Abstract
The Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA) was set up in Dakar in a critical response to the parallel founding of a social science research council for sub-Saharan Africa by UNESCO’s Division of Social Sciences. The two bodies represent competing politics of regionalizing the social sciences. UNESCO, as an intergovernmental organization, operated through government representatives and planned to organize cooperation between the all-existing regional research councils in a top-down manner from the Paris headquarters. CODESRIA stands for self-directed initiative of academics regarding regional collaboration and transregional networking from below. These politics shed light on conflicts about who directs the course of the international social sciences in times of decolonization. They also offer a more global understanding of the fields’ development. Through the European Research Council, which aimed to create an East-West-dialogue across the Cold War divide, we can see shared interests and a tacit dialogue between the “global South” and the “East”.
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