translate external concepts of “state” into local ones. And on the other we are interested in how Africans experience what African states themselves consider as their core business, e.g. the (internal) integration of people into a common political community and their (external) representation as well as the delivery of a set of social goods and the provision of internal and external security. We are confronting the imaginations and practices of key discourse entrepreneurs with the way the state is enacted and acts. We also analyse their expectations towards what the state should do under the conditions of changing stateness. Thus, the central topic of the project is how order (or disorder) in Africa is produced through the institution of the state – and from the perspective of some of its subjects. Particular emphasis will be placed on empirical

research to reconstruct the signifying processes which are at the centre of the translation of “travelling concepts” such as the “state”. We argue that this approach will give us substantial insights into the social capacities for adaptation and creativity of African states and societies. The proposal is based on a transdisciplinary research design which brings together – and critically examines – perspectives from political science, historiography, cultural studies, comparative literature and philosophy. The project explicitly intends to transcend traditional, normative perspectives on the state in Africa which are rarely based on people’s everyday experience and expectations. The research design privileges a comparative perspective investigating in two African societies – Cameroon and Ghana – the ways the concept of statehood is applied in the training of (future) state employees and how its concrete practice is perceived and discussed by African intellectuals in newspapers, internet for a and literature, thus influential media constituting the public sphere. Our analysis targets the ways Africans work out their own understanding of the ‘state’ both by adapting concepts originating in a European past as well as in the colonial encounter with other people and by developing a practice of statehood which had creatively to react to challenges of the current wave of globalisation. The project will be jointly carried out with Prof. Dr. David Simo from the Faculté des Arts, Lettres et Sciences Humaines at the Université Yaoundé I in Cameroon, where he chairs an African German Studies centre.

Kontaktdaten der Projektleiter (Name, Vorname, Institution, Adresse, Tel., Fax, E-Mail, Homepage der Heimatinstitution)

Ulf EngelDr. phil. habil., Professor

Matthias Middell Dr. phil. habil., Professor

David Simo Dr. phil. habil., Professor

Centre for Area Studies& Institut für AfrikanistikFakultät für Geschichte, Kunst- und OrientwissenschaftenUniversität LeipzigPF 100 920, D-04009 Leipzighttp://www.uni-leipzig.de/cas/http://www.uni-leipzig.de/ ~afrika/

Centre for Area Studies & Global and European Studies Institute, Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften und PhilosophieUniversität LeipzigPF 100 920, D-04009 Leipzighttp://www.uni-leipzig.de/cas/http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gesi/

Faculté des Arts, Lettres et Sciences HumainesUnité de formation doctorale “Interculturalité, construction identitaire et globalisation”B.P. 755, University of Yaoundé, Cameroonhttp://www.kbk-cameroon.net/ 71+M52087573ab0.html

Phone: +49 (0341) 9737 030 (secretary Monika Große), +49 (0341) 9737 038 (direct)Telefax: +49 (0341) 9737 048Email: <uengel@uni-leipzig.de>

Phone: +49 (0341) 9730 230 (secretary Konstanze Loeke), +49 (0341) 9730 232 (direct)Telefax: +49 (0341) 9605261 Email: <middell@uni-leipzig.de>

Phone: +237 2231 6466, 237 9992 8676Telefax: +237 214 814Email: <simobiegain20@yahoo.fr>

Past DFG projects: En 365/6-1/2; En 365/7-1; En 365/9-1; En 365/13-1; GRK 1261; SPP 1448

Past DFG projects: SFB 417; MI 630/4-1; GRK 1261

Anzahl und Name der insg. im Projekt tätigen Mitarbeiter (unabhängig davon, über welchen Geldgeber diese finanziert werden) und ggfs. Links zu den Instituts-/Profilseiten der Projektmitarbeiter

Janine KlägeFrank Mattheis

offizielles Startdatum des Projektes

1. April 2011

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Yaoundé, CameroonAccra, Ghana

Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs:Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa (Ghana and Senegal)

In recent years independent Chinese migrants have been flocking to Africa in large numbers; this has resulted in a growing and already highly visible Chinese presence, particularly in the continent’s urban centres. The scale of the recent influx and the unfolding dynamics resulting from the entrepreneurial activities of Chinese migrants – as new providers of commercial services and goods, as competitors and collaborators, as neighbours, and as distinct ethnic and cultural others – are already impacting the host communities in profound ways.

