Kingdom State And Civil Society In Africa Conceptual And Political Collisions

Author : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1422139925

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Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa by Anonim 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 long-standing 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 : Apollo N. Makubuya
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527525962

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Protection, Patronage, or Plunder? British Machinations and (B)uganda’s Struggle for Independence by Apollo N. Makubuya Pdf

In the scramble for Africa, Britain took a lion’s share of the continent. It occupied and controlled vast territories, including the Uganda Protectorate – which it ruled for 68 years. Early administrators in the region encountered the progressive kingdom of Buganda, which they incorporated into the British Empire. Under the guise of protection, indirect rule and patronage, Britain overran, plundered and disempowered the kingdom’s traditional institutions. On liquidation of the Empire, Buganda was coaxed into a problematic political order largely dictated from London. Today, 56 years after independence, the kingdom struggles to rediscover itself within Uganda’s fragile politics. Based on newly de-classified records, this book reconstructs a history of the machinations underpinning British imperial interests in (B)Uganda and the personalities who embodied colonial rule. It addresses Anglo-Uganda relations, demonstrating how Uganda’s politics reflects its colonial past, and the forces shaping its future. It is a far-reaching examination of British rule in (B)uganda, questioning whether it was designed for protection, for patronage or for plunder.

Author : W. Forje
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956551880

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Unravelling the Mysteries of Africa's Underdevelopment by W. Forje Pdf

Unravelling the mysteries of Africas underdevelopment presents an Afrocentric ideological understanding of the continents fragmentation; a scientific and objective (Mijadala) discourse as well as an approach of how to move progressively and sustainably Africa forward. The breadth and depth of the book shows the unwavering impoverishment and urgent need for the continent to stand up and take the bull by the horn. It offers an inspiring means of grappling with the continents problems to build the change we want An African Wealth of Nation not the continent of collapsed, failed states under the governance construct of centralised authoritarian regimes It is a thought-provoking discourse that challenges us all to be inherent participants in the reconstruction of a Brave New Africa far beyond the 21st Century.

Author : Dieter Neubert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030171117

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Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa by Dieter Neubert Pdf

This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class concepts do not apply; yet these findings have mostly been ignored. For an analysis of the social structures and persisting extreme inequality in African societies – and in other societies of the world – we need to go beyond class, consider the empirical realities and provincialise our conventional theories. This book develops a new framework for the analysis of social structure based on empirical findings and more nuanced approaches, including livelihood analysis and intersectionality, and will be useful for students and scholars in African studies and development studies, sociology, social anthropology, political science and geography.

Author : Adam Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Civil society
ISBN : OXFORD:590358119

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An Essay on the History of Civil Society by Adam Ferguson Pdf

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Powell, Fred
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447309499

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The Politics of Civil Society by Powell, Fred Pdf

The politics of civil society is an original, thought provoking analysis which challenges one-dimensional neoliberal thinking about civil society, and seeks to rediscover its radical roots. The original edition shifted the scholarly debate onto the new ground, offering an accessible and compelling analysis of one of the central issues of our times. In the second, revised edition of this indispensable book, the author looks behind 'the mirror of power' to discover the reality of civil society - or 'Big Society', as it has become known. He finds not one but three forms of civil society: radical, liberal and conservative. In complex interplay between state and civil society, the author argues that citizens contend for power through civil society. This is both an age-long pursuit dating from antiquity and a contemporary democratic struggle between competing visions of modernity that determines the 'real' in politics, as experienced by the citizens. The book will have wide appeal to a broad cross-disciplinary audience.

Author : Gavin Cawthra,André Du Pisani,Abillah H. Omari
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868144532

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Security and Democracy in Southern Africa by Gavin Cawthra,André Du Pisani,Abillah H. Omari Pdf

Southern Africa has embarked on one of the world's most ambitious security co-operation initiatives, seeking to roll out the principles of the United Nations at regional levels. This book examines the triangular relationship between democratisation, the character of democracy and its deficits, and national security practices and perceptions of eleven southern African states. It explores what impact these processes and practices have had on the collaborative security project in the region. Based on national studies conducted by African academics and security practitioners over three years, it includes an examination of the way security is conceived and managed, as well as a comparative analysis of regional security co-operation in the developing world.

Author : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521191128

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Democracy in Africa by Nic Cheeseman Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Africa's history of democracy, grappling with important questions facing Africa today.

Author : Hans Eriksson,Björn Hagströmer
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9171065490

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Chad by Hans Eriksson,Björn Hagströmer Pdf

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Author : Usman A. Tar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857715760

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The Politics of Neoliberal Democracy in Africa by Usman A. Tar Pdf

Since the late 1980s the changing dynamic of global development has driven the tide of democratic expansion in the developing world. In Africa, western donors have sought to impose 'neo-liberal' visions of socio-economic and political institution-building, spreading political reforms and economic liberalisation with far-reaching consequences. Associated with external interventions, but also sometimes conflicting with them, are internal protests against authoritarianism, which have problematically reinforced and/or undermined the donor agenda for democratic reform.Here, Usman Tar questions the assumption that Africa was lacking the essential components for a spontaneous transition to democracy. He explores the dynamic, but contradictory, links between external and internal dimensions of neo-liberal democratic expansion in Africa, focusing on Nigeria. Tar dissects the struggles for democracy, and for democratic policy and practice in a country with rich economic potential but a troubled political dispensation.

Author : John Keane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052189462X

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Global Civil Society? by John Keane Pdf

John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling forms of socio-economic life. Keane's reflections are pitted against the widespread feeling that the world is both too complex and too violent to deserve serious reflection. His account borrows from various scholarly disciplines, including political science and international relations, to challenge the silence and confusion within much of contemporary literature on globalisation and global governance. Against fears of terrorism, rising tides of xenophobia, and loose talk of 'anti-globalisation', the defence of global civil society mounted here implies the need for new democratic ways of living.

Author : Volkhart Heinrich,Lorenzo Fioramonti,CIVICUS (Association)
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781565492448

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CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Society: Comparative perspectives by Volkhart Heinrich,Lorenzo Fioramonti,CIVICUS (Association) Pdf

The second volume of the CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Societyoffers a wide-ranging analysis of key issues facing civil society worldwide with contributions from prominent researchers and civil society practitioners. Comprising 24 chapters, the book draws on the information collected by the CIVICUS Civil Society Index project in more than 45 countries to explore issues such as civil society "s accountability, its relations to the state and corporate sector and its role in governance and development. It also includes regional overviews of the state of civil society in different continents. By bringing together a diversity of perspectives and themes, this book offers one of the most comprehensive and engaging analyses of civil society worldwide. Other Contributors: Helmut Anheier, Stefanie Bailer, Monica Blagescu, Thilo Bodenstein, David Bonbright, L. David Brown, Jerzy Celichowski, Julius Court, Wolfgang D rner, Alan Fowler, Marc M. Howard, Mohini Kak, Mahi Khallaf, Natalia Kiryttopoulou, Petr Kopecky, Barry Knight, Carmen Malena, Jacob Mati, Cas Mudde, Kumi Naidoo, Paul Opoku-Mensah, Aruna Rao, Laurie Regelbrugge, Janine Schall-Emden, Andres Serbin, Catherine Shea, Carla Suarez, Rajesh Tandon, –zlem T r, and Jan van Deth.

Author : Lucio Baccaro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civil society
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092614514

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Civil Society, NGOs, and Decent Work Policies by Lucio Baccaro Pdf