Democratisation And Demilitarisation In Lesotho The General Election Of 1993 And Its Aftermath Ed By Roger Southall And Tsoeu Petlane
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Dams and Development
Author | : Sanjeev Khagram |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501727397 |
Big dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other purposes were among the most potent symbols of economic development for much of the twentieth century. Of late they have become a lightning rod for challenges to this vision of development as something planned by elites with scant regard for environmental and social consequences—especially for the populations that are displaced as their homelands are flooded. In this book, Sanjeev Khagram traces changes in our ideas of what constitutes appropriate development through the shifting transnational dynamics of big dam construction. Khagram tells the story of a growing, but contentious, world society that features novel and increasingly efficacious norms of appropriate behavior in such areas as human rights and environmental protection. The transnational coalitions and networks led by nongovernmental groups that espouse such norms may seem weak in comparison with states, corporations, and such international agencies as the World Bank. Yet they became progressively more effective at altering the policies and practices of these historically more powerful actors and organizations from the 1970s on. Khagram develops these claims in a detailed ethnographic account of the transnational struggles around the Narmada River Valley Dam Projects in central India, a huge complex of thirty large and more than three thousand small dams. He offers further substantiation through a comparative historical analysis of the political economy of big dam projects in India, Brazil, South Africa, and China as well as by examining the changing behavior of international agencies and global companies. The author concludes with a discussion of the World Commission on Dams, an innovative attempt in the late 1990s to generate new norms among conflicting stakeholders.
Africa A to Z: Continental and Country Profiles
Author | : Esterhuysen, Pieter |
Publisher | : Africa Institute of South Africa |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2013-12-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0798303441 |
The popularity of the first two editions of this book necessitated a third revised and updated version to record the many challenges in Africa since the first edition appeared in 1998. Africa is a vast and fascinating continent whose population has exceeded the one billion mark. Africa A-Z attempts to provide, in a concise manner, the facts for an elementary understanding of the continent and its complex problems. The book falls into two main sections; the five chapters on the first main section focus on the continent as a whole, dealing with its physical and human diversity, its eventful history and Africans' struggle for economic survival. The second main section contains profiles of 58 independent countries, ranging from Algeria to Zimbabwe. Presentation of the profiles is uniform, in that the same themes are covered in each profile. The data panels with the profiles contain data not provided in the text. The maps, appearing throughout the text were produced by AISA's cartography department.
Electoral Authoritarianism
Author | : Andreas Schedler |
Publisher | : L. Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Today, electoral authoritarianism represents the most common form of political regime in the developing world - and the one we know least about. Filling in the lacuna, this book presents cutting-edge research on the internal dynamics of electoral authoritarian regimes.
In the Shadow of South Africa
Author | : Mats Lundahl |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Lesotho is a resource-poor mountainous country that has relied heavily upon South Africa for many years. As the 21st century gets under way the country has fewer economic possibilities and its larger neighbour has less to offer. This text analyzes the changes taking place.
G.K. Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies
Author | : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |