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Presentation of the Course - Europe-Africa Relations: an entangled relation


General introduction to the Course, presentation of the lecture and seminar schedule. 



Europe-Africa Relations: an entangled relation from the medieval ages to the contemporary world. Conceptual, geographic and political borders.

African slavery, a thorn that never goes away.

Imperial ideologies and the shaping of Euro-African relations

Cruzaders and Jihadis in Africa, old and new forms.

From the Tail of Europe to the Horn of Africa: Europe-Ethiopia relations - a convoluted history and an uncertain future.


Readings:


Relano, Francesc. 2002. The shaping of Africa: Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Ramos, Manuel João. 2006. Essays in Christian Mythology: The metamorphoses of Prester John. Lanham: UPA.

Markowitz, Claude and Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. 2009. « Navigation, exploration, colonisation. Pour en finir avec les Grandes Découvertes », dans Histoire du monde au XVe siècle, (dir.) P. Boucheron, Paris, Fayard,, p. 603-618.

M'Bokolo, Elikia. 1969. Afrique noire. Histoire et civilizations. Paris, Hatier.


By Manuel João Ramos (CEI-IUL)


Euro-African mobility


Euro-African border and border crossings: The Mediterranean

Post-Colonial political and social issues - mobility, diaspora and asylum

Migration and/or Mobility in African Studies (debate on concepts and practices).

African migrations in Europe: how to study African diasporas and "irregular" migrants in Europe.

The migrants' voice: self-narrative, objects and memories of migration to Europe.

Border bodies: ethnography of the treatment of migrants on their arrival in Lampedusa.

The Archive of Migrant Memories.

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Film screenings:

Como un uomo sulla terra, by Dagmayi Ymer

To whom it may concern, by Zakaria Mohamed Ali

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Readings:

Gatta, Gianluca, 2012, Luoghi migranti. Tra clandestinità e spazi pubblici , Pellegrini, Cosenza.

Gatta, Gianluca. 2012, "Corpi di frontiera. Etnografia del trattamento dei migranti al loro arrivo a Lampedusa", in AM. Rivista della Società italiana di antropologia medica , n. 33/34, pp. 129-161.

UNECA. 2013. Report: International Migration and Development in Africa: The Migration and Climate Nexus. UNECA.

Vacchiano, Francesco. 2013. Fencing in the South. The Strait of Gibraltar as a Paradigm of the New Border Regime in the Mediterranean. Journal of Mediterraneean Studies.

Vacchiano, Francesco. 2014. Beyond borders and limits: Moroccan migrating adolescents between desire, vulnerability and risk. Saúde e Sociedade, 23, 1.

Readings:

Mckenzie, Robert and Triulzi, Alessandro. 2013. Long Journeys. African migrants on the road. Leiden: Brill.

MacGaffey, Janet and Bazenguissa-Ganga, Rémy. 2002. Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law. Indiana University Press.

Agier, Michel and Bazenguissa-Ganga, Rémi (eds). 2012. L'Afrique des banlieues françaises. Paris: Paari.

Bayart, Jean-François. 2010. Les études postcoloniales, un carnaval académique. Paris: Khartala..

Santinho, Cristina. 2010. Afinal que asilo é este que não nos protege? Etnográfica, 17, 1


Portugal after 1974: the birth pangs of a post-colonial nation


Nearly 50 year after the 'loss' of its overseas empire, Portugal is still struggling to come to terms with its postcolonial condition - just as many other former European powers, by the way. Those who have studied the post-colonial trajectory of the country are usually struck by the persistence of an unreconstructed imperial imagery in public discourses, as well as many subtle (or not so subtle) expressions of racism. In this talk, we will attempt to give some context to this situation and see how history can help us to make sense of Portugal's lack of a thorough imperial reckoning.


Readings:

Bruno C. Reis & Pedro A. Oliveira (2017): The Power and Limits of Cultural Myths in Portugal's Search for a Post-Imperial Role, The International History Review, DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2016.1253599

Pinto, A. C., Jerónimo, M. B. (2015). Ideologies of exceptionality and the legacies of empire in Portugal. In Dietmar Rothermund (Ed.), Memories of post-imperial nations: the aftermath of decolonization, 1945-2013 (pp. 97-119). Delhi: Cambridge University Press


History of Africa and of European-African Relations

Lecture:

European-African relations in the Early Modern Era

From previous images of Africa to the first contacts: expectations and reciprocal representationsA frican responses and European adaptations in the dawn of the Atlantic World

The evolution of the Euro-African relationship. The case of the Luso-African communities in Western Africa.

