Afrasian Transformations. This item is unavailable.Afrasian Transformations

Afrasian Transformations explores a dynamic nexus of transregional interactions that is reshaping political relations, economic flows and increasingly mobile lifeworlds on the one hand, and academic practices in African and Asian Studies as well as transregional research on the other.

Ruth Achenbach is the coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies and lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research interests include migration and decision making theory, student migration in Asia, IR theory, Japanese management practices and development cooperation. Jan Beek currently leads the research project Police-translations at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research focuses on policing, fraud, transregional connections and collaborative research. He authored the book Stateness: Police work in Ghana and co-edited Police in Africa. John Njenga Karugia is a former postdoctoral researcher at the Africas Asian Options (AFRASO) project at Goethe University Frankfurt and currently works on Afrasian Sea memories. His recent publications include The Political Economy of Chinese Migration to Tanzania in a Transnational and Translocal Context. Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel teaches in the Department of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on political relations in the global South. She is the co-editor of Negotiating Normativity and author of Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Frank Schulze-Engler is professor of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Department of English and American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. He has published widely on African, Asian and indigenous literatures, postcolonial theory, globalisation and transcultural studies.