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Author : Jürg Schneider
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825872083
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Le Forum suisse des africanistes 4 written by Jürg Schneider and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Ziltener
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364380332X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)
Download or read book African-Asian Relations: Past, Present, Future written by Patrick Ziltener and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the impression of a new dynamism in African-Asian relations empirically correct? Is it a process that will once be accepted as one of the fundamental transformations of World Society in the 21st century? This volume addresses these questions in 14 chapters, from a look back to 2000 years of African-Asian contacts and exchange to the analysis of the origins of this new inter-regional dynamism. On the Asian side, the focus is on China, which has - with the Forum on China-African Cooperation (FOCAC), the Belt and Road Initative with numerous infrastructure projects, development assistance, resource deals, and the support for the African Union in Africa - drawn most attention, but also recent initiatives by India and South Korea are described. On the African side, the recent developments in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Angola, Guinea, Tanzania, Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa are analyzed in detail, with a special focus on the various impacts of the recent and ongoing projects and initiatives and the conditions under which they exert developmental or detrimental economic, Do we witness the repetition of past mistakes of development policies at higher level, or is this time everything different?
Author : Jürgen Ossenbrügge
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825878504
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Social Spaces of African Societies written by Jürgen Ossenbrügge and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational social spaces" have emerged in recent years as a research area within migration and area studies. This volume is about African social spaces. It incorporates examples of Central and Western Africa as well as of African-European relations. Contributors from different disciplines, such as anthropology, geography, and political and educational sciences outline their interpretations of transnational social spaces, based on theoretical and empirical work within a wider research project at the University of Hamburg about contemporary transformations of African societies. Jrgen O?enbrgge is professor of economic and political geography at the University of Hamburg. Mechthild Reh is professor for African Studies at the University of Hamburg
Author : Olivier Moreillon
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643802412
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Cities in Flux written by Olivier Moreillon and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume all circle around questions of urbanisation in (post-)apartheid South Africa and its effects on the country's socio-political realities, as well as its representation in-and effect on-the country's literary and artistic production. The included essays discuss the constant flow of people (not only into, within, and out of a city, but also between different cities), the continuously changing conditions (both physical and immaterial as well as past and present) of (South) Africa's urban areas, and these shifting conditions' effects on (South) Africa's cities. (Series: Swiss African Studies / Schweizerische Afrikastudien - Etudes africaines suisses, Vol. 12) [Subject: African Studies, Urban Studies, Sociology]
Author : Claudia Roth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785333771
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Urban Dreams written by Claudia Roth and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods, Roth’s work calls into question established notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, documents changing marriage and kinship relations under the impact of a persistent economic crisis, and explores the increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.
Author : Erdmute Alber
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825807150
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Generations in Africa written by Erdmute Alber and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though long neglected in anthropological research, the connections and conflicts between generations are at the heart of social processes. In this book, sixteen studies examine relations between generations of kin and between historical and political generations. The topics range from grandmother's cooking, migrant remittances, youth unemployment, teenage pregnancy, Valentine's Day, and hip hop music, to respect, religious virtue, gerontocracy, memory, wisdom, complaint, and the meaning of tradition. Together they reinvigorate and expand the old anthropological interest in generation, showing how necessary it is to understanding contemporary African societies.
Author : Katrin Kusmierz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643801017
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Theology in Transition written by Katrin Kusmierz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African theologians have long been powerful voices in the hard-fought political transition from a repressive apartheid regime to a young democracy. A key question is: What should the public role of churches be in this democracy? The simultaneously emerging global discussion on public theology has been one important point of reference, offering a number of frameworks for thinking about the churches' public role. This book considers answers given by South African theologians, beginning with an historical review of approaches taken during apartheid and tracing their development in the two decades following. (Series: Theology in the Public Square / Theologie in der Ã?Â?ffentlichkeit, Vol. 8) [Subject: Religious Studies, African Studies]
Author : Tobias Haller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fossil Fuels, Oil Companies, and Indigenous Peoples written by Tobias Haller and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4e de couv.: Fossil Fuels, Oil Companies, and Indigenous Peoples' is a study of oil production that focuses on the places from which oil is extracted, and on the problems, both environmental and human, created in those places. Global public awareness of the devastating impact of oil extraction on local communities has grown considerably in recent years, due in large part to Ken Saro-Wiwa's work on behalf of the Ogoni in south-eastern Nigeria and his death in 1995 at the hands of Nigeria's military dictatorship. This volume consists of eight case-studies, all of them attempting to answer these questions: What can indigenous people do when faced with the destruction of their natural and social habitats? And how do oil companies respond to the various forms of local and indigenous resistance to their activities? The eight case studies deal with oil-producing regions in Alaska, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and West Siberia and encompass 18 indigenous population groups.
