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Strangers, Spirits, and Land Reforms
Conflicts about Land in Dande, Northern Zimbabwe
Häftad, 2004
901 kr
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This book describes efforts by the Zimbabwean government to enforce land reforms on African farmers in northern Zimbabwe. These efforts compounded rather than alleviated the problem of land scarcity for black small-scale farmers, a problem government now allegedly seeks to redress through invasions …
Making of Elite Women
Revolution and Nation Building in Eritrea
Av Tanja Müller
Häftad, 2004
875 kr
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This book is a thorough study about the upcoming of elite women in Eritrea, encompassing the time of the armed struggle for liberation as well as its aftermath up to the tenth anniversary of Eritrean independence in 2001 and beyond. It is a multi-disciplinary study, combining a comprehensive …
Democracy Compromised
Chiefs and the politics of the land in South Africa
Häftad, 2005
857 kr
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Democracy Compromised is about traditional authorities (chiefs of various ranks) in a democracy. The book addresses mainly two integrally related questions. First, how despite their role in the apartheid state, traditional authorities have not only survived, but have won unprecedented powers in …
Competing Jurisdictions
Settling land claims in Africa
Av Sandra Evers, Marja Spierenburg m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
875 kr
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This book is about the politicking and strife over land between various stakeholders on the African continent, including Madagascar. It is about attempts to control land tenure ‘from above’ and about local manoeuvring ‘from below’. The contributing authors analyse the intricate relations between …
To Subsidise My Income
Urban Farming in an East-African Town
Av Dick Foeken
Häftad, 2006
875 kr
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Urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa has gained momentum in recent years in terms of research and policy, as well as in practical terms. The paradox of accelerated urbanisation and the increase in urban agriculture in developing countries is widely recognised. More than ever before, urban …
Money and Violence
Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township
Av Erik Bähre
Häftad, 2007
863 kr
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This ethnographic study reveals how financial self-help groups (burial societies and credit groups) are islands of hope for Xhosa migrants living in the townships and squatter camps of Cape Town, South Africa. Many are caught up in a sea of insecurity, unemployment, murder, rape, AIDS, and social …
Ethnography of Knowledge
The production of knowledge in Mupfurudzi resettlement scheme, Zimbabwe
Häftad, 2007
863 kr
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This book contributes to academic debates on knowledge. A resettlement area with people resettling from different agro-ecological regions with different knowledge and approaches to agriculture and farming provides a fascinating area to investigate how knowledge is produced and socialised. The fact …
Livelihoods and Landscapes
The People of Guquka and Koloni and their Resources
Häftad, 2007
844 kr
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Drawing on original data, secondary literature, aerial photographs and archives, this book analyzes changes in the use of the landscape and the nature of rural livelihoods in two South African villages. Taking an interdisciplinary approach on how livelihoods and landscapes in the Eastern Cape link …
International Migration and National Development in sub-Saharan Africa
Viewpoints and Policy Initiatives in the Countries of Origin
Av Aderanti Adepoju, Ton van Naerssen m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
844 kr
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This book focuses on achieving a better understanding of the implications of international migration for national development from the perspective of the sending countries (with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa). More specifically, the purpose of this volume is to explore (1) current perceptions - …
In the Shadow of Good Governance
An Ethnography of Civil Service Reform in Africa
Häftad, 2009
882 kr
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In the Shadow of Good Governance traces the implementation of the good governance agenda in Malawi from the loan documents signed by the representatives of the government and the Bretton Woods institutions to the individual experiences of civil servants who responded in unforeseen ways to the …
Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia
The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions
Häftad, 2009
901 kr
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Descriptions of the late 1800s landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area’s late 1900s appearance, suggesting that little change occurred between the pre-colonial baseline and the postcolonial outcome. Yet, paradoxically, colonial conquest, population …
Bricks, Mortar and Capacity Building
A Socio-Cultural History of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Häftad, 2010
875 kr
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The history of development cooperation has attracted very little research to date. This volume offers an innovative interpretation by considering the history of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, which has been in existence for over forty years now. Through SNV’s history, an analysis emerges …
Living the End of Empire
Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia
Häftad, 2011
901 kr
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Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia. The present volume, based on untapped archival material and sources that have emerged in recent years, …
Rural Resistance in South Africa
The Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years
Av Thembela Kepe, Lungisile Ntsebeza
Häftad, 2011
857 kr
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Much has been written about anti-apartheid resistance by the marginalized people of South Africa, as well as its violent repression by security forces in urban areas (e.g. Sharpeville massacre; Soweto riots). Very little attention has been paid to resistance by rural people. The Mpondo Revolts, …
Institutionalizing Elites
Political Elite Formation and Change in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
Häftad, 2011
875 kr
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In this book, Francis expands and redefines the approach to the problematic of a comprehensive framework for the study of political elites through an interrogation of political elite formation in the African context of the Provincial Legislature of KwaZulu-Natal. The result is an empirically rich …
