Описание: Are new forms of activism emerging in Algeria? Can civil society effect political reform in the country? The violence between radical Islamists and the military in the 1990s led to huge loss of life and mass exile. The public sphere was rendered a dangerous place for over a decade. Yet in defiance of these conditions, civil society grew, with thousands of associations forming throughout the conflict.
Associations were set up to protect human rights and vulnerable populations, commemorate those assassinated and promote Algerian heritage. There are now over 93,000 associations registered across the country. Although social, economic and political turbulence continues, new networks still emerge and, since the Arab revolts of 2011, organised demonstrations increasingly take place.
Civil Society in Algeria examines these recent developments and scrutinizes the role associations play in promoting political reform and democratization in Algeria. Based on extensive fieldwork undertaken both before and after the Arab Spring, the book shows how associations challenge government policy in the public sphere. Algeria is playing an increasingly important role in the stability and future peaceful relations of the Middle East and North Africa.
This book reveals the new forms of activism that are challenging the ever-powerful state. It is a valuable resource for Algeria specialists and for scholars researching political reform and democratization across the Middle East and North Africa.
Автор: Leonid Grinin; Andrey Korotayev; Arno Tausch Название: Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy ISBN: 3319910760 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319910765 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides an in-depth analysis of public opinion patterns among Muslims, particularly in the Arab world. On the basis of data from the World Values Survey, the Arab Barometer Project and the Arab Opinion Index, it compares the dynamics of Muslim opinion structures with global publics and arrives at social scientific predictions of value changes in the region. Using country factor scores from a variety of surveys, it also develops composite indices of support for democracy and a liberal society on a global level and in the Muslim world, and analyzes a multivariate model of opinion structures in the Arab world, based on over 40 variables from 12 countries in the Arab League and covering 67% of the total population of the Arab countries. While being optimistic about the general, long-term trend towards democracy and the resilience of Arab and Muslim civil society to Islamism, the book also highlights anti-Semitic trends in the region and discusses them in the larger context of xenophobia in traditional societies. In light of the current global confrontation with radical Islamism, this book provides vital material for policy planners, academics and think tanks alike.
Автор: Berridge, Willow (university Of Newcastle Upon Tyne) Название: Hasan al-turabi ISBN: 1316632407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316632406 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A comprehensive study of the life and political thought of Sudanese Islamist scholar and politician Hasan al-Turabi, for undergraduate and graduate students studying the modern Sudanese state and Islamic government and politics in Africa and the Middle East, and journalists and policy-makers focused on core debates on democracy, Islamism and Jihad.
Автор: Cheeseman Название: Democracy in Africa ISBN: 0521191122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521191128 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and grapples with important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should promote democracy abroad, how to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why democratic governments often make bad policies.
Автор: Cheeseman Название: Democracy in Africa ISBN: 0521138426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521138420 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and grapples with important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should promote democracy abroad, how to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why democratic governments often make bad policies.
Автор: Gellar, Sheldon Название: Democracy in senegal ISBN: 1403970262 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403970268 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Providing an in-depth comparative study of democracy formation, Gellar traces Senegal`s movement from a pre-colonial aristocratic order towards a modern democratic political order.
Описание: The new edition of The Making of Modern South Africa provides a comprehensive, current introduction to the key themes and debates concerning the history of this controversial country. Engagingly written, the author provides a sharp, analytical overview of the new South Africa.
Автор: Reed, Amber R., Название: Nostalgia After Apartheid : ISBN: 0268108773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268108779 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 7524.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
In this engaging book, Amber Reed provides a new perspective on South Africa’s democracy by exploring Black residents’ nostalgia for life during apartheid in the rural Eastern Cape. Reed looks at a surprising phenomenon encountered in the post-apartheid nation: despite the Department of Education mandating curricula meant to teach values of civic responsibility and liberal democracy, those who are actually responsible for teaching this material (and the students taking it) often resist what they see as the imposition of “white” values. These teachers and students do not see South African democracy as a type of freedom, but rather as destructive of their own “African culture”—whereas apartheid, at least ostensibly, allowed for cultural expression in the former rural homelands. In the Eastern Cape, Reed observes, resistance to democracy occurs alongside nostalgia for apartheid among the very citizens who were most disenfranchised by the late racist, authoritarian regime. Examining a rural town in the former Transkei homeland and the urban offices of the Sonke Gender Justice Network in Cape Town, Reed argues that nostalgic memories of a time when African culture was not under attack, combined with the socioeconomic failures of the post-apartheid state, set the stage for the current political ambivalence in South Africa. Beyond simply being a case study, however, Nostalgia after Apartheid shows how, in a global context in which nationalism and authoritarianism continue to rise, the threat posed to democracy in South Africa has far wider implications for thinking about enactments of democracy.
Nostalgia after Apartheid offers a unique approach to understanding how the attempted post-apartheid reforms have failed rural Black South Africans, and how this failure has led to a nostalgia for the very conditions that once oppressed them. It will interest scholars of African studies, postcolonial studies, anthropology, and education, as well as general readers interested in South African history and politics.
Описание: Despite being one of the world`s most vibrant democracies, vigilantism is regularly practiced in South Africa. Based on twenty months of field work, Contradictions of Democracy shows why, explores what South Africa reveals about vigilantism in other democracies, and uses vigilantism to explore the contradictions of democracy more generally.
Автор: Dorothea E. Schulz Название: Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali ISBN: 184701268X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847012685 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An innovative examination of our understanding of political legitimacy in Mali, and its wider implications for democratization and political modernity in the Global South.
Описание: The comparative study demonstrates that competitive opposition parties in dominant party systems are rooted in the historical legacy of political cleavages related to de-colonization that precede the third wave of democratization of the 1990s and have survived the instability of post-independence political developments to the present day.
Автор: Julian Brown Название: Marikana: A People`s History ISBN: 1847012841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847012845 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In-depth account of the Marikana massacre, based on the voices of the miners and their families themselves, from the build up to the strike to attempts to hold the state to account and its lasting significance. Jacana: Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana).
ООО "Логосфера " Тел:+7(495) 980-12-10 www.logobook.ru
