Description
African Politics: Critical and Primary Sources is an indispensable reference collection focusing on the most important contributions in the field of African politics. Bringing together high-quality essays drawn from over half a century of journal articles, book chapters, and historical documents, supported by introductory essays, this reference work provides the essential foundation for scholars and students to engage with the field of African politics and a core reference for the launching of their own research.
The four-volume collection covers a wide set of perspectives, problematics, and approaches within the field of African politics. The collection covers essential (English language and translated) works generated by scholars and practitioners from Africa, Europe, and North America. Reflecting an eclectic understanding of the sources that have contributed to the development of African politics as a field of study, the essays are drawn from a wide range of disciplines, including Anthropology, Economics, Sociology, and Religious Studies. Likewise, the essays reflect the broad ideological, philosophical, and theoretical streams that have informed scholarship on African politics.
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Part I: Pre-Colonial and Colonial Legacies
Introduction
The Pre-colonial Legacy
1. The internal African frontier: The making of African political culture, Igor Kopytoff
The Colonial Legacy
2. The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa, Terrence Ranger
3. Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement, Peter Ekeh
4. On the Size and Shape of African States, Elliott Green
Part II: Identity and Politics
Introduction
Ethnicity
5. Explaining Ethnic Political Participation, Nelson Kasfir
6. The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi, Daniel Posner
Social Class
7. The Nature of Class Domination in Africa, Richard L. Sklar
8. Class Formation in the Swollen African State, Larry Diamond
Gender
9. Introduction to African Feminism, Gwendolyn Mikell
Religion
10. Africa and Christianity on the Threshold of the Third Millennium: The Religious Dimension, Kwame Bediako
11. Men and Devils, Stephen Ellis
Nationalism and Pan-Africanism
12. The Rise of African Nationalism: The Case of East and Central Africa, Robert Rotberg
13. I Am an African, Thabo Mbeki
Index
Volume 2
Part III: The Practice of Power
Introduction
The Post-Colonial State
14. Provisional Notes on the Postcolony, Achille Mbembe
15. The Recurrent Crises of the Gatekeeper State, Frederick Cooper
Patronage, Clientalism and Neopatrimonialism
16. Clientelism and prebendal politics, Richard Joseph
17. It's Our Time to "Chop": Do Elections in Africa Feed Neo-Patrimonialism Rather Than Counteract It?, Staffan Lindberg
18. Rethinking Patrimonialism and Neopatrimonialism in Africa, Anne Pitcher, Mary Moran, and Michael Johnston
Civil Society
19. Beyond the State: Civil Society and Associational Life in Africa, Michael Bratton
20. Civil Society and Public Sphere: The New Stakeholders, Celestin Monga
Political Regimes: Authoritarianism to Democracy
21. Personal Rule: Theory and Practice in Africa, Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg
22. Explaining Democratic Transitions, Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle
23. Representations of Power, Michael Schatzberg
24. The Distinctive Political Logic of Weak States, William Reno
25. Museveni's Uganda in Comparative Context, Aili Mari Tripp
Index
Volume 3
Part IV: The Political Economy of Stagnation and Development
Introduction
Historical factors
26. Underdevelopment and Dependence in Black Africa: Origins and Contemporary Forms, Samir Amin
Structural factors
27. Resource Wealth and Political Regimes in Africa, Nathan Jensen and Leonard Wantchekon
Societal factors
28. The State and Economic Stagnation in Tropical Africa, Richard Sandbrook
Aid, Adjustment and International Financial Institutions
29. The Structural Adjustment of Politics in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst
30. Aid and Sovereignty: Quasi-States and the International Financial Institutions, David Williams
31. Debt and Aid: Righting the Incentives, David Leonard and Scott Straus
Renaissance and Renewal?
32. How to Rebuild Africa, Stephen Ellis
33. New African Initiative, Henning Melber
Index
Volume 4
Part V: Conflict and Security
Introduction
34. Evolving Warfare, William Reno
35. War and the State in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst
36. African Guerrilla Politics: Raging Against the Machine?, Morten Boas and Kevin Dunn
37. How "New" Are "New Wars"? Global Economic Change and the Study of Civil War, Mats Berdal
38. Bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts, Mats Utas
Part VI: African International Relations
Introduction
39. Understanding Africa's Place in World Politics, Ian Taylor and Paul Williams
40. Why Africa's Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood, Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg
41. Globalizing Africa? Observations from an Inconvenient Continent, James Ferguson
Appendix of Sources
Bibliography
Index
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