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Book Synopsis From Colonization to Democracy by : Alan Lester
Download or read book From Colonization to Democracy written by Alan Lester and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the development of modern South African society seeks to establish the geographical and historical context in which change has taken place. The author describes important historical continuities in South Africa which have shaped present society, including social groupings and their stratification, policital institutions, the patterns of human geography, economic structure, and external links and influences.
Book Synopsis Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization by : Stanley Deetz
Download or read book Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization written by Stanley Deetz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Deetz, our obsolete understanding of communication processes and power relations prevents us from seeing the corporate domination of public decision making. For most people issues of democracy, representation, freedom of speech, and censorship pertain to the State and its relationship to individuals and groups, and are linked to occasional political processes rather than everyday life decisions. This work reclaims the politics of personal identity and experience within the work environment as a first step to a democratic form of public decision-making appropriate to the modern context.
Book Synopsis Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship by : Alexander Lee
Download or read book Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship written by Alexander Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some countries more democratic than others? Analyzes a global sample of colonies to explain countries' different experiences.
Book Synopsis Empire Or Democracy? by : Leonard Barnes
Download or read book Empire Or Democracy? written by Leonard Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I. Colonialism. II. Constitutional government. III. The rise of democracy. IV. The rise of nationality by : Alexander Johnston
Download or read book I. Colonialism. II. Constitutional government. III. The rise of democracy. IV. The rise of nationality written by Alexander Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Decolonizing Democracy by : Ferit Güven
Download or read book Decolonizing Democracy written by Ferit Güven and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonizing Democracy: Intersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory analyzes the concept and the discourse of democracy. Ferit Güven demonstrates how democracy is deployed as a neo-colonial tool to discipline and further subjugate formerly colonized peoples and spaces. The book explains why increasing democratization of the political space in the last three decades produced an increasing dissatisfaction and alienation from the process of governance, rather than a contentment as one might have expected from "the rule of the people.” Decolonizing Democracy aims to provide a conceptual response to the crisis of democracy in contemporary world. With both a unique scope and argument, this book will appeal to both philosophy and political science scholars, as well as those involved in postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and peace studies.
Book Synopsis Decolonizing Democracy by : Christine Keating
Download or read book Decolonizing Democracy written by Christine Keating and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most democratic theorists have taken Western political traditions as their primary point of reference, although the growing field of comparative political theory has shifted this focus. In Decolonizing Democracy, comparative theorist Christine Keating interprets the formation of Indian democracy as a progressive example of a “postcolonial social contract.” In doing so, she highlights the significance of reconfigurations of democracy in postcolonial polities like India and sheds new light on the social contract, a central concept within democratic theory from Locke to Rawls and beyond. Keating’s analysis builds on the literature developed by feminists like Carole Pateman and critical race theorists like Charles Mills that examines the social contract’s egalitarian potential. By analyzing the ways in which the framers of the Indian constitution sought to address injustices of gender, race, religion, and caste, as well as present-day struggles over women’s legal and political status, Keating demonstrates that democracy’s social contract continues to be challenged and reworked in innovative and potentially more just ways.
Book Synopsis From Colonization to Democracy by : Alan Lester
Download or read book From Colonization to Democracy written by Alan Lester and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundation of a society; colonial expansion, industrialization and Afrikanerdom; the germination of a system; the formulation of a structure, adaptations and contradictions; the reformulation of a structure; policy and reality; the changing South African state.
Book Synopsis Humanitarian Intervention, Colonialism, Islam and Democracy by : Gustavo Gozzi
Download or read book Humanitarian Intervention, Colonialism, Islam and Democracy written by Gustavo Gozzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states. The work analyses the fraught relationship between the Western powers and the Arab countries that have been subject to their colonial rule. It does so by looking at this relationship from two vantage points. On the one hand is that of humanitarian intervention—a paradigm under which colonial rule coexisted alongside “humanitarian” policies pursued on the dual assumption that the colonized were “barbarous” peoples who wanted to be civilized and that the West could lay a claim of superiority over an inferior humanity. On the other hand is the Arab view, from which the humanitarian paradigm does not hold up, and which accordingly offers its own insights into the processes through which the Arab countries have sought to wrest themselves from colonial rule. In unpacking this analysis the book traces a history of international and colonial law, to this end also using the tools offered by the history of political thought. The book will be of interest to students, academics, and researchers working in legal history, international law, international relations, the history of political thought, and colonial studies.
Book Synopsis Decolonizing Democracy by : Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo
Download or read book Decolonizing Democracy written by Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to achieve a true democracy, this book explores different political and philosophical traditions that do not necessarily seem to speak in unison, notwithstanding their common goal: to propose an alternative to hard-line neo-liberalism, Western hegemony and coloniality.
