Critical Perspectives On African Politics

Author : Clive Gabay,Carl Death
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317686132

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Critical Perspectives on African Politics by Clive Gabay,Carl Death Pdf

Strong states and strong civil societies are now increasingly hailed as the twin drivers of a ‘rising Africa’. Current attempts to support growth and democracy are part of a longer history of promoting projects of disciplinary, regulatory and liberal rule and values beyond ‘the West’. Yet this is not simply Western domination of a passive continent. Such an interpretation misses out on the complexities and nuances of the politics of state-building and civil society promotion, and the central role of African agency. Drawing upon critical theory, including postcolonial and governmentality approaches, this book interrogates international practices of state-building and civil society support in Africa. It seeks to develop a theoretically informed critical approach to discourses and interventions such as those associated with broadly ‘Western’ initiatives in Africa. In doing so, the book highlights the power relations, inequalities, coercion and violence that are deeply implicated within contemporary international interventions on the African continent. Providing a range of empirical cases and theoretical approaches, the chapters are united by their critical treatment of political dynamics in Africa. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African politics, development studies, postcolonial theory, International Relations, international political economy and peacekeeping/making.

Author : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136323119

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Civil Society and Democracy in Africa by Nelson Kasfir Pdf

This work critically reviews the conventional uses of the concept of civil society in promoting democratization in Africa and suggests omissions and modifications are needed for more accurate analyses.

Author : John L. Comaroff,Jean Comaroff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226114147

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Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa by John L. Comaroff,Jean Comaroff Pdf

The essays in this important new collection explore the diverse, unexpected, and controversial ways in which the idea of civil society has recently entered into populist politics and public debate throughout Africa. In a substantial introduction, anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff offer a critical theoretical analysis of the nature and deployment of the concept—and the current debates surrounding it. Building on this framework, the contributors investigate the "problem" of civil society across their regions of expertise, which cover the continent. Drawing creatively on one another's work, they examine the impact of colonial ideology, postcoloniality, and development practice on discourses of civility, the workings of everyday politics, the construction of new modes of selfhood, and the pursuit of moral community. Incisive and original, the book shows how struggles over civil society in Africa reveal much about larger historical forces in the post-Cold War era. It also makes a strong case for the contribution of historical anthropology to contemporary discourses on the rise of a "new world order."

Author : John Obiero Ogone,Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527551558

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Language and Politics in Africa by John Obiero Ogone,Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo Pdf

Language and Politics in Africa is a fine collection of both empirically and theoretically based articles from across the African continent and beyond, but all focusing on the twin issues of Language and Politics in post colonial African countries. The authors offer critical perspectives on contemporary theoretical, empirical and policy issues related to language and how such issues manifest themselves at the inevitable interface with politics in a number of African countries. Coming at a time when most African countries are still grappling with language policy and planning issues while others are increasingly having to contend with the political outcomes of linguistically and ethnically heterogeneous nation-states, the present volume is a must read for scholars and students who are interested on the twin issues of language and politics since it represents one of the first attempts at documenting how language and politics affect each other in a number of African countries. The volume is divided into two sections dealing with the politics of language and the language of politics in African countries.

Author : Alfred Frankowski,Jeanine Ntihirageza,Chielozona Eze
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538150016

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Critical Perspectives on African Genocide by Alfred Frankowski,Jeanine Ntihirageza,Chielozona Eze Pdf

Genocide has become a part of the contemporary global expression of political violence. After all, every continent has had its genocide, but genocide in Africa and the African diaspora is distinctly different from those in Europe or the West. This text approaches genocide from within the context of Africa and the African diaspora to examine political and philosophical after-effects of global colonialism. As genocidal state violence has become prominent through colonialism, its appearance in Europe and the West have developed sharply against how it appears in colonized spaces within the African diaspora. This text argues that such a difference in orientation is needed to develop new concepts, critical approaches, and perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and anti-black politics as a way of critically understanding global genocide and the presence of continual genocidal violence.

Author : Peter C. J. Vale,Estelle H. Prinsloo
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1869142896

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The New South Africa at Twenty by Peter C. J. Vale,Estelle H. Prinsloo Pdf

In this book, some of South Africa's finest academic minds reflect on 20 years of democratic rule in the country. How far have South Africans really come? Is race still an entrenched issue in the country? Why does gender discrimination continue? Why are the poor in revolt? Is free expression under threat? What happened to South African Marxism? What drives Julius Malema? How have the unions experienced the post-apartheid years? These (and many other) questions are examined. Analytical and accessible, the book continues a long tradition of engaging South Africa's politics and society in a non-partisan, but critical, fashion. It opens the way for innate explanations and provides insights that lie beyond the workaday accounts usually offered by pundits. [Subject: Sociology, African Studies, Politics]

Author : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : 9783905758894

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Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa: Conceptual and Political Collisions by Nelson Kasfir Pdf

Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled successfully to Africa. Revived in response to the search for democracy in Eastern Europe during the late Soviet era, Western donors promoted and funded new civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa, regarding them as an essential grounding for African democratization. Most of these new civil society organizations had little in common with African associational activity. Focusing on the characteristics and behavior of longstand-ing African organizations would appear a better starting point for developing a useful concept of an African civil society. One candidate worth serious investigation is the Buganda Kingdom Government. This organization violates most distinctions central to Western notions of civil society. Yet it continues to behave like a civil society organization. Its political and conceptual collisions offer guidance toward a useful notion of African civil society and understanding Ugandan politics.

