Call for Papers for 5th
European Conference on African Studies (Lisbon, June, 26 to 28, 2013) is now
open and panel “Compared Political Systems of
Sub-Saharan Africa. Endogenous and Exogenous Factors in the Construction of
Political Frameworks” " is accepting paper proposals.
Deadline for proposal
submissions: January 16, 2013.
Proposal should consist of a:
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Paper title
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Short abstract (300 characters maximum)
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Long abstract (250 words maximum)
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Audio-visual requirements for your presentation
Panel language: English.
Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2013.
Registration opens: February 27, 2013.
Information about the
Panel: Compared Political Systems of
Sub-Saharan Africa
In the political development process of African States
several factors have got involved and have conditioned their political systems.
Among them we cannot ignore the exogenous factors relevance, as an intervening
variable in the process. The presences of various colonial actors or
international agencies have influenced, greater or lesser extent, institutional
and political construction of political systems in the area. Often importing
Western formulas, which, at least apparently, have a difficult fit in the
African realities. It is for this reason that these States have undergone, at
the process of its construction, to friction between these external factors and
also endogenous, which describe the reality of each country and needed to
participate in the process of the political system construction. This imperfect
relationship between factors has led to the establishment and development of
specific political systems in the Sub-Saharan region.
The political system’s classical studies, their
typologies and features, have overlooked in the Sub-Saharan African’s cases.
Perhaps because of the African State interpretations focus on
neopatrimonialism, the hybrid structures, the weakness of the African State and
the conception of the African State as non-African entity. A common analytical
effort in the social sciences derives the discussion on issues such as good
governance or African States’ dependence on global political system.
This panel aims to study African Political Systems and
their different categories or aspects from comparative and analytical
perspectives, well Sub-Saharan area compared cases, either through the
comparison of Sub-Saharan cases with other outside the region.
Convenors:
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Fernando Díaz
Alpuente. African Studies Center of Barcelona – www.srkurtz.com
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Rubén Sánchez
Medero, Carlos III University of Madrid.
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Gema Sánchez Medero, Complutense University of Madrid.
Information about the 5th
European Conference on African Studies
The 5th
European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2013) will take place at the
ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal, from 26 to 28 June 2013. It will be organized by
Centro de Estudos Africanos - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Centre for
African Studies, Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL)) on behalf of AEGIS,
the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies. Its general theme will
be African
dynamics in a
multipolar world.
ECAS 2013 will
be open to scholars from all over the world and the call for panels is open to
disciplines and methodological approaches representing the Social Sciences and
Humanities.
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