The key question that shall be addressed by the project concerns the networked social organization, socially constructed perceptions and practices of newly arrived Chinese and African petty entrepreneurs in contested urban settings of West Africa. Taking the capitals of Ghana and Senegal as bases for comparison, the study attempts to gain insights about the modes of interactions and strategies related to the economic competition between these two heterogeneous social groups and the impacts on social processes on the local level. This includes gendered strategies and influences of social organization, modes of cohabitation, collaboration, and/or conflict between Chinese and African social groups. By paying special attention to the creative potentials these processes possess with regard to social change, innovation, and development from below, the overall goal is to understand social dynamics and re-ordering within urban African societies.

The project attempts to reveal these complex and interwoven processes by exploring some of the crucial components of Chinese–African interaction from an interdisciplinary perspective combining African Studies and Modern China Studies expertise.

Between January and March 2011, the first phase of our fieldwork has been implemented. In order to allow comparability of the findings gathered in our two field sites, we defined strategies for our interviews prior to departure. We also updated our stand of the literature and constantly continue to do so.

Laurence Marfaing worked in Dakar from 30 January, 2011 to 15 March, 2011. From January 25, 2011 to 12 March, 2011 Alena Thiel and Karsten Giese collected data in Accra. Karsten Giese joined Laurence Marfaing in Dakar from 27 February, 2011 to 8 March, 2011.

In our first fieldwork period, 149 informants have been interviewed (97 in Accra and 52 in Dakar). Our sample includes

- 56 Chinese entrepreneurs in Accra and 12 in Dakar - 22 Local entrepreneurs in Accra (11 female and 11 male entrepreneurs) and 30 in Dakar (8 female and 22 male entrepreneurs)- in both locations, Lebanese and traders of other nationalities (Nigeria, Niger, Mauritania) have been interviewed- 3 official authorities in Accra and 8 in Dakar- 5 representative bodies of traders in Accra and 2 in Dakar- 9 local employees of Chinese businesses- 2 representatives from supportive industries of Chinese businesses

In most cases several successive of interviews were conducted with these informants focusing on the following issues

- Legislation regulating trade, import and business establishment in the two countries for local and foreign enterprises

- Economic background data, official statistics- Mutual perceptions of Chinese and local entrepreneurs and traders- Interactions (and lack thereof) between the two groups

- Commercial strategies of the respective groups (and their historical dimension)- Chinese migratory background, local and transnational social organisation- Chinese migration trajectories, and host country experiences

Since our return we have been- comparing data among of the two field sites- identifying gaps that will be addressed in the next field trip- critically assessing the existing literature from the point of view of our findings

Articles currently in preparation address - the setting of Chinese commodities in West African market spaces: the African markets are flooded

with “cheap China goods” but who are the importers? What are the channels through which Chinese commodities reach the West African consumer and how can these be categorized? On which levels does this create competition? Can the Chinese in West Africa be blamed for creating unfair competition?

- the interaction between Chinese and West African traders: public discourse demonizes the Chinese entrepreneurial migrants as encroaching the local market spaces, but while some established traders have to adapt to a new competitive environment, other social actors benefit from the newly created opportunities. The complex constellation of wholesalers and retailers from the large-scale importer to the micro-trader in the streets of Accra and Dakar shall be illustrated with the help of a case study of one particular market segment.

- the perceptions and interaction between Chinese employers, and their Chinese and local employees: How does subjectivity at work (including work ethics, dignity, perceived reciprocity) in a trans-cultural context shape worker satisfaction and behaviour? How do local employees negotiate the demands of their Chinese employers and vice versa? To what degree can we observe adaptation?

Migrants chinois et petits entrepreneurs africains: retombées locales et interactions dans les centres urbains ouest africains (Ghana et Sénégal)

Ces dernières années de nombreux migrants chinois ont afflué en Afrique et deviennent de plus en plus visibles dans les centre urbains ouest-africains. Cette visibilité est aussi le résultat d’une activité entrepreneurial dynamique et croissante. Ces migrants et entrepreneurs chinois sont les nouveaux fournisseurs de services et de biens, concurrents et collaborateurs, voisins et groupe ethnique et culturel autre, ils sont en train de transformer profondément leurs communautés hôtes.

