Welcome to the Chair for Sociology of Africa
The Sociology of Africa chair group engages in internationally renowned research and teaching that centres on two themes: International Political Sociology from Africa, and Peace and Conflict Studies/Critical Security Studies.
The Chair for Sociology of Africa
- Contributes to the development of International Political Sociology and the interdisciplinary focus on Africa in Bayreuth
- At the interface of the Department of Sociology and of African Studies; participates in the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple.
- Transdisciplinary work bridges International Political Sociology, International Relations, and political science with new theoretical, conceptual and methodological innovations.
- Our International Political Sociology and Africa-specific expertise enriches the University of Bayreuth's interdisciplinary study programs (BA and MA Culture and Society of Africa, BA-Track and MA Sociology, MA Development Studies, BA Internationale Wirtschaft und Entwicklung, and MA Global History, among others).
- Networking and cooperation with African colleagues and institutions includes a European Research Council (ERC) project with colleagues in Brazil, China, Mozambique and Tanzania.
- Regional networking is linked to previous research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, and South Africa.
Recent Publications
- Shih, C., & Bunskoek, R. (2020). Colonial rationality and its post-Chinese consequences: Japanese legacies in contemporary Taiwan's views on China. In C. Shih, P. Manomaivibool, M. Tanigaki, & S. Singh (Eds.), Colonial legacies and contemporary studies of China and Chineseness (pp. 231-256). https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811212352_0010
- Katz-Lavigne, S. (2020). Distributional impact of corporate extraction and (un)authorised clandestine mining at and around large-scale copper- and cobalt-mining sites in DR Congo. Resources Policy, 65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101584
- Nordin, A. H. M., Smith, G. M., Bunskoek, R., et al. (2019). Towards global relational theorizing: a dialogue between Sinophone and Anglophone scholarship on relationalism. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 32(5), 570-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2019.1643978
- Hönke, J., & Cezne, E. (2019). Africa's South-South relations : For instance: Mining and railway lines in Mozambique. Spektrum, 15 (2), 62-67. https://infraglob.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/issue-02-2019.pdf
