Contestations along frontiers in East Africa (B03)

• Subject Area: Political Science ; Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760

B03 applies the concept of frontiers – shifting socio-spatial boundaries, defined by an expansive social order that is pushing into new terrain – to analyse the relations between future-making and dynamics of violence in East Africa. In phase 2 the concept is turned into an analytical tool for undertaking systematic and comparative empirical research of development corridors in Kenya and Tanzania. By investigating the interrelations between future-making practices at frontiers and violence, the project contributes to the debate on boundary-making as one of the CRC’s bridging concepts.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 228: Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Privatdozentin Dr. Elke Grawert, until 12/2021; Professor Dr. Conrad Justus Schetter