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SFB 640 > Staff Members > Baller, Susann

Susann Baller

Portrait of Susann Baller
Collaborative Research Centre 640 (SFB 640) – TP B2
Office: Mohrenstr. 40/41, Room 126
Phone: +49 30 / 2093-4984
Fax: +49 30 / 2093-4893

Email: susann.baller@arcor.de

Subproject B2 “Power and its Representation in African Modernity”

 
Curriculum Vitae
  • 1995-2002: MA in African Studies, Political Sciences and Musicology in Berlin (Humboldt University and Free University)
  • 10/1998-08/1999: DAAD-scholarship: Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar); since then several research trips to Senegal 
  • 1999-2002: Student research assistant with Prof. Albert Wirz (African history, Humboldt University)
  • 2003- : PhD thesis on “Urban Spaces, Youth and Modernity in Dakar/Pikine (Senegal)” (working title) at Humboldt University; supervisor: Prof. Andreas Eckert
  • 01-06/2003: Pilz-fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies (Berlin)
  • 07-09/2003: DAAD-scholarship: field research in Dakar/Pikine (Senegal)
  • 10/2003-05/2006: Junior lecturer in African history, Department of African and Asian Studies, Humboldt University
  • 05/2006- : Research fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre 640 “Changing representations of social order”, project B2 “Power and its representation in African modernity”
 
Award, academic affiliations …
  • 06/2004: Graduate Research Award of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD)
  • 07/2006- : Member of the steering committee of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD)
  • 01/2007-: Member of the International Research Group (GDRI): Governing cities in Africa: law, local institutions and urban identities since 1945, CEAN Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux (France), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), website: www.gdri-africancities.org
 
Major Research Fields
  • Youth and urban history in Africa
  • Sports, Football and popular cultures in Africa
  • Politics of Travelling in and between A.O.F. and France
 

Publications

Edited Books and Journals
  • “The Other Game: The Politics of Football in Africa,” afrika spectrum 41, no. 3 (2006).
  • Zs. mit Michael Pesek, Ruth Schilling & Ines Stolpe, eds. Die Ankunft des Anderen. Empfangszeremonien im intertemporalen und interkulturellen Vergleich. Frankfurt am Main & New York: Campus, 2008 (in press).
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
  • “Creating the Postcolonial City: Urban Youth Clubs in Senegal,” in: Toyin Falola & Steve Salm, eds. Urbanization and African Cultures. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2005, pp 139-154.
  • “Urbane Zwischen-Räume. Jugendliche der banlieue von Dakar zwischen Lokalität und Globalität,” in: Winfried Speitkamp, ed. Kommunikationsräume – Erinnerungsräume. Beiträge zur transkulturellen Begegnung in Afrika. München: Martin Meidenbauer, 2005, pp 221-248.
  • “Transforming Urban Landscapes: Soccer Fields as Sites of Urban Sociability in the Agglomeration of Dakar,” African Identities 5, no. 2 (2007), pp 217-230.
  • “Être jeune, homme et sportif: Représentations urbaines de la masculinité au Sénégal,” in: Odile Goerg, ed. Perspectives historiques sur le genre en Afrique (=Groupe “Afrique” Cahiers n° 23). Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007, pp 165-190.
  • “Selfmademen, Ritter und Fußballlöwen. Männlichkeitsbilder und Fußball in Afrika,” in: Johannes Verch, Gabriele Jähnert, Karin Aleksander & Kerstin Rosenbusch, eds. Fußball und Gender. ZtG Bulletin 33. Berlin: Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2007, pp 16-30.
  • “Youth, Theatre and Sports: Creating ‘Conscious’ Citizens within the Senegalese Nawetaan Movement,” Africa Insight 37, no. 3 (2007), pp 376-387 (in press).
  • Zs. mit Karen Krüger, “Zu Gast in Frankreich. Afrikanische Delegationen auf Reisen zum französischen Nationalfeiertag in den 1950er Jahren,” in: Susann Baller, Michael Pesek, Ruth Schilling & Ines Stolpe, eds. Die Ankunft des Anderen. Empfangszeremonien im intertemporalen und interkulturellen Vergleich. Frankfurt am Main & New York: Campus, 2008, pp 172-197 (in press).
 

Case study within the subproject “Power and its representation in African Modernity“

This case study explores the praxis of travelling of West African and French politicians in and between former French West Africa (A.O.F.) and France during the period of late colonialism, decolonization and early independence (1945-1965), focusing in particular on Senegal. This period was characterized by major social and political changes as well as huge institutional transformations within French West Africa. The case study aims at analyzing different levels of representation which were performed and celebrated on the stage of travelling. Following the paths of French Governors, Commissaries, Ministers, Presidents and independents politicians visiting different regions of the A.O.F. territories, of African elected representatives and “chefs coutumiers” who were invited to France or who sent themselves delegations to the metropole, and of African deputies of the French national assembly as well as later, African ministers and presidents travelling back and forth between West Africa and France, we can discern political arenas of the production, reproduction and negotiation of both power and modernity. The symbols, rituals and praxis used by the politicians during their travels as well as their interaction with the local contexts reflect multiple aspects of political and social order and its discourses. The case study thus contributes to the understanding of how power and varying configurations of modernity are constituted and reflected through representation and how these representations influence power relations in local and translocal contexts.
 
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