La question centrale de ce projet de recherche porte sur les organisations sociales en réseaux, les perceptions sociales mutuelles, les pratiques inédites introduites par ces nouveaux arrivés et les interactions entre les petits entrepreneurs chinois et locaux, lesquels contestent la présence de ces nouveaux résidents dans les centres urbains ouest africains. Cette étude cible l’analyse des modes d’interaction et les stratégies développées par les acteurs de ces deux groupes socio-économiques hétérogènes en présence pour repérer les possibles adaptations réciproques et l’impact social qui en découle au niveau local et ce, à l’exemple des capitales du Ghana et du Sénégal. Cette étude considèrera également les stratégies genrées, l’influence des organisations sociales, les modes de cohabitation, de collaboration et/ou les conflits qui apparaissent entre les groupes chinois et africains. Par une attention particulière aux potentiels novateurs, au développement local, l’objectif central est de comprendre les dynamiques sociales en cours et la remise en question des normes au sein des sociétés urbaines ouest-africaines. Ainsi dans une approche interdisciplinaire combinant les études africaines et les études chinoises modernes ce projet mettra en évidence la complexité des interactions sino-africaines à l’exemple de la situation à Accra et à Dakar.

La première phase de recherche sur le terrain a eu lieu entre janvier et mars 2011. Après avoir revu l’état des lieux de la littérature disponible sur le sujet, nous avons déterminé avant notre départ les critères à cibler et le fil conducteur à suivre lors des interviews de façon à obtenir des données permettant une interprétation et une analyse comparatives.

Laurence Marfaing a travaillé à Dakar du 30 janvier au 15 mars 2011 où Karsten Giese l’a rejointe du 27 février au 8 mars. Parallèlement Karsten Giese et Alena Thiel se sont rendus à Accra du 25 janvier au 12 mars.

Pendant ce premier terrain, nous avons pu obtenir des données auprès de 149 interlocuteurs : 97 à Accra et 52 à Dakar. Notre groupe cible comporte actuellement

- 56 entrepreneurs chinois à Accra et 12 à Dakar- 22 entrepreneurs locaux à Accra (dont 11 femmes entrepreneurs) et 30 à Dakar dont 8 femmes) - tant à Dakar qu’à Accra des Libanais et des entrepreneurs de la sous régions ouest-africaine ont été

introduits dans notre corpus (Niger, Nigeria et Mauritanie) - des interlocuteurs auprès des autorités administratives : 3 à Accra et 8 à Dakar - des interlocuteurs auprès des représentants d’opérateurs économiques : 4 à Accra et 2 à Dakar- 9 employés d’entrepreneurs et d’opérateurs chinois - 2 auprès de cadres d’entreprises chinoises

Les thèmes traités dans les interviews et les recherches ciblent les thématiques suivantes: - Législation régulant le commerce, les importations et la création d’entreprises pour les locaux et les

étrangers dans les deux pays. - Données économiques et statistiques officielles- Perceptions mutuelles entre entrepreneurs et commerçants locaux et chinois - Interactions (ou manque d’interactions) entre les individus des deux groupes - Stratégies de commerce respectives des groupes ciblés ainsi que leur évolution dans la longue durée - Migration chinoise et organisation locale

Depuis notre retour nous traitons les données concernant - une approche comparative des deux terrains- l’identification des données à approfondir ou à recueillir lors du prochain terrain - la relecture de la littérature existante à la lumière de nos propres investigations

Articles en préparation - la saturation des marchandises chinoises sur les marchés ouest africains: « le marché africain est

envahi de marchandises chinoises bon marché » mais qui sont les importateurs ? quels sont les créneaux par lesquels ces marchandises atteignent les consommateurs ouest africains et comment peut-on les catégoriser ? la concurrence dénoncée se crée à quel niveau et peut-on accuser les opérateurs chinois de concurrence déloyale ? Quel impact sur les habitudes locales ?

- Interactions entre commerçants chinois et ouest africains: la rumeur publique accuse les petits entrepreneurs migrants chinois d’accaparer l’espace marchand local. Depuis l’arrivée des entrepreneurs chinois, certains commerçants établis doivent faire face à un nouveau défi commercial alors que d’autres acteurs sociaux tirent profit des nouvelles opportunités ainsi créées. Pour illustrer ce propos, certains segments du marché local seront ciblés au sein de la constellation complexe des détaillants et grossistes, grands importateurs et petits commerçants ambulants dans les rues d’Accra et de Dakar.

- Perceptions et interactions entre les entrepreneurs chinois et leurs employés locaux, chinois ou autres : comment la subjectivité dans un contexte transculturel façonne la perception ou le comportement des travailleurs (tant au niveau de l’éthique du travail, que de la dignité ou du rapport à l’autre). Comment les employés locaux négocient-ils les exigences de leurs employeurs chinois et vice et versa ? Peut-on parler d’adaptation et si oui à quel niveau ?

kontakte:

- , +49 40 428874 44, giese@giga-hamburg.de - http://www.giga-hamburg.de/english/index.php?folder=staff/giese&file=giese_en.html / http://www.giga-hamburg.de/index.php?folder=staff/giese&file=giese.html

