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Call for

papers

Afrique

contemporøine

Energy policies in

Africa: What

Future?

Edited by Roberto Cantoni, post-doctoral

researcher

in the history and

sociology

of energy,

IFRIS/UPEI¿VCNRSÆcoIe

des Ponts ParisTech ; ^{Marta Musso, PhI)}

candidate

in

economic

history

at the

University of

Cambridge

and founding

member of Eogan, the European

Oil

and

GasArchive Network

This

special

edition of Afrique

Contemporaine

is

dedicated

to

an analysis

of

energy in

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_political

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historical

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the

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structural aspects

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energy

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in Africa,

as

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as a

reflection on the

causes

of the

current situation and possible future outlooks.

Overview

We

seek papers

for inclusion in the edited volume

"Energy

policies in Africa:

What Future?". The volume is a path-breaking publication that aims to collect the interconnected histories of

African

energy networks and policies on energy production from a comparative perspective,

in

order

to

understand

the

state

of Africa's

energy development and future perspectives

while

also providing _a

historical

background

to

energy resources

in

Africa.

The project

is

a major contribution to the broad

field

of

African

energy economics and

it

aims

to re-think the

developmental

literature on Africa

and

the

problematic aspects

of

energy-resources-rich countries.

This

edited

volume will

inaugurcte

a subfield

focusing

on the

development

of

African energy policies and infrastructures, establishing a methodological and analytical framework

to

guide social scientists working on the development

of

energy industries in

Africa

from the postcolonial years to the present.

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"Energy policies in

Africa:

_what Future?"

will

be pubrished _{as a} special volume by Afrique

contemporaine' created in 7962, Afrique

contemporaine

is a French

quarterry, multidisciplinary review focussing _on

African

contemporary dynamics through articles that are mostly based on fieldwork _studies.

It

is meant _{as a} platform

for

exchanges and debates, and

it is

aimed

at

actors and observers

of African

contemporary dynamics: researchers, governments, the

civil

society, the media, and international organisations.

Scope

Energy resources play animportant role in the economies of African states. These resources are

often the

ground

of

export _economies

in

rentier _States; however,

they

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^or decolonisation,

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rirerarure and independence movemenrs

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Africa's

riches, and traditional energy sources

in

particurar (coal,

oil,

gas), _as

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States

to

industrialise

rapidly. The

_energy

s of pro-independence narratives: by acquiring

urces, political

_classes

could affirm

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the case of European-African relations in particular, energy represented, and represents _a

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^mutual dependence between energy buyers and sellers.

Fifty

years after the decolonisation

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and the need

Ptottt" African

for sovereign states new energy evolution of _systems.

African

are facing This energy sources book aims to provide a guide enormous challenges related from decolonisation onwards. to

to

climate understand thechangeHow

did

African

energy infrastructures developed? To what extent is energy produced in Africa

actually

controlled and _managed

by African

countries?

To what extent do

cooperation

projects cater for

continuation

of colonial

_relations

with other

_means?

what

are _the challenges that

African

economies are facing

with

the development

of

renewables, the

fall of coal'

and the

volatility of

the

oil

market?

what

are the actions undertaken by African leaders to face the new chalrenges brought about by changing energy markets?

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one cannot take

into

account the development

of

energy issues

in Africa

without considering local specificities, there is also a need to adopt a comparative perspective that delineates patterns ^as

well

as differences across the

African

continent, which

is

too often simplistically misrepresented as a single, organic element.

Furthermore, there is a need

to

reassess the present state of

African

energy infrastructures

in

their historical contexts. Most literature on Africa's energy analyses current geopolitical issues and adopts synchronic frameworks

of

analysis,

rarely

venturing

into a

long-term reconstruction of the dependence-pattern from foreign energy markets; yet scholars such ^as Gabrielle Hecht and

Timothy Mitchell

have proved

the

relevance

of

setting

the

energy discourse into a broader, diachronic,'technopolitical' discourse.

