African Dynamics in a Multipolar World

Ulf Engel, Dr. phil. and habil. (1962), is Professor for African Politics at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He is also regularly working at the universities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Stellenbosch, South Africa, respectively. He publishes on peace and security in Africa, and new spatialities of power.Manuel João Ramos, PhD. and habil. (1960), is Associate Professor in Anthropology at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon and Senior Researcher of the Centre of African Studies of the same Institute. He publishes on Ethiopian Studies, Heritage Studies, and on risk and conflict.

• CONTENTSAbout the authors African dynamics in a multipolar worldUlf Engel and Manuel Joao RamosMaputo home spaces: Working for a Home, Working at HomeAna Bénard da Costa and Adriano BizaChanging patterns of intimacy among young people in Africa Alcinda HonwanaListening and archiving migrant voices: How it all beganAlessandro TriulziOvercoming the cost to Africa of being a good neighbour to Denmark: Unconstrained geography as an alternative to the end of historyJohn DaviesCorporate social responsibility in Africa: New trends for development? A new field for African studies?Virginie TallioAfrica’s demographics: a threat or a bonus?Ana Pires de CarvalhoDoctoral studies in sub-Saharan Africa and the planned RESSESA interventionPaulos Chanie and Paschal B. MihyoAfrica globalized? Multipolarity and the paradoxes of time-space compressionPreben Kaarsholm‘The road to Sudan, a pipe dream?’ Kenya’s new infrastructural dispensation in a multipolar worldMark LamontThe compulsion to do the right thing: Development knowledge and its limitsElisio MacamoThe study of Africa in a multipolar world A perspective from withinEbrima SallIndex