Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator
Funding period 2019-2021
Project management: The mediality of normative orders: How Africans turn night into day | Research focus 2 – Liquefied orders: Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence
Funding period 2012-2017
Project management: Arenas of the Intangible: Actors in the field of tension between diverging intellectual property norms in Africa | Research field 2
Funding period 2007-2012
Project management: Western norms and local media in Africa | Research field 2
Subject areas
Ethnology
Main research
Sub-Saharan Africa (esp. Mali), local knowledge, development anthropology, oral history / oral traditions in the media age, globalization, African history
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Biografische Angaben
Mamadou Diawara is Deputy Director of the Frobenius Institute, Professor at the Institute of Anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt and Director of the Point Sud Research Center for Local Knowledge in Bamako (Mali). He studied at the École Normale Supérieure, Bamako, and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, where he received his doctorate in anthropology and history in 1985. This was followed by his habilitation at the University of Bayreuth in 1998 and his appointment to Goethe University in 2004. Diawara has worked at universities in Europe and America, was Henry Hart Rice Visiting Professor in Anthropology and History at Yale University (USA) and Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 1998, Diawara founded the Point Sud Research Center for Local Knowledge with Moussa Sissoko. He has initiated several research funding projects aimed at young scientists from Africa and is involved in programs to promote cooperation between African and non-African scientists. -
Publikationen
2021 Diawara, Mamadou (2021): 'The pirates are trying to save their heads'. Chronicle of a transplant that does not work. In: Forst, Rainer/ Günther, Klaus (eds.): Normative Ordnungen, Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 435-464. 2020 Diawara, Mamadou (2020): L'appel de la brousse. Les migrants sahéliens à l'assaut du monde. In: Bogner, Artur/ Kößler, Reinhart/ Korff, Rüdiger/ Melber, Henning (eds.): Die Welt aus der Perspektive der Entwicklungssoziologie. Festschrift for Dieter Neubert, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 151-164. Diawara, Mamadou (2020): Seeing Like Scholars: Whose Exile? Making a Life, at Home and Abroad. In: Anthony, Ross/ Ruppert, Uta (eds.): Reconfiguring Transregionalization in the Global South. African-Asian Encounters, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 197-222. 2019 Diawara, Mamadou (2019): Appropriation of human rights in Africa: Kurukan Fuga, the cleaning of discord. In: Ouédraogo, Jean-Bernard/ Diawara, Mamadou/ Macamo, Elísio (eds.):Translation revisted: Contesting the sense of African school realities, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 20-41. Ouédraogo, Jean-Bernard/ Diawara, Mamadou/ Macamo, Elísio (2019): Introduction. Translation as totalities, alterities, and interpretation. In: Ouédraogo, Jean-Bernard/ Diawara, Mamadou/ Macamo, Elísio (2019) (eds.): Translation revisited. Contesting the Sense of African School Realities, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, x-xxiv. Ungruhe, Christian/ Röschenthaler, Ute/ Diawara, Mamadou (2019): Introduction: Young people working for better lives in West and Central Africa, in: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 37, 9-16. Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (ed.) (2019): Normes étatiques et pratiques locales en Afrique subsaharienne: Entre affrontement et accommodement. Paris: Éditions Manucius. Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (2019): Que font les gens quand l'État travaille? In: Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (eds.): Normes étatiques et pratiques locales en Afrique subsaharienne: Entre affrontement et accommodement, Paris: Éditions Manucius, 11-24. Ouédraogo, Jean-Bernard/ Diawara, Mamadou/ Macamo, Elísio (eds.) (2019): Translation revisited: Contesting the Sense of African Social Realities. