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Author : Mai Palmberg
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9171064419
Province of South Africa
Author : Barrister Nathaniel Uko-Ima
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781499047943
Historically, before the advent of colonialism, African continent was made up of independent states and kingdoms with organized political, social and economic practices. Most of the states and kingdoms had their social and political structures founded on various religious beliefs. In order to understand the fundamental issues in the post-colonial African nations, the socio-political students must understand the core socio-political pre-existence of these states and kingdoms. This book is aimed at liberating the minds of pre-colonial ideologies and colonial mediocrity and points African leaders and college students (the tomorrow leaders) on the right direction by studying my pragmatic solutions that could lead African Nations out of the present catastrophic experiences to utter freedom and prosperity.
Author : Bernard Lategan,Manuel Castells
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509546329
This book examines how the interplay between globalization and the assertion of local identities is reshaping the political landscape of Africa. While defending their values against external forces, people simultaneously – and paradoxically – use the interconnectivity of global networks to maximize their particular interests. Focusing on the relation between national identity and state formation, the authors explore the far-reaching consequences of these contradictory dynamics. Although Africa shares many common trends with other parts of the world, it also displays distinctive features. A region characterized by the increased mobility of people, goods and ideas challenges some conventional assumptions of statecraft and also highlights the advantages of federalism – not merely as a constitutional option, but as a pragmatic device for managing diversity and holding fragile states together. The book further explores emerging types of state formation in the same political space, as exemplified by the combination of elements of a kingdom, an independent state and a national power base in the province of KwaZulu-Natal and the careful crafting of an alternative state within a state by the Solidarity Movement in South Africa. Informed by examples and case studies drawn from different parts of Africa, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Africa, politics, sociology, media studies and the social sciences more generally.
Author : Santosh C. Saha
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0820478881
Textbook
Author : S. B. Bekker,Rachel Prinsloo
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 079691916X
The first of two companion volumes emanating from the partnership between the French Institute (IFAS), the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD, formerly FGD) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and based on the 1997 conference of the same name held in Pretoria ; the second volume entitled, Shifting African Identities is based on the 1998 Cape Town conference, also of the same name. ; a third companion volume in this series on identity and nation building is entitled, National Identity and Democracy in Africa - a joint product of the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden and the Mayibuye Centre at UWC based on their March 1997 conference.
Author : Emily Susan Sauter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:971022897
In this dissertation, I utilize South Africa as a case study in order to examine how the government deploys transnational narratives of "colorblind" democracies in order to encourage a new national identity. In a country that has been largely defined by apartheid-era racial categories this shift in focus allows for a study of the ways in which new democracies can actively take up these transnational discourses of democracy and use and shape them to meet their needs. This also offer an important perspective on the way solidarity is attained, conflict is managed, and how belonging and identity is negotiated in a country that has transitioned from autocratic rule to participatory democracy. However, in a globalized world saturated with digital technologies that allow for unprecedented connectivity, these questions cannot be considered in isolation. By analyzing official government projects aimed at creating a cohesive vision of South African nationality in the post- apartheid moment I argued that when scholars grapple with questions of national identity formation and maintenance they must take into account the impact of transnational relationships and discourses on that process, thus showcasing the relationship of the transnational with the national
Author : Stuart Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Black nationalism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081049509
Author : Redie Bereketeab
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319398921
This book examines post-secession and post-transition state building in Somaliland, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. It explores two intimately linked, yet analytically distinct themes: state building and national identity reconstruction following secession and collapse. In Somaliland and South Sudan, rearranging the state requires a complete metamorphosis of state institutions so that they respond to the needs and interests of the people. In Sudan and Somalia, the reconfiguration of the remains of the state must address a new reality and demands on the ground. All four cases examined, although highly variable, involve conflict. Conflict defines the scope, depth and momentum of the state building and state reconstruction process. It also determines the contours and parameters of the projects to reconstitute national identity and rebuild a nation. Addressing the contested identity formation and its direct relation to state building would therefore go a long way in mitigating conflicts and state crisis.
