Pan-African Frontiers And Identities: The Remaking Of Africa In World Politics

泛非边界和身份：世界政治中非洲的重塑

• 批准号: MR/W012103/1
• 负责人: Daniel Mulugeta
• 金额: $ 153.85万
• 依托单位: School of Oriental and African Studies
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FW012103%2F1
• 关键词: Pan; African; Frontiers; Identities; Remaking

This project will for the first time bring together contemporary policy discourse around pan-Africanism with a broader analysis of it as an ideology with a long-standing and multi-faceted tradition and history. The idea of pan-Africanism first emerged among Africans in the diaspora, especially in America and the Caribbean Islands. Originally a cultural and intellectual movement that challenged racial definitions and the segregation of people of African descent in the diaspora, it was eventually adopted by African nationalists like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana in the 1950s as a philosophy for anti-colonial struggle. It later evolved into a drive for political independence in the new states created by colonial rule. Since the 1980s, pan-Africanism has become topical in new ways in Africa, utilised for policy purposes in the Africa Union's regional integration and international relations strategy. It has been used to frame collective responses to huge policy-challenges, from conflict to development, as well as forming the basis for exploring African and diaspora values and identities. Its re-mobilisation as a policy tool and resource of identification is leveraged to alter structures and practices of governance, reconfiguring relationships between the AU and its member states, the continent and its diaspora, and Africa within the international system.However, pan-African projects have often delivered poor results in fostering regional peace, development and global solidarity. Despite its repeated failures, the policy consensus is that technical solutions to the problem of how the concept should be operationalised would yield better outcomes. There are therefore increasing efforts to establish institutional reforms, to improve policy and to bring practice more in line with the pan-African dreams. Millions of dollars are spent on such reform programmes. Although there is a growing critical body of research on why pan-African initiatives fail, we still cannot answer with any confidence the questions: why, even though the aspirations of pan-Africanism are increasingly hard to fulfil, and despite the failure of the idea to deliver on its lofty promises, does it continue to attract such high expectations in popular politics and policymaking; why is it taken for granted and what alternative ways of thinking about pan-Africanism should there be?The project explores these questions by drawing on studies of specific security and development policy in three regional institutions: the AU, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD); across six African countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia and South Africa), and in diaspora identities in Afro-diaspora communities in the UK. We will employ a pioneering multi-level research approach that combines an exploration of top-down institutional and policy processes with the bottom-up identity narratives of African citizens in different parts of the continent and members of the Afro-diaspora in the UK. We will collect empirical data using interviews, focus groups and 'focused ethnography' and apply cross-site comparative analysis to develop a novel located and pluralist understanding of pan-Africanism. Drawing upon new empirical research and the rich body of existing literature on pan-Africanism, we will systematically bring together the diverse intellectual engagement of the concept with its contemporary application in policy.The project seeks to bridge gaps between theory, policy and practice and maximise impact by engaging with policymakers and practitioners and working closely with 4 African and 2 UK organisations. The research will be disseminated through academic publications and conferences, policy papers and a series of knowledge exchange and stakeholder engagement workshops across Africa and in the UK.

该项目将首次将当代关于泛非主义的政策论述与对泛非主义作为一种具有长期和多方面传统和历史的意识形态的更广泛分析结合起来。泛非主义的思想首先出现在散居的非洲人中，特别是在美洲和加勒比群岛。它最初是一个挑战种族定义和非洲裔人在散居地隔离的文化和知识运动，最终被加纳的Kwame Nkrumah等非洲民族主义者在20世纪50年代采用，作为反殖民斗争的哲学。它后来演变为殖民统治所创建的新国家的政治独立。自1980年代以来，泛非主义以新的方式成为非洲的热门话题，被用于非洲联盟区域一体化和国际关系战略的政策目的。它已被用来制定集体应对巨大的政策挑战，从冲突到发展，以及形成探索非洲和散居地的价值观和身份的基础。它作为一种政策工具和识别资源的重新动员被用来改变治理结构和实践，重新配置Au及其成员国之间的关系，非洲大陆及其侨民，以及非洲在国际体系中的关系，然而，泛非项目在促进区域和平，发展和全球团结方面往往效果不佳。尽管一再失败，但政策共识是，如何操作这一概念的技术解决方案将产生更好的结果。因此，正在加紧努力进行体制改革，改进政策，使实践更符合泛非梦想。在这些改革方案上花费了数百万美元。尽管越来越多的人对泛非倡议失败的原因进行了批评性研究，但我们仍然无法有信心地回答以下问题：尽管泛非主义的愿望越来越难以实现，尽管这一想法未能兑现其崇高的承诺，但它为什么继续在民众政治和决策中引起如此高的期望;为什么它被认为是理所当然的，应该有什么替代的方式来思考泛非主义？该项目通过借鉴对三个区域机构（Au，西非国家经济共同体（ECOWAS）和非洲发展新伙伴关系（NEPAD））的具体安全和发展政策的研究来探讨这些问题;在六个非洲国家（埃塞俄比亚，加纳，马里，尼日利亚，索马里和南非），以及英国非洲移民社区的移民身份。我们将采用一种开创性的多层次研究方法，将自上而下的制度和政策过程的探索与非洲大陆不同地区的非洲公民和英国非洲侨民成员的自下而上的身份叙述相结合。我们将使用访谈，焦点小组和“重点民族志”收集经验数据，并应用跨站点比较分析，以开发一个新的定位和泛非主义的多元理解。借鉴新的实证研究和泛非主义的现有文献的丰富的身体，我们将系统地汇集了概念与其当代应用在policy.The项目旨在弥合理论，政策和实践之间的差距，并通过与政策制定者和从业者接触，并与4个非洲和2个英国组织密切合作，最大限度地发挥影响的不同智力参与。该研究将通过学术出版物和会议、政策文件以及一系列知识交流和利益攸关方参与研讨会在非洲和英国传播。

项目成果

Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters , edited by Wale Adebanwi, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2022, xxi + 427 pp. edited by Wale Adebanwi, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2022, xxi + 427 pp.

非洲的日常国家与民主：民族志的遭遇 非洲的日常国家与民主：民族志的遭遇，由 Wale Adebanwi，俄亥俄州雅典，俄亥俄大学出版社编辑，2022 年，xxi 427 页。由 Wale Adebanwi，俄亥俄州雅典，俄亥俄大学出版社编辑

• DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2023.2286794
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines
• 作者: Mulugeta D