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pro vyhledávání: '"political science, area studies"'
Autor:
Gabriel Tati
Publikováno v:
Africa Spectrum, Vol 51, Iss 1, Pp 29-54 (2016)
This article examines the relations between practices in informal land transactions under customary tenure and spatial differentiation among suburbs in the periphery of the city of Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville. Urban sprawl is a permanent feature
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/fb9f3b3464a84bdf820528511542ab13
Autor:
Ivor Sarakinsky
Publikováno v:
Africa Spectrum, Vol 50, Iss 2, Pp 125-135 (2015)
Review Article: Richard W. Johnson (2015), How Long Will South Africa Survive? The Looming Crisis, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, ISBN 978186 8426348, 266 pp.
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/383da938b44f4d7397eba197af14a978
Autor:
Robin L. Turner
Publikováno v:
Africa Spectrum, Vol 49, Iss 1, Pp 27-54 (2014)
Nearly two decades after South Africa’s democratization, questions of tradition and accountability continue to trouble the polity as more than 14 million black South Africans remain subject to state-recognized, so-called “traditional” leaders
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/2ebed0453b7445ac86f13f0925567aa9
Autor:
Patrick Hönig
Publikováno v:
Africa Spectrum, Vol 49, Iss 2, Pp 53-77 (2014)
Over the past few years, the Ugandan government has repeatedly initiated proceedings to clear one-fourth of the Mabira natural forest reserve in central Uganda and give the land to a sugar company controlled by a transnational business conglomerate.
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/7551d631f5074ba1ade5cf61976fdd5e
Political Representation of Minorities as Collateral Damage or Gain: The Batwa in Burundi and Rwanda
Autor:
Stef Vandeginste
Publikováno v:
Africa Spectrum, Vol 49, Iss 1, Pp 3-25 (2014)
There is a remarkable discrepancy between the political representation of the Batwa ethnic minority group in Burundi compared to in Rwanda. Whereas Rwanda’s focus on citizenship prevents the Batwa from claiming recognition as a politically salient
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/8a88f4940c2b47aaba12f3a30edff2e0
Autor:
Katrin Seidel
Publikováno v:
Africa Spectrum, Vol 50, Iss 3, Pp 148-150 (2015)
Review of the monograph: Manfred Öhm, War and Statehood in South Sudan, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014, ISBN 9783848718436, 235 pages
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/b757ba90707540af9f0fc4fd59c6439b
Autor:
Aghogho Akpome
Publikováno v:
Africa Spectrum, Vol 48, Iss 2, Pp 3-24 (2013)
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit (2001), nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2004, is one of several important works of fiction that comment on the imperfections of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), offering a polemical
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/c70112ee543545edbb9378f5997b7d97
Autor:
Giovanni Carbone, Andrea Cassani
Publikováno v:
Africa Spectrum, Vol 51, Iss 3 (2016)
Elections do not always advance democratisation, yet they can. We outline a democratisation-by-elections model according to which the opportunities for political change opened up by each electoral round build on previous election-related democratic p
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/12cce22f0d8541dfbbcbf02058555815
Autor:
Veronika Gyuracz
Publikováno v:
Africa Spectrum, Vol 51, Iss 3 (2016)
Investigative journalism that aims to prise out information that the state or certain businesses want to keep undisclosed has been unthinkable under many postcolonial African regimes. However, since the promulgation of democratic constitutions, a gen
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/eda34c94379f413fb7ea99d401883a20
Autor:
Filip Reyntjens
Publikováno v:
Africa Spectrum, Vol 51, Iss 2 (2016)
This article argues that constitutional engineering along consociational lines in Burundi – explicitly accommodating ethnicity rather than attempting to suppress it – was instrumental in reducing the political role of ethnicity, but that other en
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/e3bd6175026c405e9df3f557b3f5cf81