{"id":1197,"date":"2026-05-27T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:15:51","slug":"call-for-papers-webinar-analyzing-african-derbies-in-the-era-of-global-sportocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers (webinar) : Analyzing African derbies in the era of global sportocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1192\" src=\"http:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Outlook-yflxn0ry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"170\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1193\" src=\"http:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Outlook-A-logo-of-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"166\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1194\" src=\"http:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Outlook-A-logo-for.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"173\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1195\" src=\"http:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Outlook-A-logo-of-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"153\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1196\" src=\"http:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Outlook-A-grey-tex-300x77.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Outlook-A-grey-tex-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Outlook-A-grey-tex.png 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Call for papers: WEBINAR, October 6, 2026<\/b><\/h2>\n<div><em><b>Version fran\u00e7aise en dessous<\/b><\/em><\/div>\n<h3><b>Analyzing African derbies in the era of global sportocracy: What new perspectives do the humanities and social sciences of politics offer on these club rivalries in Africa?<\/b><\/h3>\n<div>This symposium examines African derbies from a renewed perspective offered by the social sciences and humanities of politics. From Cairo to Soweto, via Yaound\u00e9, Casablanca, Accra, Dar Es Salaam and Algiers, the rivalries between African clubs, rooted in time and space, can legitimately be the subject of renewed scientific discourse similar to that produced on other European, American or Asian derbies, in an era of global sportocracy that is expanding and deepening football (Aubin, 2024).<\/div>\n<div>A three-pronged scientific effort is indeed presiding over this heuristic renewal around African derbies. First, to break with the dominant literature that favors the study of African fan culture focused on European clubs, to the detriment of local and continental rivalries (Chiweshe et al., 2025). Secondly, it goes beyond methodological nationalism (Schakel, 2013), which focuses the analysis of African football on national teams, by rehabilitating the central role of clubs in the production of loyalties, divisions and politicization (Njororai, 2024). Finally, the Africanist reception of African derbies considers the logic behind the establishment and entrenchment of these rivalries at several urban, regional and national levels in Africa.<\/div>\n<div>To achieve this, proposals for papers may fall within the following areas:<\/div>\n<div><b><br \/>\nAxis 1: Theoretical and\u00a0methodological approaches<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>What theories and epistemologies can be used to analyze African derbies?<\/li>\n<li>To what extent do African derbies enrich or challenge existing theories on sport and politics?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axis 2: Geographical and historical trajectories<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the historical origins of African derbies?<\/li>\n<li>What are the dynamics and changes involved?<\/li>\n<li>What are the scales and geographies of these sporting rivalries between clubs? What are the fan cultures involved and how do they relate to other fan cultures?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axis 3: Identities, mobilizations and fan cultures:<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>What types of fan cultures emerge around African derbies?<\/li>\n<li>How do they relate to social, ethnic, religious, generational or class identities?<\/li>\n<li>How do they interact with other forms of fan culture, whether local or transnational?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axis 4: Politicization and political economies of derbies<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>How are African derbies politically exploited by state, institutional and partisan actors?<\/li>\n<li>Are there specific political economies of derbies (financing, sponsorship, security, informality)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axis 5: Media coverage and transnational circulation<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>How are African derbies covered locally, nationally and internationally?<\/li>\n<li>What role do the media, social networks and digital platforms play in the reconfiguration of these rivalries?