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DESCRIPTION:This call is for co-panelists for the session\, "Streets as Liv
 ing Archives: Bodies\, Movement\, and Alternative Epistemologies in Urban 
 Africa" at the African Studies Association's Annual Meeting in Atlanta\, G
 eorgia\, November 20-22\, 2025.&nbsp\; To see all sessions at ASA2025\, vi
 sit https://africanstudies.org/annual-meetings/2025-call-for-co-panelists/
 &nbsp\;Panel session description:In recent years\, urban studies of Africa
  have grappled with a persistent epistemological challenge: how to theoriz
 e city life beyond frameworks inherited from Global North traditions. This
  panel calls for abstract submissions that address this challenge by exami
 ning how African streets and the bodies that give them life constitute vit
 al but often overlooked repositories of urban knowledge and theoretical in
 novation. This call seeks contributions that explore how street life gener
 ates distinctive epistemological frameworks through the daily choreography
  of bodies &ndash\; from market women and street vendors to public transpo
 rtation workers and pedestrians &ndash\; producing what can be termed &ldq
 uo\;corporeal cartographies&rdquo\; that map alternative understandings of
  African urban space\, time\, and sociocultural relations. Contributions t
 hat examine how bodies navigate\, claim\, and transform street spaces and 
 how street-based epistemologies offer crucial insights into questions of s
 overeignty\, belonging\, cultural production\, and urban futures are invit
 ed. This call addresses some key questions\, including\, but not limited t
 o\, the following: How do embodied practices and everyday movements in Afr
 ican urban streets generate theoretical frameworks that extend beyond conv
 entional urban theory? What forms of knowledge and understanding about urb
 an life emerge when we conceptualize African streets as living archives ra
 ther than mere infrastructure? How do the intersections of bodies\, space\
 , and movement in African streets produce alternative ways of knowing that
  challenge established academic paradigms? In what ways can street-based e
 pistemologies inform broader debates about sovereignty\, citizenship\, cul
 tural production\, and urban futures in Africa and beyond?This panel seeks
  to advance recent calls to recognize African knowledge production in unex
 pected places\, particularly in everyday practices that challenge academic
  conventions about what constitutes theory.For submissions\, please send a
  250-word abstract and a short bio to Bankole Wright (bbank015@fiu.edu) by
  March 9\, 2025.
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SUMMARY:Streets as Living Archives: Bodies\, Movement\, and Alternative Epi
 stemologies in Urban Africa
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>This call is for co-panelists for the sessi
 on\, "Streets as Living Archives: Bodies\, Movement\, and Alternative Epis
 temologies in Urban Africa" at the African Studies Association's Annual Me
 eting in Atlanta\, Georgia\, November 20-22\, 2025.&nbsp\; To see all sess
 ions at ASA2025\, visit &nbsp\;</p><p><strong>Panel session descrip
 tion:</strong></p><p>In recent years\, urban studies of Africa have grappl
 ed with a persistent epistemological challenge: how to theorize city life 
 beyond frameworks inherited from Global North traditions. This panel calls
  for abstract submissions that address this challenge by examining how Afr
 ican streets and the bodies that give them life constitute vital but often
  overlooked repositories of urban knowledge and theoretical innovation. Th
 is call seeks contributions that explore how street life generates distinc
 tive epistemological frameworks through the daily choreography of bodies &
 ndash\; from market women and street vendors to public transportation work
 ers and pedestrians &ndash\; producing what can be termed &ldquo\;corporea
 l cartographies&rdquo\; that map alternative understandings of African urb
 an space\, time\, and sociocultural relations. Contributions that examine 
 how bodies navigate\, claim\, and transform street spaces and how street-b
 ased epistemologies offer crucial insights into questions of sovereignty\,
  belonging\, cultural production\, and urban futures are invited. </p><p>T
 his call addresses some key questions\, including\, but not limited to\, t
 he following: </p><ul><li>How do embodied practices and everyday movements
  in African urban streets generate theoretical frameworks that extend beyo
 nd conventional urban theory? </li><li>What forms of knowledge and underst
 anding about urban life emerge when we conceptualize African streets as li
 ving archives rather than mere infrastructure? </li><li>How do the interse
 ctions of bodies\, space\, and movement in African streets produce alterna
 tive ways of knowing that challenge established academic paradigms? </li><
 li>In what ways can street-based epistemologies inform broader debates abo
 ut sovereignty\, citizenship\, cultural production\, and urban futures in 
 Africa and beyond?</li></ul><p>This panel seeks to advance recent calls to
  recognize African knowledge production in unexpected places\, particularl
 y in everyday practices that challenge academic conventions about what con
 stitutes theory.</p><p>For submissions\, please send a 250-word abstract a
 nd a short bio to Bankole Wright (bbank015@fiu.edu) by March 9\, 2025.</p>
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