- Dr. Laurence Marfaing, GIGA, IAA (Institut of African Affairs/Institut für Afrika-Studien) Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, +49 40 42825 515, marfaing@giga-Hamburg.de - http://www.giga-hamburg.de/index.php?folder=staff/marfaing&file=marfaing.html / http://www.giga-hamburg.de/english/index.php?folder=staff/marfaing&file=marfaing_en.html

- Alena Thiel, GIGA, IAA, (Institut of African Affairs/Institut für Afrika-Studien) Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, +49 40 42887447, thie@giga-hamburg.de, http://www.giga-hamburg.de/english/index.php?folder=staff/thiel&file=thiel_en.html / http://www.giga-hamburg.de/index.php?folder=staff/thiel&file=thiel.html

In unserem Projekt arbeiten 3 MitarbeiterUnser Projekt hat am 1.1.2011 angefangenPhotos dürfen auf den Homepage von Giga übernommen werdenUnser Forschung findet in Westafrika statt und zwar in Accra/Ghana und Dakar/Senegal

“Festivalisation” of Urban Governance: The Production of Socio-Spatial Control in the Context of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa

In South Africa the hosting of the FIFA football world cup was perceived both as a challenge of accelerated social, economic, and spatial transformation, and as an opportunity to showcase the nation’s ability to successfully provide the structures and capacities for one of the biggest sports tournaments in the world. According to the thesis of ‘festivalisation’ such mega-events act as a form of trans-local dynamics which are embedded in the context of increased inter-urban competition in the era of globalisation. Our project aims at investigating the effects of such globalised forms of festivalisation on the urban sphere and society in South Africa. It will especially take into account the provision of a safe and secure urban environment, which was a critical factor during the football world cup and is expected to influence the restructuring of cities and society in its aftermath.Thus, the project seeks to identify the dynamics of urban governance and re-ordering of spaces at the urban level considering the significations of (dis)order and re-negotiations of state-society inter-linkages. Structures and actors of urban governance are to be analysed using case studies in the South African host cities Johannesburg and Durban. In the “global city” Johannesburg inner city renewal and growth-oriented strategies have for many years influenced strategies of security and safety. Durban has been trying to position itself as prime location for international conventions and big sporting events. Within these two cities, socio-spatial interactions in selected neighbourhoods are examined with a special focus on the role of technologies and regimes of control. A discourse analysis of safety and control in the South African public media and in policy documents will provide an additional diachronic perspective. Overall, our research aims at investigating relations and translations of approaches to urban development and spatial control between South Africa, the “Global South” and “Western” countries, and at contributing to the interpretation of processes and determinants that constitute (South) African urban governance and its capacity for adaptation. Since the debate on urban governance is informed by topics such as the built environment, privatisation, networks, marginalisation, and social inclusion and exclusion, we have chosen to include these aspects in our empirical case studies.

© photo by Lisa Wiesenthal, Cape Town 2009 Poster by StreetNet International, Durban

(http://www.streetnet.org.za/)© photo by Lisa Wiesenthal,

Johannesburg 2009

Kontaktdaten Projektleiter:

Dr. Christoph HaferburgInstitute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg Kochstr. 4, 91054 ErlangenTel: +49 (0) 9131 85-22010Fax: +49 (0) 9131 85-22013Mail: chaferburg@geographie.uni-erlangen.dehttp://www.geographie.uni-erlangen.de/pers/chaferburg/

Prof. Dr. Fred KrügerInstitute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg Kochstr. 4, 91054 ErlangenTel: +49 (0) 9131 85-22641Fax: +49 (0) 9131 85-22013Mail: fkrueger@geographie.uni-erlangen.dehttp://www.geographie.uni-erlangen.de/pers/fkrueger/

Projektmitarbeiterinnen: 2

Karen HetzInstitute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg Kochstr. 4, 91054 ErlangenTel: +49 (0) 9131 85-22656Fax: +49 (0) 9131 85-22013Mail: khetz@geographie.uni-erlangen.dehttp://www.geographie.uni-erlangen.de/pers/khetz/

Lisa WiesenthalInstitute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg Kochstr. 4, 91054 ErlangenTel: +49 (0) 9131 85-22656Fax: +49 (0) 9131 85-22013Mail: LWiesenthal@geographie.uni-erlangen.de

http://www.geographie.uni-erlangen.de/pers/lwiesenthal/

Offizielles Startdatum Projekt:

1. April 2011

Standorte der Feldforschung:

