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AIDS i Afrika
- 1993
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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National identity and democracy in Africa
- 1999
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- "This is not a contribution to nation-building. I hope it helps disrupt nation-building". These words by film-maker Zackie Ahmat gave a kick-start to the discussions at the international conference on "National Identity and Democracy" held at the University of the Western Cape 14-18 March 1997, and they also introduce the theme for the book with some of the best contributions to the conference.Ahmat's understanding of "nation-building" was the kind of cultural homogenisation ordered from above which has been the rule in many parts of the world, not least in Africa. Nation-building has here often been been a hypocritical cloak for the hegemony of an elite, sometimes mobilising support from just one cultural group. By the title of the conference the organisers wanted to invite a discussion both on the insight that building a nation and building democracy are not necessarily twins, and on the risks of the misuse of power in the name of the nation.South Africa represents a possible and hopeful departure from the homogenisation model, with its explicit pluralism expressed in the adoption of 11 official languages. Six of the papers deal with the South African experiment, with an examination of the policy of non-racialism and the specific challenges posed by migrant workers, group identities and the themes of gender and nation. Other chapters are case studies from national identity formation on the contested cultural terrain in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Angola, Nigeria, and Tanzania. The book also contains an annotated bibliography.
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- Palmberg, Mai
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African culture for Nordic people
- 1997
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- This document is an analysis of how African culture is conveyed by Nordic non-govermnental organisations, based on a survey conducted by the Nordic Africa Institute.
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- Palmberg, Mai, et al.
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Same and other : negotiating African identity in cultural production
- 2001
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The idea of African Otherness has occupied a central role in discourses on cultural production in Africa, whether film, literature, music or the arts. These claims, articulated both by 'Western' and 'African' critics and consumers, means that particular criteria and standards are adopted in relation to cultural production in Africa. The claim to African Otherness is gaining new strength in the wake of globalisation, but it is also increasingly challenged by a number of contemporary artists. This book deals with the question of relevance and meaning of the signifier in various fields of contemporary cultural production in Africa: literature, film, sculpture, music, popular drama.
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Playing with identities in contemporary music in Africa
- 2002
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The musics of Africa play a particularly important role in expressing and forming identities. This book brings together African and Nordic scholars from both musicology and other disciplines in an attempt to analyse various aspects of the complex playing with volatile identities in music in Africa today. Taken together the papers put new light on the assumed or real dichotomies between countryside and city, collective and individual, tradition and modernity, authentic and alien.The papers are based on contributions for a conference organised by the research project "Cultural Images in and of Africa" of the Nordic Africa Institute together with the Sibelius Museum/Department of Musicology and the Centre for Continuing Education at Åbo Akademi University in Åbo (Turku), Finland in Oct. 2000.The book includes a keynote speech by Christopher Waterman (UCLA), and an introduction by Annemette Kirkegaard, Copenhagen University. Both Southern, West and East Africa are represented in the studies, which cover a great variety of musics.
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- Palmberg, Mai, 1943-, et al.
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Sydafrika : en regnbågsnation föds
- 1995
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- De senaste åren har inneburit omvälvande förändringar i Sydafrika. Denna bok skildrar den tid och de händelser som ledde fram till att Sydafrika förvandlades från en minoritetsstyrd rasistisk diktatur till en demokrati. Författarna diskuterar också de frågor, risker och möjligheter som kan uppstå under övergångstiden mellan det första valet i april 1994 och nästa val 1999. Arvet efter apartheid inom snart sagt alla samhällssektorer diskuteras och ANC:s och den nuvarande samlingsregeringens politik för det nya Sydafrika analyseras.Tillräcklig historisk bakgrund ges för att boken ska kunna läsas utan annan introduktion till landet. Boken kan användas både för enskild läsning och för gruppstudier eller projektstudier i skolan.
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Problems of socialist orientation in Africa
- 1978
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Papers from a Seminar on Non-capitalist Development in Africa Organised by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, in Co-operation with the Institute of Development Studies, Helsinki, August 16-19, 1976, in Helsinki, Finland.
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