A thorough study on the

development

of the

continent's energy

will provide

crucial information about the state

of

integration

of

energy infrastructures and the promotion

of

common actions and collaboration initiatives launched by

African

states.

By

continuing a

tradition of this review in ^{the analysis} of natural

resources

in Africa

(Afrique contemporaine, 2003,2005,2007,2009), this special issue aims at returning such historical dimension

to Africa's

energy resource narratives,

by exploring the

continent's different national contexts from independence up to the present.

Contributions

Our aim is to

document and establish a pattern

of

energy policies, energy infrastructures and problematic aspects connected

to

energy production

in the

whole

African

continent, analysing paradigmatic case studies

in

a comparative perspective,

with

a focus on energy investments, markets,

national and

international

policies,

relations between States and businesses.

Papers may be framed

in

different

or

multiple methodologies and disciplinary traditions.

They may utilize

diverse resources such

as

archives,

oral

histories, material culture,

quantitative

data,

and other

methodologies

from

economics

and social

sciences. The

articles can look into any kind of

energy resources,

from wood to

coal,

to

biomass,

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electricity,

fossil

fuels, uranium, renewable energies. Papers

offering

a historical insight

and adopting a

comparative geographical perspective

will ^be particularly

welcome.

Suggested topics could be, but are not restricted to:

.

þnergy relations amongst African countries

o

Energy relations

withAsia,

Europe, the United States

o

Energy and pan-Africanism

.

African national and private energy companies, and foreign companies

o

Transforming economic systems between socialism, free market, nationalisations and international economic organisations

o

Strategies devised and implemented by

African

national governments

with

respect to the environment. The neo-classical equation 'higher energy

consumption:

faster development'

is often at the

core

of

national energy policies:

how

does

this fit

environmental

concern

across

the

continent?

How has the

COP

21's

agenda contributed to reshape environmental policies

ofAfrican

^states?

o The role of the civil society in

decision-making

over

energy

projects.

Do technocratic views

of

what the 'correct' development

of

a country should be, leave

room for citizens'

voices?

Is the Extractive

Industries Transparency Initiative

(EITI), to which

some

African

states decided

to

adhere, affecting the way energy affairs ^are dealt with?

o

African responses to energy transitions

o

Renewables energies in

Africa

o

Investments in domestic markets and/or exports

o

Corruption and Corporate Social Responsibility

Submission Guidelines

Interested authors

will submit an article

proposal composed

of

^a one-page summary, describing

the topic,

argument

outline (in brief), and the

relevant data

or

fieldwork.

Abstracts ^as

well

as

full

articles may be written

in

English or French. Articles submitted in English

will

be translated

to

French by the editorial board, unless otherwise specified. The printed volume

will

be published in French.

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Articles must be

6000-7000 words

in length at time of

publication,

including

spaces, footnotes and bibliography. Submissions must include an abstract

of

800

total

characters, key words, and

a

15O-character author(s) biography. Articles may feature maps, drawings, chronologies and photos.

Shorter articles

of

8,000 characters (2000 words)

in

length, including spaces, footnotes and bibliography,

will also be

welcome.

Each article will be blind

peer-reviewed

by

two anonymous referees, the

Afrique

Contemporaine editorial board, and

the

special issue editors.

Please

submit your

response

to this call for

papers

via our online Editorial

Manager http ^: //www. editorialmanager. com/afriquecontemporaine/

For

questions

or clarifications

regarding

the publication,

contact

Nicolas Courtin

and Isabelle

Fortuit:

courtinn@afd.fr et fortuiti@afd.fr. For questions related

to

the subject

of

the paper and possible contributions, please contact Roberto

Cantoni (roberto. cantoni @enpc.

fr)

o Marta Mus so (mm20 | 5 @cam. ^ac. uk)

Timeline

Submit article proposal by 30th Juty 2016.

The editors

will

select article topics and

notify

authors by 25th

August

2016

atthe

latest.

Selected authors must submit ^a first draft of their articles by 1"

February

2017.

The special issue

will

be published in the

4th quarter

of 2017.

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