Governance Of Daily Life In Africa

Author : Giorgio Blundo,Pierre-Yves Le Meur
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004171282

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The Governance of Daily Life in Africa by Giorgio Blundo,Pierre-Yves Le Meur Pdf

Anchored in an empirically-grounded anthropology, this book explores the notion of governance in a non-normative way. It describes and analyses the institutional and political processes through which social actors and groups - be they state, private or 'third-sector' - contribute to the provision of public and collective goods or services. The book draws on case studies from Anglophone and Francophone Africa, crossing anthropological traditions that have too often evolved in parallel directions and dealing with a range of topics such as health, water supply, sanitation and waste management, security, humanitarian aid, land issues and decentralisation. Beyond African boundaries, it contributes to current debates about governmentality, public policy, subject making, public/private boundaries, and the role of the state.

Author : Giorgio Blundo
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 3825873595

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Governance of daily life in Africa by Giorgio Blundo Pdf

Author : Tom De Herdt,Jean-Pierre OLIVIER de SARDAN
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317527749

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Real Governance and Practical Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa by Tom De Herdt,Jean-Pierre OLIVIER de SARDAN Pdf

Although international development discourse considers the state as a crucial development actor, there remains a significant discrepancy between the official norms of the state and public services and the actual practices of political elites and civil servants. This text interrogates the variety of ways in which state policies and legal norms have been translated into the set of practical norms which make up real governance in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that the concept of practical norms is an appropriate tool for an ethnographic investigation of public bureaucracies, interactions between civil servants and users, and the daily functioning of the state in Africa. It demonstrates that practical norms are usually different from official norms, complementing, bypassing and even contradicting them. In addition, it explores the positive and negative effects of different aspects of this ‘real governance’. This text will be of key interest to academics, students and researchers in the fields of development, political science, anthropology and development studies, African studies, international comparative studies, implementation studies, and public policy.

Author : Daniel Mulugeta,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032174927

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The Everyday State in Africa by Daniel Mulugeta,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This book offers a new understanding of the workings of the everyday Ethiopian state through analysis of the everyday politics of state-society relations.

Author : Pierre-Yves Le Meur,Christian Lund,Association euro-africaine pour l'anthropologie du changement social et du développement
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3825868826

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Everyday governance of land in Africa by Pierre-Yves Le Meur,Christian Lund,Association euro-africaine pour l'anthropologie du changement social et du développement Pdf

Author : Randi Solhjell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429870965

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Dimensions of African Statehood by Randi Solhjell Pdf

This book argues that the way in which we use the concept of "state" in many African countries must involve a deeper engagement of the complex workings of state–society relations, rather than a master narrative of European state formation. Dimensions of African Statehood explores the concept of "statehood" as a set of daily practices that govern and generate effects through the voices of those performing and living the state. The book is based on extensive, firsthand research on the delivery of and access to public goods as expressions of statehood in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. A public good, a field long dominated by economic models, can be seen as a power relation rather than a universal, positive good. By unpacking the meaning of "whose public," the book offers an avenue for a dynamic and multilayered understanding of practices that express and shape statehood. The assessment of statehood as presented in this book is an invitation to contribute to the new era of what statehood entails in regions different from the Global North. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of politics, African studies, and governance.

Author : Daniel Mulugeta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : 0367193809

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The Everyday State in Africa by Daniel Mulugeta Pdf

This book offers a new understanding of the workings of the everyday Ethiopian state through foregrounding of the everyday politics of state-society relations. In a series of ethnographic cases, this book provides a lively and stimulating view of the lives and experiences of farmers, pastoralists, women, rural traders, shopkeepers, daily labourers, the rural youth, state functionaries and NGO workers living in two rural localities in different regions of Ethiopia. The book offers a rich, nuanced, and detailed ethnographic work while making distinctive theoretical contributions to the analysis of the state in Africa. Through a close look at the everyday forms of state power, the book foments Africanist understanding of Ethiopian politics, moving beyond the narrative of Ethiopian exceptionalism. In this sense, it foregrounds the Ethiopian experience as an important component of the politics of everyday life and state formation in Africa and makes important linkages between Ethiopia and politics in the rest of the continent that are often overlooked in Ethiopia-specific studies. Forming an 'Africanist' understanding of Ethiopian politics, this book will be of interest to scholars of politics, sociology, anthropology, international development, and state, society, and governance in Africa and Ethiopia.

