4 книги
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The Ghanaian Factory Worker: Industrial Man in Africa (African Studies) Margaret Peil
ISBN: 0521100224 Год издания: 2009 Язык: Английский This book surveys the field of industrialisation in Ghana and its effects through such other factors as migration. It provides a valuable comparison both with industrialisation elsewhere and with other aspects of African social life.
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Tropical Gangsters : One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest Africa Роберт Клитгаард
Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review , this is a compelling and entertaining account of the author's two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small bankrupt African nation on the path of structural development.
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Necropolitics Achille Mbembe
ISBN: 978-1478006510 Издательство: Duke University Press Books РазвернутьIn Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side---what he calls its “nocturnal body”---which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism. This shift has hollowed out democracy, thereby eroding the very values, rights, and freedoms liberal democracy routinely…
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The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics Samuel E. Finer
ISBN: 0-7658-0922-2 Год издания: 2002 Издательство: Transaction Publishers РазвернутьThe role of the military in a society raises a number of How much separation should there be between a civil government and its army? Should the military be totally subordinate to the polity? Or should the armed forces be allowed autonomy in order to provide national security? Recently, the dangers of military dictatorships-as have existed in countries like Panama, Chile, and Argentina-have become evident. However, developing countries often lack the administrative ability and societal unity to keep the state functioning in an orderly and economically feasible manner without military intervention.Societies, of course, have dealt with the…
