Search Results - "Africanization"

Global Faulkner Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006 /

Table of Contents: “…/ Elizabeth Steeby -- Fear of a black Atlantic? African passages in Absalom, Absalom! and The last slaver / Jeff Karem -- Faulkner and me / Tierno Monénembo.…”
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Diasporas in conflict peace-makers or peace-wreckers? /

Table of Contents: “…Christine Fair -- Kurdish interventions in the Iraq war / Denise Natali -- The mobilized Croatian diaspora: its role in homeland politics and war / Zlatko Skrbis -- African diasporas and post-conflict reconstruction: an Eritrean case study / Khalid Koser -- Political remittance: Cambodian diasporas in conflict and post conflict / Khatharya Um.…”
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Globalization and challenges to building peace

Table of Contents: “…-- Beyond criminal justice : promoting the rule of law in post-conflict societies -- Peace by pact : data on the implementation of peace agreements -- Refugee repatriation as a necessary condition for peace -- Catapulting conflicts or propelling peace : diasporas and civil wars -- UN peace operations as norm entrepreneurs : the challenge of achieving communicative action on human rights -- To practice what they preach : international transitional administrations and the paradox of norm promotion -- Re-examining the roots of war in West Africa in a globalizing world -- The African Union (AU) and its commitment to non-indifference : can the AU be an actor for the promotion of human security? …”
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Global Faulkner Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006 /

Table of Contents: “…/ Elizabeth Steeby -- Fear of a black Atlantic? African passages in Absalom, Absalom! and The last slaver / Jeff Karem -- Faulkner and me / Tierno Monénembo.…”
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Diasporas in conflict peace-makers or peace-wreckers? /

Table of Contents: “…Christine Fair -- Kurdish interventions in the Iraq war / Denise Natali -- The mobilized Croatian diaspora: its role in homeland politics and war / Zlatko Skrbis -- African diasporas and post-conflict reconstruction: an Eritrean case study / Khalid Koser -- Political remittance: Cambodian diasporas in conflict and post conflict / Khatharya Um.…”
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Globalization and challenges to building peace

Table of Contents: “…-- Beyond criminal justice : promoting the rule of law in post-conflict societies -- Peace by pact : data on the implementation of peace agreements -- Refugee repatriation as a necessary condition for peace -- Catapulting conflicts or propelling peace : diasporas and civil wars -- UN peace operations as norm entrepreneurs : the challenge of achieving communicative action on human rights -- To practice what they preach : international transitional administrations and the paradox of norm promotion -- Re-examining the roots of war in West Africa in a globalizing world -- The African Union (AU) and its commitment to non-indifference : can the AU be an actor for the promotion of human security? …”
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Doris Lessing : Interrogating the Times /

Table of Contents: “…: the relationship between why and how Lessing writes / Alice Ridout -- London and Kabul : assessing the politics of terrorist violence / Sandra Singer -- The porous border between fact and fiction, empathy and identification in Doris Lessing's The cleft / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis -- love, again and The sweetest dream : fiction and interleaved fictions / Virginia Tiger -- Writing in a minor key : Doris Lessing's late-twentieth-century fiction / Susan Watkins -- Domestic spaces : huts and houses in Doris Lessing's African stories / Pat Louw -- The challenge of teaching Doris Lessing's The golden notebook in the twenty-first century / Suzette Henke -- Sex after sixty : love, again and The sweetest dream / Ruth O. …”
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The Imaginary and Its Worlds : American Studies after the Transnational Turn /

Table of Contents: “…William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. …”
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Change Management in TVET Colleges : Lessons Learnt from the Field of Practice /

Table of Contents: “…Throwing good money after bad : barriers South African vocational teachers experience in becoming competent educators / Ronel Blom -- 4. …”
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Democracy and elections in Africa by Lindberg, Staffan I., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…; On regimes ; On elections and democracy ; Preindependence and postindependence elections in African nations ; Contemporary Africa's track record ; Outline of the book -- On democracy and elections. …”
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Locating the field space, place and context in anthropology /