Book Synopsis The Newer Caribbean by : Paget Henry
Download or read book The Newer Caribbean written by Paget Henry and published by Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues. This book was released on 1983 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African American Religions, 1500–2000 by : Sylvester A. Johnson
Download or read book African American Religions, 1500–2000 written by Sylvester A. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and colonialism over several centuries to explain the relationship between empire and democratic freedom. Rather than treating freedom and its others (colonialism, slavery and racism) as opposites, Sylvester A. Johnson interprets multiple periods of Black religious history to discern how Atlantic empires (particularly that of the United States) simultaneously enabled the emergence of particular forms of religious experience and freedom movements as well as disturbing patterns of violent domination. Johnson explains theories of matter and spirit that shaped early indigenous religious movements in Africa, Black political religion responding to the American racial state, the creation of Liberia, and FBI repression of Black religious movements in the twentieth century. By combining historical methods with theoretical analysis, Johnson explains the seeming contradictions that have shaped Black religions in the modern era.
Book Synopsis South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy by : Doctor Thiven Reddy
Download or read book South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy written by Doctor Thiven Reddy and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the ‘extraordinary’, which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of numerous conflicts, and protests over various popular grievances. In this highly original work, Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africa’s post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely shaped by a particular mode of domination, namely settler colonialism. South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy is an important work that sheds light on the nature of modernity, democracy and the complex politics of contemporary South Africa.
Book Synopsis Compatible Cultural Democracy by : Daniel T. Osabu-Kle
Download or read book Compatible Cultural Democracy written by Daniel T. Osabu-Kle and published by Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : variants of democratic practice -- The great transplantation -- The post-independence problem -- Typical African political systems -- Towards the modification of African political culture -- Ghana : tactical action, socialism and the military -- Nigeria : oil, coups, and ethnic war -- Kenya : settler ideology and the struggle for Majimbo -- Tanzania : Ujamaa, compulsion, and the freedom of association -- Somalia : experiments with democracy, military rule, and socialism -- Senegal : from French colonialism to the failure of partisan politics -- Rwanda : from success astroy to human disaster -- Congo (Kinshasa) : "a most lethal poison."
Book Synopsis Class Alliances and the Liberal Authoritarian State by : F. S. J. Ledgister
Download or read book Class Alliances and the Liberal Authoritarian State written by F. S. J. Ledgister and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political evolution of three former colonies into independence and beyond is studied via an examination of the existing literature and through interviews with journalists, scholars and politicians. These countries appear to uphold the conventional wisdom, since Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago have been continuously democratic since independence, while Surinam has not. It is clear from the author's research that the similarities in the political evolution of these countries far outweigh the differences. In particular, the British in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dutch in Surinam, developed similar state structures - simultaneously liberal and authoritarian. However, in two countries, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, the emergence of political parties was linked to labor protests, while this linkage, though not the protest, was absent in Surinam. Democratic politics in the former two countries turns out to rest on a two way alliance between the middle and lower classes, embedded in a paternalistic state structure inherited from the colonial period. In Surinam, the absence of this alliance rendered democracy more vulnerable. The author concludes that while the peoples of the Caribbean did not fight long struggles for independence, they have been able to preserve the least poisoned gift of the colonizer - democracy.
Book Synopsis Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures by : M. Jacqui Alexander
Download or read book Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures written by M. Jacqui Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Geneaologies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures provides a feminist anaylsis of the questions of sexual and gender politics, economic and cultural marginality, and anti-racist and anti-colonial practices both in the "West" and in the "Third World." This collection, edited by Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, charts the underlying theoretical perspectives and organization practices of the different varieties of feminism that take on questions of colonialism, imperialism, and the repressive rule of colonial, post-colonial and advanced capitalist nation-states. It provides a comparative, relational, historically grounded conception of feminist praxis that differs markedly from the liberal pluralist, multicultural understanding that sheapes some of the dominant version of Euro-American feminism. As a whole, the collection poses a unique challenge to the naturalization of gender based in the experiences, histories and practices of Euro-American women.
Book Synopsis Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Kathleen M. Fallon
Download or read book Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Kathleen M. Fallon and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a late and fitful start, democracy in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe has recently shown promising growth. Kathleen M. Fallon discusses the role of women and women's advocacy groups in furthering the democratic transformation of formerly autocratic states. Using Ghana as a case study, Fallon examines the specific processes women are using to bring about political change. She assesses information gathered from interviews and surveys conducted in Ghana and assays the existing literature to provide a focused look at how women have become involved in the democratization of sub-Saharan nations. The narrative traces the history of democratic institutions in the region—from the imposition of male-dominated mechanisms by western states to latter-day reforms that reflect the active resurgence of women’s political power within many African cultures—to show how women have made significant recent political gains in Ghana and other emerging democracies. Fallon attributes these advances to a combination of forces, including the decline of the authoritarian state and its attendant state-run women's organizations, newly formed constitutions, and newfound access to good-governance funding. She draws the study into the larger debate over gendered networks and democratic reform by exploring how gender roles affect and are affected by the state in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. In demonstrating how women’s activism is evolving with and shaping democratization across the region, Democracy and the Rise of Women’s Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa reveals how women’s social movements are challenging the barriers created by colonization and dictatorships in Africa and beyond.
