In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities, and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state aut…
Since 1948, South Africa has moved from being a respected member of the British Commonwealth to being a pariah state of the world. How has this come about and what can be done about it? Why, indeed, does it generate far more intense moral passion than do other, arguably worse, regimes?
One in a series of short books devoted to different countries that offers much-needed cross-cultural and global material to instructors. Used alongside an introductory sociology text or as a supplement in courses on comparative societies, comparative politics, comparative economics, or social stratification, this book brings a rich global perspective into the undergraduate classroom. The openin…
The purpose of this volume is thus to untangle some of the key issues surrounding liberation and human rights in a number of central areas of debate.
The appearance of modern political movements proclaiming missions and legitimacy based on religious tradition and scripture has proved to be an enduring feature in many late twentieth-century societies. These phenom- ena are by no means exclusive to the Middle East, but there the issue has assumed great urgency and visibility because of the region's strategic cen- trality to Western political a…
This is the first in a new World Bank publication series devoted to the Middle East and North Africa region. In this and subsequent issues, the series aims to provide a venue for regularly monitoring major economic trends in the region and highlighting the central issues affecting regional development.
The Atlas describes the legislation and impact of apartheid and the resistance, both local and international, to its racial policies. The integration of detailed maps and text reinforces the specifically spatial nature of apartheid, the way the map of South Africa was redrawn and continues to be redrawn
It is a story of history's relevance to the present and the future, which follows Cash's superb analogy that searching out the mind of a people is like visiting one of those churches one sees in England: the facade and towers, the windows and clerestory, the exterior and super- structure may be later Gothic of one sort or another, but look into its nave, its aisles, and its choir and you find t…
Steele illuminates the origins of the conflict in race relations today--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between blacks and whites. With candid and persuasive arguments, he shows us how both black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial differences have instead made them greater. The Content …
The essays examine various regional integration initiatives in Africa and assess their achievements, flaws and promises. The argument is made that, without mobilizing the necessary social forces to militate for integration, mere economic rationality will not lead to the integration of African economies.