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mwanaka, Tendai R.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956763009

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Democracy, Good Governance and Development in Africa by Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mwanaka, Tendai R. Pdf

Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in the view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades after political independence in Africa the continent continues experiencing bad governance, lagging behind socioeconomically, and its democracy questionable. We admit that a plethora of theories and reasons, including iniquitous and malicious ones, have been conjured in an attempt to explain and answer the questions as to why Africa seems to be lagging behind other continents in issues pertaining to good governance, democracy and socio-economic development. Yet, none of the theories and reasons proffered so far seems to have provided enduring solutions to Africa’s diverse complex problems and predicaments. This book dissects and critically examines the matrix of Africa’s multifaceted problems on governance, democracy and development in an attempt to proffer enduring solutions to the continent’s long-standing political and socio-economic dilemmas and setbacks.

Author : Tom De Herdt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 1317527720

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Real Governance and Practical Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa by Tom De Herdt Pdf

Author : Giorgio Blundo,Jean-Pierre Olivier de-Sardan,N. B. Arifari,M. T. Alou
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136649

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Everyday Corruption and the State by Giorgio Blundo,Jean-Pierre Olivier de-Sardan,N. B. Arifari,M. T. Alou Pdf

Daily life in Africa is governed by the 'petty' corruption of public officials in services such as health, transport, or the judicial system. This remarkable study of everyday corruption in three African countries investigates the reasons for its extraordinary prevalence. The authors construct an illuminating analytical framework around the various forms of corruption, the corruptive strategies public officials resort to, and how these forms and strategies have become embedded in daily administrative practices. They investigate the roots of the system in the growing inability of weakened states in Africa to either reward their employees adequately or to deliver expected services. They conclude that corruption in Africa today is qualitatively different from other parts of the world in its pervasiveness, its legitimations, and its huge impact on the nature of the state.

Author : Jeffrey W. Paller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316513309

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Democracy in Ghana by Jeffrey W. Paller Pdf

A detailed account of politics in Ghana's urban neighborhoods, providing a new way to understand African democracy and development.

Author : Godwin S. Kowero,Bruce Morgan Campbell,Ussif Rashid Sumaila
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 9789793361222

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Policies and Governance Structures in Woodlands of Southern Africa by Godwin S. Kowero,Bruce Morgan Campbell,Ussif Rashid Sumaila Pdf

Author : John Idriss Lahai,Helen Ware
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030401344

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Governance and Societal Adaptation in Fragile States by John Idriss Lahai,Helen Ware Pdf

This book examines the various ways in which some fragile states in the Global South (or states with limited statehood) have adopted, and adapted to, processes of governance in their quests to address the socialized problems affecting their societies. It tells the story of these states’ resilience in the societal adaptation to a liberalized notion of governance. In addition to comparative case studies, the book also analyzes the engendered interplay of culture, economics, and politics in the creation of people-centric governance reforms. The contributing authors shed light on weak states’ often constructive engagement in the promotion of state governance under a variety of societal conditions, adverse or otherwise, and on their ability to remain resilient despite the complexities of the political and economic challenges they face.

Author : Peters, B. Guy,Pierre, Jon,Sørensen, Eva,Torfing, Jacob
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788117999

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A Research Agenda for Governance by Peters, B. Guy,Pierre, Jon,Sørensen, Eva,Torfing, Jacob Pdf

This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive study of existing and emerging general principles of EU law by scholars from a wide range of expertise in EU law, international law, legal theory and different areas of substantive law. It explores the theory, content, role and function of general principles in EU law to better understand general principles as a mechanism for the substantive openness of the EU legal order as well as for cross-fertilization and coherence of legal orders. Their potential as a tool to manage the interaction of legal regimes and orders is a particular focal point and will make this Handbook a must-read for scholars of EU Law.

Author : Carole Ammann,Till Förster
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004387942

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African Cities and the Development Conundrum by Carole Ammann,Till Förster Pdf

This 10th thematic volume of International Development Policy presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex development challenges associated with Africa’s recent but extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that challenges still predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rural continent. Analysing urban settings through the diverse experiences and perspectives of inhabitants and stakeholders in cities across the continent, the authors consider the evolution of international development policy responses amidst the unique historical, social, economic and political contexts of Africa’s urban development. Contributors include: Carole Ammann, Claudia Baez Camargo, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Karen Büscher, Aba Obrumah Crentsil, Sascha Delz, Ton Dietz, Till Förster, Lucy Koechlin, Lalli Metsola, Garth Myers, George Owusu, Edgar Pieterse, Sebastian Prothmann, Warren Smit, and Florian Stoll.