The State Ethnicity And Gender In Africa

Author : Scott Straus
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299349403
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa written by Scott Straus and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2024 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonialism, the politics of ethnic and religious identity, and the role of women in African society and politics have become important, and often connected, foci in African studies. Here, fifteen chapters explore these themes in tandem. With essays that span the continent, this volume showcases the political histories, challenges, and promise of contemporary Africa. Written in honor of Crawford Young, a foundational figure in the study of African politics, the essays reflect the breadth and intellectual legacy of this towering scholar and illustrate the vast impact Young had, and continues to have, on the field. The book's themes build from his seminal publications, and the essays were written by leading scholars who were trained by Young.

Author : Lahra Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035317
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Citizens in Africa written by Lahra Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a study of contemporary politics in Ethiopia through an empirical focus on language policy, citizenship, ethnic identity, and gender. It is unique in its focus not only on the political institutions of Ethiopia and the history of the country but in that it studies these subjects at the intersection of both modern and historical time periods. In particular, it argues that meaningful citizenship, which is much more than the legal state of being a citizen, is a process of citizens and the state negotiating the practice of citizenship. Therefore, it puts the citizen back at the forefront of the process of expanding citizenship, suggesting the ways that citizens support, resist, and affect state policy on political rights.

Author : Manoucheka Celeste
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317431286
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora written by Manoucheka Celeste and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse black experiences, and the intersection of black and immigrant identities. Citizenship as it is commonly understood today in the public sphere is a legal issue, yet scholars have done much to move beyond this popular view and situate citizenship in the context of economic, social, and political positioning. The book shows that citizenship in all of its forms is often rhetorically, representationally, and legally negated by blackness and considers the ways that blackness, and representations of blackness, impact one’s ability to travel across national and social borders and become a citizen. This book is a story of citizenship and the ways that race, gender, and class shape national belonging, with Haiti, Cuba, and the United States as the primary sites of examination.

Author : Lahra Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107328802
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Citizens in Africa written by Lahra Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith argues that citizenship creation and expansion is a pivotal part of political contestation in Africa today. Citizenship is a powerful analytical tool to approach political life in contemporary Africa because the institutional and structural reforms of the past two decades have been inextricably linked with the battle over the 'right to have rights'. Professor Lahra Smith's work advances the notion of meaningful citizenship, referring to the ways in which rights are exercised, or the effective practice of citizenship. Using data from Ethiopia and developing a historically informed study of language policy, ethnicity and gender identities, Smith analyzes the contestation over citizenship that engages the state, social movements and individuals in substantive ways. By combining original data on language policy in contemporary Ethiopia with detailed historical study and a focus on ethnicity, citizenship and gender, this work brings a fresh approach to Ethiopian political development and contemporary citizenship concerns across Africa.

Author : Brian M. du Toit
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429726937
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity In Modern Africa written by Brian M. du Toit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen essays written for this volume reflect the increasing importance for social scientists of ethnic, rather than physical or tribal, criteria for classifying modern population groups. The authors—from South Africa, the United States, South West Africa (Namibia), Nigeria, and Scotland—cover most of Africa south of the Sahara. They consider the range from large national population groupings to small-scale societies attempting to maintain their social boundaries, and discuss such topics as emergent nationalism, ethnic divisiveness, social distance, voluntary association, and the role of women. The first section is concerned with particular communities, peoples, and ethnic groups, and treats traditional tribal groupings as well as communities delineated on phenotypic grounds. In the second section, the focus turns to modern situations of interaction; the two major themes discussed here are situational ethnicity and situational realignment. The third section deals with color, one of the physical criteria of ethnic identification; here the authors discuss the political and legal implications of a system based on color. The last essay reports on current changes in attitude and organization within the countries of white-ruled southern Africa.

Author : Moha Ennaji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569024041
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minorities, Women, and the State in North Africa written by Moha Ennaji and published by . This book was released on 2014-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chima Jacob Korieh
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 162196874X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minorities and the State in Africa written by Chima Jacob Korieh and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lyn Ossome
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498558313
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy written by Lyn Ossome and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence examines gendered violence in the context of multiparty politics in Kenya, placing it in the historical milieu of colonial rule and its legacies of the ethnicization of both state and society. It offers an extensive account of the ways in which liberal democratic politics have produced violent outcomes for women./span

Author : Akinloyè Òjó
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351119885
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora written by Akinloyè Òjó and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental and political developments of human societies in Africa and its Diaspora. An interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the role of gender in development against the background of Africa’s convoluted and arduous history of state formation, slavery, colonialism, post-independence, nation-building and poverty. Each chapter highlights and stimulates further discussion on the struggles that many African and African Diaspora societies grapple with in the perplexing issue of gender and development - concentrating on gains that have been made and the challenges yet to be surmounted.

Author : Margaret A. Mohamed-Salih
Publisher : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa written by Margaret A. Mohamed-Salih and published by Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: Narratives of ethnicity