Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines最新文献

{"title":"HIV/AIDS activism, framing and identity formation in Mozambique's Equipas de Vida","authors":"Rebecca J. Vander Meulen, Amy S. Patterson, M. Burchardt","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829955","url":null,"abstract":"This article ethnographically explores faith-based mobilization around HIV and AIDS in Mozambique. It explains mobilization strategies and their outcomes in the case of the community-based HIV response teams of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Niassa in Northern Mozambique. Engaging constructivist perspectives from social movement theory, especially those focusing on framing processes and collective identities, this article illustrates how such perspectives can be used in the study of African settings and shows the complexity of motivations behind volunteerism. While church leaders stress biblical frames and community agency to motivate involvement, this article argues that these frames compete against dependency and diverging attitudes within culture at large towards volunteerism. The primary theological frame that church leaders use to mobilize the HIV-response teams focuses on compassion and facilitates the participation of volunteers from other faith perspectives.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127171495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence: an international history","authors":"Timothy J. Stapleton","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829956","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114598236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century: art films and the Nollywood video revolution","authors":"Claude Tankwa Zesseu","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115682089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metaphor and the slave trade in West African Literature","authors":"R. Nathan","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829948","url":null,"abstract":"However, the trouble with McCracken’s territorial frame is that questions about imperial geographies and imaginations are left unaddressed. This limitation is especially clear in his discussion of the settler-dominated Central African Federation, where there is little consideration of changing understandings of development in the Colonial Office. Federation revealed that Britain was committed to development in Malawi, but not to Malawi’s future as a political unit. The book’s final section centers on the process of decolonization. In contrast to the eclecticism of previous chapters, this section is principally devoted to a revisionist interpretation of Malawian nationalism. Drawing extensively from recent studies of the Congress Party, McCracken begins by tracing connections between rural protest movements and party-building after World War II. Popular discontent over conservation rules, land shortages, and racial discrimination laid a foundation for a national coalition of educated elites, chiefs, and peasants. Congress leaders juggled populist and constitutionalist strategies, partly by design but mostly as an opportunistic response to simmering rural protests. In the latter chapters, McCracken turns to high politics. With independence looming, Congress focused on the consolidation of political power in the villages, government, and party. Only the party proved difficult, as struggles within the leadership eventually threatened to topple Kamuzu Banda during the 1964 Cabinet Crisis. McCracken insists that intra-party struggles were motivated by political influence rather than ideology. The dominance of Congress, and Kamuzu in particular, is perhaps the most lasting change in a book that emphasizes continuity throughout. A History of Malawi is an essential reference for scholars of Malawi. McCracken’s focus on deep patterns of historical change, together with the thoroughness of the research, makes for a valuable contribution to multiple literatures. There is, however, comparatively little engagement with the wider Africanist historiography. McCracken could have pursued suggestive threads such as squatter movements in a comparative framework (238), or expand his discussion of welfare associations with recent scholarship on colonial intermediaries (235). The book nonetheless lends itself to broader readings. Historians of Malawi undoubtedly will benefit most from McCracken’s comprehensive history, but Africanist historians should take heed of the rich material for transnational or comparative research as well.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131780522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"South Sudan: from revolution to independence","authors":"Jesse A. Zink","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829958","url":null,"abstract":"Bespreking van: M. Leriche,South Sudan : From Revolution to Independence :C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd ,2012 978-1849041959","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"86 1","pages":"319 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134561761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The abstinence campaign and the construction of the Balokole identity in the Ugandan Pentecostal movement","authors":"A. Gusman","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829941","url":null,"abstract":"Based on fieldwork data collected since 2005 in Uganda, the paper explores the connections between young Pentecostals' involvement in HIV prevention programs, with a particular attention to the “abstinence campaign”, and the process of identity construction within the movement itself. I show how the rise of the AIDS epidemic contributed in a decisive way to shaping the construction of meaning, and thus the action, of the Balokole (“the Savedees”) movement in Uganda. Theoretically, the article aims at contributing to fill the gap in the analysis of social movements in Africa, especially addressing the specificity of believers' participation in church activities and in evangelical faith-based organizations (FBOs) by exemplifying how the collective identity of the born-again and their mobilization to fight AIDS are reciprocally related. The identity/participation connection clarifies how the feeling of belonging to a strongly connected and partially closed group, that of the “saved” Christians, is pivotal in pushing the Balokole to become active.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115902506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Morality, hope and grief: anthropologies of AIDS in Africa","authors":"B. G. Schoepf","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829939","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125030356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Yao migrant communities, identity construction and social mobilisation against HIV and AIDS through circumcision schools in Zimbabwe","authors":"Anusa Daimon","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829938","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the practice of male circumcision among the migrant Yao people in Zimbabwe with the goal of showing circumcision's importance as a platform for social mobilisation against HIV and AIDS. The work looks at how the practice has health benefits and creates a new form of identity to fight AIDS. It therefore examines the role of the rite in the creation of a collective Yao identity that facilitates mobilisation against the pandemic within the community. This mobilisation is a complex and contentious process, which involves various levels of negotiation, reconstruction and reconfiguration of Yao identity and the circumcision practice (the surgical act and teachings about it), both within and outside the group. The article argues that the practice can be viewed as a form of an African social movement that is largely driven by a complex but self-conscious collective identity and is also induced by the global donor interest in the circumcision–AIDS debate.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":" 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120826524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A history of Malawi: 1859–1966","authors":"Geoffrey Traugh","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829947","url":null,"abstract":"Many on the left will find Marais’ exploration of potentially counter-hegemonic social movements unsatisfactory. He offers reason for hope, but less than most would like. The Landless People’s Movement, shack-dwellers, the rise and fall of the Anti-Poverty Forum, all deserve more attention. Absent here, however, are the challenges taking place within the union-movement, with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) old guard losing ground as the precariously employed failed to be defended under its umbrella. There is also nothing on South Africa’s regional relations, which are feeding a debate on the nature of imperialism (see Alden and Soko 2005; Biel 2003; Bond 2012, 2006; Bracking 2003; Bracking and Harrison 2003; Lesufi 2006; Samson 2009). Yet Marais does take stock of an era in history, setting South African political economy into a broader global context with a brilliant, integrated analysis. Surely there is room for a critique of his use of Gramsci, though his employment of it here is compelling.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124462325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wars of plunder: conflicts, profits and the politics of resources","authors":"C. Hunsberger","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829944","url":null,"abstract":"__Abstract__ \u0000 \u0000In Wars of Plunder, Philippe Le Billon investigates relationships between resources and \u0000conflict. The book’s main argument is “that resource sectors influence the likelihood and \u0000course of armed conflicts. In short, some resources make wars more likely, nasty, and \u0000lengthy” – but this straightforward statement belies the complexity of the analysis that \u0000follows (4). Le Billon uses the rare combination of econometric and political ecology \u0000approaches to explore conflicts involving oil, diamonds and timber, and draws on an \u0000equally diverse professional background to consider strategic responses. In doing so he \u0000advocates a hybrid understanding of resources that emphasises both their social and \u0000material character, and an expanded definition of violence that includes structural, social, \u0000physical, and environmental forms.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"424 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115643448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}