Cultural Tourism and Identity
Rethinking Indigeneity
Häftad, 2012
875 kr
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Studies of cultural tourism and indigenous identity are fraught with questions concerning exploitation, entitlement, ownership and authenticity. Unease with the idea of leveraging a group identity for commercial gain is ever-present. This anthology articulates some of these debates from a multitude …
Yearning for Relief
A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger
Häftad, 2013
901 kr
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The Sawaba movement and its rebellion in Niger are a totally neglected subject. Klaas van Walraven traces this story from a social history perspective, placing an entire generation of activists, removed from the official record, back into mainstream Nigérien history. Representing a genuine social …
Worlds of Human Rights
The Ambiguities of Rights Claiming in Africa
Av Bill Derman, Anne Hellum m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
875 kr
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This book engages with contemporary African human rights struggles including land, property, gender equality and legal identity. Through ethnographic field studies it situates claims-making by groups and individuals that have been subject to injustices and abuses, often due to different forms of …
Access to Information in Africa
Law, Culture and Practice
Av Fatima Diallo, Richard Calland
Häftad, 2013
805 kr
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For a long time, Africa has 'lagged' behind global advances in transparency, but there are now significant developments on the continent. In a ground-breaking book, Access to Information in Africa brings together for the first time a collection of African academics and practitioners to contribute …
COSATU'S Contested Legacy
South African Trade Unions in the Second Decade of Democracy
Av Sakhela Buhlungu, Malehoko Tshoaedi
Häftad, 2013
882 kr
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COSATU's Contested Legacy provides a fresh and up-to-date analysis of trade unionism in contemporary South Africa by focusing on the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the largest and most powerful federation. Drawing on quantitative data from four time series surveys of union members over a …
Africa for Sale?
Positioning the State, Land and Society in Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa
Häftad, 2013
857 kr
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The past several decades have witnessed a rise in foreign and domestic investments in Africa’s arable land. While such land projects are currently the focus of widespread media and scholarly interest, the role of the state in driving, negotiating and facilitating these acquisitions deserves closer …
Objects of Life in Central Africa
The History of Consumption and Social Change, 1840-1980
Av Robert Ross
Häftad, 2013
875 kr
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In The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By taking consumption as a vantage point, the contributions deviate from and add to previous works which have mainly analysed issues of production from an economic and political …
David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease
A Close Examination of his Writing on the Pre-colonial Era
Häftad, 2015
882 kr
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This study about David Livingstone is different from all other publications about him. Here, Livingstone is not the main topic of interest; the focus of the author is on nutrition and health in pre-colonial Africa and Livingstone is his key informant.David Livingstone and the Myth of African …
Women, Mobility and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe
Experiences of Fast Track Land Reform
Häftad, 2014
848 kr
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This book is based on iterative multi-sited ethnography at Merrivale farm, Tavaka village, and various sites in South Africa. The author reveals how the dynamics generated by fast-track potentially offer new development opportunities – specifically for women. The findings challenge existing expert …
Voices of Zimbabwean Orphans
A New Vision for Project Management in Southern Africa
Av Manasa Dzirikure, Garth Allen
Häftad, 2014
857 kr
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The voices of orphans and other vulnerable children and young people and of their carers and professional development workers are documented and analysed to both criticise the inadequacies of current social development work and to create a new, alternative theory and practice of project management …
Securing Wilderness Landscapes in South Africa
Nick Steele, Private Wildlife Conservancies and Saving Rhinos
Av Harry Wels
Häftad, 2015
901 kr
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Private wildlife conservation is booming business in South Africa! Nick Steele stood at the cradle of this development in the politically turbulent 1970s and 1980s, by stimulating farmers in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) to pool resources in order to restore wilderness landscapes, but at the same time …
Land Reform Revisited
Democracy, State Making and Agrarian Transformation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Av Femke Brandt, Grasian Mkodzongi
Häftad, 2018
901 kr
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Land Reform Revisited engages with contemporary debates on land reform and agrarian transformation in South Africa. The volume offers insights into post-apartheid transformation dynamics through the lens of agency and state making. The chapters written by emerging scholars are based on extensive …
Crime, Law and Society in Nigeria
Essays in Honour of Stephen Ellis
Häftad, 2019
875 kr
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This volume in honour of Stephen Ellis is a follow-up to the public presentation of his book on the history of organised crime in Nigeria This Present Darkness (Hurst, 2016) at the University of Lagos, Nigeria on 28 October 2016. In addition to four papers, and a book review presented at this …
Roads Through Mwinilunga
A History of Social Change in Northwest Zambia
Av Iva Peša
Häftad, 2019
901 kr
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Roads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. By looking at agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, existing explanations of social change are reassessed. Using a wide range of archival and …
Democracy and Electoral Politics in Zambia
Häftad, 2020
857 kr
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Democracy and Electoral Politics in Zambia aims to comprehend the current dynamics of Zambia’s democracy and to understand what was specific about the 2015/2016 election experience. While elections have been central to understanding Zambian politics over the last decade, the coverage they have …
