European Conference on African Studies

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ECAS 2009
3^rd European Conference on African Studies

Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

The conference is organised by the European network AEGIS and supported by the Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts (State of Saxony), the University of Leipzig, the European Network in Universal and Global History, and the Small Enterprise Promotion and Training Program.

Panel 84: Itineraries and the constitution of spaces: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on mobilities in Africa and beyond (Alexandra Lübcke)

Panel Organiser: Alexandra Lübcke

The panel focuses on itineraries, i.e. paths of mobility that are understood in a dual sense: as actor-centred practices as well as areas of representation. Africa can convey a meaning as geographical, imagined or socially constructed space. Mobility - understood in the broadest definition, the media with which itinieraries are "travelled" through and constraints to mobility - such as physical, racial or social boundaries, the actors and their agency stand in the limelight.