The following new books, published by the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in Uppsala during autumn 2006 are now available.
For more information about the books and how to order or download them please look at www.nai.uu.se/publications/
ON AFRICA Scholars and African Studies
Henning Melber (Ed.)
DISCUSSION PAPERS
ISBN: 978-91-7106-585-8
Published: 2006
Price: 110 SEK/ approx. 12 EURO
Description
This volume is based on contributions to a seminar which was organised in honour of the Institutes retiring Director Lennart Wohlgemuth in December 2005. African scholars presented their views on “The Role of Africa in African Studies”, while Nordic scholars and policy makers responded. The deliberations offer a spectre of relevant approaches on both academic as well as policy oriented research and advisory work in and on Africa.
The contributions aim at bridging the gap between academics and practitioners. They share a common commitment to African affairs and seek to support and promote these in the international context.
Contributors include:
Olu Ajakaiye and William Lyakurwa, the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
Adebayo Olukoshi, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
Göran Hydén, University of Florida
Arne Tostensen, Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen
Contents
African Scholars and African Studies – Adebayo Olukoshi
African Scholars and African Studies, A Commentary on Olukoshi – Arne Tostensen
Policy Advice and African Studies -William Lyakurwa and Olu Ajakaiye
Challenging the Mainstream in Research and Policy – Göran Hydén
Further Comments
Kari Karanko
Klaus Winkel
On Africa
Pages 68
Cloth: Paperback
Size: 165 x 240 mm
Keyword: Africa, research, research workers, educational research, research policy, africanists
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MICRO-Regionalism in West Africa – Evidence from Two Case Studies
Söderbaum, Fredrik and Ian Taylor (Eds.)
DISCUSSION PAPERS
ISBN: 978-91-7106-584-1
Published: 2006
Price: 90 SEK/ approx. 9 EURO
Description
This collection seeks to complement and advance recent studies on regionalism in Africa and the implications that this has for the continents development. The two case studies on cross-border micro-regionalism in the borderlands of Mali-Burkina Faso and Niger-Nigeria are part of the work of the West Africa Borders and Integration (WABI). WABI is a research institute that looks at cross-border developments in West Africa, particularly at the convergence between political will and regionalisation on the ground.
Providing a challenge to the considerable number of state-centric, formalistic and not seldom overly idealistic studies in this field, the two cases show quite clearly that formal borders either essentially do not exist in the Westphalian sense, being ignored by local populations and traders, or, are strategically used by (often self-styled) representatives of the state to extract resources and rents. In either case, the Eurocentric notion of fixed boundaries and bordered delineations has little purchase in the West African Sahel.
Fredrik Söderbaum is Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Development Research (Padrigu) and Director of the Centre for African Studies, School of Global Studies, Göteborg University, Sweden. He is also a research fellow at United Nations University – Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges (Brügge), Belgium.
Ian Taylor is a senior researcher at the School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, as well as Associated Professor Extraordinary at the department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Development Studies at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda.
Contents
Introduction:
Fredrik Söderbaum and Ian Taylor: Thinking about Micro-Regionalism in West Africa
Chapter 1: Marie Trémolières: Regionalisms in the Sahel:The Mopti-Ouahigouya Cross-Border Area
Chapter 2: Mohamadou Abdoul and Marie Trémolières: Cross-Border Cooperation between Niger and Nigeria – The Case of the Maradi Micro-Region
List of Abbreviations
Notes on the authors
Micro-Regionalism in West Africa
Pages: 36
Cloth: Paperback
Size: 165 x 240 mm
Keyword: regional cooperation, regional integration, regional development, regionalization, case studies, West Africa, Sahel, Niger, Nigeria
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THE SECURITY-Development Nexus – Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa
Buur, Lars, Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat (Eds.)
ISBN: 978-91-7106-583-4
Published: 2006
Price: 320 SEK/ approx. 35 EURO
Description
The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 2001 by a broad range of scholars. Focussing on Southern Africa, the Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the security/development linkage has been an important element of the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial regimes during the Cold War, and it seems to be prospering in new configurations under the present wave of democratic transitions.
Contributors focus on a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and DR Congo; they explore the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, DDr programmes and the different trajectories democratization has taken in different parts of the region.
Lars Buur and Finn Stepputat are Senior Researchers at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). Steffen Jensen is Senior Researcher at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Survivors and teaches International Development Studies at Roskilde University.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Lars Buur, Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat: The Security-Development Nexus
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL BOUNDARIES
Thomas Mandrup Jørgensen: You Do Need a Stick to Be Able to Use It Gently – The South African Armed Forces in the DR Congo
Steffen Jensen and Lars Buur: The Nationalist Imperative – South Africanisation, Regional Integration and Mobile Livelihoods
Lalli Metsola and Henning Melber: Namibias Pariah Heroes – Swapo Ex-Combatants Between the Liberation Gospel and Security Interests
STATES, DEVELOPMENT AND VERNACULAR SECURITY
Lars Buur: The Intertwined History of Security and Development – The Case of Developmental Struggles in South Africas Townships
Helene Maria Kyed: The Politics of Policing – Recapturing “Zones of Confusion” in Rural Post-War Mozambique
Guy Lamb: Militarising Politics and Development – The Case of Post-Independence Namibia
Jacob Rasmussen: Struggling for the City – Evictions in Inner-City Johannesburg
IDENTITY, VIOLENCE AND RIGHTS
Steffen Jensen: Through the Lens of Crime – Land Claims and Contestations of Citizenship on the Frontier of the South African State
Amanda Hammar: Criminality, Security and Development – Post-Colonial Reversals in Zimbabwes Margins
Tina Sideris: Post-Apartheid South Africa – Gender, Rights and the Politics of Recognition – New Avenues for Old Forms of Violence?
