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Crony capitalism in Nigeria: the case of patronage funding of the Peoples Democratic Party and the power sector reform, 1999–2015 尼日利亚的裙带资本主义:1999-2015年人民民主党赞助资金和电力部门改革的案例
IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.1958309
O. Albert, I. Abada, Raymond Adibe
ABSTRACT The article argues that cronyism in the funding of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) explains the dismal record of the recent power sector reforms in Nigeria. It implies that the reforms were packaged by the then PDP-led government to benefit their major campaign financiers with contracts; thus, within this period the party financiers were able to assume a commanding position in the sector. The article further contends that the funding regime in the party reinforces corruption as financiers leveraged on their contributions to the party to ensure that the reform processes and outcomes reflected their economic interests. The case exemplifies the crony relationship between the business and the political class (that ought to act as the regulatory body), which is skewed towards primitive accumulation.
摘要本文认为,人民民主党(PDP)资金中的任人唯亲解释了尼日利亚最近电力部门改革的惨淡记录。这意味着改革是由当时的pdp领导的政府包装的,目的是通过合同使他们的主要竞选资助者受益;因此,在这一时期,中共金融家能够在该行业占据主导地位。文章进一步认为,党内的资助制度加剧了腐败,因为金融家利用他们对党的贡献来确保改革过程和结果反映他们的经济利益。这个案例体现了商业和政治阶层(应该作为监管机构)之间的裙带关系,这种关系倾向于原始积累。
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Contested compensation: the politics, economics and legal nuances of compensating white former commercial farmers in Zimbabwe 有争议的补偿:补偿津巴布韦前白人商业农民的政治、经济和法律上的细微差别
IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.1990033
P. Moyo
ABSTRACT In July 2020, the government of Zimbabwe and white former commercial farmers signed a Global Compensation Deed agreement of US$3.5 billion. Under this deal, and in line with Section 295 (3) of the constitution, white former farmers are ‘entitled to compensation from the State only for improvements that were on the land when it was acquired’. This article questions the political, financial and legal rationale of this agreement. First, it argues that the compensation deal is ultra vires since there is no enabling act of parliament to support it as required by the constitution. Consequently, this deal is tenuous and insidious. Second, Zimbabwe’s economic implosion and colossal foreign debt will make it difficult for international financial institutions to extend credit lines. Third, this deal reverses some land reform outcomes, thus raising political tensions. Fourth, these political tensions are swelling into resistance against the deal by war veterans and the opposition.
2020年7月,津巴布韦政府与白人前商业农民签署了一项35亿美元的全球补偿契约协议。根据这项协议,根据宪法第295(3)条,白人前农民“只有在获得土地时才有权从国家获得土地改良的补偿”。本文对该协议的政治、财政和法律依据提出质疑。首先,它认为赔偿协议是越权的,因为没有宪法要求的议会授权法案来支持它。因此,这项协议是脆弱而阴险的。其次,津巴布韦的经济内爆和巨额外债将使国际金融机构难以扩大信贷额度。第三,这笔交易逆转了一些土地改革的结果,从而加剧了政治紧张局势。第四,这些政治紧张局势正在升级为退伍军人和反对派对协议的抵制。
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Seeking social justice in crisis: socio-economic rights and citizenship in post-2000 Zimbabwe 在危机中寻求社会正义:2000年后津巴布韦的社会经济权利和公民身份
IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.2001228
Kristina Pikovskaia
ABSTRACT The manifestations of the post-2000 economic crisis in Zimbabwe have long been a research subject for scholars who study issues of social justice in Zimbabwe. This article reviews three recent books written on the topic: Simukai Chigudu’s The political life of an epidemic: cholera, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe, Davison Muchadenyika’s Seeking urban transformation: alternative urban futures in Zimbabwe, and Building from the rubble: the labour movement in Zimbabwe since 2000, edited by Lloyd Sachikonye, Brian Raftopoulos and Godfrey Kanyenze. Although these works focus on different issues – a healthcare emergency, an urban housing crisis, and the labour movement’s decline, several themes cut across all of them: the economic and political crises, urban politics, experiences of citizenship, and social injustice. Addressing different socio-economic and political processes that emerged due to the crisis, the authors come to a common and important conclusion that despite the rigid political system and persisting social injustice, substantive and substantial changes in Zimbabwe may be achieved through grassroots social mobilisation and collective action.