Johannesburg, South AfricaDurban, South Africa

Kurzbeschreibung Ihres Teilprojektes (diese Kurzbeschreibung darf sich natürlich an der Projektskizze für die Antragsstellung orientieren, sollte aber den derzeitigen Stand des Projekts und ggfs. Änderungen berücksichtigen)

The Anthropology of Transnational Crime Control in Africa: The War on Drugs, the Fightagainst Human Trafficking and the Combat against Counterfeit Medicines

The objective of this anthropological project is to describe and analyse how the making oforder and disorder is presently reconfigured in sub-Saharan Africa under the influence ofnewly emerging regimes of transnational crime control. It explores the processes oftranslation and adaptation involved in transnational crime control in Sierra Leone and SouthAfrica with a view to the question of what technologies and significations are involved in threefields of crime control, namely the war on drugs, the fight against human trafficking and thecombat against counterfeit medicines. With this thematic focus, the project aims to make acontribution to wider social scientific debates on African states in the light of the continuingchallenge to their authority in general; in particular, it examines by means of multi-sitedethnographic methodologies how forms of biopolitics articulate with performances ofsovereignty under the new paradigm of securitisation. Under this paradigm, we argue, crimehas become a constitutive social and political category, and sub-Saharan Africa has becomea kind of laboratory for new security regimes. By comparing two West African countries andSouth Africa, and by comparing three different (and yet interrelated) fields of crime control,the research seeks to achieve both an ethnographic specificity and a considerable level ofgenerality that contributes to the objectives of the Priority Programme in terms of empiricalresearch and theory work.

Kontaktdaten der Projektleiter (Name, Vorname, Institution, Adresse, Tel., Fax, E-Mail, Homepage der Heimatinstitution)

Dr. Julia Hornberger (Project leader)Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of ZurichAndreasstrasse 15, CH-8050 ZurichTel: +41(0)44 635 22 48Fax +41(0)44 635 22 39Email: julia.hornberger@access.uzh.chhttp://www.ethno.uzh.ch/index.html

Prof. Dr. Thomas G. Kirsch ( Antragsteller Deutschland)Unit on Social Anthropology, Department of History and Sociology;University of Konstanz; D-78457 KonstanzTel: +49(0)7531 88 20 93Fax: +49(0)7531 88 44 97Email: thomas.kirsch@uni-konstanz.dehttp://www.soziologie.uni-konstanz.de/en/willkommen/

Prof. Dr. Shalinin Randeria (Antragsteller Schweiz)Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of ZurichAndreasstrasse 15, CH-8050 ZurichTel: + 41(0)44 635 22 42Fax +41(0)44 635 22 39Email: randeria.shalini@gmail.comhttp://www.ethno.uzh.ch/index.html

Anzahl und Name der insg. im Projekt tätigen Mitarbeiter (unabhängig davon, über welchen Geldgeber diese finanziert werden) und ggfs. Links zu den Instituts-/Profilseiten der Projektmitarbeiter

Phd Candidate (to be announced)http://www.soziologie.uni-konstanz.de/en/willkommen/

Phd Candidate: Michael Buerge michael.buerge@gmail.comhttp://www.ethno.uzh.ch/index.html

offizielles Startdatum des Projektes: February 2011 (PhD project 1: March 2011, Phd project 2: July 2011)

Fotos der Teilprojektleiter bzw. der Hinweis, dass keine Veröffentlichung von Fotos auf der Webseite gewünscht werden

Angaben zu den Standorten, an denen Feldforschung betrieben wird (für die geplante interaktive Karte aller Teilprojekte)

Project ‘The War on Drugs’: Sierre LeoneProject ‘Human Trafficking’: South AfricaProject ‘Combat against Counterfeit Medicines’: Johannesburg, South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe; Maputo, Mozambique; Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland.

Affiliated Project: Two PhD projects at the Unit on Social Anthropology, Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz

Human Trafficking and Humanitarianism in Niger Human Trafficking and Refugeeism in Zambia

(candidates to be announced)

Projekt Transnational Crime Control

Eine kleine Anregung: Da es bei unserem Teilprojekt zwei "AssoziierteProjekte" (d.h. zwei thematisch ähnlich ausgerichtetePromotionsstellen an der Universität Konstanz) gibt, wäre es gut, wennman einen entsprechenden Gliederungspunkt auf der Ebene von"Kurzbeschreibung" und "Kontakt" einrichten könnte.

