Lotte Pelckmans
Biographic Data
| ID | 97945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lotte Pelckmans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Pelckmans |
| SIGNATURE | PELCKMANS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2524-8649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ganbanaaxun Fedde: Un réseau contemporain et transnational de lutte contre l’esclavage
Ce texte est une version révisée d’une interview publiée dans le journal sénégalais Le Soleil (parue le 15 mars 2023). L’entretien porte sur le film documentaire intitulé Ganbanaaxun Fedde : un mouvement transnational contre l’esclavage par ascendance et en explique le contenu ainsi que les intentions de la réalisatrice. Le film vise à rendre visible et compréhensible ce qu’implique la lutte transnationale, néo-abolitionniste et antiesclavagiste …
Engaging the past in the present through contemporary connectivity: An interview with Jeannette Ehlers
Jeannette Ehlers is one of the most famous contemporary artists who has exclusively researched the history of slavery, with a focus on the genealogy of the Afro-descendant and Afropean body. Through her work in performance, video, and installation art, as well as her involvement in collaborative projects within the urban space, she focuses on the Caribbean colonial heritage in the context of Denmark, her birthplace, thereby highlighting the Afro-…
Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Transnational Digital Resistance? Collective On- and Offline Anti-Slavery Mobilisations by the Soninke Movement Ganbanaaxun Fedde in Mali, Mauritania and the Diaspora, 2016–2024
E-motions: A History of Unrecorded Female Rural Displacements in Post-Slavery Africa
This special issue introduces the concept of e-motions in (post-)slavery Africa to analyse movement or motion that is not so much driven by labour and economic survival but rather by relational/emotional (dis-)connection. We introduce the term e-motions to qualify the gendered mobilities mainly of subaltern girls and women who have been voluntarily or forcedly moving in the past and present to establish and consolidate emotional ties. These ties …
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges
This article examines ethical, practical, and methodological challenges in researching the aftermath of slavery in continental East Africa away from the coastal plantation belt. Interest in post-slavery there is recent and inspired by the apparent contrast with West Africa, where the issue is much more salient. The article explains this silence by highlighting politically-motivated avoidance of the issue in colonial sources and the preference of …
Récits cinétiques »: Le déplacement comme récit de contestation des wahayu, concubines de statut servile dans les régions frontalières du Niger et du Nigeria
Que ce soit en langue vernaculaire et en français, il existe peu de récits écrits relatant des expériences subjectives d’exploitation, de liberté, d’émancipation et de cohabitation d’individus ayant le statut héréditaire d’esclaves au Sahel. Les quelques documents écrits traitant des femmes de cette catégorie ont été produits par des organisations de lutte contre l’esclavage, comme Timidria au Niger, Temedt au Mali, ou bien par des universitaires…
Reversing the gaze: West Africa performing the EU migration-development-security nexus
This special issue empirically investigates how EU securitization and management of migration, implemented through the channels of development aid, have gained (or not) traction in francophone West African contexts. The contributions to this issue accentuate the perception of the so-called migration-development-security nexus as seen from the “South”. Describing, deconstructing and criticizing the EU policy framework by having an ethnographic foc…
Historicising nationalism in Africa
This paper proposes rethinking nationalism as a political ideology and force in Africa outside the boundaries of the postcolonial African state. It argues against national histories and for histories of the construction of African nationalisms. In analysing the anti‐colonial basis of nationalism globally, it argues that the basis for African nationalism is similar to and not distinct from dominant nationalist processes elsewhere. The paper analys…
La question de l'esclavage en Afrique: Politisation et mobilisations
du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Introduction: Slavery, Memory and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies
This chapter addresses the silence that characterizes African domestic slavery in West Africa. Whereas the transatlantic slave trade is remembered and commemorated, domestic slavery has long remained a taboo topic. The chapter sheds light on recent attempts by African people of slave origin to reconsider the contribution of slaves to the construction of African former kingdoms and contemporary nation states. It examines the ways in which African …
Communicating war in Mali, 2012: On-offline networked political agency in times of conflict
The Arab Spring raised high expectations for political freedom, especially for situations in which the rapid development of ICT intersects with political oppression and rebellion, as was the case in Mali, West Africa. In 2012 the country’s northern part fell into the hands of ‘rebels’ and jihadists were on the rise. This article tries to understand the development of political agency in relation to the unprecedented access to new ICT of the Fulan…
One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: A multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali
This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis to the current (2012) political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi-Salafi movements, leading to a coup d'état against the incumbent President Touré, and finallly a political stalemate of great…
