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The social contract in Africa
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This book employs the event of the Arab Spring revolution of 2011 to reflect on the event itself and beyond. Some of the chapters address the colonial encounter and its lingering reverberations on ...
This book employs the event of the Arab Spring revolution of 2011 to reflect on the event itself and beyond. Some of the chapters address the colonial encounter and its lingering reverberations on the African sociopolitical landscape. Others address the aftermath of large scale societal violence and trauma that pervade the African context. The contributions indicate the range of challenges confronting African societies in the postmodern era. They also illustrate the sheer resilience and inventiveness of those societies in the face of apparently overwhelming odds. What is the nature of politica.
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- Creator
- [edited by Sanya Osha]
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- JSTOR ebooks
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, [2014]
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (v, 182 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 0798304456, 9780798304450, 1322319715, 0798304448, 9780798304443
- OCLC
- ocn883571434, ocn890168058
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE -- Transnationalisation, denationalisation and deterritorialisation: contemporary cultures in the context of globalisation; Small world, big space; States, borderlessness and power; Globalised connectivities; Religious traditions and forces; Women and the palavers of culture; Concluding remarks; Endnotes; CHAPTER TWO -- African relational democracy: reframing diversity, economic development and society-centered governance for the twenty-first century; Introduction
- Procedural and relational democracyRethinking the democratic project in Africa; Some perspectives on Western democracy and its implications for the democracy project of Africa; Looking for reasons to fill the democracy lacuna in Africa: economics, oil and rentier politics; Ethnic fragmentation, diversity and civil society; Reframing African relational democracy; Conclusion; Endnotes; CHAPTER THREE -- European 'Democracy Promotion': dynamic versus passive revolution in the Arab Spring; Defining democracy; Greece as Tunisia?; Democracy and neocolonialism; A rebellion of the poor; Crisis
- Descent from democracyEndnotes; CHAPTER FOUR -- Arab Spring: implications for South Africa and Swaziland; Introduction; The sociopolitical and economic situations in Swaziland and South Africa; Prospects for Arab Spring-style uprisings in Swaziland and South Africa; Averting the Arab Spring; Conclusion; Endnotes; CHAPTER FIVE -- No longer with the bourgeoisie: fanonian considerations on social movements and forms of organisation; The snare of history; The party's over; The imminent second liberation; The rationality of revolt; The absence of ideology?; Problematic intellectuals
- The militant and the problem of timeSubverting place; Endnotes; CHAPTER SIX -- What is beyond discourses of alterity? Reflections on the constitution of the present and construction of African subjectivity; Introduction; The constitution of the present; The construction and representation of African subjectivity; Global coloniality and Africa; Conclusion; Endnotes; CHAPTER SEVEN -- Literature as political critique in Nigeria: mobilisation, dialogue and indictment; Introduction; Mobilisation and the spirit of a generation; A tripartite dialogue; Indicting the oppressor; Conclusion; Endnotes
- CHAPTER EIGHT -- Violent ethno-communual conflictsas a legacy of indirect rule in Africa: understanding the Jesse-Urhobo-Benin-Edo land conflicts of 1998Introduction; Administration of the multi-ethnic Benin City District 1897-1914; Lugardian indirect rule, forestry and 'native foreign' migrants; The creation of Jesse District; Administration of Jesse District and the politics of transfer to Urhobo Division and Warri Division; The transfer of Jesse District to Warri Province; The 1998 Idjerhe-Urhobo and Benin-Edo violent conflict over the land of Iguelaba; Conclusion; Endnotes
- CHAPTER NINE -- Tragedy, loss, finality