Dienstag, 06. Dezember 2022, 17:15 - 19:00 iCal

Mobility #13 with Marja Hinfelaar

Research mobilities in the Covid-era: A Southern African perspective

Department of African Studies, Seminarraum 1
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 5, 1090 Vienna

Hybrider Event (an einem physischen Ort und online)


The COVID-19 pandemic hastened a process that was already under debate, namely the reshaping of north-south cooperation in the academic world. The lack of physical mobility led to a virtual academic mobility, in which physical presence was no longer a requirement to take part in conferences, seminars and journal board meetings. It reignited the debate on knowledge co-production, knowledge construction and the role of the local research assistant. The increased research demands on the south during the pandemic to fill the fieldwork void led to an increased competition on the ground, but also resulted in an enhanced regional cooperation.

 

Moving toward the post-COVID 19 era, patterns of uneven mobility and cooperation are remerging, as they are still fundamentally steeped in matters of access to resources and consequent power/influence. This lecture uses the pandemic-era experience of a research institute in Zambia to add on a Southern African perspective to illuminate these dynamics.

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Veranstalter

Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies, Department of African Studies


Kontakt

Daniela Atanasova
Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies
+43-1-4277-25604
daniela.atanasova@univie.ac.at