Tuareg separatism in Mali
This article provides a contextualized overview of Tuareg separatism and the violence that has attended it in Mali. The article sketches key episodes and developments in the conflict between the Malian state and Tuareg separatist nationalists, and outlines Tuareg political goals and internal dynamics. The article examines the impact on Tuareg separatism of the presence of international Jihadi-Salafist movements in the region and the resulting int…
Moving Memories of Slavery among West African Migrants in Urban Contexts (Bamako, Paris)
Moving memories of slavery” are those memories of internal African slavery that move with West African migrants to urban areas. Different types of mobility towards and within urban contexts can be considered as non-discursive, embodied forms of ‘memory work’ of slavery. The focus is on how Fulɓe (and Soninke) migrants in Bamako and Paris ‘move with’ or ‘move back into’ slave status on specific moments in space and time. Even though cities offer o…
Having a Road’: Social and Spatial Mobility of Persons of Slave and Mixed Descent in Post-Independence Central Mali
This article examines the migration trajectories of individuals of slave descent and ‘mixed descent’ (children of slave concubines) in a royal family network from the Haayre region of central Mali. Focusing on the twentieth century, it considers the extent to which social status has defined options for mobility within this network. Its argument is twofold. First, it shows that attention should be paid not only to the slave/free divide but also to…
Phoning anthropologists: The mobile phone’s (re-)shaping of anthropological research
Facing fieldwork
The Drama of Development: The Skirmishes Behind High Modernist Schemes in Africa
Cultuur en ontwikkeling in Afrika, Politiek-economische veranderingen en de dynamieken van Afrikaanse culturen
Facing Dilemmas: Former Fulbe Slaves in Modern Mali
RésuméCet article illustre d'une part, la manière dont les hiérarchies Fulbe traditionnelles au centre du Mali ont clairement défini les relations de dépendance sociale, d'autre part leur rôle important dans la politique locale. Les anciens esclaves, les Riimaybe, luttent pour trouver une nouvelle place dans la société, en essayant de réconcilier passé et présent. Les récits historiques de trois groupes différents de Riimaybe dans des colonies di…
The Bellah Question: Slave Emancipation, Race, and Social Categories in Late Twentieth-Century Northern Mali
2005). The Bellah Question: Slave Emancipation, Race, and Social Categories in Late Twentieth-Century Northern Mali. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 39, The Persistence of Servility, pp. 42-68
Guest editorial
Fieldwork Ain't Always Fun: Public and Hidden Discourses on Fieldwork
Before I start, I would like to stress that the following is in no way meant as a complaint. Neither would I like you to think that I am disgusted by fieldwork in general, and fieldwork in Mali in particular. The point that I want to get across is that the personal emotional experience and state of mind during fieldwork have an impact on the way fieldworkers, in being their own instruments, practice their research. We would like to believe that t…
One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: A multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali
This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis to the current (2012) political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi-Salafi movements, leading to a coup d'état against the incumbent President Touré, and finallly a political stalemate of great…
Tuareg separatism in Mali
This article provides a contextualized overview of Tuareg separatism and the violence that has attended it in Mali. The article sketches key episodes and developments in the conflict between the Malian state and Tuareg separatist nationalists, and outlines Tuareg political goals and internal dynamics. The article examines the impact on Tuareg separatism of the presence of international Jihadi-Salafist movements in the region and the resulting int…
The Bellah Question: Slave Emancipation, Race, and Social Categories in Late Twentieth-Century Northern Mali
2005). The Bellah Question: Slave Emancipation, Race, and Social Categories in Late Twentieth-Century Northern Mali. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 39, The Persistence of Servility, pp. 42-68
Historicising nationalism in Africa
This paper proposes rethinking nationalism as a political ideology and force in Africa outside the boundaries of the postcolonial African state. It argues against national histories and for histories of the construction of African nationalisms. In analysing the anti‐colonial basis of nationalism globally, it argues that the basis for African nationalism is similar to and not distinct from dominant nationalist processes elsewhere. The paper analys…
Facing Dilemmas: Former Fulbe Slaves in Modern Mali
RésuméCet article illustre d'une part, la manière dont les hiérarchies Fulbe traditionnelles au centre du Mali ont clairement défini les relations de dépendance sociale, d'autre part leur rôle important dans la politique locale. Les anciens esclaves, les Riimaybe, luttent pour trouver une nouvelle place dans la société, en essayant de réconcilier passé et présent. Les récits historiques de trois groupes différents de Riimaybe dans des colonies di…
Moving Memories of Slavery among West African Migrants in Urban Contexts (Bamako, Paris)
