Oral Presentation Session - Volunteered

Reviewed by: Association for Africanist Anthropology

(3-0160) Politics in the Public Sphere: Case Studies from Across Africa

Presenter(s)

• Zebulon Dingley

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of Rochester

• Wangui Kimari

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town

• claudia prempeh

  Junior Fellow
  BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth

Chair(s)

• Helle Samuelsen

  Head of Dept. Associate Professor
  Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

Presenter(s)

• Helle Samuelsen

  Head of Dept. Associate Professor
  Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

  Imperial remains and imperial invitations: Theorizing fugitivity and raw life within the infrastructure(s) of African cities
  Wangui Kimari – African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
• 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

  Politics by Night: Contemporary Organ Theft Rumor in Coastal Kenya
  Zebulon York Dingley – University of Rochester
• 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

  Dumsor’: how persistent power outages triggered citizen activism in Ghana
  claudia serwah prempeh – BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth
• 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

  Fragile Futures in Times of Conflict: Citizenship and the 'absent-present' state
  Helle Samuelsen – Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen