This workshop aims to facilitate a discussion about the expectations, challenges, and realities of fieldwork while examining approaches that are more inclusive of local communities and collaborators. Topics to be discussed: Expectations and challenges Reconciling expectations vs realities Conducting research that is equitable & ethical Transforming research practices from extractive (“helicopter science”) into inclusive Importance …
DISCUSSANT: Professor Istvan Tarrosy, Ph.D., Dr. habil. University of Pécs and University of Florida Abstracts of the talks: The Political Economy of China’s Globalizing Railways – and their Arrival in Africa Tim Zajontz will sketch the historical development of China’s own railway sector and document the centrality of railways in the current spatial reorganization …
Black Seine, White Masks Kevi Donat, Le Paris Noir Paris used to be the capital city of a massive colonial Empire. That legacy shows in its architecture, its culture, and its people. But 21st-century France is not comfortable talking about race. The French Republic does not acknowledge race and most French people are quite defensive when …
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