The Security-Development Nexus
Pages: 284
Size: 145 x 210 mm
Co-publisher: HSRC Press Cape Town
Keyword: violence, crime, economic and social development, politics, government policy, state, international relations, peaceful coexistence, citizenship, human security, regional security, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe
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REBELS AND Robbers – Violence in Post-colonial Angola
Malaquias, Assis
ISBN: 978-91-7106-580-3
Published: 2006
Price: 320 SEK/ approx. 35 EURO
Description
Rebels and Robbers is about the political economy of violence in post-colonial Angola. This book provides the first comprehensive attempt at analyzing how the military and non-military dynamics of more than four decades of conflict created the structural violence that stubbornly defines Angolan society even in the absence of war. The book clearly demonstrates that the end of the civil war has not ushered in positive peace.
The focus on structural violence enables the author to explore the continuities since colonial times, especially in the ways race, class, ethnicity, and power have been used by governing elites as mechanisms to oppress the powerless.
Thus, although corruption as structural violence manifesting itself so ubiquitously in Angola today may have been taken to new levels after independence, its origin is unmistakably colonial. Similarly, the zero-sum character of political interactions that defined colonial Angola is yet to be fully exorcized. But there are also important discontinuities.
The unabashed propensity to capture public resources for personal aggrandizement is purely post-colonial. So is the tendency toward personal, unaccountable rule.
Given its rich endowments, the end of the civil war provides Angola with an opportunity to finally realize its developmental potential. This will depend on whether the wealth resulting from the exploration of natural resources is directed toward creating the conditions for the citizens realization of their aspirations for the good life thus ensuring sustainable peace.
This book is valuable to academics, practitioners, and the general public interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the political economy of violence in Africa and, more specifically, the interplay between violence, wealth and power in Angola.
Assis Malaquias is Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of International and Intercultural Studies at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. He is also Extraordinary Associate Professor of Political Studies and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
Contents
Introduction
1. Background: Legacies of diversity, wealth, and colonialism
2. Violence and Fractured Nationalism
3. External Interventions and Internal Violence
4. UNITAs Insurgency: Mutations and self-mutilations
5. The Problematic Post-Colonial State
6. War Termination as Survival Strategy
7. Post-Conflict Challenges -identity and governance
8. Toward a Citizen-Friendly State
9. External Dimensions of Positive Peace
Conclusion
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
Index
Rebels and Robbers
Pages: 264
Cloth: Paperback
Size: 145 x 210
Keyword: violence, social structure, obstacles to development, political aspects, political power, civil war, peace, nation building, national security, post-conflict reconstruction, Angola
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VOTES, Money and Violence – Political Parties and Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias, Gero Erdmann & Andreas Mehler
ISBN: 978-91-7106-579-7
Published: 2007
Price: 290 SEK/ approx. 31 EURO
Description
Following the (re-)introduction of multiparty systems in Africa in the early 1990s, third and fourth elections in Africas new democracies and hybrid regimes are now being seen.
Although there is a large and growing literature on democracy and elections in Africa, parties and party systems have hitherto not been the focus of research, which may be surprising given their central role in a liberal democracy. The early works from the 1960s and 1970s provide neither a sound conceptual nor empirical basis. Research on political parties and party systems in Africa is still in its infancy.
Various contributions in this volume address the theoretical and conceptual challenges provided by the African parties and party systems with their particular features of weak organisation, informal relationships dominated by “big men” and clientelism within a neopatrimonial setting. Others raise the crucial question of representation in relation to ethnicity, civil society and gender, or look into the empirical relationship between party systems and democracy.
Further chapters ask questions about the appropriate electoral system for the multiethnic context in Africa and deal with the problem of electoral system reform. Finally, there are chapters which focus on the neglected area of electoral violence, and the moral role of money and vote buying is scrutinized through a case study.
An important conclusion is that party research in Africa needs more conceptual clarity as well as empirical research particularly on party organisation, voting behaviour, and the role of ethnicity.
The volume is written for academics and graduate students in Comparative Politics, Party Research, Electoral and African Studies. It will be also useful for professionals dealing with Africa in (political) development assistance.
Matthias Basedau, Ph.D., is a Political Scientist, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of African Affairs, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg (Germany). Gero Erdmann, Ph.D., is a Political Scientist, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African Affairs (Berlin Office), German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg (Germany). Andreas Mehler, Ph.D., is a Political Scientist, Director of the Institute of African Affairs, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg (Germany).
