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Ajouter le résultat dans votre panierWest Africa's International Drug Trade / Stephen Ellis in African Affairs, Vol. 108/431 (2009)
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Titre : West Africa's International Drug Trade Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Stephen Ellis, Auteur Année de publication : 2009 Article en page(s) : pp. 171-196. Langues : Anglais (eng)
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 171-196.[article] West Africa's International Drug Trade [texte imprimé] / Stephen Ellis, Auteur . - 2009 . - pp. 171-196.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 171-196.Dala or Diaspora? Obama and the Luo Community of Kenya / Matthew Carotenuto in African Affairs, Vol. 108/431 (2009)
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Titre : Dala or Diaspora? Obama and the Luo Community of Kenya Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Matthew Carotenuto, Auteur ; Katherine Angela Luongo, Auteur Année de publication : 2009 Article en page(s) : pp. 197-219. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : As members of the ethnic group to which the American President's paternal family belongs, Luo people in Kenya and in the diaspora have been eagerly claiming Barack Obama as ‘their own’ since 2004. This embrace speaks to a range of ethno-political developments in Kenya throughout the twentieth century. Luo identity has been primarily constituted within a diasporic context, beginning with the large-scale labour migrations of the early twentieth century and continuing with the activities of the ‘dot.com’ generation into the present. Simultaneously, patrimonial politics constituted along ethnic lines have rendered Luos political outsiders and heightened the urgency of securing a powerful patron. Given these two trends, Luo people at home and abroad have reached into the diaspora with hopes of finding their biggest ‘Big Man’ in the figure of Barack Obama
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 197-219.[article] Dala or Diaspora? Obama and the Luo Community of Kenya [texte imprimé] / Matthew Carotenuto, Auteur ; Katherine Angela Luongo, Auteur . - 2009 . - pp. 197-219.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 197-219.
Résumé : As members of the ethnic group to which the American President's paternal family belongs, Luo people in Kenya and in the diaspora have been eagerly claiming Barack Obama as ‘their own’ since 2004. This embrace speaks to a range of ethno-political developments in Kenya throughout the twentieth century. Luo identity has been primarily constituted within a diasporic context, beginning with the large-scale labour migrations of the early twentieth century and continuing with the activities of the ‘dot.com’ generation into the present. Simultaneously, patrimonial politics constituted along ethnic lines have rendered Luos political outsiders and heightened the urgency of securing a powerful patron. Given these two trends, Luo people at home and abroad have reached into the diaspora with hopes of finding their biggest ‘Big Man’ in the figure of Barack Obama Counting the Cost / Jock McCulloch in African Affairs, Vol. 108/431 (2009)
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Titre : Counting the Cost : Gold Mining and Occupational Disease in Contemporary South Africa Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Jock McCulloch, Auteur Année de publication : 2009 Article en page(s) : pp. 221-240. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Gold mining has been central to the success of South Africa's economy. That labour intensive industry has relied heavily on migrant workers for its profitability. In the past decade, scientists in Johannesburg and Cape Town have identified a pandemic of the serious occupational disease silicosis among gold miners. Litigation currently before South African courts raises the possibility of a class action by hundred and thousands of miners against the major corporations such as Anglo American. If successful that litigation may well change work regimes in the mining industry. This article explores the role of migrant labour, state regulatory authorities and science in hiding a pandemic which probably spans the 20th century.
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 221-240.[article] Counting the Cost : Gold Mining and Occupational Disease in Contemporary South Africa [texte imprimé] / Jock McCulloch, Auteur . - 2009 . - pp. 221-240.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 221-240.
Résumé : Gold mining has been central to the success of South Africa's economy. That labour intensive industry has relied heavily on migrant workers for its profitability. In the past decade, scientists in Johannesburg and Cape Town have identified a pandemic of the serious occupational disease silicosis among gold miners. Litigation currently before South African courts raises the possibility of a class action by hundred and thousands of miners against the major corporations such as Anglo American. If successful that litigation may well change work regimes in the mining industry. This article explores the role of migrant labour, state regulatory authorities and science in hiding a pandemic which probably spans the 20th century. The Uses of Ridicule / Ebenezer Obadare in African Affairs, Vol. 108/431 (2009)
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Titre : The Uses of Ridicule : Humour, ‘Infrapolitics’ and Civil Society in Nigeria Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ebenezer Obadare, Auteur Année de publication : 2009 Article en page(s) : pp. 221-240. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : As post-military ‘democratic’ regimes across Africa perpetuate norms and practices that were characteristic of the previous openly authoritarian era, humour and ridicule have emerged as a means through which ordinary people attempt to deconstruct and construct meaning out of a reality that is decidedly surreal. In Nigeria jokes serve a double function as a tool for subordinate classes to deride the state (including its agents) and themselves. Jokes are therefore a means through which an emergent civil society, ‘behaving badly’, subverts, deconstructs, and engages with the state. Yet, for all its significance as a form of agency, humour has been neglected in the civil society literature, partly because of the mentality which frames civil society in terms of organizations (humour is not organized), and partly because of its almost exclusive attention to the ‘civil’ attributes of civil society (humour is, inter alia, rude). This article argues for incorporating humour into the civil society discourse, and suggests that doing so will enrich civil society analysis by focusing on both the constructions of sociality and their associated politics, and the hidden spaces in which most of visible political action originates.
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 221-240.[article] The Uses of Ridicule : Humour, ‘Infrapolitics’ and Civil Society in Nigeria [texte imprimé] / Ebenezer Obadare, Auteur . - 2009 . - pp. 221-240.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 221-240.
