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Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring
within and between African states, and the international system
since the turn of the century. Frederick Cooper's model of
'gatekeeper states' - shaped as much by their international links
as by their domestic practices - provides the basis for the
contributors' thinking about international relations in Africa and
the wider international system. The chapters explore the political
implications of Africa's new relations with the old super-powers,
former colonial powers, and the emerging powers from the South.
These new relationships reflect and affect changing technology,
infrastructure, and resource flows within and between African
states. Drawing on both rich empirical cases and theoretical
approaches, the book interrogates the implications of these changes
on how we think about states and state systems. Exploring the
impact of changing technology, finance, and resources on African
politics, Beyond the Gatekeeper State will be of great interest to
scholars of African Politics and International Relations (IR), as
well as African Studies, IR, and the politics of the Global South
more broadly. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Third World Thematics.
Zimbabwe's recent history has been shaped by battles about who
speaks for the nation, one fought out in struggles for control of
political institutions, the media, and civil society. In her book
Sara Rich Dorman examines the interactions of social groups -
churches, NGOs, and political parties - from the liberation
struggle, through the independence decades, as they engaged the
state and ruling party. Her empirically rich account reveals how
strategies of control and co-option were replicated and resisted,
shaping expectations and behaviour. Dorman tracks how the
relationship between Mugabe's ruling party and activists was
determined by the liberation struggle, explaining how electoral
machinery, the judiciary, and other institutions of state control
ensured ZANU-PF hegemony, even as other forces in Zimbabwean
society demanded accountability and representation.This is a story
of ambiguity and complexity in which the state and civil society
mimic and learn from each other. We learn how both structural and
direct violence are deployed by the regime, but also how ad-hoc and
unplanned many of their interventions really were.Even as the
liberation war generation reluctantly exits the Zimbabwean
political stage, their influence continues to shape interaction
between citizens and the state.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. They are the things we
step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They
are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating misery. They
are grouped with plants, but they behave more like animals. In
their inscrutability, mushrooms are wondrous organisms. The
mushroom is an ordinary object whose encounters with humans are
usually limited to a couple of species prepackaged at the grocery
store. This book offers mushrooms as much more than a pasta
ingredient or trendy coffee alternative. It presents these objects
as the firmament for life as we know it, enablers of mystical
traditions, menders of minds lost to depression. But it
acknowledges, too, that this firmament only exists because of death
and rot. Rummaging through philosophical, literary, medical ,
ecological , and anthropological texts only serves to confirm what
the average forager already knows: that mushrooms are to be
regarded with a reverence deserving of only the most powerful
entities: those who create and destroy, and thrive on both. Object
Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The
Atlantic.
Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to
feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book represents
a radical departure from traditional scholarship on maritime
archaeology. Shipwreck Hauntography asserts that nautical
archaeology bears the legacy of Early Modern theological
imperialism, most evident through the savior-scholar model that
resurrects-physically or virtually-ships from wrecks. Instead of
construing shipwrecks as dead, awaiting resurrection from the
seafloor, this book presents them as vibrant if not recalcitrant
objects, having shaken off anthropogenesis through varying stages
of ruination. Sara Rich illustrates this anarchic condition with
'hauntographs' of five Age of 'Discovery' shipwrecks, each of which
elucidates the wonder of failure and finitude, alongside an
intimate brush with the eerie, horrific, and uncanny.
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Mentally Diseased (Paperback)
Moses Montgomery; Contributions by Sara Riches; Micah Allen Losh
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R258
Discovery Miles 2 580
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Ten international visual and literary storytellers have come
together in Belgium to share their perceptions of strangeness. This
concept can be broadly interpreted to mean marginalization, whether
personally, socially, or politically imposed. As such, each work
challenges commonly accepted individual and artistic boundaries --
genres and grenzen -- contributing to the uniqueness of this
diverse gathering. We invite you to turn these pages and welcome
you to join us in this omnium gatherum.
This bedtime adventure story chronicles the nightly travels of a
young dreamer, who experiences "such strange and wonderful things."
The dreamer circles through space and time, enjoying the sights,
sounds, and impossibilities of fantasy. Even after all the
dreamer's enchanting journeys, the child's travels are only
completed upon waking up, safe and sound, in the familiar
surroundings of home. The book is structured so that each page can
be read as an independent story, or they can all be read together.
Anything but standard fare, the unusual illustration style adds to
the surreal quality of the stories, sure to inspire colorful dreams
in children and bedtime storytellers alike.
While terrestrial archaeology has engaged with contemporary
philosophy, maritime archaeology has remained in comparative
disciplinary – or subdisciplinary – isolation. However, the
issues that humans face in the Anthropocene – from global warming
to global pandemics – call for transdisciplinary cooperation, and
for thinking together beyond the confines of the human-centered
philosophical tradition. Growing areas such as the “blue
humanities” and “oceanic thinking” draw directly on our
maritime past, even as they ponder the future. Theoretically
engaged maritime archaeologists could contribute significantly to
these areas of thought, as this volume demonstrates. The essays
collected here serve as jumping off point, which opens new ways for
maritime archaeologists to engage with the most important problems
of our time and to benefit from the new insights offered by
object-oriented and flat ontologies. The book gathers the
analytical thinking of archaeologists, philosophers, marine
biologists, and media theorists, and pushes those observations deep
into the maritime realm. The contributions then branch out, like
tentacles or corals, reaching into the lessons of oil spills,
cephalopod hideouts, shipwreck literature, ruined monuments, and
beached plastics. The volume concludes with a series of critical
responses to these papers, which pushes the dialogue into new areas
of inquiry. Taken as a whole, the volume emphasizes that the study
of the past is more relevant than ever because serious
consideration of our watery world and all its inhabitants is
increasingly necessary for our collective survival. This volume
takes the first steps toward this reckoning and, as such, it
promises to be an important new contribution to lecture and
conference halls around the world where oceans and the Anthropocene
are under study.
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