Author : Wisdom J. Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu,Bruce J. Berman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004130136

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Critical Perspectives in Politics and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana by Wisdom J. Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu,Bruce J. Berman Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of contemporary Ghanaian politics and economy and their relationship to culture. It combines rich, recent, empirical material with sophisticated theoretical analyses, bringing fresh and unique interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on the issues examined.

Author : Ganahl, Joseph Patrick
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9783869562483

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Corruption, Good Governance, and the African State by Ganahl, Joseph Patrick Pdf

African states are often called corrupt, indicating that the political system in Africa differs from the one prevalent in economically advanced democracies. This, however, does not give us any insight into what makes corruption the dominant norm of African statehood. Thus we must turn to the overly neglected theoretical work on the political economy of Africa in order to determine how the poverty of governance in Africa is firmly anchored both in Africa’s domestic socioeconomic reality, as well as in the region’s role in the international economic order. Instead of focusing on increased monitoring, enforcement and formal democratic procedures, this book combines economic analysis with political theory in order to arrive at a better understanding of the political-economic roots of corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Bernard Magubane
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106015041855

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African Sociology by Bernard Magubane Pdf

The sociological and political writings of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane on African political history, political economy and political philosophy constitute a vital portion of a monumental legacy to later generations by an African intellectual who came to maturity through an historical consciousness that emerged during the 1960s. This was a period characterized by the radical contentious philosophies of history: African marxism, African nationalism and the reactionary ideologies aligned with imperialism and colonialism.The essays of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane stand at a fascinating intersection with the intellectual systems of Frantz Fanon, H.I.E. Dhlomo, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Amilcar Cabral. They are first and foremost what Cabral and Fanon were clamoring for: an instrumentarium of the construction of a progressive African ideology or African ideologies. What enabled them to realize this remarkable breakthrough is that they are a continuation of the revolutionary thought of Fanon and Cabral. Magubane was among the first African academic scholars to have seen the historical significance of Fanon and Cabral, respectively in the mid 1960s and in the early 1970s.Written in exile during the exile period in South African intellectual and cultural history these essays until recently were not easily historically locatable within the genealogical structure of South African intellectual traditions. Undoubtedly, this had been due to the 'political philosophy' of apartheid and its ideological manifestations.

Author : Jean-Germain Gros
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : UOM:39076002342421

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Cameroon by Jean-Germain Gros Pdf

Annotation "By its geography and diversity Cameroon has been called ""Africa's Crossroads."" Without a doubt, the vibrancy of Cameroon society and the richness of its culture attest to the merit of the moniker. Less remarkable has been Cameroon's attempt to democratize"

Author : Ali A. Abdi,Korbla P. Puplampu,George Jerry Sefa Dei
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0739110411

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African Education and Globalization by Ali A. Abdi,Korbla P. Puplampu,George Jerry Sefa Dei Pdf

Containing both theoretical discussions of globalization and specific case analyses of individual African countries, this collection of essays examines the intersections of African education and globalization with multiple analytical and geographical emphases and intentions.

Author : Christian B. N. Gade
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498512268

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A Discourse on African Philosophy by Christian B. N. Gade Pdf

Many have argued that ubuntu was a formative influence on the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), South Africa’s famous transitional justice mechanism. A Discourse on African Philosophy: A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa challenges and contextualizes this view in a way that not only provides new findings and reflections on ubuntu and the TRC, but also contributes to the field of African philosophy. One of Christian B. N. Gade’s key findings, founded on qualitative interviews in South Africa, is that some former TRC commissioners and committee members question the importance of ubuntu in the TRC process. Another is that there are several differing and historically developing interpretations of ubuntu, some of which have evident political implications and reflect non-factual and creative uses of history. Thus ubuntu is not a shared cultural heritage, in the ethnophilosophical sense of a static property characterizing a group. In fact, throughout this book Gade argues that the ethnophilosophical approach to African philosophy as a static group property is highly problematic. Gade’s research presents an alternative collective discourse on African philosophy (“collective” in the sense that it does not focus on any single individual in particular) that takes differences, historical developments, and social contexts seriously. This book will be of interest to scholars in African philosophy, transitional justice, politics and cultural heritage, and law in South Africa.

Author : Marcel Paret,Carin Runciman,Luke Sinwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317127291

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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 : Kevin C. Dunn
Publisher : A & C Black
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Africa
ISBN : 162892506X

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African Politics by Kevin C. Dunn Pdf