Download or read book Crises et chuchotements au Sahel written by Vincent Bonnecase and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2013 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Dossier Crises et chuchotements au Sahel Coordonné par Vincent Bonnecase et Julien Brachet, avec les contributions de Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert, Barbara M. Cooper, Daouda Gary-Tounkara, Julien Gavelle, Adam Higazi, Johanna Siméant, Laure Traoré Nul ne doute que le Sahel est aujourd’hui une région en crise. Cette crise apparaît d’autant plus visible aux yeux du monde que l’Afrique sahélienne n’est plus considérée comme une simple périphérie déshéritée mais comme une région hautement stratégique, théâtre de transformations sociales dont les enjeux économiques, politiques et sécuritaires dépassent largement le cadre de ses frontières, et dont la déstabilisation pourrait avoir des répercussions lointaines. Ce dossier de Politique africaine déplace le regard des seuls faits médiatisés qui mettent actuellement en lumière le Sahel et interroge les « crises » à l’aune de la vie quotidienne et des perceptions locales des populations, ainsi qu’à celle des pratiques des acteurs institutionnels et des effets des politiques qu’ils mettent en oeuvre. Ces politiques de crise constituent actuellement des outils majeurs de gouvernement des populations sahéliennes. n Recherches “O Governo Está Aqui”: Post-war State-Making in the Angolan Periphery Ricardo Soares de Oliveira «Prendre la rue»: les parcours citadins des Shégués de Kinshasa Camille Dugrand n Conjoncture Le Tchad entre deux guerres? Remarques sur un présumé complot Roland Marchal n Lectures Autour d’un livre. The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, de Danny Hoffman, commenté par Paul Richards, Marielle Debos et Mariane C. Ferme La revue des livres
Download or read book Politique africaine N 130 Crises et chuchotements au Sahel written by BONNECASE Vincent, BRACHET Julien (coordonné par) and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Dossier Crises et chuchotements au Sahel Coordonné par Vincent Bonnecase et Julien Brachet, avec les contributions de Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert, Barbara M. Cooper, Daouda Gary-Tounkara, Julien Gavelle, Adam Higazi, Johanna Siméant, Laure Traoré. Nul ne doute que le Sahel est aujourd’hui une région en crise. Cette crise apparaît d’autant plus visible aux yeux du monde que l’Afrique sahélienne n’est plus considérée comme une simple périphérie déshéritée mais comme une région hautement stratégique, théâtre de transformations sociales dont les enjeux économiques, politiques et sécuritaires dépassent largement le cadre de ses frontières, et dont la déstabilisation pourrait avoir des répercussions lointaines. Ce dossier de Politique africaine déplace le regard des seuls faits médiatisés qui mettent actuellement en lumière le Sahel et interroge les « crises » à l’aune de la vie quotidienne et des perceptions locales des populations, ainsi qu’à celle des pratiques des acteurs institutionnels et des effets des politiques qu’ils mettent en oeuvre. Ces politiques de crise constituent actuellement des outils majeurs de gouvernement des populations sahéliennes. Recherches “O Governo Está Aqui”: Post-war State-Making in the Angolan Periphery Ricardo Soares de Oliveira «Prendre la rue» : les parcours citadins des Shégués de Kinshasa Camille Dugrand Conjoncture Le Tchad entre deux guerres ? Remarques sur un présumé complot Roland Marchal Lectures Autour d’un livre. The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, de Danny Hoffman, commenté par Paul Richards, Marielle Debos et Mariane C. Ferme La revue des livres Table des matières Le Dossier Crises et chuchotements au Sahel 1. Vincent Bonnecase, Julien Brachet, Les « crises sahéliennes » entre perceptions locales et gestions internationales 2. Julien Gavelle, Johanna Siméant, Laure Traoré, Le court terme de la légitimité: prises de position, rumeurs et perceptions entre janvier et septembre 2012 à Bamako 3. Daouda Gary-Tounkara, La gestion des migrations de retour, un paramètre négligé de la grille d’analyse de la crise malienne 4. Barbara M. Cooper, De quoi la crise démographique au Sahel est-elle le nom? 5. Vincent Bonnecase, Politique des prix, vie chère et contestation sociale à Niamey : quels répertoires locaux de la colère? 6. Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert, La guerre au Darfour au prisme des alliances du mouvement islamique : retour sur quelques trajectoires d’hommes d’affaires zaghawa 7. Adam Higazi, Les origines et la transformation de l’insurrection de Boko Haram dans le Nord du Nigeria 8. Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, “O Governo Está Aqui”: Post-war State-Making in the Angolan Periphery 9. Camille Dugrand, «Prendre la rue»: les parcours citadins des Shégués de Kinshasa 10. Roland Marchal, Le Tchad entre deux guerres ? Remarques sur un présumé complot 11. Danny Hoffman, commenté par Paul Richards, Marielle Debos et Mariane C. Ferme, Autour d’un livre. The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Download or read book Geopolitics of the Pakistan Afghanistan Borderland written by Syed Sami Raza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the historical complexity of the Pakistan–Afghanistan borderland, this book brings together some of the foremost thinkers of this borderland and seeks to approach its various problematic dimensions. This book presents an overview of the geopolitics of the Pakistan–Afghanistan borderland and approaches the topic from different methods and perspectives. It focuses on some of the least debated dimensions of this borderland, for instance, the status of women in the tribal-border culture, the legal status of aliens in the making of the border, material and immaterial manifestations of the border, political aesthetics of the border, and the identity crisis on the border. Given the fact that its authors come from diverse backgrounds, academic and geographic, they make an enriching contribution. Employing their expertise in different theories and methods, they focus on local memories, literature, and wisdom to understand the border. This book seeks to give voice to the plight of local tribal people, their culture, and land on an advanced academic level and makes it legible for the international audience. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Geopolitics.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Translation History written by Christopher Rundle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Translation History presents the first comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of this multi-faceted disciplinary area and serves both as an introduction to carrying out research into translation and interpreting history and as a key point of reference for some of its main theoretical and methodological issues, interdisciplinary approaches, and research themes. The Handbook brings together 30 eminent international scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, offering examples of the most innovative research while representing a wide range of approaches, themes, and cultural contexts. The Handbook is divided into four sections: the first looks at some key methodological and theoretical approaches; the second examines some of the key research areas that have developed an interdisciplinary dialogue with translation history; the third looks at translation history from the perspective of specific cultural and religious perspectives; and the fourth offers a selection of case studies on some of the key topics to have emerged in translation and interpreting history over the past 20 years. This Handbook is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation and interpreting history, translation theory, and related areas.
Download or read book Civil Society in Algeria written by Andrea Liverani and published by Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1987 and today Algeria has been engaged in a conflict pitching the army against Islamist guerilla groups which has killed more than 200.000 people. During the same period, Algeria also witnessed the explosion of more than 70,000 voluntary associations, making it one of the most civic-dense countries in the Arab world. This book analyses the development of these association in Algeria and the state's attempt to retain political legitimacy. Starting from a critique of portrayals of Algerian 'civil society' as a force conducive to democratization, the study examines the changing relationship of the state to voluntary associations in both the colonial and post-colonial eras. An in-depth assessment of the social bases of the associative sphere then leads to questioning its independence from the state, and highlights the role of the associative sector in tempering the fracture between the state and those social groups that most suffered from the collapse of Algeria's post colonial political framework. Finally, the study analyses donors' use of advocacy and service-delivery associations in democracy-promotion programmes, arguing that their focus on the country's 'civil society' contributed to the state's efforts to preserve its international legitimacy. Based on in-depth examination of existing literature and extensive fieldwork conducted at a time when Algeria was still closed to foreign researchers because of the conflict, Andrea Liverani challenges the mainstream views on the political role of associations in democracy, illustrating how 'civil society' can work towards the conservation of an authoritarian order, rather than simply towards democratic change. A lucid contribution to an emerging scholarship, Civil Society in Algeria will appeal to students, academic experts, and NGO/aid practitioners.
