{"id":9754,"date":"2025-12-23T12:52:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=9754"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:04:07","slug":"accumulations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/?page_id=9754","title":{"rendered":"ACCUMULATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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ACCUMULATION<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Accumulation Research Section intends seeks to reconfigure African Studies through a historical, comparative and intersectional approach to accumulation on the continent, with a sensitivity to developments in other parts of the world. \u00a0It intends to scrutinise the accumulation\u2013inequality nexus from a transdisciplinary perspective, applying intersectional methodologies drawn from the disciplines of History, Geography, Urban Planning, Political Science, Economics, Anthropology and Literary Studies. Looking beyond the more established focus on income inequalities, we will focus on the acquisition and gathering of wealth by organisations and individuals in Africa and its diasporas: at the local, national and global scale, and in given interplays with different forms of power and authority.<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Processes of accumulation are aided and constrained by political structures, markets, values, ideologies and religions, and their respective forms of power. Each of these shapes who can access opportunities for accumulation and who is excluded. Studies of accumulation and inequalities in Africa show that wealth and income creation are often not mediated by purely capitalist processes, and also that resources and labour mobilised for such ends are often entangled with non-capitalist institutions (Amanor, 2010; Goodfellow, 2020; Ouma, 2017). But Africa should not be seen as the big \u2018economic other\u2019: political connections, informality and the privatisation of public resources are features of capitalism in many countries, including in the Global North (Bierschenk & Mu\u00f1oz, 2021). Empirical convergences between Africa and other parts of the world allow \u2013 and, indeed, call \u2013 for research that transcends narrow territorial confines. The RS is designed to meet this need, offering diachronic and synchronic perspectives on how logics of accumulation unfold across geographical and historical contexts, integral to the (un)making of particular worlds.<\/p>

RS will create synergies with those RSs of Ecologies, (In)securities and Digitalities, whose research overlaps with key dynamics of accumulation and (re)distribution in Africa.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Spokesperson<\/strong>:<\/h4>

Stefan Ouma Stefan.Ouma@uni-bayreuth.de<\/p>

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AMRC Bayreuth:<\/strong> Susan Arndt, Serawit Debele, Jo\u00ebl Glasman, Stefan Ouma, Alexander Stroh- Steckelberg, Thoko Kaime<\/p>

AMRC Lagos:<\/strong> Taibat Lawanson, Ayodele Yusuff<\/p>

AMRC Moi:<\/strong> Prisca Tanui-Too, Bernard M. Sorre\u00a0<\/p>

AMRC Ouagadougou:<\/strong> Ouss\u00e9ni Illy<\/p>

AMRC Rhodes:<\/strong> Enocent Msindo, Patrice Mwepu, Tapiwa Madimu<\/p>

Other:<\/strong> Kai Koddenbrock (University of Bielefeld), Abena D. Oduro (University of Ghana),\u00a0Isaac Akolgo Abotebuo (IDEAs Accra)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ACCUMULATION The Accumulation Research Section intends seeks to reconfigure African Studies through a historical, comparative and intersectional approach to accumulation on the continent, with a sensitivity to developments in other parts of the world. \u00a0It intends to scrutinise the accumulation\u2013inequality nexus from a transdisciplinary perspective, applying intersectional methodologies drawn from the disciplines of History, Geography, Urban Planning, Political Science, Economics, Anthropology and Literary Studies. Looking beyond the more established focus on income inequalities, we will focus on the acquisition and gathering of wealth by organisations and individuals in Africa and its diasporas: at the local, national and global scale, and in given interplays with different forms of power and authority. Processes of accumulation are aided and constrained by political structures, markets, values, ideologies and religions, and their respective forms of power. Each of these shapes who can access opportunities for accumulation and who is excluded. Studies of accumulation and inequalities in Africa show that wealth and income creation are often not mediated by purely capitalist processes, and also that resources and labour mobilised for such ends are often entangled with non-capitalist institutions (Amanor, 2010; Goodfellow, 2020; Ouma, 2017). But Africa should not be seen as the big \u2018economic other\u2019: political connections, informality and the privatisation of public resources are features of capitalism in many countries, including in the Global North (Bierschenk & Mu\u00f1oz, 2021). Empirical convergences between Africa and other parts of the world allow \u2013 and, indeed, call \u2013 for research that transcends narrow territorial confines. The RS is designed to meet this need, offering diachronic and synchronic perspectives on how logics of accumulation unfold across geographical and historical contexts, integral to the (un)making of particular worlds. RS will create synergies with those RSs of Ecologies, (In)securities and Digitalities, whose research overlaps with key dynamics of accumulation and (re)distribution in Africa. Spokesperson: Stefan Ouma Stefan.Ouma@uni-bayreuth.de Members: AMRC Bayreuth: Susan Arndt, Serawit Debele, Jo\u00ebl Glasman, Stefan Ouma, Alexander Stroh- Steckelberg, Thoko Kaime AMRC Lagos: Taibat Lawanson, Ayodele Yusuff AMRC Moi: Prisca Tanui-Too, Bernard M. Sorre\u00a0 AMRC Ouagadougou: Ouss\u00e9ni Illy AMRC Rhodes: Enocent Msindo, Patrice Mwepu, Tapiwa Madimu Other: Kai Koddenbrock (University of Bielefeld), Abena D. Oduro (University of Ghana),\u00a0Isaac Akolgo Abotebuo (IDEAs Accra)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9754"}],"version-history":[{"count":79,"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10904,"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9754\/revisions\/10904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}