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Soldiers in parliament: Military power and legislative authority in Uganda

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adaf001

Gerald Bareebe, Christopher Day

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‘A symbol of French colonialism’: The Brazza Memorial and contested colonial memory in Congo

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adaf006

Moudwe Daga

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Rethinking ‘farmer–herder’ conflicts in the Ivorian internal frontier 重新思考科特迪瓦境内边境的“农牧民”冲突

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2025-01-11 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae027

Jeremy Allouche, Cyprien Yao Yao, Kando Soumahoro Amédée

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The urbanization of conflict? Patterns of armed conflict and protest in Africa 冲突的城市化？非洲武装冲突和抗议的模式

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae025

Nick Dorward

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Itinerary of a Christian Ex-Boko Haram bomb maker in Cameroon 喀麦隆一名前 "博科圣地 "炸弹制造者的行程安排

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae021

Raoul Sumo Tayo

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Salafism between purism and politicking: Chieftaincy struggles, party competition, and the Anbariya movement in Dagbon, Northern Ghana 纯粹主义与政治之间的萨拉菲主义：加纳北部达格邦的酋长斗争、政党竞争和安巴里亚运动

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-10-14 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae019

Jannis Saalfeld, Abdulai Iddrisu

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The production of climate security futures in the West African Sahel 西非萨赫勒地区气候安全未来的产生

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae020

Bruno Charbonneau

{"title":"The production of climate security futures in the West African Sahel","authors":"Bruno Charbonneau","doi":"10.1093/afraf/adae020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adae020","url":null,"abstract":"Much has been written and said about the consequences of climate change on security in the West African Sahel. Sceptics argue that claims about the links between global warming and conflict dynamics rest on limited evidence and questionable assumptions. Others work on the institutionalization and operationalization of climate security. This implementation seems inevitable, if slow, difficult, and at times vague, as there is simply no consensus on what climate security implies in practice and what it is meant to achieve. What is climate security, and whose climate security are we talking about? This article analyses climate security as a structure of knowledge and a set of epistemic relationships that inform practices and relationships. It draws on participant observations of a Dakar-based research group that travelled to Bamako, Ouagadougou, and Niamey. At the intersection of research, policy, and programme implementation, this case study provides a unique look into the emergence of climate security relations and practices. The findings point to the rising structural force of climate security and how it can overcome both research uncertainties and sensitive diplomatic relations. The article shows that there is more to climate security than the focus on the conflict-climate nexus lets on.","PeriodicalId":7508,"journal":{"name":"African Affairs","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Policing and Citizen Trust in Kenya: How Community Policing Shapes Local Trust-Building and Collaboration 肯尼亚的警务与公民信任：社区警务如何影响地方信任的建立与合作

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae018

Patrick Mutahi, Kristine Höglund, Emma Elfversson

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Stigmatized Professions and Ambiguous Subjects: Methodological Reflections from Sanitation Workers and Opioid Consumption in Sierra Leone 被污名化的职业和模糊的主体：来自塞拉利昂环卫工人和阿片类药物消费的方法论思考

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae017

Ibrahim Bakarr Bangura, Nelly Leblond, Julian Hugo Walker

{"title":"Stigmatized Professions and Ambiguous Subjects: Methodological Reflections from Sanitation Workers and Opioid Consumption in Sierra Leone","authors":"Ibrahim Bakarr Bangura, Nelly Leblond, Julian Hugo Walker","doi":"10.1093/afraf/adae017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adae017","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores ethical dilemmas in relation to practices of alcohol and drug consumption in the workplace by manual pit emptiers in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Based on observations and interviews with workers, we come to understand the consumption of painkillers and gin as a mechanism to alleviate stigma, rather than an issue of addiction. Indeed, the consumption of psychoactive substances before manual pit emptying appears as a performance to create a symbolic distance between the worker entering half-naked in a tank filled with faecal sludge and the social being, who would never do so in a ‘normal state of mind’. This analysis calls both for a deconstruction of the policies and rules that shape the sanitation sector as shameful and ‘inhuman’ and for proposals to ameliorate those conditions. Furthermore, we explore our positions as researchers on why revealing such practices can make sense in action-oriented research but also must be thought through ethically. Beyond the guidance of institutional ethics boards, the question of short- and long-term engagements with research subjects is central in shaping what ought or ought not to be investigated. We thus contribute to the discussions on how to support better science and practices with and for already stigmatized populations.","PeriodicalId":7508,"journal":{"name":"African Affairs","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141915260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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What do Voters Want From Their Legislators? Evidence From Ghana 选民希望立法者做些什么？来自加纳的证据

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae013

George Kwaku Ofosu

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