Author : Manfred O. Hinz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825892838
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Shade of New Leaves written by Manfred O. Hinz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Omudile muua ohapo; epangelo liua ohamba". Freely translated, this proverb of the Ovakwanyama of northern Namibia means: "New leaves produce a good shade; the laws of a king are always as good as new". The proverb paints a picture of wisdom to express the dialectical relationship between continuity and change in customary law. Since royal orders are supposed not to change from one king to the next, they are always as good as new, reads the explanatory note to the proverb by the anthropologist Loeb, who recorded the proverb. Traditional authority is like a tree standing on its roots, rooted in the tradition created by the ancestors of the ruler and the community. These roots remain firm, stable and unchanged, not so the concrete manifestation of authority that changes and responds to changes of the environment. This makes that new leaves are produced by the rooted tree. The new leaves are new and old. They are old, because in structure, colour and their capacity to protect by giving shade, they are more or less like the leaves of last year and the year before; they are new because they react to the challenge of seasons. The Shade of New Leaves emerged out of an international conference on the living reality of customary law and traditional governance held in Windhoek in 2004. The conference was organised by the Centre for Applied Social Sciences and the Human Rights and Documentation Centre, both affiliated to the Faculty of Law of the University of Namibia, in co-operation with the Law Departments of the Universities of Bremen, Germany, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The contributions to this book are grouped into six parts: Part 1: Legal pluralism, traditional governance and the challenge of the democratic constitutional order * Part 2: Traditional administration of justice revisited * Part 3: Ascertaining customary law: prerequisite of good governance in traditional authority * Part 4: Legal philosophy, African philosophy and African jurisprudence * Part 5: Research, training and teaching of customary law * Part 6: Afterthoughts
Author : Thomas Bearth
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643802811
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)
Download or read book African multilingualism and the Agenda 2030 / Multilinguisme africain et l'Agenda 2030 written by Thomas Bearth and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UN Agenda 2030 read as an expression of a commitment to predefined goals, raises the question of a link, between failure to provide for needs of linguistic inclusion on the one hand and lingering deficits of adhesion on the other. Stated as a key factor for implementation sensitivity to language diversity correlates positively with inclusivity and sustainability, as this volume explains through case studies ranging from agriculture to health, education, human rights and ecology, and from digital inclusion to translation and science, thus enabling comparative advantages to turn language barriers into interfaces for `glocal' development.
Author : Ulrike Sill
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004193731
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood written by Ulrike Sill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, 1843-1885. Popular interpretations have tended to describe Christianity as either ‘empowering’ or ‘domesticating’ African women. Looking at variegated push-and-pull factors and in its focus on the agency of Ghanaian women this detailed analysis moves beyond. It situates the quest for Christian womanhood as part of trans-national discourses and exchanges, as well as local interactions, and writes a social history that is at once transnational and transcultural.
Author : Chris J Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315433990
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Archaeology of African Plant Use written by Chris J Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book focuses on Paleolithic archaeobotany and the relationship between agriculture and social complexity. It explores the effects that plant life has had on humans as they evolved from primates through the complex societies of Africa, including Egypt, the Buganda Kingdom, southern African polities, and other regions. With over 30 contributing scholars from 12 countries and extensive illustrations, this volume is an essential addition to our knowledge of humanity’s relationship with plants.
Author : Elena A. A. Garcea
Publisher : Africa Magna Verlag
ISBN 13 : 393724834X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Gobero written by Elena A. A. Garcea and published by Africa Magna Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sahara-Sahel borderland occupies a critical geographical position due to its recurrent latitudinal shifts, continually having a strong impact on humans, animals and plants. Gobero is located at the southern limits of the present Sahara, in Niger. The archaeological record at this site encompasses the re-occupation of the Sahara ca 10,000 years ago until approximately 2000 years ago. During this long period, Gobero witnessed significant fluctuations in climate and water resource availability that resulted in cycles of human occupation, abandonment and re-occupation around a natural basin occupied by a palaeolake, until desertification became an irreversible process and the area turned into a no-return frontier for its occupants. This book presents the archaeological, anthropological and environmental data collected during the 2005 and 2006 field seasons at Gobero. Various factors highlight the extraordinary significance of this site. Thanks to its geographical position, straddling the ancient shifting border(s) of the Sahara and the Sahel, the Gobero's archaeological record reveals critical population movements in this part of Africa and different economic and technological strategies its inhabitants employed to adapt to changing environmental conditions. The presence of both settlement and burial features at Gobero gives a comprehensive view of the cultural, social, economic and funerary traditions of the people who lived and died at this site during almost the entire Holocene. The results from these archaeological investigations provide a term of reference for future research and interpretations of past human occupations in the Sahara, as well as North and West Africa.
Author : Anne Schröder
Publisher : Lit Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Anne Schröder and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows new approaches to the African continent and its various cultures, explores different facets of African cultures as they exist or undergo changes, and illustrates how and where African and European cultures come or have come into contact, interact, and create something new. The contributors are social, cultural and literary scientists, linguists, and artists of various cultural backgrounds who investigate topics on an African country and who use novel and often interdisciplinary methods. Their joint interest is a better understanding of the multifaceted character of the African continent, which is still often depicted as a cultural monolith, by exploring contemporary African literature, theatre, film, music and the use of linguistic methods as well as the experience of Africans in diasporas.
Author : Regina Bendix
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825891084
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Senses written by Regina Bendix and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume present deeply contextualized cases of sensory experience.They link senses to each other and to event, sentiment, emplacement, identity, and the ongoing shaping of social life. In doing so, they make a strong Joint case for the importance of taking the senses seriously, not in isolation but as integral elements of culture and interaction.
Author : Wiebe Nauta
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825877989
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (779 download)
Download or read book The Implications of Freedom written by Wiebe Nauta and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'NGO' is so widely used nowadays that it has effectively lost its meaning. Therefore, in order to put back flesh on what has become a very bare skeleton, this book attempts to portray a 'real' organization that originated during the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. By meticulously studying this land sector NGO over a prolonged period of time, much is revealed about its internal dynamics and the changing relationships with actors in the state, civil society and the market. This embedded tale (re-)introduces a historical, political and socio-economic dimension in the analysis of NGOs and shows that they are not as value-driven, autonomous, accountable and non-profit as is often claimed.
Author : Marijke Steegstra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dipo and the Politics of Culture in Ghana written by Marijke Steegstra and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
