The Crisis Of Belonging And Ethnographies Of Peacebuilding In Kaduna State Nigeria

Author : Benjamin Maiangwa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793628480

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The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria by Benjamin Maiangwa Pdf

This book explores the contested notions of territory and belonging in Nigeria, most especially among the Fulani and other ethnic groups in Kaduna. The book argues that these controversies center around Indigenous, nomadic, and autochthonous claims of belonging. The author identifies these differing notions of belonging as a major condition of violent conflicts in Kaduna and across various postcolonial societies. The author’s analysis demonstrates how dynamic ideological impetuses for these conflicts underscore broader issues of citizenship rights, nationhood, and local peacebuilding in Nigeria.

Author : Benjamin Maiangwa
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793628491

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The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding by Benjamin Maiangwa Pdf

"This book uses critical qualitative and narrative inquiry methods to discuss intercommunal conflicts in Kaduna, Nigeria. More broadly, the author examines these conflicts within the context of postcolonial African crises and local peacebuilding"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9176492338

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Placing Conflict by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478007067

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Histories of Dirt by Stephanie Newell Pdf

In Histories of Dirt Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number of texts ranging from newspaper articles by elite Lagosians to colonial travel writing, public health films, and urban planning to show how understandings of dirt came to structure colonial governance. Seeing Lagosians as sources of contagion and dirt, British colonizers used racist ideologies and discourses of dirt to justify racial segregation and public health policies. Newell also explores possibilities for non-Eurocentric methods for identifying African urbanites’ own values and opinions by foregrounding the voices of contemporary Lagosians through interviews and focus groups in which their responses to public health issues reflect local aesthetic tastes and values. In excavating the shifting role of dirt in structuring social and political life in Lagos, Newell provides new understandings of colonial and postcolonial urban history in West Africa.

Author : Ulf Engel,Manuel João Ramos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004256507

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African Dynamics in a Multipolar World by Ulf Engel,Manuel João Ramos Pdf

Fifty years after the foundation of the OAU and the consolidation of most African states and institutions, the international panorama and Africa’s position in it have changed considerably. The world's geopolitical and economic configuration has evolved, with new actors appearing in a new period of globalization. In tone with ECAS 2013, this volume proposes that the experiences appearing in Africa question dominant paradigms in terms of political practice and academic reflection and thus offer a clear challenge to the academic community. The volume offers clues to answer questions such as: What is the impact of the current processes of globalization for African countries and African citizens? How should African Studies be engaged to gauge African dynamics, both at a local and global level? What interdisciplinary means and tools should be brought in to produce an epistemologically relevant view (or narrative) of the issues under analysis?

Author : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030738754

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The Political Economy of Colonialism and Nation-Building in Nigeria by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba Pdf

This book examines the ways in which colonialism continues to define the political economy of Nigeria sixty years after gaining political independence from the British. It also establishes a link between colonialism and the continued agitation for restructuring the political arrangement of the country. The contributions offer various perspectives on how the forceful amalgamation of disparate units and diverse nationalities have undermined the realization of the development potential of Nigeria. The book is divided into two parts. The first part interrogates the political economy of colonialism and the implications of this on economic development in contemporary Nigeria. The second part examines nation-building, governance, and development in a postcolonial state. The failure of the postcolonial political elites to ensure inclusive governance has continued to foster centrifugal and centripetal forces that question the legitimacy of the state. The forces have deepened calls for secession, accentuated conflicts and predispose the country to possible disintegration. A new government approach is required that would ensure equal representation, access to power and equitable distribution of resources.

Author : Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs,Jesper Bjarnesen
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786992314

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Violence in African Elections by Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs,Jesper Bjarnesen Pdf

Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent’s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, particularly the often intense internecine violence following disputed results. While the consequences of such violence can be profound, undermining the legitimacy of the democratic process and in some cases plunging countries into civil war or renewed dictatorship, little is known about the causes. By mapping, analysing and comparing instances of election violence in different localities across Africa – including Kenya, Ivory Coast and Uganda – this collection of detailed case studies sheds light on the underlying dynamics and sub-national causes behind electoral conflicts, revealing them to be the result of a complex interplay between democratisation and the older, patronage-based system of ‘Big Man’ politics. Essential for scholars and policymakers across the social sciences and humanities interested in democratization, peace-keeping and peace studies, Violence in African Elections provides important insights into why some communities prove more prone to electoral violence than others, offering practical suggestions for preventing violence through improved electoral monitoring, voter education, and international assistance.

