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  • 1
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    Civic Agency in Africa : arts of resistance in the 21st century (2014)
    Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer
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    ISBN: 9781847010865
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (258 S.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Obadare, Ebenezer Civic agency in Africa
    DDC: 258
    RVK:
    LB 51465
    RVK:
    MI 10075
    Keywords: Social conflict -- Africa -- History -- 21st century ; Social classes -- Africa -- History -- 21st century ; Africa -- History -- 21st century ; Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Nordafrika ; Mittlerer Osten ; Zivilcourage ; Protest ; Politische Kunst
    Abstract: Examines the variety of mostly unorganized and informal ways in which Africans exercise agency and resist state power in the 21st century, through citizen action and popular culture, and how the relationship between ruler and ruled is being reframed
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Overcoming Socio-Economic Marginalisation: Young West African Hustlers & the Reinvention of Global Capitalism6 Accepting Authoritarianism? Everyday Resistance as Political Consciousness in Post-Genocide Rwanda; Part III: Popular Culture as Discursive Forms of Resistance; 7 Participatory Politics in South Africa: Social Commentary from Above & Resistance from Below; 8 Laughing at the Rainbow's Cracks? Blackness, Whiteness & the Ambivalences of South African Stand-Up Comedy; 9 'Beasts of No Nation': Resistance & Civic Activism in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Music
    Description / Table of Contents: Frontcover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword by Patrick Chabal; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: African Resistance in an Age of Fractured Sovereignty; Part I: PostcolonIal State Formation & Parallel Infrastructures; 2 Global Technologies of Domination: From Colonial Encounters to the Arab Spring; 3 Citizenship from Below: The Politics of Citizen Action & Resistance in South Africa & Angola; Part II: Embodied Modes of Resistance & the PostcolonIal State; 4 The Politics of Confinement & Mobility: Informality, Relocations & Urban Re-making from Above & Below in Nairobi
    Description / Table of Contents: Part IV: Publics as Everyday Sites of Resistance10 The Power of Resonance: Music, Local Radio Stations & the Sounds of Cultural Belonging in Mali; 11 Narrating the Contested Public Sphere: Zapiro, Zuma & Freedom of Expression in South Africa; Index; Backcover
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  • 2
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    Excitable Speech : A Politics of the Performative (2013)
    New York : Routledge,Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780203948682
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 196 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Butler, Judith, 1956 - Excitable speech
    DDC: 302.2242
    RVK:
    MS 2850
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    MB 3500
    RVK:
    HF 331
    RVK:
    ER 990
    RVK:
    ER 965
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    CI 6388
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Diskriminierung ; Sprechakt ; Performanz ; Verbalaggression ; Politische Rede ; Streitgespräch ; Beleidigung ; Beschimpfung ; Sprechakt ; Politische Kommunikation ; Verbalaggression ; Politische Sprache ; Sprachverhalten ; Englisch ; Gefühlsausdruck
    Abstract: With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction On Linguistic Vulnerability; 1/ Burning Acts, Injurious Speech; 2/ Sovereign Performatives; 3/ Contagious Word: Paranoia and "Homosexuality" in the Military; 4/ Implicit Censorship and Discursive Agency; Notes; Index
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  • 3
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    Is violence inevitable in Africa? : theories of conflict and approaches to conflict prevention (2005)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9781433704727 , 1429453435 , 9781429453431
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: African-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies 1
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Is violence inevitable in Africa?
    DDC: 303.6/4/096
    RVK:
    MI 10096
    RVK:
    MR 5300
    Keywords: Political violence Prevention ; Political violence ; Conflict management ; Africa ; Politics and government ; 1960- ; Conflict management ; Africa ; Political violence ; Africa ; Prevention ; Political violence ; Africa ; Electronic books ; Afrika südlich der Sahara Innerstaatlicher Konflikt ; Konfliktmanagement ; Konfliktlösung ; Konfliktprävention ; Konfliktursachen/Konfliktanlass ; Fallstudie ; Angola ; Kongo (Kinshasa) ; Mali ; Demokratisierung Dezentralisierung ; Ethnizität ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Ressourcenkonflikt ; Africa Politics and government 1960- ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Gewalt ; Politischer Konflikt ; Konfliktvermeidung ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Gewalt ; Politik ; Konfliktvermeidung
    Abstract: This volume brings together a wide range of international experts to analyse the causes of violent conflict in Africa, to review the various approaches to conflict prevention and conflict resolution and to discuss some of the practical difficulties in ending violence.
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Introduction Violence, Power and Rationality: A Political Analysis of Conflict in Contemporary Africa (Patrick Chabal) -- PART ONE EXPLAINING CONFLICT AND UNDERSTANDING CONFLICT PREVENTION IN AFRICA -- 1. Angola and the Theory of War (Christopher Cramer) -- 2. Ethnicity and Citizenship in Sub Saharan Africa (Anna-Maria Gentili) -- 3. Natural Resources, Scarcity and Conflict: A Perspective from Below (Mirjam de Bruijn & Han van Dijk) -- 4. Empirical Perspectives on African Conflict Resolution (Klaas van Walraven) -- 5. Area Studies, the Analysis of Conflicts and the Evaluation of Preventive Practice in Africa (Andreas Mehler) -- PART TWO MANAGING CONFLICT AND IMPLEMENTING CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN AFRICA -- 6. The Social Cost of Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Theodore Trefon) -- 7. Assessing Africa's Two-Phase Peace Implementation Process: Power-sharing and Democratization (Donald Rothchild) -- 8. Administrative Decentralization and Political Conflict in Mali (Gerti Hesseling & Han van Dijk) -- 9. Principles for Conflict Transformation: Practitioners in Africa (Shamil Idriss) -- Conclusion Violent Conflict and Conflict Prevention in Africa: An Alternative Research Agenda (Ulf Engel) -- List of Contributors -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Violence, power and rationality: a political analysis of conflict in contemporary Africa , Angola and the theory of war , Ethnicity and citizenship in Sub Saharan Africa , Natural resources, scarcity and conflict: a perspective from below , Empirical perspectives on African conflict resolution , Area studies, the analysis of conflicts and the evaluation of preventive practice in Africa , The social cost of conflict in the Democratic Republic of CongoTheodore TrefonAssessing Africa's two-phase peace implementation process: power-sharing and democratization , Administrative decentralization and political conflict in Mali , Principles for conflict transformation: practitioners in Africa , Violent conflict and conflict prevention in Africa
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