Screen LibraryAfrican politics : critical and primary sources /
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 4 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781628927306 1628927305 9781628924602 1628924608 9781628925050 1628925051 9781628925067 162892506X 9781628925074 1628925078 |
| Index Number: | DT352 |
| CLC: | D740.2 |
| Call Number: | D740.2/A258-5 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / The pre-colonial legacy -- The internal African frontier: the making of African political culture / The colonial legacy -- The invention of tradition in colonial Africa / Colonialism and the two publics in Africa: a theoretical statement / On the size and shape of African states / Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- Ethnicity -- Explaining ethnic political participation / The political salience of cultural difference: why Chewas and Tumbukas are allies in Zambia and adversaries in Malawi / Social class -- The nature of class domination in Africa / Class formation in the swollen African state / Gender -- Introduction to African feminism / Religion -- Africa and Christianity on the threshold of the third millennium: the religious dimension / Men and devils / Nationalism and Pan-Africanism -- The rise of African nationalism: the case of east and central Africa / I am an African / The post-colonial state -- Provisional notes on the postcolony / The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state / Patronage, clientalism and neopatrimonialism -- Clientelism and prebendal politics / It's our time to "chop": do elections in Africa feed neo-patrimonialism rather than counteract it? / Rethinking patrimonialism and neopatrimonialism in Africa / Society -- Beyond the state: civil society and associational life in Africa / Civil society and public sphere: the new stakeholders / Ćelestin Monga -- Political regimes: authoritarianism to democracy -- Personal rule: theory and practice in Africa / Explaining democratic transitions / Representations of power / The distinctive political logic of weak states / Museveni's Uganda in comparative context / Historical factors -- Underdevelopment and dependence in Black Africa: origins and contemporary forms / Structural factors -- Resource wealth and political regimes in Africa / Societal factors -- The state and economic stagnation in tropical Africa / Aid, adjustment and international financial institutions -- The structural adjustment of politics in Africa / Aid and sovereignty: quasi-states and the international financial institutions / Debt and aid: righting the incentives / Renaissance and renewal? -- How to rebuild Africa / New African initiative / Evolving warfare / War and the state in Africa / African guerrilla politics: raging against the machine? / How "new" are "new wars?" Global economic change and the study of civil war / Bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts / Understanding Africa's place in world politics / Why Africa's weak states persist: the empirical and the juridical in statehood / Globalizing Africa? Observations from an inconvenient continent / |