Author : Kimani Njogu
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748635214
Studies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty papers collected here were presented at a seminar organised and hosted by the Kenya-based Twaweza Communications and the International African Institute in Nairobi in 2004. They demonstrate how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question or modify the unequal power relations between the North and the South. Focusing on east Africa, the papers include discussions of the construction of old and new social entities, as defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behaviour, language and religion. The authors illustrate how there is increasing control by local people of traditional and modern forms of media. Globalization is being countered by local responses, within the context of social and cultural identities. Essentially, the book describes the tensions between the global and the local, tensions not often discussed in media studies, thus pioneering new debates.
Author : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521191128
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Africa's history of democracy, grappling with important questions facing Africa today.
Author : Lahra Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107035317
This book provides a study of contemporary politics in Ethiopia through an empirical focus on language policy, citizenship, ethnic identity, and gender. It is unique in its focus not only on the political institutions of Ethiopia and the history of the country but in that it studies these subjects at the intersection of both modern and historical time periods. In particular, it argues that meaningful citizenship, which is much more than the legal state of being a citizen, is a process of citizens and the state negotiating the practice of citizenship. Therefore, it puts the citizen back at the forefront of the process of expanding citizenship, suggesting the ways that citizens support, resist, and affect state policy on political rights.
Author : Gavin Williams
Publisher : Human Sciences Research
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061024496
Originally presented as a lecture, this occasional paper argues that definitions of democracy are incomplete and their meanings dependent on their historical context.
Author : Jennifer Todd,Lorenzo Cañás Bottos,Nathalie Rougier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317969525
The major socio-political changes of the last decades have led to changing ways of being national, changes in the content of national identity if not in the national categories themselves. This comparative social scientific volume takes examples of transitions to democracy (East Europe, Spain) to peace (South Africa, Israel, Northern Ireland) and to territorial decentralization (the United Kingdom, France, Spain), showing in each case how socio-political change and identity change have interlocked. It defines a typology of national identity shift, tracing the changing state forms which provoke national identity shift, and analyzing the process of identity change, its motivations and legitimations. Collecting together a wide range of examples, from South Africa to the Czech Republic from the Basque Country to the Mexican and Irish borders; the book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, from world figures in the study of globalization and social identity to young researchers, to provide a much needed theoretical clarification and empirical evidence of types of national identity shift.
Author : Joshua Castellino
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480896
The principle of self-determination has at heart the achievement of true representation and democracy based on the idea that the consent of the governed alone can give government legitimacy. The principle was primarily responsible for the decolonisation process that shaped our current international community. `Self-determination' has been used in equal rhetorical brilliance by a number of leaders - some meritorious, with a genuine concern for human emancipation, others dubious, with ascendancy to power at the heart of their project. In any case, `self-determination' has come to mean different things in different contexts. Being a vital principle, especially in the post-colonial state, it is one factor that represents a threat to world order while at the same time holding out the promise of longer-term peace and security based on values of democracy, equity and justice. This book looks at the intricacies of the norm in its current ambiguous manifestation and seeks to deconstruct it with regard to three particularly inter-related discourses: that of minority rights, statehood and sovereignty, and the doctrine of uti possidetis which shaped the modern post-colonial state. These norms are then analysed further within two case studies. One, concerning the creation of Bangladesh where `self-determination' was achieved. The second, examines the situation in the Western Sahara where `self-determination' (whatever its manifestation) is yet to be expressed. In the course of these case studies we seek to highlight the problematic nature of `national identity' and the `self' in settings far removed from post-Westphalian Europe.
Author : Francis Mading Deng
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 159221679X
Most African countries suffer from crises of national identity that are rooted in the formation of pluralistic states, characterised by gross inequities among the component groups. This situation has its roots in colonialism, but instead of seeking remedies and addressing these disparities, many post-independent African governments adopted wholesale the constitutional models of their colonisers. United Nations Advisor Francis M. Deng addresses the challenge faced by these countries and attempts to tackle the difficulties inherent in managing such diversity.