Events

29 Apr 2024
14:00  - 16:30

Kollegienhaus der Universität Basel

Organizer:
ZASB, ACT, ABI, Basel Institute on Governance

Workshop

EUCOR cross-border workshop: "Citizenship in times of change. East-African perspectives"

Part II of a workshop in the framework of the ZASB key area "Politics and Governance" in conjunction with the University of Freiburg

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Photo: Helga Dickow

The Africa Centre for Transregional Research, the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (University Freiburg), the Basel Institute on Governance and the Centre for African Studies Basel are organising a workshop to deepen the exchange on issues of citizenship with a focus on East Africa.

Citizenship is not a stable condition, but subject to change. It is not a given, but has to be fought for. It can gradually dwindle in phases of public disengagement, motivated by disenchantment with a government or as a result of active exclusion. The workshop will address the temporal dimensions of fluctuating citizenship, affected by crisis, violent conflict and re-foundations of polities, which offer opportunities for mobilization (or resistance), but also potentially new constraints on civil rights.

Registration is open until 12 April 2024.

Chair: Saba Kassa, Basel Institute on Governance

09:30-10:30

Citizenship beyond the nation-state? Exploring the prospects of the envisioned East African Political Federation (keynote lecture)

Alexander Makulilo (University of Dar es Salaam)

10:30-11.00

Kenyan Citizenship Regime in the Light of Public Participation

Gloria Kenyatta (Freiburg University)

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:00

The African Union Border Program and Citizenship/Belonging Politics on the Malawi-Mozambique Borderland

Anusa Daimon (University of Malawi)

12:00-12.30

Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging in Switzerland Presentation

Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba (University of Basel)

12:30-12:40

Discussant

Michael Aeby (University of Basel)

12:40-13:00

Group discussion

 

 

Chair: Franzisca Zanker, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute

14.00-14:30

Competing Ideologies in the Construction of Post-Conflict Ethiopia. A Focus on Contested Citizenship

Catherine N’gang’a (University of Freiburg)

14:30-15:00

Awkward citizenship in Central Switzerland

Matthias Claudio Maurer Rueda (University of Basel)

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

 

15:30-16:00

Citizenship Rights in the Context of Violent Extremism in Northern Mozambique

Rufino Sitoe (University of Basel)

16:00 - 16.40

Discussant

Andreas Mehler (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute)

16:40-17:15

Group discussion

 

17:15-17:30

Reflective conclusion

 Elisio Macamo (University of Basel)

 

19.00: Evening lecture by Dr. Serawit B. Debele University of Bayreuth): “Genealogies of African Studies in Germany: An intersectional critique”
University of Freiburg, Room: KG I, Hörsaal 1098

 


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