Guest speaker: José Silva Horta (CH-UL)

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Readings:

Brooks, George E., 2003. Eurafricans in Western Africa. Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Athens, Ohio University Press, Oxford, James Currey.

Horta, José da Silva, MARK, Peter, 2018, « A "Racial" Approach to the History of Early Afro-Portuguese Relationships? The Case of Senegambia and Cabo Verde in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries », em Sina Rauschenbach; Jonathan Schorsch (ed.), The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-84.

Tymovski Michał , 2020. Europeans and Africans. Mutual Discoveries and First Encounters, Leiden/Boston, Brill.


The afterlives of development in Eastern Africa


The afterlives of development interventions: Retracing theK enya-Finland Cooperation (Kefinco) Project in western Kenya

Since the end of colonialism, cooperation between African and Europeanc ountries has given rise to countless and varied internationald evelopment projects, which in turn left contested and often unexpectedl egacies. Drawing on the Iscte-based European Research Council (ERC)p roject AfDevLives, in this lecture we will discuss a cases-tudy involving such a Euro-African development collaboration - namely, a large-scale waterp roject called Kefinco, which was implemented in Kakamega, western Kenya, in the 1980s and 1990s. This session will feature four speakers, three of whom will join us remotely, and willf ocus on the retracing of such afterlives and on them ethods used for their ongoing exploration, and in particular on thec onvergence of ethnographic and archival material."

Guest speaker: Yonatan Gez (CEI-IUL) and the team of AfDevLives

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Trabalho autónomo:

Readings:

Ferguson&Lohmann (1994) The anti-politics machine: "Development" and bureaucracy power in Lesotho. The ecologist, 24, 5

Gez&Fouere&Bulugu (2022) Telling ruins -The afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in lake Victoria, tanzania. Journal of Modern African Studies.

Vuori (1986) Water for a million. World Health.


African colonial borders re-imagined


Egypt, the Horn and the Red Sea: EU between a rock and a hard place

Guest speaker: Ana ELisa Cascão (CEI-IUL)

The complex heritage of colonial borders in Africa and in Europe, and the need to deconstruct the notion of "ethnic conflict" in Africa and in Europe.

Separatism and international recognition of states: Reflections from the Horn of Africa.


Guest speaker: Aleksi Ylönen (CEI-IUL)



Readings:


Dias, Alexandra. (ed.). 2013. State and Societal Challenges in the Horn of Africa: Conflict and Processes of State Formation. Lisbon: CEA-IUL.


Iyob, Ruth. 1997. The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance, Nationalism, 1941-1993. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Ogbazghi, Petros B. 2015. "Eritrea's Politics and Governance Crisis as Political Culture Epiphenomena". Journal of Contemporary African Studies 33, 4, pp. 467-493.


Young, John. 2012. The Fate of Sudan: The Origins and Consequences of a Flawed Peace Process. London: Zed Books.


Sørbø, Gunnar M. and Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed. (eds.). 2013. Sudan Divided: Continuing Conflict in in a Contested State.
Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.


Ylönen, Aleksi. 2014. "Dwindling but Surviving: South Sudan and External Involvement in the Current Crisis". Review of African Political Economy 41, 141, pp. 1-8.


Hoehne, Markus Virgil. 2011. "Not Born as a De Facto State: Somaliland's Complicated State Formation". In Sharamo, Roba and Berouk Mesfin (eds.), Regional Security on the Post-Cold War Horn of Africa, Monograph 178 (Institute for Security Studies: Addis Ababa), pp. 309-346.


The Economist. 2014. "Somaliland: Can't Get No Recognition". January 9. http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2014/01/somaliland


International cooperation in Africa: Europeans in a growingly disputed field.


How is cooperation with African countries designed and operationalized? What differentiates traditional cooperation from South-South cooperation? What role do the European Union- African Union summits play?

Guest speaker: Clara Carvalho (CEI-IUL)

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Readings:

Alden, Chris (2007)China in Africa. London, Zed.

ECDPM. 2020. Navigating the new normal: EU-AU partnerships in the post-COVID era. Great Insights, Volume 9, Issue 3.

