Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s0022278x2200043x
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X22000477
Nimi Wariboko
{"title":"Global Trade and Cultural Authentication","authors":"Nimi Wariboko","doi":"10.1017/S0022278X22000477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X22000477","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern African Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"321 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45754612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0022278x22000258
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X22000027
R. Tapscott
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X22000076
K. Harris
Abstract Why do elections in some ethnically diverse constituencies resemble an ethnic census, while in others ethnicity plays a less prominent role? Prior literature on ethnic bloc voting in Africa suggests that political parties acquire ethnic ‘labels’ that tacitly signal which groups belong to the party. In ethnic census-style elections, voters and politicians then use ethnicity as a heuristic for deciding which party to support. However, ethnic censuses are not the only possible outcome in diverse constituencies. Links between ethnic identities and political parties can create a disconnect between locally and nationally relevant identities that affects the dynamics of local elections. Drawing on data from over 160 semi-structured, qualitative interviews and detailed election results in four ethnically diverse Kenyan parliamentary constituencies, I show how local constructions of ethnic difference mediate the effects of national political dynamics and shape patterns of political competition in parliamentary elections, affecting the behaviour of politicians and voters.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X22000039
D. Peterson
commitment to disentangling security outcomes from the form of political ordermaking, clearly noting that greater levels of security are no more closely associated with stability than with fluidity. This is a very important finding, helping to counterbalance the too-often uninterrogated assumption that formality and state-ness provide better outcomes for ordinary people than informality and non-stateness. The framework has the significant benefit of putting diverse actors and their jurisdictional claims-making on equal analytic footing, allowing not just a comparison across a range of cases, but an examination of farmers and teachers alongside warlords and international aid agencies to offer a textured picture of everyday security in often overlooked parts of the world. The book left me with a couple of questions. First, I wondered why Glawion chose (urban) space to conceptualise and identify distributions of jurisdictional claims, as compared with other potential axes –for instance, patterns of legal pluralism (see Benton’s Historical Perspectives on Legal Pluralism, Cambridge University Press, and Massoud’s Shari‘a Inshallah, Cambridge University Press, ) or sites of surveillance (see Purdeková on ‘“Mundane Sights” of Power’ in African Studies Review, ). Intuitively, space seems helpful to understand conflict zones, crisscrossed by frontlines and no-go zones – but this assumption merits elaboration. Second, while the book purports to delink stable ordering, state control, and security, at times it implies the opposite, for instance, when Glawion notes that the outer circle is characterised by ‘unruly actors’, ‘security-related rumours and the use of violence’ (–). This left me wondering the extent to which the very real methodological constraints of researching (and thereby literally centring) comparatively safe zones might risk reproducing the very approach that the security arena seeks to critique – namely, the notion of a less-governed and more insecure hinterland (see, e.g. –). These questions point to the challenge of disentangling complex and contingent political dynamics, and their relation to the elusive concept of security. The book should be applauded for its efforts to investigate often-pathologised places on their own terms, its empirical richness and its theoretical ambition.
致力于将安全结果与政治秩序制定的形式区分开来，明确指出更高水平的安全与稳定的关系并不比与流动性的关系更密切。这是一个非常重要的发现，有助于平衡一种经常不错误的假设，即正式和状态比非正式和无状态为普通人提供更好的结果。该框架的显著好处是，将不同的行为者及其管辖权主张置于平等的分析基础上，不仅可以对一系列案件进行比较，还可以对农民和教师以及军阀和国际援助机构进行审查，从而对世界上经常被忽视的地区的日常安全提供一个有质感的画面。这本书给我留下了几个问题。首先，我想知道，与其他潜在的轴心——例如法律多元主义的模式——相比，格拉维恩为什么选择（城市）空间来概念化和确定管辖权主张的分布（见Benton的《法律多元论的历史视角》，剑桥大学出版社， 和马苏德的《伊斯兰教法》，剑桥大学出版社，) 或监视地点（见《非洲研究评论》中的Purdekováon“Mundane Sights of Power”，). 直观地说，空间似乎有助于理解前线和禁区交错的冲突区——但这一假设值得详细阐述。其次，虽然这本书声称将稳定秩序、国家控制和安全脱钩，但有时却暗示了相反的情况，例如，当格拉维恩指出，外部圈子的特点是“不守规矩的行为者”、“与安全有关的谣言和使用暴力”(–). 这让我想知道，研究（从而从字面上集中）相对安全区的真正方法限制可能在多大程度上有可能复制安全领域试图批评的方法，即治理较少、更不安全的腹地的概念（例如。–). 这些问题指向了解开复杂和偶然的政治动态的挑战，以及它们与难以捉摸的安全概念的关系。这本书应该受到赞扬，因为它努力以自己的方式调查经常被病理化的地方，它的经验丰富性和理论野心。
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X22000064
Krystal Strong, Christiana Kallon Kelly
Abstract Over the past decade, hundreds of youth leadership initiatives have been established globally with the mission of grooming a new generation of leaders. This paper examines this largely unstudied and rapidly expanding leadership pipeline based on an ongoing study, which has collected data on 277 programmes that: target African youth, offer educational training or professional development, and have goals of cultivating leaders who will contribute to African development; and interviewed and surveyed 240 youth participants. Our purpose is twofold: (1) we offer an overview of the organisational approaches of these initiatives, which reveal a global ecosystem within and beyond Africa that is investing billions of dollars into youth leadership. Then, using case studies of the African Leadership Academy and University, and the Young African Leadership Initiative, (2) we ask what their tendency toward elite-driven strategies, corporate leadership models, and foreign collaboration may indicate about their larger politics and likely impact.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X22000052
J. Söderström
Abstract Tax compliance is a major concern as states try to increase state revenues in order to provide services for their populations. Remarkably, taxation has not figured centrally on the agenda among scholars working on the African voter. This article contributes through studying the social practice of taxes, by asking: how is taxation understood as a political practice? This is studied using focus groups across the private and public sector in Namibia, where the willingness to pay taxes and the relative tax burden is high. This micro-study of citizens’ experiences focuses on the perceived room for political practice in relation to taxes, sense of influence over taxes and whether taxes are thought about in citizenship terms. The article shows that taxes are relegated to a sphere of politics where deliberation and opportunities for accountability are missing, yet ideas of duty are central elements of tax compliance.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0022278x22000246
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X22000040
Noa Levy
Abstract Unaccompanied child and youth migrants negotiate with local host communities in their attempts to find a place to belong to, yet research has generally neglected their participation in the making of relationships with the people around them. Providing a perspective of the longue durée, the Zimbabwean–South African borderland teaches us that time is critical in young migrants’ ability to negotiate their positioning and actively shape relationships with host communities, based on mutual interest. While at the beginning of their stay, unaccompanied children and youth were at the mercy of others, time enabled them to accumulate knowledge and develop skills that were in demand, shifting their place in society and setting the ground for conviviality.
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