津巴布韦2000年后经济危机的表现一直是研究津巴布韦社会正义问题的学者们的研究课题。本文回顾了最近三本关于这一主题的书:Simukai Chigudu的《流行病的政治生活:津巴布韦的霍乱、危机和公民身份》,Davison Muchadenyika的《寻求城市转型:津巴布韦的另类城市未来》,以及Lloyd Sachikonye、Brian Raftopoulos和Godfrey Kanyenze编辑的《从废墟中建设:2000年以来津巴布韦的劳工运动》。尽管这些作品关注的是不同的问题——医疗紧急情况、城市住房危机和劳工运动的衰落,但有几个主题贯穿其中:经济和政治危机、城市政治、公民经历和社会不公正。针对因危机而出现的不同社会经济和政治进程,作者得出了一个共同而重要的结论,即尽管政治制度僵化,社会不公正现象持续存在,但津巴布韦可以通过基层社会动员和集体行动实现实质性和实质性的变革。
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Reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Democratic Republic of Congo: market-based conservation in a context of limited statehood 减少刚果民主共和国的森林砍伐和退化:有限国家背景下基于市场的保护
IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.1997733
C. Reyniers.
ABSTRACT Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is an international mechanism linked to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It has been described in the field of political ecology as the panacea of neoliberal nature conservation policies, in particular though the decreasing role of the state in the definition and implementation of forest policies in favour of market-based-mechanisms and non-governmental actors. The article explores the links between the privatisation of forest conservation and national sovereignty in the context of limited statehood through a case study in the Mai Ndombe province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It proposes an original approach combining African political anthropology with Franz Neumann's political economy analyses of the power of authoritarian states. It argues that this model of forest conservation uses carbon accounting and results-based payment, which privileges private actors for the design and implementation of REDD+ activities; it also paradoxically strengthens Congelese state legitimacy.
摘要减少森林砍伐和退化排放(REDD+)是一项与《联合国气候变化框架公约》相关的国际机制。在政治生态学领域,它被描述为新自由主义自然保护政策的灵丹妙药,特别是尽管国家在森林政策的定义和实施中的作用越来越小,有利于基于市场的机制和非政府行为者。本文通过对刚果民主共和国马伊恩多姆贝省的案例研究,探讨了有限国家背景下森林保护私有化与国家主权之间的联系。它提出了一种将非洲政治人类学与弗朗茨·诺依曼对威权国家权力的政治经济学分析相结合的独创方法。它认为,这种森林保护模式使用了碳核算和基于结果的支付,这使私人行为者在设计和实施REDD+活动方面享有特权;矛盾的是,它也强化了康格勒国家的合法性。
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引用次数: 3
Volume Index 物量指数
IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.2037334
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Extractive capitalism and hard and soft power in the age of Black Lives Matter 采掘资本主义和硬实力与软实力在“黑人的命也重要”时代
IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.2035536
R. Cline-Cole, P. Lawrence
As we go to publication, Omicron appears to be on the wane but there is no guarantee that it is the last of the Covid variants. Indeed, medical opinion seems to be accepting that Covid-19 in whatever variant may become endemic and be treated like influenza, with vaccinations as the means of keeping it under control. This was not the first reaction to Omicron, however, which was for the rich global North to reward South Africa, which had first identified the new variant and alerted the rest of the world to it, ironically by stopping South Africans entering their countries. While it has been hypothesised by medical scientists that the high number of South Africans with autoimmune disorders and illnesses, most notably HIV/AIDS, may have allowed more variants of Covid-19 to develop there so rapidly, it became clear that the Omicron variant had developed independently elsewhere. The irony of barring entry to travellers from South Africa was compounded by the global North’s ‘vaccine apartheid’ denying the South the power to protect their own populations. While the expectation in the global North may be that it can live with the virus, even though some countries, notably China and New Zealand, have successfully followed a zero-Covid strategy, the global South, lacking the same level of health care, with autoimmune diseases and a shortage of vaccines, cannot expect to be able to live with the virus without negative consequences leading to