Affective Engagements: Activist Mobilizations of Decolonial Debates on Cultural Goods and Societal Transformation Between Tanzania and Germany (D01 [C03])

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: since 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258523721

The anthropological project explores how the affective work of activist actors in urban centers in Tanzania and Germany mobilizes societal debates in relation to the coloniality of cultural goods. It asks in particular how modalities of feeling become the object of negotiation between individual activists and activist groups, as well as between them and other actors and institutions in their societies. The project seeks to establish the anthropological research area affect and activism in relation to decolonial struggles in transnational settings.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1171: Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Hansjörg Dilger