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2018 Röschenthaler, Ute/ Diawara, Mamadou (2018): African Intellectual Worlds in the Making. In: Röschenthaler, Ute/ Diawara Mamadou (eds.): Copyright Africa: How Intellectual Property, Media and Markets Transform Immaterial Cultural Goods, Wantage: Sean Kingston, 1-36. Diawara, Mamadou (2018): Breaking the contract? Handling intangible cultural goods among different generations in Mali. In: Röschenthaler, Ute/ Mamadou, Diawara (ed.): Copyright Africa. How intellectual property, media and markets transform immaterial cultural goods, Wantage: Sean Kingston, 246-269. Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (eds.) (2018): Copyright Africa: How intellectual property, media and markets transform immaterial cultural goods. Wantage: Sean Kingston. 2017 Diawara, Mamadou (2017): 'Dichte Teilnahme' oblige: Paroles du Sahel en partage avec un savant. In: Verne, Markus/ Ivanov, Paola/ Treiber, Magnus (eds.): Körper Technik Wissen. Creativity and appropriation processes in Africa, Münster: Lit Verlag, 71-77. 2016 Diawara, Mamadou (2016): Breaking the contract? Handling intangible cultural goods among different generations in Mali. In: Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (ed.): Competing norms. State regulations and local praxis in sub-Saharan Africa, Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 246-269. Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (eds.) (2016): Competing Norms. State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa, Normative Orders vol. 19. Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2016. Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (ed.) (2016): Copyright Africa. Staging the immaterial: intellectual property, piracy and performance in sub-Saharan Africa. Wantage: Sean Kingston. Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (2016): Introduction. State regulations and local praxis in sub-Saharan Africa. In: Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (eds.): Competing norms. State regulations and local praxis in sub-Saharan Africa, Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 9-22. Diawara, Mamadou (2016): Le saut dans les braises ardentes: Du rivage du Sahara aux berges de la Méditerranée (2011-2015). In: Musso, Pierre (ed.): After Paris - 13.11.15. Conflits, exodes, attentats. Notes et analyses de chercheurs du monde entier, Paris: Editions Manucius, 79-84. 2014 Diawara, Mamadou (2014): "La bibliothèque colonial", la propriété intellectuelle et la romance du développement en Afrique ", in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, 48 (3), 445-461. Diawara, Mamadou (2014): "La fabrique des héros en Afrique subsaharienne". In: Hél-Bongo, Olga et al. (eds.): Imaginaire et urgence sociale dans le roman francophone de la modernité, 2ème semestre, Paris: Présence Africaine 190, 31-60. 2013 Diawara, Mamadou (2013): Justice, in whose name: The domestication of copyright in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Hellmann, Gunther (ed.): Justice and Peace. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Relationship, Normative Orders vol. 10, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 140-162. Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (2013): Mediations: Changing norms and the power of the media in sub-Saharan Africa. In: Fahrmeir, Andreas/ Imhausen, Annette (eds.): The diversity of normative orders. Conflicts and Dynamics in Historical and Ethnological Perspective, Normative Orders vol. 8, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2013, 129-164. Diawara, Mamadou (2013): "Why museums". In: Savoy, Bénédicte/ Sissis, Philippa (ed.): Die Berliner Museumsinsel. Impressions of international visitors (1830-1990). An anthology, Vienna/ Cologne/ Weimar: Böhlau, 311-312. 2012 Günther, Klaus/ Diawara, Mamadou/ Meyer-Kalkus, Reinhart (2012): Actors of globalization. In: Günther, Klaus/ Diawara. Mamadou/ Meyer-Kalkus, Reinhart (eds.): Beyond the Kolleg - Joachim Nettelbeck - the Secretary of the Wissenschaftskolleg, 1981 to 2012, Berlin: 199-207. Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (2012): Green Tea in the Sahel: The social history of an itinerant consumer good, in: The Canadian Journal of African Studies, 46 (1), 39-63. Diawara, Mamadou (2012): Le manguier et le champ. In: Mamadou Diawara, Klaus Günther and Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus (eds.): Beyond the Kolleg. Johachim Nettelbeck the Secretary of the Wissenschaftskolleg 1981-2012. Berlin: Wissenschaftskolleg, 68-92. Diawara, Mamadou/ Günther, Klaus/ Meyer-Kalkus, Reinhart (eds.) (2012): Beyond the Kolleg. Joachim Nettelbeck the Secretary of the Wissenschaftskolleg 1981-2012. Berlin: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. 2011 Diawara, Mamadou (2011): Comment peut-on être auteur? De la création dans un contexte de tradition orale en Afrique subsaharienne. In: Bisanswa, Justin (ed.): Dire le social dans le roman francophone, Paris: Champion, 33-52. Diawara, Mamadou (2011): "Development and administrative norms: The Office du Niger and decentralization in French Sudan and Mali", in: Africa, 81 (3), 434-454. Diawara, Mamadou (2011): The hunt for the pirates. On the formation of copyrights in the context of orality in sub-Saharan Africa, in: Sociologus, 61 (1), 69-89. Diawara, Mamadou/ Röschenthaler, Ute (2011): Intangible cultural property and competing norms: Local strategies of dealing with global regulations on cultural property protection, in: Sociologus, 61 (1), 1-17. Diawara, Mamadou (2011): The osmosis of the gazes: Anthropologists and historians through the prism of field work. In: Landau, Paul S. (ed.): The power of doubt. Essays in honor of David Henige, Madison: Parallel Press, 61-87. 2010 Diawara, Mamadou (2010): "Introduction". In: Diawara, Mamadou/ Lategan, Bernard/ Rüsen, Jörn (eds.): Historical Memory in Africa. Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context, New York/ Oxford: Berghahn. Diawara, Mamadou (2010): "L'osmose des regards: anthropologues et historiens au prisme du terrain", in: Cahiers d'Études africaines, special issue for the 50th anniversary of the journal Cahiers. Diawara, Mamadou (2010): "Remembering the Past, Reaching for the Future. Aspects of African Historical Memory in an International Context". In: Diawara, Mamadou/ Lategan, Bernard/ Rüsen, Jörn (eds.): Historical Memory in Africa. Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context, New York/Oxford: Berghahn. 2009 Diawara, Mamadou (2009): De la fabrique des savoirs et des normes intellectuelles. À propos de " L'Occident décroché Enquête sur les postcolonialismes " de Jean-Loup Amselle, in: Politique Africaine, 116, 185-191. Diawara, Mamadou (2009): The osmosis of gazes. On research in its own right. In: Gottowik, Volker/ Jebens, Holger/ Platte, Editha (eds.): Zwischen Aneignung und Verfremdung. Ethnologische Gratwanderungen, Festschrift für Karl-Heinz Kohl, Frankfurt am Main/ New York: Campus, 251-267. Diawara, Mamadou (2009): Les lieux du développement: Les experts coloniaux face aux ruraux de l'Office du Niger au XIXème siècle (Soudan Français et Mali). In: Inhetveen, Katharina/ Klute, Georg (eds.): Begegnungen und Auseinander-setzungen, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 437-457. Diawara, Mamadou (2009): Pourquoi des musées? Mémoires locales et objets dans les musées africains. In: Ndaywel è Nziem, Isidore/ Mudimbe Boyi, Elisabeth (ed.): Images, mémoires et savoirs. Une histoire en partage avec Bogu-mil Koss Jewsiewicki, Paris: Karthala, 231-245. 2008 Röschenthaler, Ute; Diawara, Mamadou (2008): Introduction. In: Röschenthaler, Ute/ Diawara, Mamadou (eds.): Im Blick der Anderen, Frankfurt: Brandes & Apsel, 6-21. Röschenthaler, Ute/ Diawara, Mamadou (ed.) (2008): In the gaze of others. On ethnological research in Mali. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel. Diawara, Mamadou (2008): The African Intellectual in the Court of Public Opinion: A Critical Reflection. In: Belcher, Stephen/ Jansen, Jan/ N'Daou, Mohamed (eds.): Mande Mansa. Essays in Honor of David C. Conrad. Berlin, Zurich: Lit Verlag, 61-72. 2007 Diawara, Mamadou (2007): L'Office du Niger face à la décentralization: hier et aujourd'hui. Working Papers on Local Knowledge, Point Sud, Bamako 3, 2-19. Diawara, Mamadou (2007): The Impossible Look: A View From Africa. In: Weibel, Peter/ Buddensieg, Andrea (eds.): Contemporary art and the museum: a global perspective, Hatje Cantz, 174-183.