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>\u00a0Axis 6: Gender, women and African derbies<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>What place do women occupy in African derbies (supporters, managers, journalists, players, traders, activists, security agents, etc.)?<\/li>\n<li>How do women engage with derby spaces (stadiums, neighborhoods, media, social networks)?<\/li>\n<li>Do African derbies reinforce or challenge gender norms and hegemonic masculinities?<\/li>\n<li>What forms of violence (symbolic, verbal, physical, sexual) affect women in these contexts?<\/li>\n<li>What role do women play in the formal and informal economies of derbies?<\/li>\n<li>How are women\u2019s derbies (women\u2019s clubs, women\u2019s competitions) constructed, mediatized and politicized?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axis 7: Comparisons<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Can African derbies be compared with each other?<\/li>\n<li>What do South-South or South-North comparisons bring to the analysis of sporting rivalries?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Proposals for papers in French or English should be sent in the form of a 300-400 words abstract to :\u00a0<a id=\"x_ydp1d535e96yiv2741789917OWA76ab9932-b804-e9a9-2155-5f5e545453c3\" title=\"mailto:jean-michel.de.waele@ulb.be\" href=\"mailto:jean-michel.de.waele@ulb.be\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><u>jean-michel.de.waele@ulb.be<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<a id=\"x_ydp1d535e96yiv2741789917OWA62b934b2-3396-419b-7428-585db637e344\" title=\"mailto:yvanissekin@yahoo.fr\" href=\"mailto:yvanissekin@yahoo.fr\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-linkindex=\"1\"><u>yvanissekin@yahoo.fr<\/u><\/a><u>;\u00a0<\/u><\/div>\n<div><b>Proposals must be submitted by 1 August 2026. Successful applicants will be notified by 17 August. Publication in an international journal and\/or a book is planned.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><u>Organized by the University of Burundi, the Official University of Bukavu, the University of Yaound\u00e9 2, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles, Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca)\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/b><b><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><b>Appel \u00e0 contributions\u00a0: Webinaire, 6 octobre 2026<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3><b><i>Analyser les derbies africains \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e8re de la sportocratie mondiale : quels nouveaux regards des sciences humaines et sociales du politique sur les rivalit\u00e9s des clubs en Afrique ?<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<div>Le colloque interroge les derbies africains, sous un renouvellement des regards des sciences sociales et humaines du politique sur ces objets. Du Caire \u00e0 Soweto, en passant par Yaound\u00e9, Casablanca, Accra, Dar Es Salaam ou Alger, les rivalit\u00e9s entre les clubs africains ancr\u00e9es dans le temps et l\u2019espace, peuvent l\u00e9gitimement faire l\u2019objet d\u2019un renouvellement des discours scientifiques semblables aux autres discours produits sur les autres derbies europ\u00e9ens, americains ou asiatiques, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e8re d\u2019une sportocratie mondiale \u00e9largissant et approfondissant le football (Aubin, 2024).<\/div>\n<div>Un triple effort scientifique pr\u00e9side en effet, \u00e0 ce renouvellement heuristique autour des derbies africains. D\u2019abord,\u00a0 rompre avec la litt\u00e9rature dominante privil\u00e9giant l\u2019\u00e9tude des support\u00e9rismes africains tourn\u00e9s vers des clubs europ\u00e9ens, au d\u00e9triment des rivalit\u00e9s locales et continentales (Chiweshe et al., 2025). Ensuite, un d\u00e9passement du\u00a0nationalisme m\u00e9thodologique\u00a0(Schakel, 2013) se focalisant l\u2019analyse du football africain sur les s\u00e9lections nationales, en r\u00e9habilitant le r\u00f4le central des clubs dans la production des loyaut\u00e9s, de clivages et de politisations (Njororai,2024). Enfin, la r\u00e9ception\u00a0africaniste des derbies africains, tient compte des logiques qui pr\u00e9sident \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tablissement et \u00e0 l\u2019enracinement de ces rivalit\u00e9s \u00e0 plusieurs \u00e9chelles urbaines, r\u00e9gionales\u00a0et nationales en Afrique.<\/div>\n<div>Pour y parvenir, les propositions de communications peuvent s\u2019inscrire dans les axes suivants :<\/div>\n<div><b><br \/>\nAxe 1:\u00a0 Approches th\u00e9oriques et m\u00e9thodologiques<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Quelles th\u00e9ories et quelles \u00e9pist\u00e9mologies pour analyser les derbies africains ?<\/li>\n<li>Dans quelles mesures les derbies africains enrichissent ils ou interrogent-ils les th\u00e9ories existantes sur le sport et la politique ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axe 2 : trajectoires g\u00e9ographiques et historiques<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Quelles sont les origines historiques des derbies africains ?