We examine 'Africa' in its global interdependence, historical and contemporary dimensions and social, political, economic and linguistic dynamics. Our current research projects deal with spatialization processes, city and urbanization, governance, the circulation of knowledge and technologies, with postcoloniality and theories from the South, and with new concepts of language. We are concerned with global models and processes and interested in possibilities and forms of appropriation and agency at local and regional levels.
- African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Global Politics
2025 — 2027
Jens Herpolsheimer
read more - ACESS - African Centre for Career Enhancement & Skills Support
2025 — 2029 (with the Faculty of Economics and Management Science, SEPT , the Institute of Information Systems, the Faculty of Sports Science, the Faculties of Physics and Earth Sciences, History, Arts and Regional Sciences and the Institute of Geography)
Dmitri van den Bersselaar
read more - Transregional South-South Security Cooperation and the new Geopolitics of African Security Governance
2025 — 2028 (with Roskilde University)
Ulf Engel
read more - Politiken des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts in Afrika: Verflochtenes Regieren in post-Trauma-Gesellschaften und die Rolle internationaler Organisationen
2020 — 2027 (part of Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt )
Ulf Engel
Read more - The politics of social cohesion in Africa: Comparing governmentalities across post-trauma societies: Rwanda, South Africa and South Africa
2024 — 2027 (part of the Research Institute Social Cohesion)
Ulf Engel
Read More - African non-military conflict intervention practices
2022 — 2026 (together with the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF / HSFK) and the University Duisburg-Essen —BMBF research network)
Ulf Engel
Read more - Recalibrating Afrikanistik
2019 – 2026 (VW Foundation, World Knowledge – Rare Subjects)
Rose Marie Beck
read more - Language as archive: European linguistics and the social history of the Sahara and Sahel in the eighteenth and nineteenth century
2019 – 2025
Ari Awagana
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- Interregionalism and Security in the Sahel: The African Union, ECOWAS, and the European Union
2020 – 2023
Institute of African Studies - Local Self-Governance for the Provision of Security: Vigilantes in Burkina Faso
Duration: 2019 – 2022
Institute of African Studies - Doing the City. Socio-Spatial Navigation in Urban Africa
Duration: 2017 – 2021
Institute of African Studies - Prekäre und Informelle Arbeit in Südafrika und Nigeria / Precarious and Informal Labour in South Africa and Nigeria
01.2019 – 12.2019
Institute of African Studies - Gold Mining and New Regulations of (Sub)National Spaces in Africa. Katja Werthmann
Duration: 01.2016 – 12.2019
Institute of African Studies - Baada ya Kimbunga, Shuwari.Ushairi wa mtungaji Haji Gora Haji – After the hurricane, the calm. The poetry of Haji Gora Haji. Irene Brunotti
Duration: 2016 – 2017
Institute of African Studies, Univeristy of Naples L'Orientale (Prof. Dr. Flavia Aiello) - New Dynamics in Swahili Studies. Rose Marie Beck
Duration: 06.2014 – 12.2016
Institute of African Studies, Afrikanistik - ATAKS – Afrikanetzwerk Tansania – Äthiopien – Kamerun – Südafrika. Rose Marie Beck
Duration: 01.2012 – 12.2015
Institute of African Studies, Afrikanistik - The Critical Junctures of Globalisation. Ulf Engel
Duration: 2006 – 2015
Institute of African Studies, Geografy, EasternEuropean Studies, Japanese Studies, Sociology, Political Science, History, Oriental Studies
