@AFRIGOS

AFRIcan GOvernance & Space: ERC funded academic research on transport corridors, border towns & port cities by @GeorgeNugybaby, @WolZeller, @JosefitoDabbol

 University of Edinburgh
sps.ed.ac.uk/research/research-project/afrigos
Joined April 2016
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Transport Corridors in Africa, the fruit of 6 years of collaboration under the ERC-funded @AFRIGOS project, is now freely available under open access @Boydell_Africa👇 bit.ly/3OMIFXX
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Elisa Gambino@drelisagambino7 Nov 2024
⏬Planning to submit a paper to #ECAS2025? If you are researching everyday brokerage, trade, and cooperation in the context of South-South engagement in Africa, consider submitting to the panel I co-convene with @cosfranceschini! 👇👇guarant.eu/ecasconference202… @GlobalDevInst
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📢 The first 3 volumes of the Yearbook on the @_AfricanUnion (2020, 2021, 2022) are now available as "open access" files ➡️ brill.com/display/serial/YBA… @BrillPublishing @ReCentGlobe @UNOAU_ @AUC_PAPS @APRMorg @au_ied @AUC_PAPS @issafrica @EUtoAU @GIZAfricanUnion @CRG_PoliticsIR
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Elisa Gambino@drelisagambino10 Jun 2024
🚨New publication out! Just in time for @regstud conference! Written with @R_Reboredo1, it explores the relationship between infrastructure and labour through the lens of suspension. The article is open access on @RSA_TPG 👇 doi.org/10.1080/21622671.202… @GlobalDevInst @AFRIGOS
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Bruce Byiers@BruceByiers6 Jun 2024
Looking forward to discussing Africa's @UNDPBorderlands - Trends, Insights and Opportunities next Tues based on past @ecdpm work on the political economy of different trade & transport corridors @AFRIGOS @TradeMarkAfrica @AfCFTANews
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One of many @AFRIGOS research outputs. Thanks again to all contributors & project members for their invaluable insight & effort! @GeorgeNugybaby @JosefitoDabbol @HughLamarque @drelisagambino @TZajontz @IsabS25 @ZHamoui @solietejosa @BruceByiers @AbdoulMohamado5 @ojwalther et al.
Boydell Africa@Boydell_Africa15 Apr 2024
In-depth examination of the inherent tensions and dynamics of transport corridors in #Africa. Available in paperback and as an #OpenAccess ebook. buff.ly/3VVugjl
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Tim Zajontz@TZajontz18 Mar 2024
📢Output from our @DecolonialityN research tandem: @ShangweliBeria & I write on "Geopolitics-𝑐𝑢𝑚-Geoeconomics in East Africa: New Scrambles and Omni-alignments"➡️shorturl.at/hjpDQ @CAAC_Network @IPSS_Addis @SCWObservatory @MT_Afrika @CamGeopolitics @ThabitSenior @Udadisi
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New Call for Co-Panelists - African Music and Popular Culture in a Globalizing World is looking for presenters like you! Read the full call and submit your abstract today. ow.ly/uiwn50QAKLF
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Elisa Gambino@drelisagambino9 Feb 2024
Excited to see this out!🚨Check out the chapter on labour relations in Sino-African construction sites 🚧 Based on the research I conducted in Lamu port construction site in Kenya, the chapter with @MandiraBugzy discusses the practice“living at work" as...
Hurst Publishers
@HurstPublishers8 Feb 2024
#AfricasGlobalInfrastructures, edited by @PoCoSecurity @eric_cezne @YifanMiaYang, is out now! How has infrastructure investment from the Global South impacted African policies and practices?@africaarguments ‘An excellent collection … innovative and empirically rich’ @ShaharHameiri GET 25% off w/code INFRASTRUCTURES25➡️tinyurl.com/53mz99wx
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Tim Zajontz@TZajontz24 Nov 2023
🥁📢My book is out now with @Palgrave. ➡️doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44… Thanks to family & friends for their support! 🙏 Some pretty wise people read the manuscript & said pretty kind things about it. 👇🧵@PW_UniFreiburg @DecolonialityN @SCWObservatory @CAAC_Network @ChinaGSProject
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📢The 3rd volume of the Yearbook on the @_AfricanUnion is out now with @BrillPublishing. It covers developments in all major policy fields throughout 2022.➡️brill.com/display/title/6497… A🧵on the book content. 👇
