African Studies In Social Movements And Democracy

Author : Mahmood Mamdani,E. Wamba-dia-Wamba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070251777

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African Studies in Social Movements and Democracy by Mahmood Mamdani,E. Wamba-dia-Wamba Pdf

Trade unions, burial societies, students, religious and gender movements, riots and mafias. Not to mention class. The kaleidoscope of African social movements is complex and broad. But their histories have strong common threads - the experience of past oppression and the constant struggle for an identity that will encompass survival. How have they contributed to the nature of African civil society and the formation of democracy? The chapters are a living dialogue on the interpretation of these movements, and a critical and analytical appraisal of the African intellectual heritage itself. The book brings together a vast array of writers and topics from all over Africa - from bread riots in Tunisia, Communist Parties in Sudan, the "Kaduna Mafia" in Nigeria, burial societies in Zimbabwe, and the working class in Algeria.

Author : Stephen Ellis,Ineke Van Kessel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004180130

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Movers and Shakers by Stephen Ellis,Ineke Van Kessel Pdf

This collection of empirical and theoretical studies of social movements in Africa is a corrective to a literature that has largely ignored that continent. It shows that Africa s social movements have distinctive features that are related to its specific history.

Author : Agnes Ngoma Leslie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135521554

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Social Movements and Democracy in Africa by Agnes Ngoma Leslie Pdf

This book examines social movements in Africa, analyzing how they emerge and how they may impact public policy, the legal and political situation, and the society by focusing on the following question: How do women's political and legal rights get extended and institutionalized in a patriarchal democratic society?

Author : Kathleen M. Fallon
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801896743

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Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kathleen M. Fallon Pdf

Despite a late and fitful start, democracy in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe has recently shown promising growth. Kathleen M. Fallon discusses the role of women and women's advocacy groups in furthering the democratic transformation of formerly autocratic states. Using Ghana as a case study, Fallon examines the specific processes women are using to bring about political change. She assesses information gathered from interviews and surveys conducted in Ghana and assays the existing literature to provide a focused look at how women have become involved in the democratization of sub-Saharan nations. The narrative traces the history of democratic institutions in the region—from the imposition of male-dominated mechanisms by western states to latter-day reforms that reflect the active resurgence of women’s political power within many African cultures—to show how women have made significant recent political gains in Ghana and other emerging democracies. Fallon attributes these advances to a combination of forces, including the decline of the authoritarian state and its attendant state-run women's organizations, newly formed constitutions, and newfound access to good-governance funding. She draws the study into the larger debate over gendered networks and democratic reform by exploring how gender roles affect and are affected by the state in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. In demonstrating how women’s activism is evolving with and shaping democratization across the region, Democracy and the Rise of Women’s Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa reveals how women’s social movements are challenging the barriers created by colonization and dictatorships in Africa and beyond.

Author : Leo Zeilig,Peter Dwyer
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608461202

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African Struggles Today by Leo Zeilig,Peter Dwyer Pdf

Social movements and the working class in Africa -- An epoch of uprisings : social movements in postcolonial Africa, 1945/98 -- Cracks in the monolith : social movements in post-apartheid South Africa -- Social movements after the transition : choiceless democracies? -- Frustrated transitions : social movements, protest, and repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland -- Social forums and the World Social Forum in Africa.

Author : Edalina Rodrigues Sanches
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000569100

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Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa by Edalina Rodrigues Sanches Pdf

This book offers a fresh analysis of third wave popular protests in Africa, shedding light on the complex dynamics between political change and continuity in contemporary Africa. The book argues that protests are simultaneously products and generators of change in that they are triggered by micro-and-macrosocial changes, but they also have the capacity to transform the nature of politics. By examining the triggers, actors, political opportunities, resources and framing strategies, the contributors shed light onto tangible (e.g. policy implementation, liberal reforms, political alternation) and intangible (e.g. perceptions, imagination, awareness) forms of change elicited by protests. It reveals the relevant role of African protests as engines of democracy, accountability and collective knowledge. Bringing popular protests in authoritarian and democratic settings into discussion, this book will be of interest to scholars of African politics, democracy and protest movements.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Civil society
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017267001

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Democracy, Civil Society, and the State by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marcel Paret,Carin Runciman,Luke Sinwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317127307

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Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective by Marcel Paret,Carin Runciman,Luke Sinwell Pdf

From the Arab Uprising, to anti-austerity protests in Europe and the US Occupy Movement, to uprisings in Brazil and Turkey, resistance from below is flourishing. Whereas analysts have tended to look North in their analysis of the recent global protest wave, this volume develops a Southern perspective through a deep engagement with the case of South Africa, which has experienced widespread popular resistance for more than a decade. Combining critical theoretical perspectives with extensive qualitative fieldwork and rich case studies, Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective situates South Africa’s contentious democracy in relation to both the economic insecurity of contemporary global capitalism and the constantly shifting political terrain of post-apartheid nationalism. The analysis integrates worker, community and political party organizing into a broader narrative of resistance, bridging historical divisions between social movement studies, labor studies and political sociology.

Author : L. M. Sachikonye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 1779050283

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Democracy, Civil Society, and the State by L. M. Sachikonye Pdf

Author : Patrick G. Coy
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762307869

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Political Opportunities Social Movements, and Democratization by Patrick G. Coy Pdf

As political opportunities shift, social movement decline or mobilization may result. The first section of this intriguing volume examines this phenomenon in depth while also moving theory-building forward. Significant contributions are made to collective identity theory, stalemate theory, and political process theory. This volume's concentration on political opportunity and social movements is accomplished through a focused series of papers that include case studies of specific social movements, comparative case studies of social movements, and comparative case studies of transnational issue networks. They include movements including the U. S. anti-nuclear power movement, the Rastafarians, the alternative and complimentary medicine movement, indigenous rights movements in Panama and Brazil, the animal rights movement, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and the housing reform movements in post-Soviet Union Moscow and Budapest. A shorter, but no less important section closes this volume while taking up another historic focus of the series: social and political change. Here one paper documents democratization in Wales via the use of 'inclusive politics' by Plaid Cymru, another analyzes the use of 'political homicide' in Mexico during the 1990s, and a third explores campus unrest in the United States.

Author : Julia Paley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520935748

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Marketing Democracy by Julia Paley Pdf

Amid protests against the Pinochet regime, a group of población(shantytown) residents came together in 1984 to challenge poor health care in their community and to denounce military rule. How did their organization respond seven years later when Chile's transition to democracy brought an end to dictatorship but no clear solution to ongoing health problems? Marketing Democracy shows how the exercise of power and the strategies of social movements transformed with the transition from a military to an elected-civilian regime in Chile. The term "marketing democracy" refers first to how contemporary democracies are shaped by transnational market forces, and second to how politicians have promoted democracy with the twin goals of attracting foreign capital and diminishing social movements.

Author : Steven L. Robins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781847012012

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From Revolution to Rights in South Africa by Steven L. Robins Pdf

The author argues for the continued importance of NGOs, social movements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy in South Africa. Critics of liberalism in Europe and North America argue that a stress on 'rights talk' and identity politics has led to fragmentation, individualisation and depoliticisation. But are these developments really signs of 'the end ofpolitics'? In the post-colonial, post-apartheid, neo-liberal new South Africa poor and marginalised citizens continue to struggle for land, housing and health care. They must respond to uncertainty and radical contingencies on a daily basis. This requires multiple strategies, an engaged, practised citizenship, one that links the daily struggle to well organised mobilisation around claiming rights. Robins argues for the continued importance of NGOs, socialmovements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy. He goes beyond the sanitised prescriptions of 'good governance' so often touted by development agencies. Instead he argues for a complex, hybrid and ambiguous relationship between civil society and the state, where new negotiations around citizenship emerge. Steven L. Robins is Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Stellenbosch and editorof Limits to Liberation after Apartheid (James Currey). Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland): University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (PB)

Author : Ponna Wignaraja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UGA:32108025061857

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New Social Movements in the South by Ponna Wignaraja Pdf

The rise of the masses

Author : Asafa Jalata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000008562

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Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia by Asafa Jalata Pdf

This book focuses on and examines the impact of cultural capital, political economy, social movements, and political consciousness on the potential development of substantive democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia. While explaining the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities for the development of democracy, Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia engages in defining democracy as a contested, open, and expanding concept through a comparative and historical examination. The book’s analysis employs interdisciplinary, multidimensional, comparative methods and critical approaches to examine the dynamic interplay among social structures, human agencies, cultural factors, and social movements. This comparative and historical study has required an examination of critical social history that looks at societal issues from the bottom up: specifically critical discourse and the particular world system approach, which deal with long-term and large-scale social changes. Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia will be of interest to scholars and students of African politics, political theory, and democratization.

Author : Ndongo Samba Sylla
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1499324758

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Liberalism and Its Discontents by Ndongo Samba Sylla Pdf

The engaging and wide-ranging discussions published here explore contemporary political realities in Africa through a 'social movement' lens.Detailing the nuances of social movement politics in 12 West African countries during the 2010-2013 period, they present a chronicle of the socio-political struggles that have taken place in the region. In so doing, this volume answers key questions related to these movements. What logic drives them? What forms do they take? What has been their political impact? Can we speak of a resurgence of social movements? If so, are these a response to the crisis of 'representative democracy'? Did they give rise to new forms of expression and democratic participation? What challenges do they bring?Discontent vis-à-vis liberalism in its political and economic dimensions seems to be the trigger of the numerous popular uprisings and protests that occur in the region. In spite of their ambiguities and limitations, these struggles currently seek to remove a double disconnect: that between citizens and the 'representatives' and that between the economy and society, between what capital wants and what the people aspire to.Ndongo Samba Sylla, the editor of this volume, is a Senegalese economist, programme and research manager at the West Africa Office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Author of The Fair Trade Scandal. Marketing poverty to benefit the Rich (translated from French by Pluto Press 2014), he is the editor of “Rethinking Development” (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation 2014). His recent research work deals with the history of the word 'democracy'. Contributing authors:Ibrahim Abdullah - Souley Adji - Kojo Opoku Aidoo - Francis Akindès - Alpha Amadou Bano Barry - Fernando Leonardo Cardoso - Lila Chouli - Modou Diome - Moussa Fofana - Cláudio Alves Furtado - George Klay Kieh Jr - Claus-Dieter König - Severin Yao Kouamé - Fodé Mane - Issa N'Diaye - Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem - Ndongo Samba Sylla