Moving memories of slavery” are those memories of internal African slavery that move with West African migrants to urban areas. Different types of mobility towards and within urban contexts can be considered as non-discursive, embodied forms of ‘memory work’ of slavery. The focus is on how Fulɓe (and Soninke) migrants in Bamako and Paris ‘move with’ or ‘move back into’ slave status on specific moments in space and time. Even though cities offer o…
The Drama of Development: The Skirmishes Behind High Modernist Schemes in Africa
Cultuur en ontwikkeling in Afrika, Politiek-economische veranderingen en de dynamieken van Afrikaanse culturen
Fieldwork Ain't Always Fun: Public and Hidden Discourses on Fieldwork
Before I start, I would like to stress that the following is in no way meant as a complaint. Neither would I like you to think that I am disgusted by fieldwork in general, and fieldwork in Mali in particular. The point that I want to get across is that the personal emotional experience and state of mind during fieldwork have an impact on the way fieldworkers, in being their own instruments, practice their research. We would like to believe that t…
Communicating war in Mali, 2012: On-offline networked political agency in times of conflict
The Arab Spring raised high expectations for political freedom, especially for situations in which the rapid development of ICT intersects with political oppression and rebellion, as was the case in Mali, West Africa. In 2012 the country’s northern part fell into the hands of ‘rebels’ and jihadists were on the rise. This article tries to understand the development of political agency in relation to the unprecedented access to new ICT of the Fulan…
Having a Road’: Social and Spatial Mobility of Persons of Slave and Mixed Descent in Post-Independence Central Mali
This article examines the migration trajectories of individuals of slave descent and ‘mixed descent’ (children of slave concubines) in a royal family network from the Haayre region of central Mali. Focusing on the twentieth century, it considers the extent to which social status has defined options for mobility within this network. Its argument is twofold. First, it shows that attention should be paid not only to the slave/free divide but also to…
La question de l'esclavage en Afrique: Politisation et mobilisations
du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges
This article examines ethical, practical, and methodological challenges in researching the aftermath of slavery in continental East Africa away from the coastal plantation belt. Interest in post-slavery there is recent and inspired by the apparent contrast with West Africa, where the issue is much more salient. The article explains this silence by highlighting politically-motivated avoidance of the issue in colonial sources and the preference of …
Facing fieldwork
Guest editorial
Fieldwork Ain't Always Fun: Public and Hidden Discourses on Fieldwork
Before I start, I would like to stress that the following is in no way meant as a complaint. Neither would I like you to think that I am disgusted by fieldwork in general, and fieldwork in Mali in particular. The point that I want to get across is that the personal emotional experience and state of mind during fieldwork have an impact on the way fieldworkers, in being their own instruments, practice their research. We would like to believe that t…
Facing Dilemmas: Former Fulbe Slaves in Modern Mali
RésuméCet article illustre d'une part, la manière dont les hiérarchies Fulbe traditionnelles au centre du Mali ont clairement défini les relations de dépendance sociale, d'autre part leur rôle important dans la politique locale. Les anciens esclaves, les Riimaybe, luttent pour trouver une nouvelle place dans la société, en essayant de réconcilier passé et présent. Les récits historiques de trois groupes différents de Riimaybe dans des colonies di…
The Bellah Question: Slave Emancipation, Race, and Social Categories in Late Twentieth-Century Northern Mali
2005). The Bellah Question: Slave Emancipation, Race, and Social Categories in Late Twentieth-Century Northern Mali. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 39, The Persistence of Servility, pp. 42-68
Guest editorial
Facing fieldwork
The Drama of Development: The Skirmishes Behind High Modernist Schemes in Africa
Cultuur en ontwikkeling in Afrika, Politiek-economische veranderingen en de dynamieken van Afrikaanse culturen
Phoning anthropologists: The mobile phone’s (re-)shaping of anthropological research
Having a Road’: Social and Spatial Mobility of Persons of Slave and Mixed Descent in Post-Independence Central Mali
This article examines the migration trajectories of individuals of slave descent and ‘mixed descent’ (children of slave concubines) in a royal family network from the Haayre region of central Mali. Focusing on the twentieth century, it considers the extent to which social status has defined options for mobility within this network. Its argument is twofold. First, it shows that attention should be paid not only to the slave/free divide but also to…
One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: A multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali
This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis to the current (2012) political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi-Salafi movements, leading to a coup d'état against the incumbent President Touré, and finallly a political stalemate of great…
Tuareg separatism in Mali
This article provides a contextualized overview of Tuareg separatism and the violence that has attended it in Mali. The article sketches key episodes and developments in the conflict between the Malian state and Tuareg separatist nationalists, and outlines Tuareg political goals and internal dynamics. The article examines the impact on Tuareg separatism of the presence of international Jihadi-Salafist movements in the region and the resulting int…
Moving Memories of Slavery among West African Migrants in Urban Contexts (Bamako, Paris)
