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Author : Crawford Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015056319232
Author : Bruce Berman,Dickson Eyoh,Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821442678
The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joined political scientists in a discussion about the ways in which democracy can develop in multicultural societies. In Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, the contributors address why ethnicity represents a political problem, how the problem manifests itself, and which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building.
Author : Philip Roessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107176072
This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war. Drawing evidence from extensive field research in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined with statistical analysis of most African countries, it develops a framework to understand the causes of state failure.
Author : Okwudiba Nnoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCAL:B3674685
Author : E Ike Udogu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351738439
This title was first published in 2001. The central characteristics of political ethnicity and its dysfunctional attributes in African politics is vexing to Africa's policy makers. Moreover, as a conflictive ideology in national and international politics, many political actors would rather avoid it. In the past, nationalists have blamed ethnic chauvinists for fanning the embers of ethnicity, but today they realize they may have underestimated its prominence in African politics.
Author : Sebastian Elischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107033467
This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in ten African countries. Sebastian Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic alliance, the catch-all, the programmatic, and the personalistic party. He uses these party types to show that the African political landscape is considerably more diverse than conventionally assumed.
Author : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520315617
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Author : Joshua Forrest
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588262278
This examination of the politics of ethnicity and nation-building in Africa stresses the trend towards subnationalist autonomy and away from a singular, state-centric system based on the Western model. Forrest ranges across the continent to explore a variety of subnational movements.
Author : P. Yeros
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349271559
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa features a series of 'constructivist' contributions by leading scholars in the field of ethnicity and nationalism, and explores the differences among those who have come to be known as 'constructivists'. The contributors reflect upon ongoing methodological debates in ethnography, historiography, and political theory. They demonstrate the diversity of concepts and methods within constructivism, and assess the political implications of the concepts themselves. The debate between them is inter-disciplinary, critical and innovative, and should be of value to anyone interested in the study of ethnicity and nationalism.
Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1560729678
This book is more than just a study of ethnic politics in Kenya and Nigeria. The two countries are a microcosm of the entire continent: the problems it faces, its successes and failures, and the hope and despair of hundreds of millions of its people whose aspirations have been frustrated by decades of corrupt leadership that has skilfully exploited one of Africa's biggest weaknesses -- tribalism. But the people themselves are also responsible for that. They have allowed tribalism to flourish and destroy the countries. And they have allowed unscrupulous politicians to use and abuse them -- without storming the Bastille. What they are not responsible for is dictatorship African leaders instituted to perpetuate themselves in office by exploiting tribalism. These despots have been so good at it, and have done it for so long since independence, that many African countries are now on the brink of collapse, with the people at war against themselves.
Author : Daniel N. Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316582978
This book presents a theory to account for why and when politics revolves around one axis of social cleavage instead of another. It does so by examining the case of Zambia, where people identify themselves either as members of one of the country's seventy-three tribes or as members of one of its four principal language groups. The book accounts for the conditions under which Zambian political competition revolves around tribal differences and under which it revolves around language group differences. Drawing on a simple model of identity choice, it shows that the answer depends on whether the country operates under single-party or multi-party rule. During periods of single-party rule, tribal identities serve as the axis of electoral mobilization and self-identification; during periods of multi-party rule, broader language group identities play this role. The book thus demonstrates how formal institutional rules determine the kinds of social cleavages that matter in politics.
Author : Okwudiba Nnoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa
ISBN : UVA:X002651120
Author : Brian M. du Toit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429726934
The fifteen essays written for this volume reflect the increasing importance for social scientists of ethnic, rather than physical or tribal, criteria for classifying modern population groups. The authors—from South Africa, the United States, South West Africa (Namibia), Nigeria, and Scotland—cover most of Africa south of the Sahara. They consider the range from large national population groupings to small-scale societies attempting to maintain their social boundaries, and discuss such topics as emergent nationalism, ethnic divisiveness, social distance, voluntary association, and the role of women. The first section is concerned with particular communities, peoples, and ethnic groups, and treats traditional tribal groupings as well as communities delineated on phenotypic grounds. In the second section, the focus turns to modern situations of interaction; the two major themes discussed here are situational ethnicity and situational realignment. The third section deals with color, one of the physical criteria of ethnic identification; here the authors discuss the political and legal implications of a system based on color. The last essay reports on current changes in attitude and organization within the countries of white-ruled southern Africa.
Author : Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472440686
As an ethnic minority the Nubians of Kenya are struggling for equal citizenship by asserting themselves as indigenous and autochthonous to Kibera, one of Nairobi’s most notorious slums. Having settled there after being brought by the British colonial authorities from Sudan as soldiers, this appears a peculiar claim to make. It is a claim that illuminates the hierarchical nature of Kenya’s ethnicised citizenship regime and the multi-faceted nature of citizenship itself. This book explores two kinds of citizenship deficits; those experienced by the Nubians in Kenya and, more centrally, those which represent the limits of citizenship theories. The author argues for an understanding of citizenship as made up of multiple component parts: status, rights and membership, which are often disaggregated through time, across geographic spaces and amongst different people. This departure from a unitary language of citizenship allows a novel analysis of the central role of ethnicity in the recognition of political membership and distribution of political goods in Kenya. Such an analysis generates important insights into the risks and possibilities of a relationship between ethnicity and democracy that is of broad, global relevance.
Author : Louise De La Gorgendière,Kenneth King
Publisher : Centre of African Studies University of Edinburgh
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020705302