Table of Contents: “…Studying down, up, sideways, through, backwards, forwards, away and at home : reflections on the field worries of an expansive discipline / Ulf Hannerz -- Beyond the verandah : fieldwork, locality and the production of knowledge in a South African city / Leslie Bank -- Fieldwork on foot : perceiving, routing, socializing / Jo Lee and Tim Ingold -- Rendering and gendering mobile subjects in a globalized world of mountaineering : between localizing ethnography and global spaces / Susan Frohlick -- Post-diasporic Indian communities : a new generation / Anjoom Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani -- The Internet, cybercafés and the new social spaces of Bangalorean youth / Nicholas Nisbett -- Out of proportion? …”
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The origins of capitalism and the "rise of the West" by Mielants, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Perspectives on the origins of merchant capitalism in Europe -- Orthodox Marxism -- Brennerism (or the Brenner approach) -- The modernization theory -- World-systems analysis -- The inter-city-state system of the Middle Ages -- Tentative conclusions -- The political economies of China and Europe compared -- The Chinese socioeconomic revolution during the Sung dynasty (circa 900-1280) -- China and the Mongols -- Ming China and Europe : divergent paths -- Conclusions vis-á-vis European capitalism -- The political economies of South Asia and Europe compared -- Trade and commodity flows in the South Asian region -- States and state structures in South Asia -- The strategies of elites in South Asia and Europe -- The impact of the perilous frontier -- Conclusions -- The political economies of Western Europe and Northern Africa compared -- Northern Africa and the Sudanic states (circa 1200-1500) -- North African cities, states, and the balance of power in the Mediterranean -- Conclusions -- Conclusion : Was the Western-European city-state in the Middle Ages a European miracle?…”
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Ending Africa's wars progressing to peace /

Table of Contents: “…/ Gerry Cleaver and Simon Massey -- A long prelude to peace : African involvement in ending Burundi's war / Roger Southall -- A sustainable peace? …”
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Doris Lessing : Interrogating the Times /

Table of Contents: “…: the relationship between why and how Lessing writes / Alice Ridout -- London and Kabul : assessing the politics of terrorist violence / Sandra Singer -- The porous border between fact and fiction, empathy and identification in Doris Lessing's The cleft / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis -- love, again and The sweetest dream : fiction and interleaved fictions / Virginia Tiger -- Writing in a minor key : Doris Lessing's late-twentieth-century fiction / Susan Watkins -- Domestic spaces : huts and houses in Doris Lessing's African stories / Pat Louw -- The challenge of teaching Doris Lessing's The golden notebook in the twenty-first century / Suzette Henke -- Sex after sixty : love, again and The sweetest dream / Ruth O. …”
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The Imaginary and Its Worlds : American Studies after the Transnational Turn /

Table of Contents: “…William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. …”
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Change Management in TVET Colleges : Lessons Learnt from the Field of Practice /

Table of Contents: “…Throwing good money after bad : barriers South African vocational teachers experience in becoming competent educators / Ronel Blom -- 4. …”
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Moolaade how teenage girls see themselves /

Table of Contents: “…Sembene has made a masterpiece, both a critique of traditional forms of authority and a celebration of the warmth and dynamism of African village life.…”

Writing and cultural influence studies in rhetorical history, orientalist discourse, and post-colonial criticism / by Ezzaher, Lahcen E., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The Colonial Subject Speaks Back: Chinua Achebe's Critique of Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- The Colonial Encounter in Heart of Darkness -- Chinua Achebe's Critique of Heart of Darkness -- Arrow of God: An African Counter-Narrative -- Ch. 5. Writing in Exile: Constructing Audiences and Identities in Foreign Lands -- Manoucher Parvin's Cry for My Revolution, Iran -- Hala Deeb Jabbour's A Woman of Nazareth -- Taghi Modarressi's The Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette -- Marwan Hassan's The Confusion of Stones.…”
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Hispania in late antiquity current perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Menéndez-Bueyes -- "Walls in the urban landscape of late Roman Spain : defense and imperial strategy" / Carmen Fernández-Ochoa and Angel Morillo -- Spain and the African provinces in late antiquity / Javier Arce -- "Hispania in the later Roman Mediterranean : ceramics and trade" / Paul Reynolds -- "Coinage, iconography, and the changing political geography of fifth-century Hispania" / Fernando López Sánchez -- "Villas in Hispania during the fourth and fifth centuries" / Alexandra Chavarría Arnau.…”
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Slavery & South Asian history

Table of Contents: “…Fisher -- Bharattee's death : domestic slave-women in nineteenth-century Madras / Sylvia Vatuk -- Slaves or soldiers? African conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857-1860 / Timothy Walker -- Indian Muslim modernists and the issue of slavery in Islam / Avril A. …”
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