Development and Politics from Below: Exploring Religious Spaces in the African State
ISBN: 9781349315161 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion is playing an increasingly central role in African political and developmental life. This book offers an empirical and theoretical reflection on the relationships between religion, politics and development in Africa; the meanings of religion in non-Western contexts and the way that is embedded in the everyday life of people in Africa.
Religion is playing an increasingly central role in African political and developmental life. This book offers an empirical and theoretical reflection...
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The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy
ISBN: 9781349281299 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy provides a detailed analysis of how post-apartheid South Africa has participated in multilateral diplomacy in a variety of sub-regional, regional and international settings during the last decade. The book will interest scholars interested in multilateralism and South African foreign policy.
The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy provides a detailed analysis of how post-apartheid South Africa has participated in multilateral di...
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389,98 zł |
Mozambique: The Tortuous Road to Democracy
ISBN: 9781349424320 / Angielski / Miękka / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mozambique's civil war was inevitable given the tradition of conflict that has always characterized Frelimo, first as an independence movement, and then as a ruling party. Without disregarding the role played by both Rhodesia and South Africa in the war - in fact providing new and detailed information about it - Cabrita guides the reader through Frelimo's early days and gives a clear understanding of the pattern of internal dissent, persecution and physical elimination of members and opponents that remained the organization's hallmark.
Mozambique's civil war was inevitable given the tradition of conflict that has always characterized Frelimo, first as an independence movement, and th...
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585,00 zł |
Emerging Powers in Africa: A New Wave in the Relationship?
ISBN: 9783319407357 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This empirically and theoretically grounded book provides insights into the ascendance of powers such as Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia and their relationship with Africa. Leading scholars present case studies from the BRICS and beyond to demonstrate the constantly evolving and complex character of these ties and their place in the global capitalist order. They also offer new theoretical insights, as well as theorisation of the spatio-temporal dynamics involved in processes of accumulation within the African space. Their contention is that, despite their supposed anti-imperialism, these...
This empirically and theoretically grounded book provides insights into the ascendance of powers such as Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia and their r...
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545,99 zł |
Digital Activism in the Social Media Era: Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9783319409481 / Angielski / Twarda / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book discusses and theorizes digital activism within social and geo-political realms, analysing cases such as the #FeesMustFall and #BringBackOurGirls campaigns in South Africa and Nigeria respectively to question the extent to which they have changed the dynamics of digital activism in sub-Saharan Africa.
The book discusses and theorizes digital activism within social and geo-political realms, analysing cases such as the #FeesMustFall and #BringBackOurG...
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467,99 zł |
Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Politics in Africa: Historical Contexts, Developments, and Dilemmas
ISBN: 9781137555915 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores contemporary political developments in various parts of Africa in the age of democracy, constitutionalism, the securitization of development, and global terrorism. The contributions by leading observers of constitutionalism and African politics in the context of a global political and economic system provide a nuanced understanding of important themes in contemporary African politics: constitutionalism, democratic politics and governance, women s rights, the African Union, securitization of development, civil society, and debates concerning global terrorism and the war on...
This volume explores contemporary political developments in various parts of Africa in the age of democracy, constitutionalism, the securitization of ...
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506,99 zł |
Allies or Adversaries: Ngos and the State in Africa
ISBN: 9781107162983 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments throughout the developing world have witnessed a proliferation of non-governmental, non-profit organizations (NGOs) providing services like education, healthcare and piped drinking water in their territory. In Allies or Adversaries, Jennifer N. Brass explains how these NGOs have changed the nature of service provision, governance, and state development in the early twenty-first century. Analyzing original surveys alongside interviews with public officials, NGOs and citizens, Brass traces street-level government-NGO and state-society relations in rural, town and city settings of...
Governments throughout the developing world have witnessed a proliferation of non-governmental, non-profit organizations (NGOs) providing services lik...
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401,90 zł |
International Policy Diffusion and Participatory Budgeting: Ambassadors of Participation, International Institutions and Transnational Networks
ISBN: 9783319433363 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread worldwide. The book argues that the action of a group of individuals called "Ambassadors of Participation" was crucial to make PB part of the international agenda. This international dimension has been largely overlooked in the vast literature produced on participatory democracy devices. The book combines public policy analysis and the study of international relations, and makes a broad comparative study of PB, including cases from Latin...
This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now ...
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389,98 zł |
Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements
ISBN: 9781349387052 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed.
The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life ch...
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194,97 zł |
The African Stakes of the Congo War
ISBN: 9781349388028 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book situates the war in its historical and theoretical context and surveys the interests of the Congolese government, the rebel groups, and of the intervening states in the war.
This book situates the war in its historical and theoretical context and surveys the interests of the Congolese government, the rebel groups, and of t...
