USAfricadialogues family, please see our call for papers for a panel that yours truly and Sara Katz are proposing for this year's African Studies Association conference in Atlanta, USA. Please let me know if you have a paper on the broad theme of African travel and mobilities, plan to attend the conference, and would like to join our panel. Here's a draft of the panel description.
The Emotional Economies of African Travel
Panel Co-chairs: Sara Katz and Moses Ochonu
The study of African mobilities is by no means new; topics such as the trans-Saharan trade, the Bantu expansion, and the rise of migratory labor in response to new colonial economies (particularly in the case of mining) and opportunities in the global North, have long been subjects of scholarship in African studies. More recently, in the last decade many scholars have participated in a revival in the study of African mobilities, and advanced important critiques of earlier literature, stressing the need for more Africa-centered narratives and conceptions of travel.
Despite important advancement, the literature remains primarily instrumental in its analysis of the motives behind African mobility and travel. This panel seeks to challenge this tendency by presenting papers that explore the emotional economies of African travel and aims to address the following questions: First, even when Africans travel for ostensibly pragmatic reasons (trade, education, politics, religious pilgrimage), what role do emotions (excitement, fear, joy, trust, amazement, boredom, anticipation, disappointment, indifference) play in the motivation to travel and to where, as well as in its experience and memory? Second, what can Africa-centered studies of mobility and travel contribute to the literature on affect? And third, how might attending to affect better reveal the material conditions of travel and economic exchange? When answering any of these questions, in line with the theme of ASA 2018, the panel seeks to consider what emotional states emerge as a result of African travel, and to theorize why these matter at multiple scales and speak to different disciplinary concerns.
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