“Refugee Repatriation and Local Politics in Angola”

Migration and return migration are challenging phenomena of creativity and adaptation, both in past and contemporary Africa. They cause changes in local structures and induce frictions, which propel further cycles of adaptation and creativity by locals and migrants. The project focuses on such changes by analyzing the case of returning Angolan refugees after years or decades in Zambian refugee camps. More specifically, it studies the return of refugees who were engaged, as local leaders, in decision-making processes at local levels prior to their flight from Angola. The project addresses a twofold question. Firstly, it is asked what kinds of repercussions are invoked by the return of such refugees and their re-immersion into the local arenas which will have changed during their years of absence. What kind of local structure emerges from the interaction between returned local leaders and those who stayed? Secondly, it is asked how local decision-making is influenced by the experiences of the

returnees during their time as camp refugees. In particular, the project will examine the influence, if any, of their exposure to the international refugee regime, which propagates “humanitarian” and “democratic” values (often seen as Western values) in the camps. Has this experience shaped the reintegration of local leaders in Angola who have returned after staying in the refugee camps of Zambia?

- Kontaktdaten:

Prof. Dr. Katharina InhetveenDepartment of SociologyLudwig Maximilians University MunichKonradstrasse 680801 MünchenGermanyTel. (SPP project): ++49-(0)89-2180-XXXX (soon come)Tel. (Professor Inhetveen): ++49-(0)89-2180-6315E-Mail: Katharina.Inhetveen@soziologie.uni-muenchen.de Homepage: http://www.qualitative-sozialforschung.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de/

- Anzahl der insg. im Projekt tätigen Mitarbeiter: - Projektleiterin: Prof. Dr. Katharina Inhetveen- Projektmitarbeiter: Dr. Christoph Kohl- Studentische Hilfskraft: Sandra Lehner

- offizielles Startdatum des Projektes: 01. April 2011

- Fotos der Teilprojektleiter bzw. der Hinweis, dass keine Veröffentlichung von Fotos auf der Webseite gewünscht werden:

Foto im Anhang

- Angaben zu den Standorten, an denen Feldforschung betrieben wird:

nach derzeitiger Planung in folgenden Städten (Provinzen) in Angola: Benguela (Benguela), Huamabo (Huambo), Kuito (Bié), Moxico (Cazombo)

1. Kurzbeschreibung Ihres Teilprojektes

AFRICAN POLITICAL CULTURES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN GUINEA-BISSAU, LIBYA, SOUTH AFRICA, AND ZAMBIA

SummaryAfrica is a continent where creative experimenting with political orders is omnipresent. Currently, we observe the rise of new actors and the emergence of new institutions and ways of conflict resolution. Political culture is a key to understand and to explain this process of creativity and adaptation. It includes political actions, normative rules, institutional arrangements, discourses, rituals and symbols. Political culture is a dynamic phenomenon. Power, legitimacy, and violence are at its core. Adopting a comparative, transdisciplinary and actor-centred perspective, the research project studies the political cultures of four different African countries, south as well as north of the Sahara: Guinea- Bissau, South-Africa, Zambia, and Libya. The countries differ along the lines of the power of the state, the presence of 'heterarchical figurations', the role and meaning of violence, magic, witchcraft, codes and institutions of conflict resolution, and the kind of leaders and power groups which shape political cultures. Applying a host of qualitative methods of anthropology and sociology and following a bottom-up research design, the study is particularly interested in the political cultures of those local and regional leaders and power groups who are at the intersection of local, regional, national and transnational politics, determine political culture, and bind people to the political order. The study aims at a better understanding of African politics and of its remarkable adaptability and flexibility and to contribute to general political anthropology and sociology.

2. Kontaktdaten der Projektleiter

Klute, Georg, Prof. Dr. phil. habil. (Principal Investigator)Associate Professor (C3), Cultural Anthropology of Africa, University of Bayreuth,Date of birth: 23.06.1952,Nationality: GermanLast reference number: KL 1862/1-2Address (office):Ethnologie AfrikasKulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Bayreuth95440 Bayreuthtelephone: 0921 – 55 41 06fax: 0921 – 55 41 36email: georg.klute@uni-bayreuth.deAddress (private):Südlicher Ringweg 11,95447 BayreuthTel.: 0921-51.67.885 oder 51.67.908

Trotha, Trutz von, Prof. i. R. Dr. phil. habil. (Principal Investigator)Retired, formerly Full Professor (C4), Chair of Sociology, University of SiegenDate of birth: 16.09.1946Nationality: GermanLast reference number: TR 148/18-1Address (office):Soziologie, Fachbereich 1Universität Siegen57068 Siegentelephone: 0271 – 740 2238fax: 0271 – 740 4729email: trotha@soziologie.uni-siegen.deAddress (private):Opfingen, Altgasse 1679112 Freiburg

telephone: 07664-59665fax: 07664-95754email: tclvontrotha@t-online.de

Swiss Cooperation Partner:Macamo, Elísio, Prof. Dr. phil. habil.Assistant Professor of African Studies (Tenure Track), University of BaselDate of birth: 21 December 1964Nationality: MozambicanAddress (office):Zentrum für Afrikastudien BaselUniversität BaselSteinengraben 5CH-4051 Basel, Schweiztelephone: +41 (0)61 267 34 85fax: +41 (0)61 267 34 86email: elisio.macamo@unibas.ch

