The Mauritian Paradox

Author : Ramola Ramtohul,Hylland Eriksen
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789990373509

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The Mauritian Paradox by Ramola Ramtohul,Hylland Eriksen Pdf

Speaking of Mauritius as an economic miracle has become a clich, and with good reason: Its development since Independence in 1968 can easily be narrated as a rags-to-riches story. In addition, it is a stable democracy capable of containing the conflict potential inherent in its complex ethnic and religious demography. This book brings together some of the finest scholarship, domestic as well as foreign, on contemporary Mauritius, offering perspectives from constitutional law, cultural studies, sociology, archaeology, economics, social anthropology and more. While celebrating the indisputable, and impressive, achievements of the Mauritian nation on its fiftieth birthday, this book is far from toothless. Looking back inevitably implies looking ahead, and in order to do so, critical self-scrutiny is essential, to be able to learn from the mistakes of the past. The contributors raise fundamental questions concerning a broad range of issues, from the dilemmas of multiculturalism to the marginal role of women in public life, from the question of constitutional reform and the continued problem of corruption to the slow destruction of Mauritius joy and pride, namely the beauty and purity of its natural scenery. Taking stock of the first fifty years, this book also looks ahead to the next fifty years, giving some cues as to where Mauritius can and should aim in the next decades.

Author : Julia Waters
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786949493

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The Mauritian Novel by Julia Waters Pdf

This book analyses how the idea – or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary ‘politics of belonging’ in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.

Author : Boopen Seetanah,Raja Sannassee,Robin Nunkoo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429552953

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Mauritius: A successful Small Island Developing State by Boopen Seetanah,Raja Sannassee,Robin Nunkoo Pdf

The economic upturn and performance of Mauritius is a far cry from predictions made in the 1960s. The island’s remarkable economic performance since the 1980s can been attributed to a multitude of factors instrumental to the success of the economy, including structural reforms, outward looking export orientated strategies, diversification in the manufacturing, tourism and financial services sectors amongst others, sound economic governance and institutions, and significant investment in human capital. This book attempts to provide a detailed analysis of the various key ingredients which have helped to propel Mauritius to its current status. The various chapters provide important readings for both academics and policymakers, with the final chapter providing key policy strategies which the government needs to implement to help Mauritius graduate to the next level of development: namely to that of a high-income economy and, in moving out of the middle-income trap, laying the foundations for future growth and shared prosperity in the light of both domestic challenges and global constraints.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004510104

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Across the Waves by Anonim Pdf

This collection offers insights into how the people of the Indian Ocean islands of Zanzibar, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Comoros negotiate their social and political belonging in these societies, created through waves of migration across the ocean.

Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789210014984

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Investment and Development by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Pdf

Transnational Corporations is a longstanding, policy-oriented, refereed research journal on issues related to investment, multinational enterprises and development. It is an official journal of the United Nations, managed by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). As such it has global reach, a strong development policy imprint and high potential for impact beyond the scholarly community. This journal takes a fresh look at major legal, sectorial, regional and environmental issues facing corporations operating internationally. Released three times a year, it provides in-depth, policy-oriented research findings on significant issues relating to the activities of MNEs.

Author : Don Kalb
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805391562

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Insidious Capital by Don Kalb Pdf

With a team of anthropologists and geographers, Insidious Capital explores “value and values” in what may well be the last phase of capitalist globalization. In a global perspective of fast transforming social spaces that move from East to West, the book explores the struggles around the exploitation and valuation of labor, environmental politics, expansion of the ground rent, new hierarchies, the contradictions of higher education, the off shoring of “immaterial” labor, the illiberal right, and the mobilizations against it. This is a book about the variegated frontlines of value within an uneven, but not random, geography of capitalist expansion.

Author : Byron G. Adams,Fons J. R. van de Vijver
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030772420

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Non-Western Identity by Byron G. Adams,Fons J. R. van de Vijver Pdf

Identity is a construct strongly rooted and still predominantly studied in Western (or WEIRD; Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) contexts (e.g., North American and Western European). Only recently has there been more of a conscious effort to study identity in non-Western (or non-WEIRD) contexts. This edited volume investigates identity from primarily a non-Western perspective by studying non-Western contexts and non-Western, minority, or immigrant groups living in Western contexts. The contributions (a) examine different aspects of identity (e.g., personal identity, social identity, online identity) as either independent or interrelated constructs; (b) consider the associations of these constructs with aspects of intergroup relations, acculturative processes, and/or psychological well-being; (c) document the advancement in research on identity in underrepresented groups, contexts, and regions such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South America; and (d) evaluate different approaches to the study of identity and the implications thereof. This book is intended for cultural or cross-cultural academics, practitioners, educators, social workers, postgraduate students, undergraduate students, and scholars interested in studying identity. It provides insight into how identity in non-Western groups and contexts may both be informed by and may inform Western theoretical perspectives.

Author : Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031457210

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Power-Sharing in the Global South by Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif Pdf

Author : Arkebe Oqubay,Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192590947

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The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development by Arkebe Oqubay,Justin Yifu Lin Pdf

Industrialization supported by industrial hubs has been widely associated with structural transformation and catch-up. But while the direct economic benefits of industrial hubs are significant, their value lies first and foremost in their contribution as incubators of industrialization, production and technological capability, and innovation. The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the conceptual underpinnings, review empirical evidence of regions and economies, and extract pertinent lessons for policy reasearchers and practitioners on the key drivers of success and failure for industrial hubs. This Handbook illustrates the diverse and complex nature of industrial hubs and shows how they promote industrialization, economic structural transformation, and technological catch-up. It explores the implications of emerging issues and trends such as environmental protection and sustainability, technological advancement, shifts in the global economy, and urbanization.

Author : Wale Adebanwi,Rogers Orock
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780472054817

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Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa by Wale Adebanwi,Rogers Orock Pdf

Studying elites through the framework of accountability

Author : Michelle Stephens Michelle Stephens,Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786612779

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Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking by Michelle Stephens Michelle Stephens,Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel Pdf

Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking takes as point of departure the insights of Antonio Benítez Rojo, Derek Walcott and Edouard Glissant on how to conceptualize the Caribbean as a space in which networks of islands are constitutive of a particular epistemology or way of thinking. This rich volumetakes questions that have explored the Caribbean and expands them to a global, Anthropocenic framework. This anthology explores the archipelagic as both a specific and a generalizable geo-historical and cultural formation, occurring across various planetary spaces including: the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas, the Caribbean basin, the Malay archipelago, Oceania, and the creole islands of the Indian Ocean. As an alternative geo-formal unit, archipelagoes can interrogate epistemologies, ways of reading and thinking, and methodologies informed implicitly or explicitly by more continental paradigms and perspectives. Keeping in mind the structuring tension between land and water, and between island and mainland relations, the archipelagic focuses on the types of relations that emerge, island to island, when island groups are seen not so much as sites of exploration, identity, sociopolitical formation, and economic and cultural circulation, but also, and rather, as models. The book includes 21 chapters, a series of poems and an Afterword from both senior and junior scholars in American Studies, Archaeology, Biology, Cartography, Digital Mapping, Environmental Studies, Ethnomusicology, Geography, History, Politics, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, and Sociology who engage with Archipelago studies. Archipelagic Studies has become a framework with a robust intellectual genealogy.. The particular strength of this handbook is the diversity of fields and theoretical approaches in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences that the included essays engage with. There is an editor's introduction in which they meditate about the specific contributions of the archipelagic framework in interdisciplinary analyses of multi-focal and transnational socio-political and cultural context, and in which they establish a dialogue between archipelagic thinking and network theory, assemblages, systems theory, or the study of islands, oceans and constellations.

Author : Claudia Padovani,Véronique Wavre,Arne Hintz,Gerard Goggin,Petros Iosifidis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031296161

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Global Communication Governance at the Crossroads by Claudia Padovani,Véronique Wavre,Arne Hintz,Gerard Goggin,Petros Iosifidis Pdf

This edited volume addresses current challenges, trends and transformations in global communication governance. Exploring changes in the actors, issues, values and contexts of media and communications, it investigates the crossroads that media policy is facing and offers visions for the future. A diverse range of scholars and expert practitioners discuss what regulatory reforms and governing mechanisms are required to advance democratic participation and fundamental rights in platform societies. Organized around five sections, the volume considers the geopolitics of emerging communication orders; the changing roles of actors and stakeholders; the challenge of embedding rights and values in regulatory arrangements; the intersection of technology and policy; and the need to rethink epistemologies and methodologies for researching this field. Contributions from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds include provocative think pieces and longer analyses. All chapters are grounded in historically-aware understandings of contemporary transformations, while anticipating dynamics of our communication futures.

Author : Lydia Wilson Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000334951

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Landscapes of Slavery in Africa by Lydia Wilson Marshall Pdf

Slavery was a large-scale process that put its mark on the African landscape in tangible ways—for example, through the capture, transfer, and imprisonment of captives and through the avoidance strategies that vulnerable communities used against slaving. Certainly, the expansion of trade routes, the depopulation of slaved regions, and an increased reliance on defensive architecture and places of concealment can all be linked to slaving and slavery in Africa. But how do we view these landscapes of slavery today? And can archaeology help us? Encompassing studies from Senegal, Ghana, Mauritius, Tanzania, and Kenya, this volume grapples with such essential questions. The authors advocate for the power of archaeology as a tool to disentangle often lengthy and complex landscape histories that both begin before slavery and continue after abolition. They also argue for archaeologists’ central role in reimagining how we might remember and commemorate slavery in places where its history has been forgotten, obscured by European colonialism, or sanitized and simplified for tourist consumption. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage.

Author : Christian Strümpell,Michael Hoffmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111311418

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Industrial Labour in an Unequal World by Christian Strümpell,Michael Hoffmann Pdf

The volume scrutinizes the fundamentally uneven character of industrial production and working class formation by bringing together anthropologists specializing on industrial labour in various locations from South America, Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, and South Asia. Through their engagement with Leon Trotsky’s concept of ‘uneven and combined development’ the authors unravel the complex relations that connect (and disconnect) labour in their sites of research with workers in other places and other times. As the contributions likewise reveal, the unevenness and combination inherent in industrial developments shape and are at the same time also shaped by the different politics workers in an unequal world pursue, as well as the historical experiences and future expectations of workers that inform these. With the attention the authors pay to the specificities of ethnographic detail as well as to broader regional and global developments the volume demonstrates the value of long-term ethnographic research and is of interest to a wide audience ranging from specialists in the fields of anthropology, history, sociology and development studies to students and activists.

Author : Godfrey Baldacchinoel,Anders Wivel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788112932

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Handbook on the Politics of Small States by Godfrey Baldacchinoel,Anders Wivel Pdf

Comprehensive and timely, this Handbook identifies the key characteristics, challenges and opportunities involved in the politics of small states across the globe today. Acknowledging the historical legacies behind these states, the chapters unpack the costs and benefits of different political models for small states.