African Studies in Canada: A sample of recent articles in CJAS
As the journal of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS), part of the Canadian Journal of African Studies (CJAS) mandate is to promote African Studies scholarship in Canada. This collection of recent articles, temporarily free-access to coincide with the annual CAAS conference, showcases work by researchers based in Canada and/or associated with CAAS or CJAS.
Writing on Angola, Jess Auerbach challenges researchers to embrace air and smell as productive ways of interpreting contemporary urban Africa. Sylvia Bawa & Obiora Chinedu Okafor apply a TWAIL lens to examine Canada–African Union engagements on human rights. In her CAAS Fraser Taylor Prize-winning article, Katie Carline explores women’s mobility and transportation in the late-apartheid urban landscape of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Nicolas Hubert’s piece teases out continuities from previous regimes in Burkina Faso’s ongoing security crisis. Rosalind Ragetlie and Isaac Luginaah show how food insecurity and masculinities intersect to reproduce inequality and violence against women in rural households in Benin. Titilayo Soremi uses the example of renewable energy policy transfer from the EU to ECOWAS to critique allyship narratives and interrogate the uneven power dynamics at play. Chris Gore’s Research Note, focused on Uganda and Tanzania, suggests directions for a research agenda on the politics of the Internet and social media. Finally, Aminata Cécile Mbaye and Marc Epprecht review eight recent books to engage current debates around sexual orientation, gender identities and expression.
Ranging across disciplines, topics, approaches and countries, the collection highlights the richness and diversity of African Studies in Canada. Sensitive to the contested terrain of academic research and publication, we invite you to read and engage with these and other CJAS articles – and to submit your own work to CJAS as we seek to strengthen intellectual engagement between Canada & Africa
Edited by
Belinda Dodson(Coordinating Editor, Canadian Journal of African Studies)