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Author : Irving Leonard Markovitz
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall ; Toronto : Prentice Hall of Canada
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39076005576066
Author : Irving Leonard Markovitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195041305
Unified by the basic concepts of all politics--who gets what, when, where, and why, and who gets left out--these wide-ranging essays address problems of major concern in the daily lives of African people during and after the colonial period.
Author : Patrick Chabal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349124688
'This book will rightfully head many a reading list...'C.Allen, British Book News Power in Africa casts a fresh look at contemporary Black African politics. It reviews the merits and failings of existing interpretations of Africa's post-colonial society and offers a new approach to its understanding. It has two main aims. First, to present a comparative conceptual framework which places Africa's politics within its appropriate historical context. Second, to offer an explanation of what is actually happening in Africa - beyond the clichs of a dark continent perennially in crisis.
Author : Jeffrey Herbst
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691010285
Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In his groundbreaking book, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective, examining the problem of state consolidation from the precolonial period, through the short but intense interlude of European colonialism, to the modern era of independent states. Herbst's bold contention--that the conditions now facing African state-builders existed long before European penetration of the continent--is sure to provoke controversy, for it runs counter to the prevailing assumption that colonialism changed everything. In identifying how the African state-building process differs from the European experience, Herbst addresses the fundamental problem confronting African leaders: how to extend authority over sparsely settled lands. Indeed, efforts to exert control over vast, inhospitable territories of low population density and varied environmental and geographical zones have resulted in devastating wars, millions of refugees, and dysfunctional governments perpetrating destructive policies. Detailing the precise political calculations of distinct African leaders, Herbst isolates the basic dynamics of African state development. In analyzing how these leaders have attempted to consolidate power, he is able to evaluate a variety of policy alternatives for dealing with the fundamental political challenges facing African states today.
Author : Roger Southall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847011435
Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa's black middle class.
Author : Jeffrey Herbst
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400852321
Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions now facing African state-builders existed long before European penetration of the continent—is sure to provoke controversy, for it runs counter to the prevailing assumption that colonialism changed everything. This revised edition includes a new preface in which the author links the enormous changes that have taken place in Africa over the past fifteen years to long-term state consolidation. The final chapter on policy prescriptions has also been revised to reflect the evolution of African and international responses to state failure.
Author : Timothy Niblock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349088362
Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044632854
Compilation of essays comprising a comparison of social movements of resistance to the dominant role of Europe in political leadership in Africa south of Sahara - gives historical and theoretical insights into the workings of African politics, and covers political problems, the role of UK, the role of Germany, the role of France, the emergence of interest groups and political parties, issues of sovereignty and diplomacy, etc. Bibliography pp. 1197 to 1213.
Author : Samir Amin,Robin Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCAL:B3817999
Author : Kwame Nkrumah
Publisher : New York : International Publishers
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002622392
Author : Claire C. Robertson,Iris Berger
Publisher : New York : Africana Publishing Company
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X001605321
De artikelen in deze reader zijn onderverdeeld in drie secties : 1. Access to critical resources, 2. Dependence versus autonomy, 3. Female solidarity or class action. Met uitgebreide bibliografie, p. 274-296
Author : Henning Melber
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783607167
Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative. Ambitious, aspirational and increasingly affluent, this group is said to embody the values and hopes of the new Africa, with international bodies ranging from the United Nations Development Programme to the World Bank regarding them as important agents of both economic development and democratic change. This narrative, however, obscures the complex and often ambiguous role that this group actually plays in African societies. Bringing together economists, political scientists, anthropologists and development experts, and spanning a variety of case studies from across the continent, this collection provides a much-needed corrective to the received wisdom within development circles, and provides a fresh perspective on social transformations in contemporary Africa.
Author : Claude Ake
Publisher : London : Zed Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081546173
Author : Hana Horáková,Paul Nugent
Publisher : Lit Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Africa
ISBN : 3643111878
In Africa, the distribution of power and powerlessness seems to be more rigid than on other continents. Political power is in the hands of narrow elites, while the overwhelming majority has hardly any access to decision-making. The common denominator of this book is the notion of power. It follows the analytical differentiation between the concept of power over that which is largely used by mainstream political science, and the concept of power as social practice. The book asks pertinent questions on how power is composed, created, and used on the African continent. (Series: Afrikanische Studien/African Studies - Vol. 43)
Author : Leo Kuper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351495042
Examining in detail the apparently inexorable polarization of society in such countries as Rwanda, Algeria, and South Africa, the author questions whether current theories correctly explain the past or offer adequate guides for the future. In their place he puts forward an alternative neo-Durkheimian view of the possibility of non-violent revolutionary change, based on the development of such social and cultural continuities as already exist within each plural society. But he warns that -this is an age of passionate commitment to violence in which vicarious killers abound in search of a Vietnam of their own.- The aim of this groundbreaking and challenging book is to create theoretical perspectives in which to view the racial conflict of plural societies. Written in the turbulent early 1970s, the book demonstrates the inadequacy of then prevailing views such as Marxist interpretations of racial conflict as class struggle, and the Fanon a priori rejection of non-violent techniques of change, which Kuper holds responsible for the acceptance of what he calls -the platitudes of violence.- The book concludes with more personal sections focusing on the author's struggles with the then prevailing South African society, critiques of that, and censorship of his attempts to make these public. In the light of subsequent changes in South Africa many decades later, this book serves not only as an important work of political sociology but as a personal testament to the fight against racism in South Africa. Leo Kuper was professor of sociology and director of the African Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. A South African by birth, he was one of the first writers on genocide as well as other aspects of African studies and urban sociology. His major book, Genocide (Penguin, 1981), remains in print. The Leo Kuper Foundation is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the eradication of genocide through research, advice, and education. It was created in Washington, DC in 1994 following the death of Leo Kuper, with the aim of improving measures to prevent genocide. The main area of work for the past five years has been in support of the creation of an International Criminal Court. Troy Duster is director at the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University.