Author : Janet Remmington,Brian Willan,Bhekizizwe Peterson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868149834

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Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa by Janet Remmington,Brian Willan,Bhekizizwe Peterson Pdf

Sheds new light on Native Life appearing at a critical historical juncture, and reflects on how to read it in South Africa’s heightened challenges today. First published in 1916, Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africa's most talented early twentieth-century black leaders and journalists. Plaatje's pioneering book arose out of an early African National Congress campaign to protest against the discriminatory 1913 Natives Land Act. Native Life vividly narrates Plaatje's investigative journeying into South Africa's rural heartlands to report on the effects of the Act and his involvement in the deputation to the British imperial government. At the same time it tells the bigger story of the assault on black rights and opportunities in the newly consolidated Union of South Africa - and the resistance to it. Originally published in war-time London, but about South Africa and its place in the world, Native Life travelled far and wide, being distributed in the United States under the auspices of prominent African-American W E B Du Bois. South African editions were to follow only in the late apartheid period and beyond. The aim of this multi-authored volume is to shed new light on how and why Native Life came into being at a critical historical juncture, and to reflect on how it can be read in relation to South Africa's heightened challenges today. Crucial areas that come under the spotlight in this collection include land, race, history, mobility, belonging, war, the press, law, literature, language, gender, politics, and the state.

Author : Pauline Jones Luong,Erika Weinthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139491150

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Oil Is Not a Curse by Pauline Jones Luong,Erika Weinthal Pdf

This book makes two central claims: first, that mineral-rich states are cursed not by their wealth but, rather, by the ownership structure they choose to manage their mineral wealth and second, that weak institutions are not inevitable in mineral-rich states. Each represents a significant departure from the conventional resource curse literature, which has treated ownership structure as a constant across time and space and has presumed that mineral-rich countries are incapable of either building or sustaining strong institutions - particularly fiscal regimes. The experience of the five petroleum-rich Soviet successor states (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) provides a clear challenge to both of these assumptions. Their respective developmental trajectories since independence demonstrate not only that ownership structure can vary even across countries that share the same institutional legacy but also that this variation helps to explain the divergence in their subsequent fiscal regimes.

Author : Maria Grosz-Ngate,Omari Kokole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136670589

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Gendered Encounters by Maria Grosz-Ngate,Omari Kokole Pdf

This book makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on "globalization," culture and gender. Focusing on intersections of the local and the global in Africa, contributors elucidate how translocal and transnational cultural currents are mediated by gender, how they reshape gender constructs and relations, and how they both manifest and impinge on relations of power.

Author : Charlie Walker,Steven Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319631721

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Masculinity, Labour, and Neoliberalism by Charlie Walker,Steven Roberts Pdf

This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capitalism has reshaped the lives of working-class men around the world. It focuses on the effects of employment change and of new forms of governmentality on men’s experiences of both public and private life. The book presents a range of international studies—from the US, UK, and Australia to Western and Northern Europe, Russia, and Nigeria—that move beyond discourses positing a ‘masculinity crisis’ or pathologizing working-class men. Instead, the authors look at the active ways men have dealt with forms of economic and symbolic marginalization and the barriers they have faced in doing so. While the focus of the volume is employment change, it covers a range of topics from consumption and leisure to education and family.

Author : Kenneth Omeje
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030493486

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The Governance, Security and Development Nexus by Kenneth Omeje Pdf

This edited book analyses the changing links between governance, security and development in Africa as they relate to the narrative that contemporary Africa has made remarkable progress in recent years, a phenomenon popularly known as “Africa rising.” The book presents a rigorous evaluation of the Africa rising debate and consequently offers innovative policy guidelines for Africa’s governance and development transformation.

Author : Kelechi A. Kalu,George Klay Kieh Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793643131

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Peacebuilding in Africa by Kelechi A. Kalu,George Klay Kieh Jr. Pdf

Peacebuilding in Africa: The Post-Conflict State and Its Multidimensional Crises argues that building enduring peace in post-conflict states in Africa requires comprehensive, state-specific approaches that address the multidimensional crises that generated civil conflict and instabilities in these countries. Contributors examine states such as Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Sudan to demonstrate that peacebuilding projects in each of these states must address the cultural, economic, political, and social root causes of their respective underlying civil conflicts. In addition, contributors prove that peacebuilding projects must be shaped by the centrality of human security: the respect for ethno-cultural diversity, the advancement of human material well-being, the protection of political rights and civil liberties, and the redesigning of the military and security architecture to ensure the safety of all citizens from both internal and external threats.

Author : Kerry Whigham
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978825574

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Resonant Violence by Kerry Whigham Pdf

From the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.

Author : Razinat T. Mohammed
Publisher : Spears Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Habiba by Razinat T. Mohammed Pdf

Saleh’s love and respect for his mother, Hamsatu, is not only detrimental to his own life but also injurious to his family life. Hamsatu makes all the decisions in his life. She becomes despotic and decides who her son, Saleh, should marry, and the type of children his wife should bear. Habiba is just thirteen when her grandmother, Hamsatu brings in a suitor, Zubairu, a contemporary of her late husband. Although Saleh wishes to send all his children to school, a rainstorm renders him hopeless as his mother takes ill and eventually dies. Following his mother’s death, Saleh’s bankruptcy compels him to take a loan from the elderly Zubairu and his failure to repay the loan compels him to hand over his daughter, Habiba, in marriage to Zubairu. Consequently, Habiba is helpless and soon discovers that she must pay not just for her father’s wrongs but must also shoulder the responsibility of his abandoned wife and children by remaining married to Zubairu who is willing to assist them as long as she plays his game. Habiba desires to punish both her father and Zubairu for ruining her dreams. What will she have to do to get at them?