Résumé : As post-military ‘democratic’ regimes across Africa perpetuate norms and practices that were characteristic of the previous openly authoritarian era, humour and ridicule have emerged as a means through which ordinary people attempt to deconstruct and construct meaning out of a reality that is decidedly surreal. In Nigeria jokes serve a double function as a tool for subordinate classes to deride the state (including its agents) and themselves. Jokes are therefore a means through which an emergent civil society, ‘behaving badly’, subverts, deconstructs, and engages with the state. Yet, for all its significance as a form of agency, humour has been neglected in the civil society literature, partly because of the mentality which frames civil society in terms of organizations (humour is not organized), and partly because of its almost exclusive attention to the ‘civil’ attributes of civil society (humour is, inter alia, rude). This article argues for incorporating humour into the civil society discourse, and suggests that doing so will enrich civil society analysis by focusing on both the constructions of sociality and their associated politics, and the hidden spaces in which most of visible political action originates. Urban Protest in Burkina Faso / Ernest Harsch in African Affairs, Vol. 108/431 (2009)
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Titre : Urban Protest in Burkina Faso Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ernest Harsch, Auteur Année de publication : 2009 Article en page(s) : pp. 263-288. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Burkina Faso has embarked on a course of decentralization in which elected local governments are assuming a share of decision making over a range of services and activities previously under central authority. But many of these municipalities have also become sites and targets of popular contestation, a reality that has rarely been acknowledged in the official discourses of decentralized governance. By employing social movement research methods, this article examines more than 200 public demonstrations, marches, sit-ins, strikes, riots, and other forms of protest over local issues in 31 of Burkina's urban municipalities, from 1995 to 2007. It finds that both local government reactions and the protests themselves are strongly influenced by the national political context. The analysis highlights some of the main grievances raised by protesters, from opposition to police violence and merchants’ frustrations over the management of marketplaces, to residents’ concerns about municipal corruption and resistance to neighbourhood displacement resulting from urban ‘modernization’ schemes. By challenging the performance of Burkina's municipal councils and mayors, ordinary residents are exercising ‘voice’ and seeking to give some real substance to notions of participatory decentralization.
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 263-288.[article] Urban Protest in Burkina Faso [texte imprimé] / Ernest Harsch, Auteur . - 2009 . - pp. 263-288.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 263-288.
Résumé : Burkina Faso has embarked on a course of decentralization in which elected local governments are assuming a share of decision making over a range of services and activities previously under central authority. But many of these municipalities have also become sites and targets of popular contestation, a reality that has rarely been acknowledged in the official discourses of decentralized governance. By employing social movement research methods, this article examines more than 200 public demonstrations, marches, sit-ins, strikes, riots, and other forms of protest over local issues in 31 of Burkina's urban municipalities, from 1995 to 2007. It finds that both local government reactions and the protests themselves are strongly influenced by the national political context. The analysis highlights some of the main grievances raised by protesters, from opposition to police violence and merchants’ frustrations over the management of marketplaces, to residents’ concerns about municipal corruption and resistance to neighbourhood displacement resulting from urban ‘modernization’ schemes. By challenging the performance of Burkina's municipal councils and mayors, ordinary residents are exercising ‘voice’ and seeking to give some real substance to notions of participatory decentralization. Re-Engineering Rural Society / An Ansoms in African Affairs, Vol. 108/431 (2009)
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Titre : Re-Engineering Rural Society : The Visions and Ambitions of the Rwandan Elite Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : An Ansoms, Auteur Année de publication : 2009 Article en page(s) : pp. 289-309. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : This article analyses the Rwandan elite's visions and ambitions for a wide-ranging re-engineering of rural society. The post-1994 political elite has few links to rural society and the peasant way of life, and sees little room for small-scale peasant agriculture in Rwanda's economic future. The article shows how current Rwandan policy makers aim to realize three social engineering ambitions: first, to transform the agricultural sector into a professionalized motor for economic growth, centred on competitive and commercial farm units; second, to artificially upgrade rural life by inserting ‘modern’ techniques and strategies into local realities, while hiding true poverty and inequality; and, finally, to transform Rwanda into a target-driven society from the highest to the lowest level. The article points to the (potential) dangers, flaws, and shortcomings of this rural re-engineering mission, and illustrates how the state as the engineer ‘hovers’ above the local without consulting those affected. It concludes that contemporary polices are unlikely to be conducive to poverty reduction.
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 289-309.[article] Re-Engineering Rural Society : The Visions and Ambitions of the Rwandan Elite [texte imprimé] / An Ansoms, Auteur . - 2009 . - pp. 289-309.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 289-309.
Résumé : This article analyses the Rwandan elite's visions and ambitions for a wide-ranging re-engineering of rural society. The post-1994 political elite has few links to rural society and the peasant way of life, and sees little room for small-scale peasant agriculture in Rwanda's economic future. The article shows how current Rwandan policy makers aim to realize three social engineering ambitions: first, to transform the agricultural sector into a professionalized motor for economic growth, centred on competitive and commercial farm units; second, to artificially upgrade rural life by inserting ‘modern’ techniques and strategies into local realities, while hiding true poverty and inequality; and, finally, to transform Rwanda into a target-driven society from the highest to the lowest level. The article points to the (potential) dangers, flaws, and shortcomings of this rural re-engineering mission, and illustrates how the state as the engineer ‘hovers’ above the local without consulting those affected. It concludes that contemporary polices are unlikely to be conducive to poverty reduction.