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Author: Lloyd Timberlake
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 113415710X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first edition of this incisive text on the problems of drought and famine facing Africa won worldwide critical acclaim. Revised with a new introduction, Lloyd Timberlake's bestselling study is invaluable reading for anyone interested in Africa.
Author: Mark Beissinger
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Published: 2002-01-24
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9781930365087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.
Author: Brian Goldstone
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-01-31
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 022640241X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCivil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola—but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? The experts in this book address Africa’s future as it is embedded within various social and cultural forms emerging on the continent today: the reconfiguration of the urban, the efflorescence of signs and wonders and gospels of prosperity, the assorted techniques of legality and illegality, lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyptic visions, a yearning for exile, and many other phenomena. Bringing together social, political, religious, and economic viewpoints, the book reveals not one but multiple prospects for the future of Africa. In doing so, it offers a pathbreaking model of pluralistic and open-ended thinking and a powerful tool for addressing the vexing uncertainties that underlie so many futures around the world.
Author: World Bank
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 324
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Author: Antoinette Handley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-21
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 110842631X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on fieldwork in four African countries, this study reveals how African businesses can be key responders to wider social and political crises.
Author: Elizabeth Schmidt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-25
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0521882389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book chronicles foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, helping readers understand the historical roots of Africa's problems.
Author: Stefanie Wodrig
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-02-24
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1315436728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses regional interventions in African conflict spaces by engaging with political discourse theory. Interventions are a performance of agency, but what happens if interventions are performed by forces that scholars have hardly ever considered as relevant agents in this regard? Based on a study of regional politics towards the crises in Burundi and Zimbabwe, the book analyses how these interventions shaped and changed the emerging regional interveners. The book engages political discourse theory, proposing an understanding of intervention as a field, in which multiple and heterogeneous interpretations of the violence, the crisis, and the future post-conflict order ‘meet'. It is not hard to imagine that this encounter is not harmonious per se but full of frictions. By making use of political discourse theory as a grammar for studying the complexity of an intervention, the focus is directed to the emerging subjectivities of regional interveners. This enables a view of regional interventions that neither reduces their subjectivity to universalist categories associated with 'liberal peace' nor overenthusiastically embraces them as the solution to all problems. This book will be of interest to students of international intervention, discourse theory, African politics, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR.
Author: Jeremiah I. Dibua
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780754642282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment.
Author: Jesmond Blumenfeld
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-10-05
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1000637158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1987, South Africa in Crisis documents the perceptions and policies of all the major interest groups in South Africa during the 1980s when the long-running struggle for ultimate political power in South Africa entered a new phase. It analyses their responses to the state of ferment and vicious circle of political and economic decline which ensued in the anti-apartheid struggle and examines the developing pressures both from within and outside the country. Of particular importance for the process was the relationship between internal reactions to the crisis and the diverse and unprecedented set of political, military and economic pressures which were interjected from abroad.
Author: Gillian Patricia Hart
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0820347175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevisiting long-standing debates to shed new light on the transition from apartheid, Hart provides an innovative analysis of the ongoing, unstable, and unresolved crisis in South Africa today and suggests how Antonio Gramsci's concept of passive revolution can do useful analytical and political work in South Africa and beyond.
