NAI's researcher Maria Malmström participates in a workshop in Alexandria, Egypt May 27-28 with the title 'Affective politics in transitional North Africa: imagining the future'. The conference is a collaboration between NAI and Swedish Institute Alexandria (SwedAlex).
In the aftermath of the 2011 uprisings and the recent instability of North African societies, European policy makers and academics alike have tended to overlook the most powerful link: the one between politics and affect. How do people sense and express the aftermath of the “Arab Spring”?
Read the complete article by Maria Malmström (pdf opens in new window).
Last year, the State Treasury was given the task to investigate the Nordic Africa Institute's role and function by the Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson. The result of the review was presented in March 2013. The proposal is to conform the Institute's research and library together with an university (University of Uppsala is mentioned). Carin Norberg, former Director of the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) does not think the suggested solution is a good one.
– My suggestion is to keep the institute as an independent organization, appoint a board for a clearer control and give the business an annual grant. Then, NAI can compete with the best institutions in the world, she says in an article on biståndsdebatten.se (in Swedish, opens in new window).
Inequality in Africa is increasing despite a growing economic growth. The growth mainly derives from export of raw material which is manufactured elsewhere. Inequality increases because foreign investments seldom lead to job opportunities in Africa and too often only favor local elites.
– It is a challenge to get investments that develop the agricultural sector and also result in domestic manufacturing industries, says NAI researcher Mats Hårsmar to Swedish radio.
Listen to interview with Mats Hårsmar due to that five Swedish ministers went to World Economic Forum in Cape Town (in Swedish, opens in new window).
The 'Africa/has/the/floor: a photo exhibition' includes photographs of 20 of the African writers who visited the Göteborg Book Fair 2010. The exhibition is available in digital format to download free of charge.
View the photographs and learn more about how you can create your own exhibition.
NAI researcher Francis Matambalya will May 22 hold a lecture in Stockholm for the Ambassadors from the SADC-countries in Nordic and Baltic states on the theme “Trading-Up Through Strategic Partnership for Economic Emancipation and Development".
Monday May 27, seminar at National Museum of Iceland, 'Urban jungles? Researching African cities'
The following researchers from NAI's Urban Dynamics Cluster will participate: Annika Teppo, Andrew Byerley, Marianne Millstein and Onyanta Adama. Read about this research cluster here.
27-28 May, conference in Alexandria, Egypt. "Affective politics in transitional North Africa: imagining the future".NAI researcher Maria Malmström participates.
Tuesday May 28, lecture, discussion and book release in Uppsala, 'Welfare, Religion and Gender in Post-apartheid South Africa'. NAI researcher Marianne Millstein participates.
More information at our Events-page.
From the lecture Wednesday May 15th: The current wave of Large scale agro-investments in Africa – a new form of imperialism or benefits for rural Africa? (opens in new window) with Prosper Matondi, PhD, Director of Ruzivo Trust, Zimbabwe. No special program is needed to view the film.
– Discrimination against people with a different ethnic background is something that exists in society in general and also in the humanitarian and development aid organizations, says NAI researcher Maria Eriksson Baaz in an article in the newspaper OmVärlden (in Swedish, opens in new window) .
ECAS 5, 27-29 June (note the changed date) 2013 in Lisbon. Theme of ECAS 5: 'African dynamics in a multipolar world'. List of all panels is available here (opens in new window).
Several NAI-researchers are organizing panels at ECAS 5 - more information here.
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NAI’s research is organised into distinct research clusters. The current research clusters are:
Rural Cluster
Agrarian Change, Property and Resources
Conflict Cluster
Conflict, Security and Democratic Transformation
African International Links Cluster
Trade, Migration and Cooperation
Urban Cluster
Urban Dynamics
Some lectures, seminars and other program activities of the Nordic Africa Institute are filmed and/or saved on audiofile - click here to see the list of filmed events or to search the archive.
Please note - no special program is needed to view the filmed events.
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