DAKAR, 2023
Presentation
Les Ateliers de la Pensée & Global Africa
Since 2018, Les Ateliers de la Pensée de Dakar (ADLP) in association with the Consortium des Instituts pour les Humanités (CHCI) have set up a Doctoral School whose primary objective is to contribute to the empirical, methodological and theoretical imagination renewal in the study of Africa and, more generally, the dynamics of transformation in contexts of instability and uncertainty.
This 2024 edition will be held in partnership with the Global Africa program, supported by Université Gaston Berger (Senegal), IRD, UIR and LASDEL. Global Africa's Junior Researchers’ Institute (JRI) has been set up to help young African researchers integrate into scientific communities in the social sciences, thereby enabling them to play an active role in shaping the world's knowledge. The Junior Researchers’ Institute is an essential component of the Global Africa project.
In particular, the School aims to introduce participants to contemporary transnational debates on new knowledge and global issues, from a continental and diasporic African perspective.
The work resulting from the joint ADLP & Doctoral School will be the subject of a special issue to be published in March 2025 in Global Africa.
Dakar, 2024
New economic paradigms: rethinking and reinventing the economic order
The 2024 Session of the Doctoral School will take place in Dakar (Senegal) from July 8 to 13, 2024.
All costs associated with the School will be fully covered by the ADLP and the JRI of GA.
The working languages are French and English.
Session 2024 will bring together participants from Africa and its diasporas. Priority will be given to those in the early stages of their thesis, as well as to more advanced doctoral students and post-docs.
The selection of the 20 applications will be based on the candidates' ability to identify and justify their research theme in relation to the theme of this session of the Doctoral School, to explain their problematic and their questions, and to detail the methods they intend to use. Particular attention will be paid to themes requiring fieldwork, and to dossiers describing how this fieldwork will be carried out.
The dossier must include:
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A note (5-7 pages maximum) clearly indicating (1) the theme of the research; (2) the state of knowledge or literature on the theme; (3) the problematic or main questions to which the research seeks to answer; (4) the survey methods chosen.
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A letter of recommendation from your supervisor.
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Proof of registration for a doctoral thesis or research/creation thesis.
Schedule:
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Receipt of submissions : January 23 to March 25, 2024 12.00 am (UTC)
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Replies to applicants : April 15, 2024
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Mentoring : May-June 2024
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Doctoral School : July 8-13, 2024 (arrival in Dakar on July 6/7)
APPLICATIONS by email
edadlpapply@gmail.com
The laureates
Pierfela-Joriane MAGANGA MABIKA (Gabon)
Osaka Metropolitan University / Lives in Japan.
Theme of research : Economic development and its sustainability in less developed economies.
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Isaac Martin STANLEY (United Kingdom)
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) / Lives in the UK. Programme of study : PhD in Anthropology.
Theme of research : Solidarity on the road to "emergence"? Understanding the "social and solidarity Economy" in contemporary Senegal.
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Fatoumata-Lucie SANOU (Ivory Coast)
Lives in Burkina Faso.
Independent consultant in agronomy and rural sociology.
Theme of research : Get rid of the economy. How can we create the conditions for choosing and protecting our organic way of life?
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Eyumane BAOULÉ ASSENGONE (France)
Founder and director of Bä tisseurs, Senegal / Lives in Senegal.
Theme of the research : New paths for society, for African societies.
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Jean Emmanuel MINKO A BITEGNI (Cameroon)
University of Maroua (Law and political sciences) / Lives in Canada. Programme of study : PhD “At the heart of the daily life of Cameroon government : a strategic combination of land redistribution in the Logone and Chari region“.
Theme of research : Political economy of land extractivism, Anthropocene and the 'encommunity' in rural Mbandjock, Cameroon.
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Sofia SCIALOGA (Italy)
Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Superiore Sant Anna (Pisa, Italia) /
Lives in Italy.
2nd yearling PhD "Transnational gouvernance".
Theme of research : The African agency(ies) in the reconfiguring multipolar global order (tentative).
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Fogha Mc CORNILIUS REFEM (Cameroon)
Universität Potsdam / Lives in Germany.
PhD Fellow, DFG Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms Department of English and American Studies.
Theme of research : Beyond Economics: Reimagining Relational Praxis for an Ecology of Well-Being.
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Morgane GONON (France)
Université Paris-Saclay / Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research / Lives in France and Senegal.
Doctoral student, Doctoral School of Agriculture, Food, Biology, Environment and Health.
Theme of research : A structural perspective on the economics of ecological restoration.
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Abdul-AZiz DEMBELE (Ivory Coast)
Université Rennes 2, Laboratoire de Recherches en Innovations Sociétales (LiRIS)/ Lives in France.
Doctoral student in Sociology, UFR Human Sciences.
Theme of research : A socio-anthropology of work in an African context. A case study from Ivory Coast.
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Titilayo Shakirat FOLARORI (Nigeria)
Bells University of Technology, College of Management Sciences, Ogun State/ Lives in Nigeria.
Doctoral student, Department of Business Administration.
Theme of research : What is good Economy for Africa? Reinventing digital inclusion to promote a sustainable Economy in Nigeria.
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Gabriel Harimamy RAOELISON (Madagascar)
Université Catholique de Madagascar / Live in Madagascar.
Doctoral student, Doctoral School "Ethics for Human and Social, Legal and Political Development".