Address (private):Ufhabiweg 8D-79539 Lörrach, Germanytelephone: +49 (0)762 11616653

3. Anzahl der im Projekt tätigen Mitarbeiter: 9Trutz v. Trotha, Georg Klute, Elisio Macamo, Thomas Hüsken, Mario Krämer, NN (Kwa-Zulu Natal), Esther Uzar (Copper-Belt, Zambia), Raul Fernades (Bijagos, Guinea-Bissau), Dereje Feyissa (Afar Region, Äthiopia)

Offizielles Startdatum des Projektes1.April 2011 (some of he projects will start later (Zambia, Guinea-Bissau, South-Afrika)

4. Fotos der Teilprojektleiter might follow        

5. Angaben zu den Standorten aller Teilprojekte1. Cyrenaica, Libya 2. Copper-belt, Zambia 3. Bijagos-Islands, Guinea-Bissau 4. Afar-Region, Äthiopia 5. Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa

The Local Arena of Power Sharing. Patterns of Adaptation or Continued Disorder. In 18 out of 19 peace accords signed in Africa since 1999, some form of power-sharing between incumbent leaders and rebel groups was stipulated to end civil war and restore political order. Often proposed by external mediators, power-sharing has become a blueprint for peacemaking. There is a puzzle, however: peace processes with power-sharing arrangements produce divergent outcomes, both within and across countries. Some result in transitions to peace, but especially at the local level, insecurity and situations of ‘neither war nor peace' often persist. This puts into question the assumption that the sharing of national power leads to a territorially uniform and locally meaningful peace process. We will investigate the following questions: Under which conditions are national power-sharing arrangements successful at promoting peace and political order? Which variants of power-sharing are adequately adapted to national and local circumstances for order to spread? How does the local adaptation of the national peace agreement provisions affect local peace? If local peace has taken hold in the wake of power-sharing: what are

the main determinants of this successful process? Can we identify patterns of adaptation that explain peaceful outcomes? What are the repercussions of success and failure on the local level for the national level? Selecting four African countries that have recently seen power-sharing agreements (Burundi, DR Congo, Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia), we analyse the impact of national power-sharing agreements on the local level; that is, local arenas that were affected by violence during the war. We will look for reasons why in some arenas violence persists and in others not. Project leaders Andreas Mehler, German Institute of Global and Area Studies/GIGA; Institute of African Affairs Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, e-mail: mehler@giga-hamburg.dePhone: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-593Fax: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-547http://giga-hamburg.de/english/index.php?file=news.html&folder=iaa Denis Tull, Senior Researcher, German Institute for International and Security Affairs/SWPdenis.tull@swp-berlin.org Ludwigkirchplatz 3-410719 BerlinGermanyFax: +49-30-88007-100Tel. + 49 (0) 30-88007 264http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/start-en.html MitarbeiterClaudia Simonshttp://www.swp-berlin.org/en/scientist-detail/profile/claudia_simons.html Franzisca Zankerhttp://giga-hamburg.de/english/index.php?folder=staff/zanker&file=zanker_en.html Beginn des Projekts: 1.1.2011 Fotos: Keine Standorte: DR Kongo, Burundi, Liberia, Côte d‘Ivoire

Translating Global Health Technologies in Uganda and Rwanda

Principle Investigator: Prof Richard RottenburgResearchers (in alphabetical order):Freddy Eric Kitutu (MSc), Dr Herbert Muyinda, Sung-Joon Park (MA), Norman Schräpel (MA) Collaborators: Prof Anita Hardon, Prof Vinh-Kim Nguyen, ProfSusan Reynolds WhyteResearch areas: Ugandaand Rwanda; Anthropology of Law, Organization, Science and Technology (LOST), Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals, Social Pharmacy, Global Health

