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Graham Harrison - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Introducing Political Struggle as Contemporary African Politics
Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020Co-Authors: Graham HarrisonAbstract:What do we mean when we speak of ‘African politics?’ Simple answers to this question would be foolhardy (Young, 1999), but much useful discussion has revolved around the concepts and issues which are central to the asking of this question. My aim in this book is to outline a conceptualization of Political Struggle and demonstrate the enduring importance of Struggle in any understanding of African politics. This is not to say that ‘Struggle is everything’; certainly there is much empirical material to demonstrate the salience of Political disengagement, Machiavellian strategies of power-seeking and the intermixing of Political actions/strategies in particular local contexts. But, because there is a striking decline in academic attention paid to Struggle, I justify this more parochial contribution as making a worthy point: it would be wrong to abandon a concept of Political Struggle when discussing how to answer the grand question that commences this book.
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Political Struggle as History
Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020Co-Authors: Graham HarrisonAbstract:This chapter will take three case studies in order to illustrate how it is vital to integrate the dynamics of Struggle and liberation into modern historiographies of Africa. Each country’s modern history can be written sketchily by highlighting the most prominent Political events (regime changes, or war and peace), but it is also the case that these apparently ‘top-down’ or macroPolitical changes often involve — and are shaped by — Struggles by classes and other social groups which base their Political action on some notion of liberation. This is how each of the case studies proceeds: from a general account of postcolonial politics to a ‘writing in’ of Political Struggle. The cases selected are: Mozambique, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. This means that the chapter covers anglophone, lusophone and francophone Africa. The case studies also reveal the tension between unity and diversity which was considered in Chapter 1: one can see both how each African country is different, and how there are important binding features between them as well.
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Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Struggle and Resistance
2002Co-Authors: Graham HarrisonAbstract:List of Tables List of Maps Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introducing Political Struggle as Contemporary African Politics Peasants, Politics, and the Struggle for Development The Politics of Debt and Social Struggle Contesting Democratization New African Identities, New Forms of Struggle? Political Struggle as History Defending the Ideal of Struggle Bibliography Index
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bringing Political Struggle back in african politics power resistance
Review of African Political Economy, 2001Co-Authors: Graham HarrisonAbstract:This article will investigate the enduring importance of Political Struggle as a key notion in the understanding of contemporary African politics. It does so with an awareness that this notion has fallen out of academic favour. This article sketches an approach that gives a key role to Political Struggle in processes of Political change in sub‐Saharan Africa. In doing so, African Political economies are seen as necessarily contested and therefore there is a need (to re‐work the phrase of the new statists/institutionalists) to consider bringing Struggle back in to the analytical frame.
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Bringing Political Struggle back in: African politics, power & resistance
Review of African Political Economy, 2001Co-Authors: Graham HarrisonAbstract:This article will investigate the enduring importance of Political Struggle as a key notion in the understanding of contemporary African politics. It does so with an awareness that this notion has fallen out of academic favour. This article sketches an approach that gives a key role to Political Struggle in processes of Political change in sub‐Saharan Africa. In doing so, African Political economies are seen as necessarily contested and therefore there is a need (to re‐work the phrase of the new statists/institutionalists) to consider bringing Struggle back in to the analytical frame.
Vaia Doudaki - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency : Political Struggles Over Representation, Decision-Making and Technology
2020Co-Authors: Vaia Doudaki, Nico CarpentierAbstract:A special journal issue, edited by V. Doudaki and N. Carpentier.This special issue, focusing on different case studies and drawing from different examples, addresses issues of Political Struggle, c ...
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An Introduction to Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency : Political Struggles Over Representation, Decision-Making and Technology
Comunicacion Y Sociedad, 2020Co-Authors: Nico Carpentier, Vaia DoudakiAbstract:The introduction to "Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency" presents a model of Political Struggle to think through its different dimensions, distinghuising between Struggle over and Struggle ...
