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Author: Isaria N. Kimambo Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 9976604653 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 242
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The topic of African moral economy was first raised by Goran Hyden in 1980 as one of the main obstacles to economic transformation of the African peasantry. The suggestion caused serious academic debates between the proposer and other scholars on African societies, especially those using political economy as the framework of their analysis. But Hyden continued to defend his thesis until interest in the debate faded out. More recently Japanese scholars have taken up the topic as it appears to have new relevance in comparison with the fast transformations which have taken place in Southeast Asian rural communities. The focus of this book is to give a detailed comparison between African rural communities and those of Southeastern Asia. Attention is focused on the two main aspects of African peasantry life: the right to subsistence and the norm of reciprocity. A wide interdisciplinary approach is employed to demonstrate the dynamism displayed by these societies.
Author: Isaria N. Kimambo Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 9976604653 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
The topic of African moral economy was first raised by Goran Hyden in 1980 as one of the main obstacles to economic transformation of the African peasantry. The suggestion caused serious academic debates between the proposer and other scholars on African societies, especially those using political economy as the framework of their analysis. But Hyden continued to defend his thesis until interest in the debate faded out. More recently Japanese scholars have taken up the topic as it appears to have new relevance in comparison with the fast transformations which have taken place in Southeast Asian rural communities. The focus of this book is to give a detailed comparison between African rural communities and those of Southeastern Asia. Attention is focused on the two main aspects of African peasantry life: the right to subsistence and the norm of reciprocity. A wide interdisciplinary approach is employed to demonstrate the dynamism displayed by these societies.
Author: Beatrice Okyere-Manu Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031328981 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 275
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This book offers fresh academic insights, reflections, questions, issues, and approaches to development ethics, taking into account, African values and ethics. Development ethics is an area of applied ethics that examines the moral issues involved in global, social, and economic transformation. While it is a relatively new discipline, there have been numerous scholarly publications on it from Western perspectives. However, only a few studies that focused on development ethics from the African perspective. To address this gap, the book seeks to answer critical questions such as "What does development mean to Africans?", "How can we measure development?", "Who gets to decide?", and "What constitutes just development in Africa?" With contributions from African scholars from diverse backgrounds, the book covers various development themes such as Theories and approaches to development ethics in Africa, Environmental Ethics and African Development, Ethics, Politics and African Development, Migration and African development, Gender, Ethics and Socio-economic Development in Africa, Education, Ethics and African development. It is an essential resource for researchers, lecturers, and students interested in political philosophy and African culture studies.
Author: Nic Cheeseman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110841723X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 377
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A radical new approach to understanding Africa's elections: explaining why politicians, bureaucrats and voters so frequently break electoral rules.
Author: Peter Claus Wolfgang Gutkind Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated ISBN: 9780803920972 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 344
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The revised edition of this best-selling first volume of the SAGE Series on African Modernization and Development provides a much-needed and important overview of the present situation in contemporary Africa. `This is a compelling, comprehensive, and challenging collection which makes a major contribution to both the establishment and respectability of the political economy perspective...Africa is in a state of material, ideological, and intellectual change; this invaluable collection captures much of this excitement and potential.' -- American Sociological Review `A stimulating book which makes an important contribution to African studies...The type of book which is a 'must' for all Africanis
Author: Sharlene Swartz Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317982487 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 190
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The term ‘moral’ has had a chequered history in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to the legacy of colonialism and Apartheid (in South Africa). In contrast to moral education as a vehicle of cultural imperialism and social control, this volume shows moral education to be concerned with both private and public morality, with communal and national relationships between human beings, as well as between people and their environment. Drawing on distinctive perspectives from philosophy, economics, sociology and education, it offers the African ethic of Ubuntu/Botho as a plausible alternative to Western approaches to morality and shows how African ethics speaks to political and economic life, including ethnic conflict and HIV/AIDS, and may be an antidote to the current practice of timocracy that values money over people. The volume provides sociological tools for understanding the lived morality of those marginalised by poverty, and analyses the effects of culture, religion and modern secularisation on moral education. With contributions from fourteen African scholars, this book challenges dominant frameworks, and begins conversations for mutual benefit across the North-South divide. It has global implications, not just, but especially, where moral education is undertaken in pluralist contexts and in the presence of economic disparity. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Moral Education.
Author: Bruce J. Berman Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 0774833173 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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Bringing together international experts on ethnicity and nationalism, this book argues that competing moral economies play an important role in ethnic and nationalist conflict. Its authors investigate how the beliefs and practices that normatively regulate and legitimize the distribution of wealth, power, and status in a society – moral economies – are being challenged in identity-based communities in ways that precipitate or exacerbate conflicts. The combination of theoretical chapters and case studies ranging from Africa and Asia to North America provides compelling evidence for the value of moral economy analysis in understanding problems associated with ethnic and nationalist mobilization and conflict.
Author: Nic Cheeseman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108265839 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 377
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Do elections turn people into democratic citizens? Elections have long been seen as a way to foster democracy, development and security in Africa, with many hoping that the secret ballot would transform states. Adopting a new approach that focusses on the moral economy of elections, Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis show how elections are shaped by competing visions of what it means to be a good leader, bureaucrat or citizen. Using a mixed-methods study of elections in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, they explore moral claims made by officials, politicians, civil society, international observers and voters themselves. This radical new lens reveals that elections are the site of intense moral contestation, which helps to explain why there is such vigourous participation in processes that often seem flawed. Demonstrating the impact of these debates on six decades of electoral practice, they explain why the behaviour of those involved so frequently transgresses national law and international norms, as well as the ways in which such transgressions are evaluated and critiqued – so that despite the purported significance of 'vote-buying', the candidates that spend the most do not always win.
Author: Elizabeth Isichei Publisher: ISBN: 9788210000928 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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An ambitious new approach to African studies, utilizing indigenous sources to bring back the voices of the native Africans in their own words rather than that of colonizers and foreigners.
Author: Jörg Wiegratz Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1783488557 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 375
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This text examines the socio-cultural and especially moral repercussions of embedding neoliberalism in Africa, using the case of Uganda.
Author: Isaria N. Kimambo
Author: Isaria N. Kimambo
Author: Sam Maghimbi
Author: Beatrice Okyere-Manu
Author: Nic Cheeseman
Author: Peter Claus Wolfgang Gutkind
Author: Sharlene Swartz
Author: Bruce J. Berman
Author: Nic Cheeseman
Author: Elizabeth Isichei
Author: Jörg Wiegratz