African states in world markets: Systemic hierarchies and the postcolonial International Political Economy of governing Senegal

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[music] Speaker 1: On the go sprint lectures on African mobilities podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to this session of the sprint lectures. Today, we are glad to have another talk entitled African states in world markets systemic hierarchies and the postcolonial international political economy of governing Senegal. And this talk is going to be given by Kai Kottenbrock. So Kai, I think you will have to make a self-introduction. The first time I am meeting you, so probably could know more about first of all your work and other things before you start the talk. Thank you, Kai. Speaker 2: Thank you Paddy. Yeah, my name is Kai Kottenbrock. I'm one of the four new junior research group leaders at the Africa Multiple cluster of excellency at our beloved University of Bayreuth. And I'm leading a group on the topic of economic and monetary sovereignty in West Africa compared where we have four case studies Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Ivory Coast. And I myself am doing the research on Senegal at the moment. And the paper that I sent around is my attempt of first attempt of making both conceptual and empirical point about the ways Senegal has tried to navigate the waters of world market pressures in post-independence period. So I'm gonna make three points. So first, I'm gonna introduce all of you non IR IPE people to the disciplinary intervention that I'm trying to make. And then we'll talk about anarchy and hierarchy problematique and the return of systemic questions in the face of climate and financial crises. I will try to develop the notion of systemic hierarchies which is at the heart of this paper along the two dimensions of global volatilities and domestic durabilities. And then give you some empirical and historical insights on how Senegalese political economy has changed and how governments have tried to change and alter their submission or subordination to specific hierarchies. And I will do this with a reflection on the term immobilities… Read the full text about 5,147 words

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