Theme of research : Reconciling the economic needs of different actors with Madagascar's socio-cultural and historical realities: a source of new dynamics in natural resource management; the case of the Antrema bicultural site.
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Patrice Pascal BEKADA ONANA (Cameroon)
Université de Yaoundé Il / Lives in Cameroon.
Doctor in Political Science, young researcher member of the Chair
"Global Health in Africa. Norms, Policies, Markets".
Theme of research : Access to resources and the digital economy : analyzing the impact of current economic changes on social inclusion.
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Olawale Olufemi AKINRINDE (Nigeria)
University of Johannesburg / Lives in South Africa.
Doctor of Philosophy, Defence and Strategic Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Theme of research : Unveiling Africa's role in the shirting global economic landscape: crafting a path to progress.
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Fadel Soubiane BAH (Cameroon)
Université de Ngaoundéré, Cameroun / Live in Cameroun.
PHD, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Theme of research : Tijâniyya and the question of economic order in Cameroon : status, contributions and influences.
The mentors
Felwine SARR
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Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese writer and academic. He is Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University in North Carolina, after having taught at the Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal, where he is Professeur Titulaire des Universités and agrégé in economics. His academic work focuses on the ecology of knowledge, contemporary African philosophy and economic policy, epistemology, economic anthropology and the history of religious ideas.
In 2016, together with historian Achille Mbembé, he founded the Ateliers de la pensée de Dakar, a platform that brings together intellectuals and artists from the Continent and diasporas to think about the challenges of the contemporary world.
Mame-Penda BA
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Mame-Penda Ba is Associate Professor of Political Science at the UFR Sciences juridiques et politiques of the Université Gaston-Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal.
She is Director of Laspad (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en sciences humaines et sociales) and Editor-in-Chief of Global Africa, a new multilingual pan-African journal on global issues, published quarterly and available in Open Access. Mame-Penda Ba is Executive Secretary of the African Studies Association for Africa (ASAA) and a member of several international research networks, including Critical Investigations on Humanitarianism in Africa (Cihablog). Her work focuses on public policy analysis (education, research, health, gender, decentralization, digital).
Diego LANDIVAR
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Diego Landivar is a Franco-Bolivian economist and anthropologist. His research focuses on anthropological reconfigurations induced by climate change and ecological collapse. He is a lecturer and researcher at Groupe ESC Clermont, where since 2011 he has been leading various courses on the anthropocene and sustainability. He co-founded the Origens research team in Clermont-Ferrand. His first investigations focused on constituent assemblies in Latin America, the law of entities of nature and political animism. His current work focuses on the ecology of the Technosphere, with an eye to modern infrastructures, techniques and organizations and their ecological fragilities. In collaboration with E. Bonnet and A. Monnin, he has published Monnin, "Héritage et Fermeture. Une écologie du démantélement" (Ed. Divergences).
Michaeline CRICHLOW
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Michaeline Crichlow is currently a professor at Duke University, in the Department of African and African-American Studies. She is a Senior Fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Honorary Professor at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica.Her research focuses on the Caribbean as a globalized place.She has published widely on rurality, creolization and development, and is interested in race, postcolonialism, decolonization and development. Her latest co-edited publication is "Raceand Rurality in the Global Economy"(SUNY Albany Press 2018), as well as "The Moral Economy of Markets, Raceand Lessons from COVID-19" (2021). Her current book project focuses on Hispaniola and is provisionally entitled "Vistas Violence and the Politics of Place".
She also writes on customary land tenure in the Caribbean and recently completed an essay for Small Axe magazine, "Of Realities and Possibilities", an exploration of Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" interest in decolonial projects today. She co-directs "Climate Change, Decolonization and global Blackness", a project of the FranklinHumanities Institute at Duke University, and is editor of the journal "Cultural Dynamics: InsurgentScholarship on Culture, Power and Politics".
Bocar BA
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Bocar Ba is Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke University and a Research Affiliate of the National Bureau ofEconomic Research. Drawing on perspectives from the labor economics and political economy literatures, he seeks to understand police use of force, the general behavior of police officers, and what cities expect from their local law enforcement agencies. His recent work focuses on evaluating ways to reduce the scope of police action in our society, and on assessing the demands of abolitionists. In collaboration with the Invisible Institute, he developed the website cpdp.co, which collects information on Chicago police officers, including misconduct, use of force and rewards. He is also an academic advisor to policescorecards.org andmappingpoliceviolence.org, websites that collect information on police performance and deaths caused by law enforcement in the USA.
His research on policing and public safety has appeared in Science, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Reviewof Economic Statistics, and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. He holds a BSc in Economics from the Université du Québec à Montréal, an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia, and an MPP/PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.
Binta Zahra DIOP
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Binta Zahra Diop is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the King Center on Global Development. Her work aims to understand migration and location choices of people under constraints, both positive (driven by central policy choices) and normative (from fairness principles). Binta received her PhD in economics at the University of Oxford and she will be joining Boston College as an assistant professor in 2025.
Muhammad BA
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Dr. Muhammad BA is a teacher-researcher in economics at the Gaston Berger University of Saint Louis, Senegal. He teaches Development Theory and Epistemology in the Department of Economics. His research focuses on questions of economic philosophy (well-being, social choice, rationality, distributive justice, etc.) in the field of development economics.
In addition to the research begun in his doctoral thesis, Muhammad BA is interested in studying the economicities of African societies through the economics of life, bioeconomics and the charismatic economy of Christian monasteries in Africa.