(1 video; 6 papers, 4 with)

Title of panel:

Long abstract:
The Sahel is currently a site of intense securitization in response to the counter-insurgency priorities of several regional and global entities. This securitization is however built on a generalized misunderstanding of the broad evolution of the Sahel as a spatial reality that reflects and captures the flows and ruptures that define a deeper history and reveal deeply embedded and complex livelihoods that are currently under stress. This panel will seek to re-imagine the Sahel as a place that defies easy generalizations, challenges statist assumptions (with their heavy security narrative) and as a place that accommodates multiple temporal and spatial realities. The panel locates the Sahel as a connector in Africa and will use the historic role of endogenous knowledge in the region to illustrate this.

6 Accepted papers:
1	When marginalised indigenous knowledge complements scientific practice in the securitization of Sahel region, Africa: an analysis of Northern Nigeria's security architecture
2	Excavation and creation: (re)setting personal and national self-confidence in the Nigérien Sahel
3	Climate change and livelihoods in the Sahel: revisiting nexus and focusing on endogeneus knowledge
4	Conflits armés et insécurité dans le Sahel ouest-africain: défis pour la recherche africaniste
5	Re-imagining Sahelian borderlands, a postcolonial perspective
6	Sahelian intellectualism in the process of modernity