Download or read book West African Studies An Atlas of the Sahara Sahel Geography Economics and Security written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the structure and geographical and organisational mobility of criminal and migratory movements in the Sahara and the Sahel with a view to helping establish better development strategies for the region.
Download or read book Decolonization and African Society written by Frederick Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that the 'modern' Africa they imagined was unaffordable. Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves.
Download or read book Poor Numbers written by Morten Jerven and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and international financial institutions such as the World Bank allocate their development resources on the basis of such data. The paucity of accurate statistics is not merely a technical problem; it has a massive impact on the welfare of citizens in developing countries. Where do these statistics originate? How accurate are they? Poor Numbers is the first analysis of the production and use of African economic development statistics. Morten Jerven's research shows how the statistical capacities of sub-Saharan African economies have fallen into disarray. The numbers substantially misstate the actual state of affairs. As a result, scarce resources are misapplied. Development policy does not deliver the benefits expected. Policymakers' attempts to improve the lot of the citizenry are frustrated. Donors have no accurate sense of the impact of the aid they supply. Jerven's findings from sub-Saharan Africa have far-reaching implications for aid and development policy. As Jerven notes, the current catchphrase in the development community is "evidence-based policy," and scholars are applying increasingly sophisticated econometric methods-but no statistical techniques can substitute for partial and unreliable data.
Download or read book On the Postcolony written by Achille Mbembe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-06-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refreshing a stale debate about power in the postcolonial state, this book addresses a topic debated across the humanities and social sciences: how to define, discuss, and address power and the subjective experience of ordinary people in the face of power?
Download or read book Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire written by John O. Hunwick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal text translated in this volume is the "Ta'rikh Al-sudan" of the 17th-century Timbuktu scholar, 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sadi. The other documents include an English translation of Leo Africanus's description of West Africa and some letters relating to Sa'dian diplomacy.
Download or read book What Works in Conservation 2021 written by William J. Sutherland and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the creation of artificial reefs benefit subtidal benthic invertebrates? Is the use of organic farming instead of conventional farming beneficial to bat conservation? Does installing wildlife warning reflectors along roads benefit mammal conservation? Does the installation of exclusion and/or escape devices on fishing nets benefit marine and freshwater mammal conservation? What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 2526 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2021 edition containssubstantial new material on bat conservation, terrestrial mammal conservation and marine and freshwater mammals, thus completing the evidence for all mammal species categories. Other chapters cover practical global conservation of primates, amphibians, bats, birds, forests, peatlands, subtidal benthic invertebrates, shrublands and heathlands, as well as the conservation of European farmland biodiversity and some aspects of enhancing natural pest control, enhancing soil fertility, management of captive animals and control of freshwater invasive species. It contains key results from the summarized evidence for each conservation intervention and an assessment of the effectiveness of each by international expert panels. The accompanying website www.conservationevidence.com describes each of the studies individually, and provides full references. This is the sixth author-approved edition of What Works in Conservation, which is revised on an annual basis.
Download or read book Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe written by Eszter Krasznai Kovacs and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include increasingly authoritarian forms of government that threaten the operations and very existence of civil society groups; the importation of locally-contested conservation and environmental programmes that were designed elsewhere; and a resurgence in cultural nationalism that prescribes and normalises exclusionary nation-building myths. This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe. Engaging with the critical tools of political ecology, its contributors provide a hitherto overlooked perspective on the current fate and reception of ‘environmentalism’ in the region. It asks how emergent forms of environmentalism have been received, how these movements and perspectives have redefined landscapes, and what the subtler effects of new regulatory regimes on communities and environment-dependent livelihoods have been. Arranged in three sections, with case studies from Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Serbia, this collection develops anthropological views on the processes and consequences of the politicisation of the environment. It is valuable reading for human geographers, social and cultural historians, political ecologists, social movement and government scholars, political scientists, and specialists on Europe and European Union politics.
