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Title Studying Africa in the Australian Capital Territory: Bureaucratisation, Disciplinisation and Projectisation
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/305657; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/305657/3/Studying%20Africa%20in%20the%20Australian%20Capital.pdf.jpg
Date 2021
Author(s) Abraham, Ibrahim; Weglarz, Rocco
Abstract This article analyses the experiences of scholars of Africa in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), advancing upon critical research on African Studies and contemporary academia. Drawing upon interviews with researchers, this article makes three arguments about the study of Africa in the ACT and Australia. Firstly, that universities have undergone bureaucratisation, altering the way researchers organise their working lives. Secondly, that the study of Africa in the ACT's universities demonstrates disciplinisation such that researchers' methodologies are more important to their identities and career trajectories than their regions of research. Finally, that research practices have undergone projectisation, with scholars increasingly employed on precarious contracts and periodically shifting their focus to or from Africa. It is argued that the African Studies paradigm and Africanist identity are inoperative in the ACT.
Subject(s) African Studies; area studies; Australian universities; precarity
Language en_AU
Publisher African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
Type of publication Journal article
Format application/pdf
Source Australasian Review of African Studies; doi.org//10.22160/22035184/ARAS-2021-42-2/54-78
Rights © 2021 The authors
Identifier 1447-8420
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
Added to C-A: 2023-11-15;11:13:39