Studying Africa in the Australian Capital Territory: Bureaucratisation, Disciplinisation and Projectisation

dc.contributor.authorAbraham, Ibrahim
dc.contributor.authorWeglarz, Rocco
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-13T03:15:58Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2022-09-11T08:17:30Z
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1447-8420en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/305657
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherAfrican Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacificen_AU
dc.rights© 2021 The authorsen_AU
dc.sourceAustralasian Review of African Studiesen_AU
dc.source.uridoi.org//10.22160/22035184/ARAS-2021-42-2/54-78en_AU
dc.subjectAfrican Studiesen_AU
dc.subjectarea studiesen_AU
dc.subjectAustralian universitiesen_AU
dc.subjectprecarityen_AU
dc.titleStudying Africa in the Australian Capital Territory: Bureaucratisation, Disciplinisation and Projectisationen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage78en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage54en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationAbraham, Ibrahim, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWeglarz, Rocco, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidAbraham, Ibrahim, u1065616en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidWeglarz, Rocco, u3459385en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor390203 - Sociology of educationen_AU
local.identifier.absseo130701 - Understanding Africa’s pasten_AU
local.identifier.absseo160102 - Higher educationen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu1065616xPUB13en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume42en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu1065616en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://afsaap.org.au/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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