African Studies

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Before Before

A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone

By Betsy Small
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Political Science, Human Rights
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reflecting on how building connections with others is necessary for humanity’s survival

Peace, Preference, and Property

Return Migration after Violent Conflict

By Sandra F Joireman
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Human Rights, African Studies

A bottom-up analysis of what displaced people need rather than what states want

Power / Knowledge / Land

Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa

By Laura German
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Governance
Series: African Perspectives

Explores contested truths surrounding land governance in Africa and beyond

Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency

The Routes of Terror in an African Context

By Daniel E Agbiboa
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Urban Politics

Mobility as the driving force of armed conflict

Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

Notes on the Social Production of Cities

By Mahbub Rashid
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy, Political History, African Studies

The conscious construction of urban space

Shaping the Future of Power

Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations

By Lina Benabdallah
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory, African Studies, Asian Studies, China

Probes the power mechanisms that build, diffuse, and project China’s power in Africa

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

By Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History
Series: African Perspectives

Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon

Mugabe

A Life of Power and Violence

New Edition, New in Paperback

By Stephen Chan
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, African Studies

A revised edition of the classic biography of one of Africa’s most polarizing political leaders

Developing States, Shaping Citizenship

Service Delivery and Political Participation in Zambia

By Erin Hern
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: African Perspectives

In fledgling democracies marked by patronage, ethnic politics, and elite capture, what motivates citizens to participate in politics?

Archiving Sovereignty

Law, History, Violence

By Stewart Motha
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Asian Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An account of how courts repeat historical fictions that maintain sources of sovereign power.

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

Researching Black Communities

A Methodological Guide

Edited by James S. Jackson, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, and Sherrill L Sellers
Subjects: Psychology, Political Science, Political Methodology, African Studies, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies

Practical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations

The Next Twenty-five Years

Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa

By David Lee Featherman, Marvin Krislov, and Martin Hall
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Political Science, Public Policy, American Politics, African American Studies, Law, African Studies

A must-read for anyone who cares about the future of higher education in diverse democracies

After Independence

Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States

Edited by Lowell Barrington
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, History, Russian History, Asian Studies, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

What happens to nationalism after independence is achieved?

The Price of Racial Reconciliation

By Ronald Walters
Subjects: African American Studies, History, American History, Law, Political Science, Race and Politics, African Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States

Distrusting Democrats

Outcomes of Participatory Constitution Making

By Devra Coren Moehler
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, African Studies, Political Behavior and Public Opinion

Does participation lead citizens of new democracies to invest or disinvest in democracy?

Growing Apart

Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria

By Peter Lewis
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, African Studies, Asian Studies, Economics, Development
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

The story of how oil—and oil money—transformed political life in two major producer-nations

Freedom by a Hair's Breadth

Tsimihety in Madagascar

By Peter J. Wilson
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, History, Political Science

How a group of people in Madagascar resisted oppression and maintained their political and cultural freedom

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