Project Details
Projekt
Temporal frames of reference in land conversions (C05)
Subject Area
African, American and Oceania Studies
Term
since 2018
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760
Project C05 continues research on the framing of the future and its implications for land use and the distribution of land by attending specifically to the conceptualization of generation and age in African social practice. Research in project C05 will cover both southern Africa and East Africa in order to investigate the role of social institutions related to “generation” and “age” regarding how agents position themselves in future-making and under changing conditions for their land-use practices. The project stimulates a move from largely geocentric framings of future-making to sociocentric framings.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
Applicant Institution
Universität zu Köln
Project Heads
Professorin Dr. Alice Mitchell, since 1/2022; Professor Dr. Thomas Widlok
