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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.
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
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
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
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
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
CHAPTER NINE -- Tragedy, loss, finality; Life by proxy; Terror and ennui; Conclusion: the scythe of finality; Endnotes; Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
Oxford : Africa Institute of South Africa,c2014