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Re-examining liberation in Namibia : political culture since independence

Upphovsperson: Melber, Henning
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2003
Ämnesord: Namibia, Independence, Liberation, Political culture, Reconciliation, Post-colonialism, Human rights, Political science, Statsvetenskap
From 1960, SWAPO of Namibia led the organised and later armed struggle for independence. In late 1989, the liberation movement was finally elected to power under United Nations supervision as the legitimate government. When the Republic of Namibia was proclaimed on 21 March 1990, the long and bitter struggle for sovereignty came to an end. This volume takes stock of emerging trends in the country's political culture since independence. The contributions, mainly by authors from Namibia and Southern Africa who supported the anti-colonial movements, critically explore the achievements and shortcomings that have been part of liberation in Namibia.

Searching for facts

Upphovsperson: Andersson, Marianne
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2011
Ämnesord: Reference materials, Handbooks, Yearbooks, Encyclopaedias, Information resources, Internet resources, Periodicals, Documents, Biographies, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Contents: Part 1: Country specific information -- Basic facts -- Country descriptions -- News watch -- Part 2: Subject related information -- Reference works and yearbooks -- Document texts -- Regional and international organisations -- Biographical information -- Ethnic groups and languages

Litteratur om södra Afrika : kommenterad bibliografi -1989

Upphovsperson: Eriksen, Tore Linné
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1990
Ämnesord: Bibliographies, Southern Africa, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
I denna annoterade bibliografi presenteras 700 titlar och närmare 100 tidskrifter. De flesta böcker som kommenteras är på engelska, men även litteratur på nordiska språk finns med. Hälften av böckerna behandlar Sydafrika, resten fördelar sig på Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Moçambique, Malawi, Lesotho, Swaziland och Botswana. Bibliografin innehåller också en vägledning till vidare studier.

Encounter images in the meetings between Africa and Europe

Medarbetare: Palmberg, Mai
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2001
Ämnesord: development, Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
In 1995 the Nordic Africa Institute initiated a research project on cultural aspects of development and Nordic-African relations. One of the aims was to contribute to providing other images of Africa than the negative images of misery, war and catastrophes often conveyed by the mass media. Another was to encourage cultural aspects of change in Africa, and the dynamics of cultural production itself. It is indisputable that negative images of Africa increasingly dominate everyday reporting and therefore public opinion too. The generalised pessimistic pictures are in stark contrast to what those of us have experienced who have had the opportunity to visit Africa and work there. It was important not only to encourage alternatives to stereotypes and generalisations, which portrayed Africans as helpless victims, but also to try to understand how and why, and to what extent these images had developed. This was the theme of the first conference organised within the new project on culture, coordinated by Mai Palmberg. This research project was called "Cultural Images in and of Africa", and the seminar dealt primarily with the images of Africa developed in Europe. A selection of edited papers from this seminar is presented here.

Producing nature and poverty in Africa

Medarbetare: Broch-Due, Vigdis | Schroeder, Richard A.
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2000
Ämnesord: natural resources, poverty, Environmental management, Colonial and postcolonial interventions, Africa, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Development donors have supported thousands of environmental initiatives in Africa over the past quarter century. The contributors to this provocative new collection of essays assess these projects and conclude that environmental programmes constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention in contemporary African affairs. Drawing on case study material from eight countries, the authors demonstrate clearly that environmental programmes themselves often have direct and far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and poverty on the continent. Individual essays in the collection theorise specific forms of environmental intervention; the degree of historical discontinuity that exists between contemporary and past environmental policies and practices; the effect environmental programmes have had on localised systems of knowledge and value regimes; the strategies of accumulation that have been spun out of heavy donor and state investment in environmental programmes; and the numerous social, cultural and political-economic dislocations these initiatives have produced in African environments all across the continent.

Literature searching

Upphovsperson: Andersson, Marianne
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2011
Ämnesord: Bibliographies, Information resources, Journal indexes, Databases, Webb archives, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Contents: Bibliographic overviews -- Current bibliographies -- Literature published in Africa -- Searching for literature on the Internet -- Africa -specific databases -- Library databases -- Subject databases -- Digital archives and web portals -- Searching for journal articles

Associational life in African cities : popular responses to the urban crisis

Medarbetare: Tostensen, Arne | Tvedten, Inge | Vaa, Mariken
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2001
Ämnesord: African cities, Urban Crisis, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This book is about the multitude of associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak and abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases existing organisations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a shared ideology or religion. Still others have an ethnic base.

Migrant remittances, social inequality and restrictive immigration regimes

Upphovsperson: Åkesson, Lisa
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Globalization, Trade and Regional Integration | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2011
Ämnesord: Migrants, Remittances, Immigration, Social inequality, Cape Verde, Business and economics, Ekonomi
The case of Cape Verde shows that the relationship between remittances and inequality in migrant-sending countries depends on a number of factors. The situation is thus more complicatedthan the dominant pessimistic view of the 1970s and 1980s or today’s “development optimism” discourse. Among the factors are changes over time in the selectivity of migrants, variations in family organization and differences in impact between permanent and return migration. A policy debate about remittances and inequality needs to include immigration regimes. Migrant-sending countries can reduce the risk that remittances will exacerbate socioeconomicinequality by facilitating the use of remittances for projects that benefit local communities. Destination countries can open up possibilities for legal labour migration, especiallyfor those who are not highly educated, in order to promote, among other things, a more equal distribution of remittances.

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