Borderlands And Frontiers In Africa

Author : Steven van Wolputte
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643903334

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Borderlands and Frontiers in Africa by Steven van Wolputte Pdf

This volume addresses the marked influence that African borders and boundaries, whether real or imaginary, have on the lives of those inhabiting the borderland. How do political and symbolic borders take concrete shape, and how do they bear on daily life? Conversely, how does life in the borderland shape the borders that characterize it? The book recognizes borderlands as shifting places, times, or domains where competing discourses and regimes of power overlap. Characterized by overt contradiction and paradox, they are often imagined at the outside. Yet, they pertain to and define the center. The collected case studies challenge the assumption that states and anonymized institutions are the principal actors in border-making. Instead, they argue for an actor-oriented perspective, while drawing attention to the "physicality" of the borderscape. (Series: African Studies / Afrikanische Studien - Vol. 40)

Author : Michael Rösler,Tobias Wendl
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047705309

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Frontiers and Borderlands by Michael Rösler,Tobias Wendl Pdf

Introduction / Tobias Wendl & Michael R(c)œsler -- The internal African frontier : cultural conservatism and ethnic innovation / Igor Kopytoff -- Where is the border now? : the new politics of identity in South Africa / Carolyn Hamilton -- Island as borderland : such as R(c)ơgen and Usedom / Ina-Maria Greverus -- Power versus knowledge : smugglers and the state along Ghana's eastern frontier / Paul Nugent -- Shopping and sectarianism at the Irish border / Hastings Donnan -- Smuggling as a border way of life : a Mediterranean case / Henk Driessen -- Multiple legal construction of socio-economic spaces : resource management and conflict in the Central Moluccas / Franz von Benda-Beckman -- Limits on the access to land, cattle and women among some West African peoples / R(c)ơdiger Schott -- Boundaries between African customary law and the constitution in South Africa / Tom W. Bennett -- Frontier languages, language boundaries / Klaus Schubert -- Separation through unification : changing cultural models in a East German factory / Heike Wieschiolek -- Toward an anthropology of borderlands : the Mexican-US border and the crossing of the 21st century / Robert R. Alvarez.

Author : Dereje Feyissa,Markus Virgil Höhne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847010186

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Borders & Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa by Dereje Feyissa,Markus Virgil Höhne Pdf

Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit state borders through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which includethe Horn and Eastern Africa, particularly the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeabilitybut consequentiality of the borders. DEREJE FEYISSA, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

Author : Andrew Offenburger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300225877

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Frontiers in the Gilded Age by Andrew Offenburger Pdf

The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in southern Africa, and the people who participated in both This book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontiering overlapped with Gilded Age extractive capitalism. In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop of many where Americans chased capitalist dreams beyond the United States. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines how these frontier spaces could glitter with grandiose visions, expose the flawed and immoral strategies of profiteers, and yet reveal the capacity for resistance and resilience that indigenous people summoned when threatened. Linking together a series of stories about Boer exiles who settled in Mexico, a global network of protestant missionaries, and adventurers involved in the parallel displacements of indigenous peoples in Rhodesia and the Yaqui Indians in Mexico, Offenburger situates the borderlands of the Mexican North and the American Southwest within a global system, bound by common actors who interpreted their lives through a shared frontier ideology.

Author : A. I. Asiwaju,P. O. Adeniyi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024817762

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Borderlands in Africa by A. I. Asiwaju,P. O. Adeniyi Pdf

Author : Timothy Raeymaekers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137333995

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Violence on the Margins by Timothy Raeymaekers Pdf

This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.

Author : Paul Nugent
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0852554729

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Smugglers, Secessionists & Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Toga Frontier by Paul Nugent Pdf

The first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands.

Author : James McDougall,Judith Scheele
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780253001245

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Saharan Frontiers by James McDougall,Judith Scheele Pdf

The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's description of the Sahara as "the second face of the Mediterranean." The essays recast the history of the region with the Sahara at its center, uncovering a story of densely interdependent networks that span the desert's vast expanse. They explore the relationship between the desert's "islands" and "shores" and the connections and commonalities that unite the region. Contributors draw on extensive ethnographic and historical research to address topics such as trade and migration; local notions of place, territoriality, and movement; Saharan cities; and the links among ecological, regional, and world-historical approaches to understanding the Sahara.

Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199211883

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Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa by Richard J. Reid Pdf

Relates violent conflict through the 19th and 20th centuries in the region of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the Sudanese and Somali frontiers to ethnic, political, and religious conflict and the violent state- and empire-building processes which have defined the region.

Author : Paul Nugent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107020689

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Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa by Paul Nugent Pdf

By examining three centuries of history, this book shows how vital border regions have been in shaping states and social contracts.

Author : Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice,Alejandra María Aventín Fontana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527577572

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Representations and Images of Frontiers and Borders by Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice,Alejandra María Aventín Fontana Pdf

This collection gathers a variety of scholars representing various methodological perspectives and applying diverse critical lenses to analyze the idea of borders, borderlands, frontiers, and liminal space, as they are represented in literature and philosophy. The idea of the border and frontier is perhaps more important than ever: under the siege of COVID-19, with shattered illusions of a post-racial world, when a global effort is required as a response to a crisis that does not respect national or regional borders, we need to reconsider what frontiers and borders mean to us, and how to best understand them so that they do not divide, but point to areas of common knowledge, collective experiences, and shared humanity. Drawing upon examples from different continents (Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe) and from diverse specific places (such as the Mexico-US border, or the contested Palestinian frontiers), and using a variety of critical perspectives (evoking Gloria Anzaldua, Jorge Luis Borges, and Edward Said, for instance), this volume explores the idea of frontiers and borders in order to comment on their representations in literature, philosophy, music, and cinema, and on the human condition in general.

Author : Igor Kopytoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0253205395

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The African Frontier by Igor Kopytoff Pdf

Author : Brigit Obrist,Veit Arlt,Elisio Macamo
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643801524

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Living the City in Africa by Brigit Obrist,Veit Arlt,Elisio Macamo Pdf

Research on cities worldwide still takes its cue from cities in Europe and the US, which are seen as the standard model. However, cities in the global South are undergoing a much more rapid transformation, including multiple interlinked transitions, with Africa featuring the highest urbanization rates world-wide. Scholars therefore call for a new approach to urban studies which examines cities from a more global comparative perspective. This book discusses the new approach, which pays added attention to the role that societal creativity plays in processes of urbanization, instead of concentrating exclusively on expert-driven planning and intervention. Especially in fast-growing cities with weaker institutional capacity for interventions, the interplay between intervention and invention, between expert and societal agency, becomes more tangible and all the more significant. (Series: Swiss African Studies / Schweizerische Afrikastudien / Etudes africaines suisses - Vol. 10)

Author : Mostafa Minawi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804799294

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The Ottoman Scramble for Africa by Mostafa Minawi Pdf

The Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism. Following key representatives of the sultan on their travels across Europe, Africa, and Arabia at the close of the nineteenth century, it takes the reader from Istanbul to Berlin, from Benghazi to Lake Chad Basin to the Hijaz, and then back to Istanbul. It turns the spotlight on the Ottoman Empire's expansionist strategies in Africa and its increasingly vulnerable African and Arabian frontiers. Drawing on previously untapped Ottoman archival evidence, Mostafa Minawi examines how the Ottoman participation in the Conference of Berlin and involvement in an aggressive competition for colonial possessions in Africa were part of a self-reimagining of this once powerful global empire. In so doing, Minawi redefines the parameters of agency in late-nineteenth-century colonialism to include the Ottoman Empire and turns the typical framework of a European colonizer and a non-European colonized on its head. Most importantly, Minawi offers a radical revision of nineteenth-century Middle East history by providing a counternarrative to the "Sick Man of Europe" trope, challenging the idea that the Ottomans were passive observers of the great European powers' negotiations over solutions to the so-called Eastern Question.

Author : Francis Dube
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030475352

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Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940 by Francis Dube Pdf

This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland. It examines the impact of colonial public health measures such as medical examinations/inspections, vaccinations, and border surveillance on African villagers in this borderland. The book asks whether the conjunction of a particular colonized society, a distinctive kind of colonialism, and a particular territorial border generated reluctance to embrace public health because of certain colonial circumstances which impeded the acceptance of therapeutic alternatives that were embraced by colonized people elsewhere. It asks historians to look elsewhere for similar kinds of histories involving racialized application of public health policies in colonial borderlands.