CONFERENCE: “Reversing the Gaze: Using Concepts Across Borders”

09:00-09:15

Welcome/introduction

09:15-10:45

Panel 1

Unravelling the Gaze

Chair: Winnie Kanyimba, University of Basel

Diffractive Ways of Knowing: Art, Anthropology and ‘(De)coloniality’ in Europe
Caroline Spitzner, Independent Researcher

Reversing the Gaze: Knowledge Stories and the Struggles for Community Land Rights in Scotland
Atenchong Talleh Nkobou, Royal Agricultural University

Post-comparative studies as future method: challenges and possibilities
Ralph Weber, University of Basel; Lerato Posholi, University of Basel

Reversing the Gaze: A Limited Account of Epistemic Decolonisation
Dimpho Takane Maponya, University of Johannesburg

11:15-12:45

Panel 2

Exploring the Gaze

Chair: Stephan Hochleithner, University of Zurich

Smart urban development in Geneva through a southern gaze: methodological reflections
Su Su Myat, University of Lausanne

Construing the Politics and Governance of Housing Densification in the Global North from the Global South
Lindsay Blair Howe, University of Liechtenstein; Herburger Johannes, University of Liechtenstein

Patronage Politics in Sri Lanka
Neloufer de Mel, University of Colombo; Pradeep Peiris, University of Colombo

13:45-15:15

Panel 3

Articulating the Gaze

Chair: Matthias Maurer, University of Basel

Bourdieu’s Algerian France
Peter Streckeisen, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Speaking of Linguistic Justice in the Global South. The Case for an Account of Linguistic Justice as an Epistemic Reparation
Nomaswazi Kubeka, University of Johannesburg

Deployment of EU funds in Italy: perspectives on actors’ networks at national and subnational levels
Christine Lutringer, Graduate Institute, Geneva ; Anna Rita Ceddia, Graduate Institute, Geneva

Constitutional law and Fiscal Federalism in Conversation: a case study of Indian Finances
Bhavinee Singh, University of Edinburgh

15:45-17:00

Keynote

Shalini Randeria: “Postcolonial perspectives: quo vadis”

Shalini Randeria, Central European University

Discussants: Deval Desai, University of Edinburgh; Benedikt Korf, University of Zurich; Elísio Macamo, University of Basel; Ralph Weber, University of Basel

09:00-10:30

Panel 4

Exposing the Gaze

Chair: Lerato Posholi, University of Basel

Making ‘Whiteness’ Visible: Reversing the Gaze and Analyzing ‘Whiteness’ in Post-Apartheid Cape Town, a City of White Domination
Danielle Audrey Isler, University of Bayreuth

Colonial Epistemic Cultures and the Persistence of Identity Concepts of Erasure
Harry Wilson Kapatika, University of Johannesburg

Retribalisation and Citizenship in Switzerland
Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba, University of Basel; Elísio Macamo, University of Basel; Matthias  Maurer Rueda , University of Basel

11:00-12:30

Panel 5

Refocusing the Gaze

Chair: Nikolas Vagdoutis, University of Edinburgh

Ernst Fraenkel’s Dual-State Theory: Reflections on Extra-State Paramilitary Actors
Adam Knowles, University of Zurich

Infrastructure and Resentment: Narratives of “the state” and populist political mobilization in rural Austria
Stephan Hochleithner, University of Zurich

From Cunning States to Crisis States: the Institutional Architecture of Fiscal Underspending
Deval Desai, University of Edinburgh

The Indian Emergency of 1975: Why did she impose it and why did she lift it?
Peter Ronald DeSouza, Independent scholar, Goa, India

13:30-15:00

Panel 6

Expanding the Gaze

Chair: Christine Lutringer, Graduate Institute, Geneva

Marginality as a central concept. Towards a new ontology in New Area Studies
Marianela Barrios Aquino, University of Portsmouth; Simon Stewart, University of Portsmouth

Researching migrants’ experiences of homelessness in the UK: a new research collaboration
Simon Stewart, University of Portsmouth; Marianela Barrios Aquino, University of Portsmouth

The Faces of Social Protection: Tracing the Performativity of “Development” and “Welfare”
Meredith McLaughlin, University of Cambridge

The Cultural Life of Democracy
Benedikt Korf, University of Zurich; Harshana Rambukwella, Open University of Sri Lanka

15:30-16:45

Round table session

Reversing the Gaze: Concepts without borders

• Rose Marie Beck, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
• Peter DeSouza, retired/formerly Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi
• Patrício Langa, Eduardo Mondlane University/University of Essen

Moderator: Pascal Schmid, University of Basel

16:45-17:00

Concluding remarks