Project summaryThis project examines global health as an epistemological transformation of biomedicine in Africa. To make these transformations visible the project investigates how global health networks establish novel therapeutic apparatuses.The empirical research is conducted in three different East African settings – Uganda, post-conflict Northern Uganda, and Rwanda – where these transformationshave developed novel and intriguinginstitutional circuits of medical care and scientific research. Following Foucault, we term these arrangements therapeutic apparatuses of global health to designate a set of circulating material artifacts and technologies that modify therapeutic and knowledge practices of

biomedicine in subtle ways. The project asks how these therapeutic apparatuses are established, how they operate and how they mediate the production of scientific and social orders and material infrastructures in Africa.In particular,the project focuses on “access to medicine” as an infrastructural, a normative and a biomedical problem, which is increasingly associated with ideas of global health. The researchers follow four types of medicines: antiretroviral drugs, treatment for non-communicable diseases, child medicines, and essential drugs. The case studiesdelineate the different therapeutic apparatuses of global health by investigating the technologies, logistics, data infrastructures and large-scale organizational arrangements, which mediate the production of knowledge and access to these medicines. The main questions are: How is access to medicines and, moreover, a diversity of different forms of access configured? How are social categories and therapeutic rules constituted?What moral dilemmas emerge in these configurations of access to medicines, and how are they dealt with?Howare novel problems and connections made visible through the global circulation of data and technologies? How are knowledge and certainty created in the scientific and technological circuits of global health?

Individual research projects Sung-Joon Park (MA): “The supply side of ART: Users, Drugs, Technologies in Organizing mass

ART-programs in Uganda”. Norman Schräpel (MA): “Information and communication technologies, medical data

production and the politics of global health in Rwanda” Dr Herbert Muyinda: “Uncertainty, (In)stability and the Supply of ART in Northern Uganda” Freddy Eric Kitutu (MSc): “Access to essential child medicines in rural Uganda:

Pharmaceutical interventions, health systems, and communities in improving access to essential child medicines”

DFG SPP 1448_Projekt Info für die Homepage‐ISOMORPHISM OR CONTEXTS – AFRICAN POLICE BETWEEN GLOBAL EXPECTATIONS AND LOCALDYNAMICSScholars of Political Science, and particularly some schools of thought in International Relations,argue that there is a global tendency towards isomorphism of institutions. African studies, however,very often stress the particularity of institutions and their imprinting by contexts. Focussing on thepolice in Uganda we want to explore how this institution reacts to both pressures – global and localones. Our leading assumption is that pressure neither results automatically in resignation orsubmission nor in rejection or resistance. Pressure could also be a source of new practices andcreativity. The study aims at a better understanding of processes of institutional development andthe extent to which state agencies are adapting to a supposedly increasing global pressure towardsisomorphism.The project will proceed by an inner Ugandan case study design and is based on a comparison ofpolicing in the capital to policing in the districts and provinces of Uganda. Our main research interestis in classical concepts of political sociology, namely professional habitus, discourse and practices ofthe police as well as organizational parameters. Our central question is how the Ugandan police facepressures of political expectations on the one hand and the conditions of social contexts on the otherand how this changed over time.* Kontaktdaten des Projektleiters: Schlichte, Klaus; Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen, Mary-Somerville-Straße 7, 28359 Bremen; + 49(0)421.218-67475, klaus.schlichte@iniis.uni-bremen.de; http://www.iniis.uni-bremen.de/

* Anzahl der MitarbeiterInnen: 1 (Biecker, Sarah; Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen, Mary-Somerville-Straße 7, 49(0)421.218-67477, sarah.biecker@iniis.uni-bremen.de; http://www.iniis.uni-bremen.de/)

* offizielles Startdatum: 01. März 2011

* Foto des Projektleiters: im Anhang

* Standort der Feldforschung: Uganda

Z-Project

The Z Project based in Halle and Leipzig serves as the backbone for the coordination and implementation of the SPP 1448’s Programme of Action. It is jointly administered by the two spokespersons who are assisted by an academic and an administrative coordinator. The coordinators provide logistical services and implement the academic and administrative everyday-work of the programme. Under the supervision of the spokespersons they organize method workshops, thematic workshops, summer schools, and conferences.

The method workshops introduce methods from the variety of disciplinary approaches to primarily, but not exclusively, young researchers with different backgrounds, and assist them in developing a common language on the SPP topic. The thematic workshops are open for project specific demands like integrating sub-themes or developing particular methodological approaches.

The summer schools serve as a platform to exchange information on the developments of the different individual projects. They provide an opportunity for doctoral researchers and junior faculty to present their work-in-progress in the presence of peers and senior academics from different disciplines.

Every second year a thematic conference will be held to discuss research results from the current project implementation phase. For this conference, visiting international researchers will be invited. The first biennial thematic conference will be held at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique, in the 3rd quarter of 2012 as the inaugural conference of the SPP 1448.

4, 2 Halle, 2 Leipzig