Iwata, Takuo (ed), 2020, New Asian Approaches to Africa: Rivalries and Collaborations, Delaware, Vernon Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-62273-809-0. 296 pages

Lopes, Carlos (2019) Africa in Transformation: Economic Development in the Age of Doubt. Palgrave Macmillan (tradução portuguesa 2021)

Moyo, D. (2009). Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa. Penguin Books.

Moyo, D. (2020). A MarshallPlanfor Africa. The Economist. Available: https://dambisamoyo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Economist-The-World-After-COVID-19-Dambisa-Moyo-on-a-Marshall-Plan-for-Africa-050420.pdf


People’s Participation for International Cooperation - the Tanzanian case

People’s Participation for International Cooperation - the Tanzanian case

Lecturer: Dr. George Mutalemwa  (St. Augustine University of Tanzania)

International cooperation (IC) has been hailed as a panacea for socio-economic development particularly for the so-called developing countries institutionalized through various agreements and protocols in the north-south relations outlining strategies and processes towards mutual benefits between cooperating nations or states. This presentation reflects on the 60 years of international cooperation since most African countries gained their independence from colonial rule to-date through a Development Studies (DS) perspective. The amount of aid, loans and concessions to Africa would have brought about major changes on the continent ceteris paribus and concludes that the level of development in Africa does not correlate with the rhetoric of international cooperation. Informed by the people’s organisations development theory (PODT), the paper recommends the kind of cooperation that goes beyond economic benefits, which tilt towards multinational corporations (MNCs) of the global minority at the expense of social service provision in the global majority as well the cooperation that is people-centred in contradistinction with the state-centric or interstate status quo which privileges the elite over the masses.

Keywords: International cooperation, Africa, development, participatory theories, people-centredness

Readings:

Carbone M (2023) When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: The Russo-Ukranian conflict and the decentring-recentring condundrum in the EU-Africa relations. Journal of European Integration

Mutalemwa, G. People's Organisations in Tanzania: Strengths, Challenges and Implications for Development. Vechta: University of Vechta, 2015

Also:

Mutalemwa, G. African academic diaspora and the revitalisation of African universities (2018). Journal of Sociology and Development, Vol. 2 (1), 150-174

Mutalemwa, G. Laity and Development: Participation of the laity in Socio-economic and Cultural Development in Bukoba Diocese, Tanzania, 2011


Are Europe-Africa Relations changing? A critical review of the history of EU-Africa summits


Are Europe-Africa Relations changing? Can Africa be looked at as one?

1. Myths and realities about Africa

2. Major Dynamics in the two first decades of the 21st Century in Africa: the role of the EU

3. May Africa be treated as a politically coherent entity?

4. Ongoing dynamics at the dawn of the 3rd decade of this Century: any significant change in the EU-Africa relationship?




Readings:


Carlos Lopes; George Kararach (2021). Structural Change in Africa: Misperceptions, New Narratives and Development in the 21st Century, Routledge

Cardoso, Fernando Jorge (2017). O Desenvolvimento sem Norte nem Sul, imvf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/imvfpolicypaper7jun2018.pdf


Seminar - Conclusion - Wrap up


Seminar (group debate): participative reflexion about the presentations and about the sylabus of the course; discussion and integration of the topics; students' views and research ideas.


Organization of the students' final reports by themes: ways of belonging; border crossings; Violent conflicts; Representations.


General conclusions.


Rounding up of the course and group evaluation of the course.

Discussion of prospects for future research and teaching on Europe-Africa Relations.

Speaker: Manuel João Ramos (CEI-IUL)


Preparation of students' reports


Multimodal experiments in framing african migration and forced displacement


Critical analysis of common (audio)visual representations of African migrants and refugees.

Methodological approaches and ethical dilemmas will be discussed based on a collection of audiovisual pieces.

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Readings:
Ballestero, A. & B R Winthereik 2021. Experimenting with ethnography. A Companion to Analysis. Duke University Press

Demos, T.J 2013. The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis. Duke University Press.

Lennete, C. 2019. Arts-based methods in Refugee Research. Springer

Köhn, Steffen 2016. Mediating Mobility: Visual Anthropology in the Age of Migration. Columbia University press

Wright, Terence 2002. Moving images: the media representation of refugees. Visual Studies 17(1): 53-66