<\/li>\n<li>Quelles en sont les dynamiques et les mutations ?<\/li>\n<li>Quelles sont les \u00e9chelles et les g\u00e9ographies de ces rivalit\u00e9s sportives des clubs? Quels en sont les supporterismes et quels rapports entretiennent-ils avec les autres supporterismes?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axe 3 : Identit\u00e9s, mobilisations et support\u00e9rismes :<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Quels types de support\u00e9rismes \u00e9mergent autour des derbies africains ?<\/li>\n<li>Quels rapports entretiennent-ils avec les identit\u00e9s sociales, ethniques, religieuses, g\u00e9n\u00e9rationnelles ou de classe ?<\/li>\n<li>Comment interagissent-ils avec d\u2019autres formes de support\u00e9risme, locales ou transnationales ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axe 4 : Politisation et \u00e9conomies politiques des derbies<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Comment les derbies africains sont-ils investis politiquement par les acteurs \u00e9tatiques, institutionnels et partisans ?<\/li>\n<li>Existe-t-il des \u00e9conomies politiques sp\u00e9cifiques des derbies (financement, sponsoring, s\u00e9curit\u00e9, informalit\u00e9) ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axe 5 : Axe M\u00e9diatisations et circulations transnationales<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Comment les derbies africains sont-ils m\u00e9diatis\u00e9s localement, nationalement, et internationalement ?<\/li>\n<li>Quels r\u00f4les jouent les m\u00e9dias, les r\u00e9seaux sociaux et les plateformes num\u00e9riques dans la reconfiguration de ces rivalit\u00e9s ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axe 6 : Genre, femmes et derbies africains<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Quelle place occupent les femmes dans les derbies africains (supportrices, dirigeantes, journalistes, joueuses, commer\u00e7antes, militantes, agentes de s\u00e9curit\u00e9, etc.)<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Comment les femmes investissent-elles les espaces des derbies (stades, quartiers, m\u00e9dias, r\u00e9seaux sociaux) ?<\/li>\n<li>Les derbies africains renforcent-ils ou contestent-ils les normes de genre et les masculinit\u00e9s h\u00e9g\u00e9moniques ?<\/li>\n<li>Quelles formes de violences (symboliques, verbales, physiques, sexuelles) affectent les femmes dans ces contextes ?<\/li>\n<li>Quel r\u00f4le jouent les femmes dans les \u00e9conomies formelles et informelles des derbies ?<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Comment les derbies f\u00e9minins (clubs f\u00e9minins, comp\u00e9titions f\u00e9minines) sont-ils construits, m\u00e9diatis\u00e9s et politis\u00e9s ?\u00a0<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Axe 7: comparaisons.<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Peut-on comparer les derbies africains entre eux?<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Qu\u2019apportent des comparaisons Sud-Sud ou Sud-Nord \u00e0 l\u2019analyse des rivalit\u00e9s sportives ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Les propositions de communication en fran\u00e7ais ou en anglais, seront envoy\u00e9es sous forme de r\u00e9sum\u00e9 de 300 \u00e0 400 mots, aux adresses suivantes :<br \/>\n<\/b><a id=\"x_ydp1d535e96yiv2741789917OWAc46dfaa7-1dc3-6bfc-c095-7b13ff445e89\" title=\"mailto:jean-michel.de.waele@ulb.be\" href=\"mailto:jean-michel.de.waele@ulb.be\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-linkindex=\"2\"><b><u>jean-michel.de.waele@ulb.be<\/u><\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0;<\/b><a id=\"x_ydp1d535e96yiv2741789917OWAfd9115d4-5d3d-6923-27d1-5c49c425fe70\" title=\"mailto:yvanissekin@yahoo.fr\" href=\"mailto:yvanissekin@yahoo.fr\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-linkindex=\"3\"><b><u>yvanissekin@yahoo.fr<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div><b>Les propositions devront \u00eatre envoy\u00e9es avant le 1 ao\u00fbt 2026. Les personnes s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9es seront averties pour le 17 aout. Une publication dans une revue internationale et\/ou un livre est pr\u00e9vue.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<i>Organis\u00e9 par\u00a0: Universit\u00e9 du Burundi, Universit\u00e9 officielle de Bukavu, Universit\u00e9 de Yaound\u00e9 2, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles, Universit\u00e9 Babes-Bolyai (Cluj-Napoca)<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for papers: WEBINAR, October 6, 2026 Version fran\u00e7aise en dessous Analyzing African derbies in the era of global sportocracy: What new perspectives do the humanities and social sciences of politics offer on these club rivalries in Africa? 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