Mobility, Hibridity and the way to Co-existence: Re-structuring of daily life in Rural and Urban African Societies

更新日:2013/02/04

8th – 9th February, 2013
Venue: JSPS Nairobi Research Station
Co-organizer: JSPS Nairobi & ILCAA, TUFS, Japan

In an age of globalization, social changes and urbanization in African societies are more and more become obvious, not only for researchers but for ordinary people in each society.  Though the difficulty of capturing the whole picture of these drastic changes in a single method, neither sociology, anthropology, human geography nor history, we can have cross cutting discussion on the platform of area studies.  In this workshop, we sat the key concepts as mobility, hybridity and co-existence, we will discuss on this changes on empirical basis analysis and dairy experience among the people. 

Mobility and hybridity are the characteristics of modernity, and also more significant keys of construing semantic changes in this age.  In Eastern and Southern Africa, focused area of this workshop, for example, various goods, people and information coming and going between a capital city like Nairobi and each rural areas, and it makes myriad new situation and practices of the people.  On the other hand, development schemes under “global issues”, such as climate change, natural resource management, migration, urbanization and poverty etc got effect and most of public activities will be explained along those contexts by the people themselves. 

This workshop is composed by four sessions;

• Session 1: Restructuring Urban Spaces and Places
• Session 2: Development Programme, Nation-State and the People
• Session 3: View Points from Daily Life of the People (1) Farmers on the move
• Session 4: View Points from Daily Life of the People (2) Pastoralists in trouble?

About ten researchers from Japan and Eastern and Southern Africa will present their on-going studies, we shall capture the characteristics of post-globalism urban and rural situation from the cases of multi-cited field researches in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Programme

7th Feb

Arrival

8th Feb

10:00-10:30             Opening Remarks
by Wakana Shiino (Associate Professor, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, JAPAN)

Session 1: Restructuring Urban Spaces and Places

10:30-11:00             Presentation 1
Urban GIS framework for slum areas in Nairobi
by Charles Ndegwa (Senior Lecturer, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology)

11:00-11:30             Presentation 2
Women’s Awareness of Their Land Rights as Enshrined in the New Constitution: A Study in Kibera Slums, Nairobi
by Esther Alice Guya (Institute of Gender, Anthropology & African Studies, University of Nairobi)

11:30-12:00             Presentation 3
Powers of Private Cities: Mobility and Governmentality in the Liquid City, Johannesburg
by Youhei Miyauchi (Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Studies, Rikkyo University, JAPAN)

12:00-12:15             Comment
by Soichiro Shiraishi (Director, JSPS Nairobi)

12:15-14:00             Lunch

Session 2: Development Programme, Nation-State and the People

14:00-14:30             Presentation 4
Reorganization of "We / Community" under Global Wildlife Conservation: From the Case of Loitokitok Maasai in Southern Kenya
by Toshio Meguro (Post Doctoral Fellow, JSPS)

14:30-15:00             Presentation 5
Flexible and Cooperative Management among Local Residents and Public Institutions in the Encounter of People and Wildlife around the National Park, Tanzania
by Mariko Fujimoto (Post Doctoral Fellow, JSPS)

15:00-15:30             Presentation 6
Climate Change: Effects and Trends Evaluation Using NDVI, LST and LULC Analysis in the Masai Mara Ecosystem
by Eunice W. Nduati (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Geomatic Engineering and Geospatial Information Systems)

15:30-16:00             Comment
by Tom　Ondicho (Senior Lecturer, Institute of Gender, Anthropology & African Studies, University of Nairobi)

16:00-16:30             Discussion

9th Feb

Session 3: View Points from Daily Life of the People –（1）Farmers on the move

10:00-10:30             Presentation 7
Sustainable Slash-and-burn Cultivation: The Invention of an Agroforestry System Utilizing Black Wattle (Acacia mearnsii) by the Bena People in Tanzania
by Fumi Kondo (Assistant Professor, ASAFAS, Kyoto University)

10:30-11:00             Presentation 8
Successful Economy of Self-settled Refugees?: Mobility and Flexibility in Rural Zambia   
by Rumiko Murao (Research Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, JAPAN)

11:00-11:30             Presentation 9
Tracing Family Ancestry and Movements: A Case of a Hunter’s Descendant in Zambia
by Munukayumbwa Munyima (Research Fellow, Institute of Economic and Social Research, University Of Zambia)

11:30-12:00      Comment
Charles Ndegwa (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology)

12:00-13:30      Lunch

Session 4: View Points from Daily Life of the People –（2）Pastoralists in trouble?

13:30-14:00             Presentation 10
Changing or　Coping with Change? An Analysis of Pastoralists’ Responses to Climate Variability in Northwestern Kenya
by Oliver Wasoka (University of Nairobi)

14:00-14:30             Presentation 11
How Pastoralists Cope with Extreme Weather Conditions Especially Droughts
by Francis Opiyo (University of Nairobi)

14:30-15:00             Comment
by Youhei Miyauchi (Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Studies, Rikkyo University, JAPAN)

15:00-15:30             Discussion

15:30-15:45             Closing Remarks
by Soichiro Shiraishi (Director, JSPS Nairobi)