further impoverishment. The winner in all of this is of course Big Pharma. Oxfam International (2021) reports that corporates such as Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna have received US$8 billion from public funds while at the same time refusing to share their knowledge with countries of the global South that have neither the technological nor manufacturing capacity to produce the vaccine themselves. Meanwhile, it is reported that during the pandemic, from March 2020 to November 2021, the 10 richest men in the world have doubled their wealth (Oxfam International 2022), while Africa’s five richest men have seen their aggregate wealth grow by 38.5% over the same period (Africa Report 2021). The rest of this section of the editorial covers some recent developments which we see connecting the withdrawal of US and UK troops, following the Taliban victory in Afghanistan, to the French withdrawal in Mali. We discuss the outbreaks of civil and military conflict across Africa focusing on Ethiopia, Sudan and Mali, noting in the last case how the intended withdrawal of French troops mirrors the withdrawal of US and UK forces from Afghanistan in the sense of the imperial powers placing greater emphasis on ‘soft’ power. In particular, we focus on the soft power of foreign aid and how that has to some degree replaced the military involvement in Afghanistan and is intended to do so in Mali. We go on to discuss the particular case of the Commonwealth and its role in the spread of soft power and combating poverty – seen as a key cause of conf
随着我们的发表,奥密克戎似乎正在衰退,但无法保证它是新冠肺炎变异株中的最后一种。事实上,医学观点似乎接受了这样一种观点,即新冠肺炎在任何变异中都可能成为地方病,并像流感一样治疗,接种疫苗是控制它的手段。然而,这并不是对奥密克戎的第一反应,而是富裕的全球北方对南非的奖励,南非首先发现了新变种,并提醒世界其他地区注意它,具有讽刺意味的是,它阻止南非人进入自己的国家。尽管医学科学家假设,大量南非人患有自身免疫性疾病和疾病,尤其是艾滋病毒/艾滋病,可能导致新冠肺炎的更多变种在那里迅速发展,但很明显,奥密克戎变种是在其他地方独立发展的。具有讽刺意味的是,禁止来自南非的游客入境,加上全球北方的“疫苗种族隔离”剥夺了南方保护本国人口的权力。尽管全球北方的预期可能是它可以与病毒共存,尽管一些国家,尤其是中国和新西兰,成功地遵循了动态清零战略,但全球南方缺乏同等水平的医疗保健,患有自身免疫性疾病,疫苗短缺,不能指望能够在没有导致进一步贫困的负面后果的情况下与病毒共存。这一切的赢家当然是大型制药公司。国际乐施会(2021)报告称,辉瑞、BioNTech和莫德纳等公司从公共资金中获得了80亿美元,同时拒绝与既没有技术也没有制造能力自己生产疫苗的全球南方国家分享他们的知识。与此同时,据报道,在疫情期间,从2020年3月到2021年11月,世界上最富有的10个人的财富翻了一番(国际乐施会2022),而非洲最富有的5个人的总财富同期增长了38.5%(《2021年非洲报告》)。这篇社论的其余部分涵盖了一些最近的事态发展,我们看到这些事态发展将塔利班在阿富汗获胜后美国和英国军队的撤离与法国在马里的撤军联系起来。我们讨论了非洲各地爆发的民事和军事冲突,重点是埃塞俄比亚、苏丹和马里,并在最后一个案例中指出,法国军队的预期撤离反映了美国和英国军队从阿富汗的撤离,即帝国大国更加强调“软”实力。我们特别关注外国援助的软实力,以及这在某种程度上取代了对阿富汗的军事介入,并打算在马里这样做。我们接着讨论英联邦的特殊情况及其在软实力传播和消除贫困方面的作用——这被视为冲突的关键原因。我们将援助和帝国主义的相关问题放在非殖民化运动和“黑人的命也是命”时代的背景下,提出了全球南方成员国在向北方施压以采取行动减少全球不平等方面的作用问题,最后简要反思了ROAPE在这一背景下的作用。
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Understanding West Africa’s informal workers as working class 将西非的非正式工人理解为工人阶级
IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-09-27 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.1967734
J. McDermott
ABSTRACT Informal workers in Africa are very often portrayed as primarily self-employed entrepreneurs and unemployed individuals largely excluded from capitalism, and thus insulated from class analysis and class dynamics. Drawing on a case study of informal workers in Sierra Leone, the article challenges this dominant understanding, arguing that informal workers experience the reality of class relations and that their material lives are shaped by, and help to shape, broader dynamics of capital accumulation. The research applies a holistic class analysis rooted in Marxist and feminist thought, arguing for an understanding of informal workers, including even small-scale ‘self-employed’ individuals, as workers exploited by, and opposed to the interests of, capital. In so doing, it challenges the simple understandings of working class as existing only and exclusively through formalised wage work, in favour of a more complex and inductive understanding of the reality of global capitalism, highlighting the relevance of class, value and exploitation to the lived reality of informal workers in Africa.
