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African Conflicts and Conflicts Drivers : Uganda, Congo and the Mano River

Upphovsperson: Bøås, Morten
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Conflict, Displacement and Transformation |
År: 2008
Ämnesord:
<p><em>The Lecture Series on African Security</em> is a joint collaboration between the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI). The first round of lectures was conducted in 2008. The lectures revolve around core themes in African security studies and case studies from contemporary Africa, and they are presented by highly renowned international and national experts on Africa. While the primary audience is the analysts and researchers at FOI and NAI, a select number of participants are also invited from the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), the Ministries for Foreign Affairs and Defence, the Swedish Rescue Services Agency (MSB), the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF), the National Defence College (FHS), and the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA).</p>

Suprastructure : A photo exhibition

Upphovspersoner: Trovalla, Ulrika | Trovalla, Erik
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Urban Dynamics |
År: 2013
Ämnesord: photo exhibition, photos, Jos, Nigeria
The photo exhibition ’Suprastructure’ was first displayed at Museum Gustavianum in Uppsala between 17 November 2012 and 5 March 2013. It was digitally published in March 2013 as part of a research project entitled ‘Infrastructure as Divination: Urban Life in the Postcolony,’ financed by the Swedish Research Council. The scholars behind the exhibition, Ulrika and Erik Trovalla, are researchers in cultural anthropology and ethnology. They are based at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, and Uppsala University. Drawing on their photographs from the million city Jos in central Nigeria, they here give a glimpse of their research into the meanings of infrastructure in everyday life.

Jipemoyo

Upphovsperson: Donner, Philip
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Helsinki, Finland : Bagamoyo Project. Institute of Development Studies; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1980
Ämnesord:
<p>Contents: Marja-Liisa Swantz: <em>Western Bagamoyo as an Area for Culture Research</em>, B.K.S. Kiyenze: <em>Cultural Research and Socialist Development: The experience of the Jipemoyo Project</em>, Helena Jerman: <em>Some Aspects of Ethnic Terminology Encountered in a Study on Ethnic and National Identity in Western Bagamoyo District, Tanzania</em>, Kemal Mustafa, Melkori Matwi and Jonas Reuben: <em>A Preliminary Survey of Pastoralist Development in Mindu Tulieni Village,</em> Philip Donner: <em>Music Forms in Tanzania and their Socio-Economic Base</em>, Ulla Vuorela: <em>An Introduction to the Jipemoyo Projects Archives</em></p>

Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa : The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments

Medarbetare: Cheru, Fantu | Modi, Renu
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet; Zed Books
År: 2013
Ämnesord: Agricultural development, Food supply, Food security, Foreign investment, Direct investment, international economic relations, Agrarian reform, Pastoralists, South south relations, Africa, China, India, Brazil
The subject of food security and land issues in Africa has become one of increased importance and contention over recent years. In particular, the focus has shifted to the role new Global South donors - in particular India, China and Brazil - are playing in shaping African agriculture through their increased involvement and investment in the continent. Approaching the topic through the framework of South-South co-operation (SSC), this highly original volume presents a critical analysis of the ways in which Chinese, Indian and Brazilian engagements in African agriculture are structured and implemented. Do these investments have the potential to create new opportunities to improve local living standards, transfer new technology and knowhow to African producers, and reverse the persistent productivity decline in African agriculture? Or will they simply aggravate the problem of food insecurity by accelerating the process of land alienation and displacement of local people from their land? Topical and comprehensive, ‘Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa’ offers fresh insight into a set of relationships that will shape both Africa and the world over the coming decades.

Displacements in the name of (re)development: the contested rise and contested demise of colonial 'African' housing estates in Kampala and Jinja

Upphovsperson: Byerley, Andrew
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Urban Dynamics |
År: 2013
Ämnesord: developmentalism, redevelopmentalism, Uganda, colonial and post-colonial planning
This paper examines historical and contemporary processes of urban (re-)development and displacement in Uganda. Particular focus concerns the often conflicting strategies employed by urban managers and residents to plan, govern and live in both the late-colonial and early twenty-first century city. Both eras can be considered significant, even momentous, for the prominence of strategic projects of socio-spatial urban reconfiguration that incorporate(d) powerful discourses fusing land and housing development with societal progress and national development. The former project putatively centred on orchestrating African development and welfare, the latter on the more ambiguous project of re-development. The ‘Good City’ and the ‘Good Citizen’ are used as heuristic devices to examine the planning ideals and rationalities that inform(ed) these projects and the conflict of rationalities they provoke(d), particularly in terms of competing visions of the good city and good citizen. The paper emphasizes that current projects of redevelopmentalism do not take place in politically inert or historically benign space. Rather, it is shown how historical and place-based specificities articulate with and mediate the process of redevelopmentalism in Kampala and Jinja.

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