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Subject(s)

• Africa—Research—Congresses [Browse]
• Area studies—Africa—Congresses [Browse]
• Africa—Study and teaching—Congresses [Browse]
• Africana libraries—Congresses [Browse]

Editor

• Fendler, Ute [Browse]
• Löhr, Doris [Browse]

Summary note

"The book "African Studies Centres Around the World - A Network-Based Inventory" compiles a selection of contributions by the directors of eleven African Studies centres from four continents. They comprise Africa's oldest centre on the continent, at the University of Cape Town, the European centres in Bordeaux, Lisbon and Hradec Králové and the two North American Universities of Florida and Indiana. Central and South America's contributions to African Studies is represented by the centres in San José, Costa Rica, Santiago de Cuba and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The Asian centres are located at Jawaharlal University in Mumbai, India, and at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea. The eleven chapters show the very diverse history of the centres, explaining their different structures, underpinning the need for more exchange and collaborative research. The volume presents some aspects of the ongoing critical reflections on the historical and political development of African Studies in various parts of the world, disseminating first-hand knowledge while the chapters encourage to open the exchange and collaboration across regional, disciplinary and academic boundaries."-- Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• African Studies centres around the world : a network-based inventory / Ute Fendler & Doris Löhr
• Gazing into the past to transform the future : fifty years of teaching and research on African Studies at the University of Florida / Akintúndé Akínyémí
• African Studies in India : evolution and challenges / Aparajita Biswas
• Decolonizing images and representations about Africa and its descendants : the case of Central America and Costa Rica / Rina Cáceres
• The history of African Studies in Korea : forty years of its academic development / Yongkyu Chang
• The African presence in the Caribbean : some considerations / Marta E. Cordiés Jackson
• The African Studies program at Indiana University Bloomington (USA) / John H. Hanson
• African Studies at UCT: an overview / Lungisile Ntsebeza
• Challenges and new possibilities : African Studies in Brazil and the South-South connection / Livio Sansone
• Historicity : the primacy of contexts, connections, and networks : the case of the international project "African Ivories in the Atlantic World" / José da Silva Horta, Carlos Almeida
• African Studies in East-Central Europe / Petr Skalník
• Is there a French touch to African Studies? / Céline Thiriot.

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Other title(s)

Proceedings of an international workshop held at the Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, December 2017

ISBN

• 9783954771387 (paperback)
• 3954771381 (paperback)

OCLC

1405420555

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