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African ports are attracting increasing attention as key junctures in global logistics networks. Non-Western states and world-wide logistics companies are constructing, modernising and expanding deep-water terminals, thereby turning African coastal sites into logistics hubs for international trade. The development is reconfiguring economic and political power relations in the region, which is the theme of a new, three-year research project at DIIS. The project, Port polities, will study what kind of polities emerge around two ports in the Horn of Africa, and with what consequences for the political order of host states.
To launch the project, DIIS cordially invites the public to a seminar that will discuss different perspectives on port expansion and proliferation, drawing on examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean region. The speakers will use their ethnographic research from on-going cases to shed light on recent developments as a basis for a public Q&A session.
After the seminar you are welcome to stay and have a glass of something to celebrate the new project.
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