摘要非洲的非正规工人通常被描绘成主要是个体经营者和失业者,他们在很大程度上被排斥在资本主义之外,因此与阶级分析和阶级动态隔绝。根据对塞拉利昂非正规工人的案例研究,文章对这种主流理解提出了质疑,认为非正规工人经历了阶级关系的现实,他们的物质生活是由更广泛的资本积累动态塑造的,并有助于塑造这种动态。这项研究应用了植根于马克思主义和女权主义思想的整体阶级分析,主张理解非正规工人,甚至包括小规模的“个体经营者”,是被资本剥削并反对资本利益的工人。在这样做的过程中,它挑战了对工人阶级的简单理解,即工人阶级只存在于正式的带薪工作中,而有利于对全球资本主义的现实进行更复杂和归纳的理解,强调了阶级、价值和剥削与非洲非正规工人的生活现实的相关性。
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引用次数: 4
Political protest in contemporary Kenya: change and continuities 当代肯尼亚的政治抗议:变化与持续
IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-09-06 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.1969131
N. Githethwa
The title of this book by Jacob Mwathi Mati attracts at first glance. It inspires the excitement of providing a lucid and deep analysis of the major waves of political protests in Kenya since indep...
Jacob Mwathi Mati的这本书的标题第一眼就吸引人。它激发了兴奋,提供了一个清晰而深入的分析,主要的政治抗议浪潮在肯尼亚自独立以来…
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The exclusionary politics of digital financial inclusion: mobile money, gendered walls 数字普惠金融的排他性政治:移动货币、性别壁垒
IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-09-06 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.1972580
Mike Chipere
Dr Serena Natile’s book, titled Exclusionary politics of digital financial inclusion: mobile money, gendered walls, draws on gender as an analytical and methodological tool but also incorporates a ...
瑟琳娜·纳蒂尔博士的书《数字金融普惠的排斥性政治:移动货币,性别壁垒》将性别作为一种分析和方法工具,但也纳入了一种……
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Social movements as learning spaces: the case of the defunct Anti-Privatisation Forum in South Africa 作为学习空间的社会运动:以南非已解散的反私有化论坛为例
IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-09-06 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.1962838
Mondli Hlatshwayo
ABSTRACT Social movements often become spaces for learning, although this type of learning has been overlooked by activists and scholars alike. Analysing the case of the collapsed Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), the article submits that the APF was not only an organisation that challenged privatisation, but also a learning space for activists from middle-class and working-class backgrounds. Non-formal educational platforms, such as political education workshops, organisational and practical skill training sessions and campaigns organised by the APF and its partner organisations, were instrumental in transferring skills to community-based activists. After the demise of the APF, its activists applied the skills and competences they had acquired to continue advancing social and economic justice in other organisations. Furthermore, community-based activists educated middle-class activists about the conditions of working-class communities and the challenges of building working-class movements in post-apartheid South Africa.
摘要社会运动往往成为学习的空间,尽管这类学习一直被活动家和学者所忽视。文章分析了反私有化论坛(APF)崩溃的案例,认为APF不仅是一个挑战私有化的组织,也是中产阶级和工人阶级背景的活动家的学习空间。非正规教育平台,如政治教育讲习班、组织和实践技能培训课程以及由APF及其合作组织组织的运动,有助于向社区活动家传授技能。在APF消亡后,其活动家运用他们所获得的技能和能力,继续在其他组织中推进社会和经济正义。此外,以社区为基础的活动人士向中产阶级活动人士介绍了工人阶级社区的条件以及在种族隔离后的南非建立工人阶级运动的挑战。
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