Call for Articles: Africa and the 'new' Resource Scramble - Emerging Contestations and Insights, 03/07

Development Southern Africa

Title of Special Issue: "Africa and the 'new' Resource

Scramble: Emerging Contestations and Insights"

Guest Editor: Wilson Akpan, Ph.D

Call for Papers

As Africa grapples with what many have termed the "new" scramble for natural resources on the continent, there is an urgent need to put this phenomenon in perspective vis-à-vis the continent's development. Are we seeing a "new" scramble, or perhaps a mutation, or even a
deepening, of an old scramble? What drives the "new" scramble for petroleum, gold, diamond, timber, rivers, etc? What is the character of state and (transnational and local) corporate involvement in the "scramble"? What kinds of development and security challenges have emerged or are emerging, especially for local
communities and ordinary people in whose immediate
ecologies these "strategic" resources are exploited? Are there any emerging patterns of grassroots
resistance to the "scramble"? How is the scramble
shaping, and being shaped by, grassroots struggles and resistance? What is the "state" of scholarly discourse on grassroots dispossession and empowerment in Africa, with particular reference to natural resource
exploitation?

Development Southern Africa invites papers from
scholars, researchers and policy analysts, for a
special issue of the journal to be published during the first half of 2008 under the theme: "Africa and the 'new' Resource Scramble: Emerging Contestations and Insights". Papers must address any of the concerns raised above, or questions related thereto. Researchers who have done recent empirical work that can link
primary data to broader theoretical and policy
discourses and insights are particularly encouraged to send in submissions.

Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2007

Please send your submissions to:
dsa@dbsa.org

For further enquiries, please contact:

Dr. Wilson Akpan
[Ford Foundation-IFP Scholar]
Department of Sociology, University of Fort Hare
East London Campus, 50 Church Street
P.O. Box 7426, East London 5200
South Africa

Tel: +27 43 704 7172 (W); +27 82 462 3608 (M)

Fax: +27 86 628 2209
E-mail: wakpan@ufh.ac.za

URL

http://www.zoominfo.com/WilsonAkpan
Departmental Secretary: Tel : +27 43704 7082; Fax: +27 43 704 7153

Please note that acceptance of paper is subject to the journal's usual peer review processes.

Guidelines for Authors:

Articles should be limited to 8,000 words, but may
include tables and figures. They should also be
accompanied by an abstract of about 150 words. Please process your paper as a Microsoft Word document, and use surname to label your file(s), e.g. "Anderson.doc" and "Anderson tables.doc". A separate title page should include the author's full names and contact details, as well as any acknowledgements. No other reference to the identity of the author should appear in your paper. Please typed your paper double-spaced, with wide
margins. Accompany your submission by a signed
statement indicating that publication in Development Southern Africa would not contravene any copyright or other contractual agreements relevant to the article or the research upon which it is based. Please refer to detailed "Instructions for Authors" on the journal's

website:
<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/cdsaauth.asp>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/cdsaauth.asp.

Development Southern Africa is an internationally
acclaimed peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) in conjunction with the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). The journal is listed in the International Bibliography of the
Social Sciences (IBSS) and is published five times a year.

Page Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.