Deadline- 15 June, 2012
Countries/Region- Africa
CODESRIA was established in 1973. It is an independent pan-African research organization primarily focusing on social sciences research in Africa. It’s headquarter is in Dakar, Senegal and is committed to the development of African comparative research with a continental perspective.
Council for The Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) has come up with the comparative research network 2012. There is a new call of proposal for the African scholars to collaborate on social science research. The Council is inviting proposals from researchers based in African universities and centers of research on a broad range of topics that resonate with their strategic themes for 2012 -2016.
The aim of this program is to encourage the development and consolidation of a comparative analytic perspective in the work of African social researchers.
Priority research themes for the constitution of CRNs for 2012 include the following:
- Re-thinking (African) Development;
- Re-thinking Democracy (in Africa);
- African Encounters with the Global System;
- Engendering Democracy and Development;
- Transitions in African Higher Education;
- Reforming the African Public Sector: Retrospect and Prospect;
- The Changing Political Economy of African Natural Resources;
- The Popular Arts, Identity and Culture in Contemporary Africa;
- Health, Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa;
- Migration Dynamics and the Making of New Diaspora Communities;
- Changing Rural-Urban Linkages;
- African Integration and New Regionalist Impulses in Africa;
- New Institutions of Transitional Justice;
- Conflict and Reconstruction in Africa;
- Law, Politics and Society;
- State, Political Identity and Political Violence;
- Political Pluralism and the Management of Diversity;
- Water and Water Resources in the Political Economy of Development;
- Ecology, Climate and Environmental Sustainability in Africa;
- Transport and Transportation Systems in Africa;
- Africa and the “Emerging” Powers of the Global South (China, India, Brazil…)
- Religion, Spirituality and Power in Africa
- Democracy and Governance in Africa
- Media and New technology of information and communication in Africa
- Agrarian transformation
- Crises of Education
- Roles and dynamics of critical actors
- Critical Thought, epistemologies of knowledge production, theories and methodologies
Interested researchers are requested to focus clearly on the comparative question which they wish to address.
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