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The Construction of the Homeless as a Discursive-Political Struggle: A Discursive-Theoretical Re-reading of the Homeless Subject Position
Filosofija-sociologija, 2019Co-Authors: Nico Carpentier, Vaia DoudakiAbstract:Within the literature on homelessness, the attention for what is often called ‘homeless identity’ is slowly increasing, and within this body of knowledge, the complex, contingent and contested nature of this identity also becomes more visible. This article aims to contribute to this discussion, by deploying Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) discourse theory to produce a (discursive-) theoretical re-reading of the homeless identity, or, in discourse-theoretical terms, the homeless subject position. Acknowledging that the homeless subject position is part of a larger assemblage, this article, in particular, aims to show the contested nature of this subject position and how it is an object of Political Struggle. In the second part, this article zooms in on the literature on media constructions, and the Struggle over the homeless subject position in (and between) mainstream media and the so-called street press.
Nico Carpentier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency : Political Struggles Over Representation, Decision-Making and Technology
2020Co-Authors: Vaia Doudaki, Nico CarpentierAbstract:A special journal issue, edited by V. Doudaki and N. Carpentier.This special issue, focusing on different case studies and drawing from different examples, addresses issues of Political Struggle, c ...
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An Introduction to Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency : Political Struggles Over Representation, Decision-Making and Technology
Comunicacion Y Sociedad, 2020Co-Authors: Nico Carpentier, Vaia DoudakiAbstract:The introduction to "Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency" presents a model of Political Struggle to think through its different dimensions, distinghuising between Struggle over and Struggle ...
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The Construction of the Homeless as a Discursive-Political Struggle: A Discursive-Theoretical Re-reading of the Homeless Subject Position
Filosofija-sociologija, 2019Co-Authors: Nico Carpentier, Vaia DoudakiAbstract:Within the literature on homelessness, the attention for what is often called ‘homeless identity’ is slowly increasing, and within this body of knowledge, the complex, contingent and contested nature of this identity also becomes more visible. This article aims to contribute to this discussion, by deploying Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) discourse theory to produce a (discursive-) theoretical re-reading of the homeless identity, or, in discourse-theoretical terms, the homeless subject position. Acknowledging that the homeless subject position is part of a larger assemblage, this article, in particular, aims to show the contested nature of this subject position and how it is an object of Political Struggle. In the second part, this article zooms in on the literature on media constructions, and the Struggle over the homeless subject position in (and between) mainstream media and the so-called street press.
Wu Chang-ye - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Reasons for the Establishment of the Late Liang Dynasty——from the Perspective of Political Struggles in the Imperial Family of Liang Dynasty
Journal of Hubei University of Education, 2020Co-Authors: Wu Chang-yeAbstract:The establishment of Late Liang Dynasty has close association with the Political Struggle in the imperial family of the Liang Dynasty.If Xiao Cha's resenments against the Liang Dynasty are the remote causes of the Late Liang's establishment,which are arised in the Crown Prince Affair,then Xiao Cha's taking cover under the shade of the Western Wei Dynasty is the immediate cause after battling with his uncle Xiao Yi.And the gradual weakening national power of the Liang Dynasty is the fundamental reason.And then the establishment of Late Liang Dynasty also has great relation with the Political juvenility of Xiao Cha.So,it can be concluded that the Late Liang Dynasty is the evil consequence of Political Struggles in the imperial family of the Liang Dynasty.
Olivia Mason - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Book review: Image politics in the Middle East: the role of the visual in Political Struggle
2013Co-Authors: Olivia MasonAbstract:Politics in the Middle East is now seen and the image is playing a central part in processes of Political Struggle. This book aims to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region. Lina Khatib presents a cross-country examination of emerging trends in the use of visuals in Political Struggles in the Middle East, from the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon to the Green Movement in Iran, to the Arab Spring in Egypt, Syria and Libya. Olivia Mason finds it a thought-provoking read utilizing sources from numerous academic disciplines.