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Research on Electoral Systems, Parties and Party Systems in Africa – Gero Erdmann, Matthias Basedau and Andreas Mehler
Political Parties, Elections and Patronage: Random Thoughts on Neo-Patrimonialism and African Democratization – E. Gyimah-Boadi
Party Research: Western European Bias and the “African Labyrinth” – Gero Erdmann
Political Parties in Africa: Different, Functional and Dynamic? Reflections on Gero Erdmanns Party Research: Western Europea Bias and “African Labyrinth” – Peter Burnell
Political Parties in Africa and the Representation of Social Groups – Vicky Randall
Do Party Systems Matter for Democracy? A Comparative Study of 28 Sub-Saharan Countries – Matthias Basedau
Paths of Electoral Reform in Africa – Christof Hartmann
Electoral Systems, Party Systems and Ethnicity in Africa – Matthijs Bogaards
Political Parties and Violence in Africa: Systematic Reflections against Empirical Background – Andreas Mehler
Insights into Electoral Violence in Africa – Liisa Laakso
Banknotes and Symbolic Capital: Ghanas Elections Under the Fourth Republic – Paul Nugent
Conclusions: The Research Agenda Ahead – Gero Erdmann, Matthias Basedau and Andreas Mehler
Contributors
Index
Votes, Money and Violence
Pages: 301
Cloth: Paperback
Size: 145 x 210
Co-publisher: Kwazulu-Natal Press, South Africa
Keyword: Elections, Electoral systems, Political parties, Democracy, Political systems, Political pluralism, Aultipartyism, Africa south of the Sahara
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HISTORY Making and Present Day Politics – The meaning of collective memory in South Africa
Stolten, Hans-Eric, (Ed.)
ISBN: 91-7106-581-4
Published: 2006
Price: 320 SEK/ approx. 35 EURO
Description
In this collection, some of South Africas most distinguished historians and social scientists present their views on the importance of history and heritage for the transformation of the South African society.
Although popular use of history helped remove apartheid, the study of history lost status during the transition process. Some of the reasons for this, like the nature of the negotiated revolution, social demobilisation, and individualisation, are analysed in this book. The combination of scholarly work with an active role in changing society has been a central concern in South African history writing.
This book warns against the danger of history being caught between reconciliation, commercialisation, and political correctness. Some of the articles critically examine the role of historians in ideological debates on gender, African agency, Afrikaner anti-communism, early South African socialism, and the role of the business world during late apartheid. Other contributions explore continuing controversies on the politics of public history in post-apartheid South Africa, describe the implementation of new policies for history education, or investigate the use of applied history in the land restitution process and in the TRC.
The authors also examine a range of new government and private initiatives in the practical use of history, including the establishment of new historical entertainment parks and the conversion of museums and heritage sites. For readers interested in nation building processes and identity politics, this book provides valuable insight.
Hans Erik Stolten is a historian working at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He worked as Research Fellow at the Nordic Africa Institute from 1999 until 2002.
Contents
Chapter 1. History in the new South Africa: An introduction by Hans Erik Stolten
Chapter 2. Thoughts on South Africa: Some preliminary ideas by Saul Dubow
Chapter 3. New nation, new history? Constructing the past in post-apartheid South Africa by Colin Bundy
Chapter 4. Truth rather than justice? Historical narratives, gender, and public education in South Africa by Elaine Unterhalter
Chapter 5. Claiming land and making memory: Engaging with the past in land restitution by Anna Bohlin
Chapter 6 . Reflections on practising applied history in South Africa, 1994–2002: From skeletons to schools by Martin Legassick
Chapter 7. From apartheid to democracy in South Africa: A reading of dominant discourses of democratic transition by Thiven Reddy
Chapter 8. The politics of public history in post-apartheid South Africa by Gary Baines
Chapter 9. The transformation of heritage in the new South Africa by Christopher Saunders
Chapter 10. Reframing remembrance: The politics of the centenary commemoration of the South African War of 1899–1902 by Albert Grundlingh
Chapter 11. Structure of memory: Apartheid in the museum by Georgi Verbeeck
Chapter 12. Building the “new South Africa”: Urban space, architectural design, and the disruption of historical memory by Martin Murray
Chapter 13. Whose memory – whose history? The illusion of liberal and radical historical debates by Bernhard Makhosezwe Magubane
Chapter 14. Four decades of South African academic historical writing: A personal perspective by Christopher Saunders
Chapter 15. The role of business under apartheid: Revisiting the debate by Merle Lipton
Chapter 16. Afrikaner anti-communist history production in South African historiography by Wessel Visser
Chapter 17. “1922 and all that”: Facts and the writing of South African political history by Allison Drew
Chapter 18. A useable past: The search for “history in chords” by Catherine Burns
Contributors
Abbreviations
Index
History Making and Present Day Politics.
Pages: 300
Cloth: Paperback
Size: 145 x 210
Keyword: History, political history, political development, social change, nation-building, post-apartheid, historiography, South Africa
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