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194,97 zł |
Byword: A Nation Called out of Their Name
ISBN: 9780692031919 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Byword "A Nation Called out of Their Name" is the book that will change America forever A race of people were stolen from a land, and their history was stolen from them. Hidden behind centuries of deception and misdeeds, God's people struggle with the residue of physical oppression and mental oppression, and yet their spiritual strength is their liberation to rediscovering their true selves. Byword is a pivotal text that serves not only as an informative work but as a highly recommended educational book that will provide the children of slavery in the Americas and all nations with true...
Byword "A Nation Called out of Their Name" is the book that will change America forever A race of people were stolen from a land, and their history w...
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95,72 zł |
African Roots, Brazilian Rites: Cultural and National Identity in Brazil
ISBN: 9781349436224 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomble and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop.
This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomble and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influ...
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194,97 zł |
Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience
ISBN: 9781349343706 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola.
Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national i...
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The Arab Spring, Civil Society, and Innovative Activism
ISBN: 9781137571762 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the role of society groups in the making of the Arab Spring and under which conditions they attained their goals. Democracy and recognition of human rights and fundamental freedoms seem to be the main drives of the people organized in form of civil groups or grassroots movements in the Arab Spring countries; but it is essential to identify when they find it suitable to take such extreme action as taking the streets in an attempt to take down the repressive regimes. It is also important to investigate what methods they relied on in their action and how they challenged... This book investigates the role of society groups in the making of the Arab Spring and under which conditions they attained their goals. Democracy ... |
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Democratic Transitions in the Arab World
ISBN: 9781316615782 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the unprecedented uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East in late 2010 and 2011, there was much speculation that these events heralded the beginning of a new age of democratic transition across the region. The result of a four-year research project, this book offers a cross-country analysis of the dynamics of democratic transition and of the state of democracy and authoritarianism from Tunisia, Sudan and Egypt to Syria, Kuwait and Lebanon. Elbadawi and Makdisi identify specific economic, political and social conditions influencing the transition across the...
In the wake of the unprecedented uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East in late 2010 and 2011, there was much speculation that t...
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131,55 zł |
Security in Africa: A Critical Approach to Western Indicators of Threat
ISBN: 9781442239555 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Security in Africa: A Critical Approach to Western Indicators of Threat questions the dominant Western narrative of security threats in Africa. Based on an analysis traditional security studies and Western security policy, it argues that commonly used indicators are based on mainstream security studies and provide only circumscribed analyses of threats to international security. By assessing the origins of this traditional approach to security and problematizing failed states, political instability, Muslim populations, and poverty among others, it makes the case for a critical approach to...
Security in Africa: A Critical Approach to Western Indicators of Threat questions the dominant Western narrative of security threats in Africa. Based ...
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455,18 zł |
Public Sector Performance and Development Cooperation in Rwanda: Results-Based Approaches
ISBN: 9783319421438 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study provides a conceptual framework for analysing Results-Based Approaches to improving public sector effectiveness and efficiency according to their actor constellation and shared characteristics. Though the importance of functioning public sector agencies and organizations for sustainable development is accepted, public sector reform efforts have achieved only modest success. Results-Based Approaches aim at improving public sector performance through the establishment of reward modalities on the domestic and international levels, and the authors evaluate the potential of these... This study provides a conceptual framework for analysing Results-Based Approaches to improving public sector effectiveness and efficiency according... |
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214,47 zł |
Democratic Transitions in the Arab World
ISBN: 9781107164208 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the unprecedented uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East in late 2010 and 2011, there was much speculation that these events heralded the beginning of a new age of democratic transition across the region. The result of a four-year research project, this book offers a cross-country analysis of the dynamics of democratic transition and of the state of democracy and authoritarianism from Tunisia, Sudan and Egypt to Syria, Kuwait and Lebanon. Elbadawi and Makdisi identify specific economic, political and social conditions influencing the transition across the...
In the wake of the unprecedented uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East in late 2010 and 2011, there was much speculation that t...
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289,98 zł |
The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the European Union (Eu): Regionalism and External Influence
ISBN: 9783319453293 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a full and expert overview of the history, policies and institutional framework of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), examining regionalism and the external influence of the European Union. The SADC, an ambitious cooperation project in a number of different policy areas, is a case study on how successful regionalism can be as a strategy for political security and economic prosperity, based on the successful example of the European integration process. The author examines the situation structural model as an analytical tool to explain regionalism and... This book presents a full and expert overview of the history, policies and institutional framework of the Southern African Development Community (S... |
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The African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action!
ISBN: 9780991073078 / Angielski / Twarda / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action is a probing and politically timely collection of essays, interviews, speeches, poetry, short stories, and proposals. These rich works illuminate the struggles, dreams, triumphs, impediments, and diversity of the contemporary African world. The African World in Dialogue contains five sections: "Listen: The Ink Speaks"; "Restitutions, Resolutions, Revolutions"; "Africanity, Education, and Technology"; "Life Lines from the Front Lines"; and "Gender, Power, and Infinite Promise." Each section brims with provocative... The African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action is a probing and politically timely collection of essays, interviews, speeches, poetry... |
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412,59 zł |