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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Social Contract in Africa
  name:
    name part: Osha, Sanya.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (v, 182 pages)
  abstract: This book employs the event of the Arab Spring revolution of 2011 to reflect on the event itself and beyond. Some of the chapters address the colonial encounter and its lingering reverberations on the African sociopolitical landscape. Others address the aftermath of large scale societal violence and trauma that pervade the African context. The contributions indicate the range of challenges confronting African societies in the postmodern era. They also illustrate the sheer resilience and inventiveness of those societies in the face of apparently overwhelming odds. What is the nature of political power in contemporary Africa as constituted from below instead of being a state driven phenomenon? What constitutes sovereignty without recourse to the usual academic responses and discourses? These two questions loom behind most of the deliberations contained in this book with contributions from an impressive field of international scholars.
  table of contents: CHAPTER ONE -- Transnationalisation, denationalisation and deterritorialisation: contemporary cultures in the context of globalisation; Small world, big space; States, borderlessness and power; Globalised connectivities; Religious traditions and forces; Women and the palavers of culture; Concluding remarks; Endnotes; CHAPTER TWO -- African relational democracy: reframing diversity, economic development and society-centered governance for the twenty-first century; Introduction
  table of contents: Procedural and relational democracy; Rethinking the democratic project in Africa; Some perspectives on Western democracy and its implications for the democracy project of Africa; Looking for reasons to fill the democracy lacuna in Africa: economics, oil and rentier politics; Ethnic fragmentation, diversity and civil society; Reframing African relational democracy; Conclusion; Endnotes; CHAPTER THREE -- European 'Democracy Promotion': dynamic versus passive revolution in the Arab Spring; Defining democracy; Greece as Tunisia?; Democracy and neocolonialism; A rebellion of the poor; Crisis
  table of contents: Descent from democracyEndnotes; CHAPTER FOUR -- Arab Spring: implications for South Africa and Swaziland; Introduction; The sociopolitical and economic situations in Swaziland and South Africa; Prospects for Arab Spring-style uprisings in Swaziland and South Africa; Averting the Arab Spring; Conclusion; Endnotes; CHAPTER FIVE -- No longer with the bourgeoisie: fanonian considerations on social movements and forms of organisation; The snare of history; The party's over; The imminent second liberation; The rationality of revolt; The absence of ideology?; Problematic intellectuals
  table of contents: The militant and the problem of time; Subverting place; Endnotes; CHAPTER SIX -- What is beyond discourses of alterity? Reflections on the constitution of the present and construction of African subjectivity; Introduction; The constitution of the present; The construction and representation of African subjectivity; Global coloniality and Africa; Conclusion; Endnotes; CHAPTER SEVEN -- Literature as political critique in Nigeria: mobilisation, dialogue and indictment; Introduction; Mobilisation and the spirit of a generation; A tripartite dialogue; Indicting the oppressor; Conclusion; Endnotes
  table of contents: CHAPTER EIGHT -- Violent ethno-communual conflictsas a legacy of indirect rule in Africa: understanding the Jesse-Urhobo-Benin-Edo land conflicts of 1998; Introduction; Administration of the multi-ethnic Benin City District 1897-1914; Lugardian indirect rule, forestry and 'native foreign' migrants; The creation of Jesse District; Administration of Jesse District and the politics of transfer to Urhobo Division and Warri Division; The transfer of Jesse District to Warri Province; The 1998 Idjerhe-Urhobo and Benin-Edo violent conflict over the land of Iguelaba; Conclusion; Endnotes
  table of contents: CHAPTER NINE -- Tragedy, loss, finality; Life by proxy; Terror and ennui; Conclusion: the scythe of finality; Endnotes; Conclusion.
  note: [edited by Sanya Osha].
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social contract
  subject:
    topic: Arab Spring, 2010-
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Civil society
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Political violence
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference
  classification: JC336 .S63 2014eb
  classification: 320.11096
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Social Contract in Africa
    name:
      name part: Osha, Sanya
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Africa Institute of South Africa,c2014
  identifier: 9780798304450 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0798304456 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 140712
    record change date: 20250816204805.1
    record identifier: in00003505583
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng