Projects & Grants
| Epistemological aspects of the emergence and development of Anglo-Francophone borderlands in Africa | |
|---|---|
| Project Id | SGS14/PřF/2019 |
| Main solver | Mgr. Josef KUČERA |
| Period | 1/2019 - 12/2019 |
| Provider | Specifický VŠ výzkum |
| State | finished |
| Anotation | Internationally recognized term Frontier is defined as a borderland or some transitional land ?in between?. Physical-geographic borderline does not completely accumulate the shared and does not set apart the different ? it makes some vacuum "in between" which is called Frontier. Taking into account the borders? regimes, weak national identification, wider extension of communication technologies and growing importance of the so-called ?Fake news?, Frontier is becoming a phenomenon with increasing importance around the world. The topic is becoming more pressing because of the contemporary social issues such as the migration crisis and the involvement of local people in human or drugs trafficking across borders between states. The main goal of the project is to define epistemological starting points of the creation and development of the anglo-francophone borderlands in Africa, using secondary literal sources with particular focus on the well-described cases such as the Sene-Gambian borderland and the Nigerian borders with Cameroon and with Benin. Case studies are chosen with an aim to have binary anglo-francophone communication barriers, but with the lingua franca used as a common language by people on the both sides of the borderline. |