Download or read book Irresistible Empire written by Victoria De Grazia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. De Grazia describes how, as America's market empire advanced with confidence through Europe, spreading consumer-oriented capitalism, all alternative strategies fell before it--first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich's command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World's values of status, craft, and good taste, Victoria de Grazia follows the United States' market-driven imperialism through a vivid series of cross-Atlantic incursions by the great inventions of American consumer society. We see Rotarians from Duluth in the company of the high bourgeoisie of Dresden; working-class spectators in ramshackle French theaters conversing with Garbo and Bogart; Stetson-hatted entrepreneurs from Kansas in the midst of fussy Milanese shoppers; and, against the backdrop of Rome's Spanish Steps and Paris's Opera Comique, Fast Food in a showdown with advocates for Slow Food. Demonstrating the intricacies of America's advance, de Grazia offers an intimate and historical dimension to debates over America's exercise of soft power and the process known as Americanization. She raises provocative questions about the quality of the good life, democracy, and peace that issue from the vaunted victory of mass consumer culture.
Download or read book Countless Blessings written by Barbara M. Cooper and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do women in Niger experience pregnancy and childbirth differently from women in the United States or Europe? Barbara M. Cooper sets out to understand childbirth in a country with the world's highest fertility rate and an alarmingly high rate of maternal and infant mortality. Cooper shows how the environment, slavery and abolition, French military rule, and the rapid expansion of Islam have all influenced childbirth and fertility in Niger from the 19th century to the present day. She sketches a landscape where fear of infertility generates intense competition between communities, ethnicities, and co-wives and creates a culture where concerns about infertility dominate concerns about overpopulation, where illegitimate children are rejected, and where the education of girls is sacrificed in the name of avoiding shame. Given a medical system poorly adapted to women's needs, a precarious economy, and a political context where it is impossible to address sexuality openly, Cooper discovers that it is little wonder that pregnancy and birth are a woman's greatest pride as well as a source of grave danger.
Download or read book Translation Under Fascism written by C. Rundle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of translation has focused on literary work but this book demonstrates the way in which political control can influence and be influenced by translation choices. New research and specially commissioned essays give access to existing research projects which at present are either scattered or unavailable in English.
Download or read book Democratization in Africa written by Larry Jay Diamond and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The country-specific chapters serve to underline the differences between African democracy and liberal democracy, yet some authors are at pains to emphasize that whatever their limitations, African democracies are an advance over what had gone before." -- African Studies Review
Download or read book A Mission to Civilize written by Alice L. Conklin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a central but often ignored question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: How did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent appeal of a “civilizing” ideology with distinct racist overtones? By focusing on a particular group of colonial officials in a specific setting—the governors general of French West Africa from 1895 to 1930—the author argues that the ideal of a special civilizing mission had a decisive impact on colonial policymaking and on the evolution of modern French republicanism generally. French ideas of civilization—simultaneously republican, racist, and modern—encouraged the governors general in the 1890’s to attack such “feudal” African institutions as aristocratic rule and slavery in ways that referred back to France’s own experience of revolutionary change. Ironically, local administrators in the 1920’s also invoked these same ideas to justify such reactionary policies as the reintroduction of forced labor, arguing that coercion, which inculcated a work ethic in the “lazy” African, legitimized his loss of freedom. By constantly invoking the ideas of “civilization,” colonial policy makers in Dakar and Paris managed to obscure the fundamental contradictions between “the rights of man” guaranteed in a republican democracy and the forcible acquisition of an empire that violates those rights. In probing the “republican” dimension of French colonization in West Africa, this book also sheds new light on the evolution of the Third Republic between 1895 and 1930. One of the author’s principal arguments is that the idea of a civilized mission underwent dramatic changes, due to ideological, political, and economic transformations occurring simultaneously in France and its colonies. For example, revolts in West Africa as well as a more conservative climate in the metropole after World War I produced in the governors general a new respect for “feudal” chiefs, whom the French once despised but now reinstated as a means of control. This discovery of an African “tradition” in turn reinforced a reassertion of traditional values in France as the Third Republic struggled to recapture the world it had “lost” at Verdun.