Moving memories of slavery” are those memories of internal African slavery that move with West African migrants to urban areas. Different types of mobility towards and within urban contexts can be considered as non-discursive, embodied forms of ‘memory work’ of slavery. The focus is on how Fulɓe (and Soninke) migrants in Bamako and Paris ‘move with’ or ‘move back into’ slave status on specific moments in space and time. Even though cities offer o…
Introduction: Slavery, Memory and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies
This chapter addresses the silence that characterizes African domestic slavery in West Africa. Whereas the transatlantic slave trade is remembered and commemorated, domestic slavery has long remained a taboo topic. The chapter sheds light on recent attempts by African people of slave origin to reconsider the contribution of slaves to the construction of African former kingdoms and contemporary nation states. It examines the ways in which African …
Communicating war in Mali, 2012: On-offline networked political agency in times of conflict
The Arab Spring raised high expectations for political freedom, especially for situations in which the rapid development of ICT intersects with political oppression and rebellion, as was the case in Mali, West Africa. In 2012 the country’s northern part fell into the hands of ‘rebels’ and jihadists were on the rise. This article tries to understand the development of political agency in relation to the unprecedented access to new ICT of the Fulan…
La question de l'esclavage en Afrique: Politisation et mobilisations
du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Historicising nationalism in Africa
This paper proposes rethinking nationalism as a political ideology and force in Africa outside the boundaries of the postcolonial African state. It argues against national histories and for histories of the construction of African nationalisms. In analysing the anti‐colonial basis of nationalism globally, it argues that the basis for African nationalism is similar to and not distinct from dominant nationalist processes elsewhere. The paper analys…
Reversing the gaze: West Africa performing the EU migration-development-security nexus
This special issue empirically investigates how EU securitization and management of migration, implemented through the channels of development aid, have gained (or not) traction in francophone West African contexts. The contributions to this issue accentuate the perception of the so-called migration-development-security nexus as seen from the “South”. Describing, deconstructing and criticizing the EU policy framework by having an ethnographic foc…
Récits cinétiques »: Le déplacement comme récit de contestation des wahayu, concubines de statut servile dans les régions frontalières du Niger et du Nigeria
Que ce soit en langue vernaculaire et en français, il existe peu de récits écrits relatant des expériences subjectives d’exploitation, de liberté, d’émancipation et de cohabitation d’individus ayant le statut héréditaire d’esclaves au Sahel. Les quelques documents écrits traitant des femmes de cette catégorie ont été produits par des organisations de lutte contre l’esclavage, comme Timidria au Niger, Temedt au Mali, ou bien par des universitaires…
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges
This article examines ethical, practical, and methodological challenges in researching the aftermath of slavery in continental East Africa away from the coastal plantation belt. Interest in post-slavery there is recent and inspired by the apparent contrast with West Africa, where the issue is much more salient. The article explains this silence by highlighting politically-motivated avoidance of the issue in colonial sources and the preference of …
E-motions: A History of Unrecorded Female Rural Displacements in Post-Slavery Africa
This special issue introduces the concept of e-motions in (post-)slavery Africa to analyse movement or motion that is not so much driven by labour and economic survival but rather by relational/emotional (dis-)connection. We introduce the term e-motions to qualify the gendered mobilities mainly of subaltern girls and women who have been voluntarily or forcedly moving in the past and present to establish and consolidate emotional ties. These ties …
Engaging the past in the present through contemporary connectivity: An interview with Jeannette Ehlers
Jeannette Ehlers is one of the most famous contemporary artists who has exclusively researched the history of slavery, with a focus on the genealogy of the Afro-descendant and Afropean body. Through her work in performance, video, and installation art, as well as her involvement in collaborative projects within the urban space, she focuses on the Caribbean colonial heritage in the context of Denmark, her birthplace, thereby highlighting the Afro-…
Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Transnational Digital Resistance? Collective On- and Offline Anti-Slavery Mobilisations by the Soninke Movement Ganbanaaxun Fedde in Mali, Mauritania and the Diaspora, 2016–2024
Ganbanaaxun Fedde: Un réseau contemporain et transnational de lutte contre l’esclavage
Ce texte est une version révisée d’une interview publiée dans le journal sénégalais Le Soleil (parue le 15 mars 2023). L’entretien porte sur le film documentaire intitulé Ganbanaaxun Fedde : un mouvement transnational contre l’esclavage par ascendance et en explique le contenu ainsi que les intentions de la réalisatrice. Le film vise à rendre visible et compréhensible ce qu’implique la lutte transnationale, néo-abolitionniste et antiesclavagiste …
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (8 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works)