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Elisa Gambino@drelisagambino16 Nov 2023
🚨AISAC Conference 2024 🚨 @AISAfricaCina is excited to open the CfP for the conference titled "Africa and China: Actors, Methods, and Geopolitics in the Everyday", to be held in Padua on 12th April 2024. Check out the conference themes 👇
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Tim Zajontz@TZajontz12 Nov 2023
Replying to @EKMatambo
@EKMatambo, @alykhansatchu & myself spoke to @SCMPNews about the future of Africa's 'Freedom Railway' @TAZARAHQ & about competition between #China & "the West" to control transport corridors across Africa👉shorturl.at/isE36 @PW_UniFreiburg @DecolonialityN @SCWObservatory
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Tim Zajontz@TZajontz7 Nov 2023
Join us this Thursday for the fall panel of the China-Africa Working Group @africa_uf. We will discuss the role of #connectivity and #railway politics in Africa-China relations. Details & registration👉shorturl.at/bkuM6 @CAAC_Network @ACT_UniFreiburg @DecolonialityN
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Tim Zajontz@TZajontz30 Oct 2023
Many thanks to Sören Scholvin (@UCNorte) for this constructive-critical review of our book on #China's role in #Africa's #RailwayRenaissance (published by @routledgebooks)➡️shorturl.at/beft3 For those interested in the book: 20% discount with code AFL03. @TandF_Africa
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Tim Zajontz@TZajontz19 Oct 2023
🚂 Join us for tomorrow's discussion on #China's role in Africa's #RailwayRenaissance and the wider #geopolitics-cum-#geoeconomics surrounding African #infrastructure - co-hosted by @USChinaGU & @HUCenterAfrica. @PW_UniFreiburg @SCWObservatory @CAAC_Network @CRG_PoliticsIR
HU Center for African Studies@HUCenterAfrica19 Oct 2023
Join us TOMORROW for a Book Talk on zoom, hosted by Georgetown University's Africa-China Initiative, on Africa's Railway Renaissance: The Role and Impact of China. bit.ly/ACIRailway2023
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Tim Zajontz@TZajontz5 Oct 2023
In July, I sat down with 2 of my favourite colleagues, @seth_schindler & @jessicamdicarlo, to discuss contemporary geopolitical developments across #Africa. Listen to some of my views - as a student of Africa - on this Roundtable podcast. @SCWObservatory
Second Cold War Observatory@SCWObservatory5 Oct 2023
What does the Second Cold War mean for Africa? We put this question to Tim Zajontz, and discussed Africa's 'railway renaissance,' infrastructure, livelihoods, geopolitics, corridors, mining and more... Listen on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/6Ue…
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Tim Zajontz@TZajontz11 Sep 2023
Open access article, co-authored with Kjeld van Wieringen, on #China's "turn" towards #PPPs in #Africa as a means to "metagovern" the #BRI is out now in @GIGA_Institute's Journal of Current Chinese Affairs👉shorturl.at/nrsDZ @CAAC_Network @SCWObservatory @ChinaGSProject
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A sneak peek at the 3rd volume of the Yearbook on the @_AfricanUnion, edited by Ulf Engel (@ReCentGlobe) & published by @BrillPublishing. The ebook will come out in November, the print shortly thereafter. @tmurithi12 @cherylhen @DawitYK @BruceByiers @_IJR_ @TZajontz @tiekutom
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Tim Zajontz@TZajontz10 Aug 2023
🚂🌍🇨🇳 These beauties just arrived. You can order your (e)copy here ➡️ shorturl.at/agmpW A 20% discount applies when using the code AFL02. @TandF_Africa @GSW_TUDresden @CAAC_Network @ChinaGSProject @lajohnstondr @ShangweliBeria @Udadisi @DKopinski @Hangwei_Li @SaisCari
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Timely book on Africa's Railway Renaissance, with contributions from @AFRIGOS researchers @TZajontz and @HughLamarque. ➡️ routledge.com/Africas-Railwa…

Africa’s Railway Renaissance: The Role and Impact of China

This book investigates the history, political economy and spatiality of Chinese railway projects in Africa. It examines the financial governance of Sino-African railway projects, their socio-cultur...

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Tim Zajontz@TZajontz7 Jul 2023
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