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African co-operatives and efficiency
- 1972
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 1971 the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies and the East and Central African Office of the International Co-operative Alliance organized a seminar entitled "Efficiency in the Performance of Co-operatives" and it was held at the Co-operative College, Langata, Kenya. The papers in this volume are introductory papers sent to the participants before the seminar, as well as statements made by members of various organizations participating. Although the approaches seem different, there is one similarity to the co-operatives; all of the authors are trying in one way or another to answer the question: "What is co-operative efficiency?"
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African refugees and the law
- 1978
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 1966 the institute held an international conference on refugee problems in Africa [...] We have since then followed the refugee questions at the institute and were very encouraged by the initiative by the All Africa Conference of Churches to call a major consultation on these problems in 1977. The institute participated in the preparatory meeting in early 1977 and decided to hold a preparatory meeting for the consultation on legal aspects of the refugee problem. This conference was held at Uppsala in October 1977 and the proceedings are presented in this volume. [From the preface.]
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Authoritarianism, democracy and adjustment : the politics of economic reform in Africa
- 1992
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- An invaluable introduction to the issues raised about the winners and losers of structural adjustment policies. The book raises new questions and serves as a research agenda for further exploration. It will be a standard work and is a stimulating introduction to political economy in Africa in the 1990s. Countries discussed include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique.
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Canada, Scandinavia and Southern Africa
- 1978
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In February 1978 a joint Scandinavian-Canadian conference was held in Ottawa. The conference was intended to examine and discuss Canadian and Scandinavian perspectives on and policies towards the states of Southern Africa, and to analyse and compare the different development strategies and political economies that have emerged in the region in recent years. Scholars, officials and activists from Scandinavia, Canada and Africa were invited to attend. The conference was sponsored by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University (Ottawa), and the Centre for African Studies at Dalhousie University (Halifax).The present volume concentrates on the relations between Canada, Scandinavia and Southern Africa. A companion volume Conflict and Change in Southern Africa, edited by D. Anglin, T. Shaw and C. Widstrand (University Press of America, 1978) incorporates a variety of analyses, perceptions and ideologies and discusses the position of the front - line states, the liberation movements and prospects of change within South Africa.
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Cooperatives revisited
- 1988
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe provide examples in this book of the problems and progress of the cooperative movement in Africa. The studies presented here were the major contributions to a seminar for African and European scholars specializing in examining the development of cooperatives. Certain themes reoccur: the relationships between the cooperatives and the state, the influence of the national economy on the local cooperatives, the pros and cons of the producer cooperatives. The tone is now very much against direct state control. Other themes are new: the role of women in cooperatives, a cautious view of external assistance to central bodies, and the need for self-help groups.
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Criticism and ideology
- 1988
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book contains contributions from African writers who discuss current issues in African literature, such as the role of the writer in society, the writers commitment to society or to the craft, a new woman's voice in literature, and recent South African literature, superseding the protest tradition.
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Culture in Africa : an appeal for pluralism
- 1993
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The essays in this publication range from poetry and drama to church music, architecture, and popular magazines. Common to them is the effort to make the disciplines of arts and those of social sciences meet. African cultural expressions are treated here as anchored in the experiences common to the people of Africa, while the provincial exclusiveness of Afrocentrism is shunned.
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Inducing food insecurity : perspectives on food policies in Eastern and Southern Africa
- 1994
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The scope and context of food security is complex, and it involves macro- and micro-policy perspectives ranging from pricing, distribution, and technology to consumption patterns and food habits. This borevisits the factors which contributed to the decline in food production in eastern and southern Africa and traces them to the food policies of a given country or countries. It also includes chapters dealing with the dynamics of rural or urban food systems, pastoral production, indigenous knowledge and the consequences of technological intervention.
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Land management and survival
- 1985
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume presents the papers read at the workshop arranged by the Scandinavian Institute of african Studies, in March 1985, with the theme "Land management and survival". The purpose of the workshop was to initiate an exchange of views over problems of interpretation. Two disciplinary perspectives were exchanged: one focusing on land, its uses and management, and the other one on people, their resources and lives.
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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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Recession in Africa : background papers to the seminar Africa - which way out of the recession?, Uppsala, September 1982
- 1983
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In September 1982 a number of researchers and representatives of the Nordic development agencies as well as members of several international organizations were invited to discuss the nature and origin of the "recession" in Sub-Saharan Africa. In preparing the seminar a number of scholars were invited to write background papers.The country case studies and a paper on strategic issues are presented in this volume. By way of an introduction a presentation is given of the World Bank Report "Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - An Agenda for Action", and of the Lagos Plan of Action, adopted by the Organization of African Unity.
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Refugees and development in Africa
- 1987
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book discusses why refugees flee, how and whether they become integrated, the relations between development assistance and refugee assistance, and the legal status of the refugees. The concept of 'people's rights' is discussed, and the rights to development with special reference to the refugees.
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Regional cooperation in Southern Africa : a post-apartheid perspective
- 1989
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics, from regional cooperation in the field of information and the role of Non-Governmental Organizations, to shipping structures, industrial development and the regional policy of South Africa.
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Religion and politics in Southern Africa
- 1991
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As steps are taken towards the end of apartheid and a new political future in South Africa the theme of religion and politics is both topical and urgent. Religion plays and will play a large part in South Africa, as the experiences of Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Namibia already show. The contributions from an interdisciplinary seminar held in Uppsala, Sweden, offer both sceptical, self-critical, hopeful and cautious perspectives from a variety of viewpoints.
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Small town Africa : studies in rural-urban interaction
- 1990
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Small towns have often been considered as unimportant or even as anomalous phenomena and consequently have been largely ignored by policy makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change without consideration being given to the positive contribution that small towns can make to rural transformation.But for the overwhelming majority of Africa's population which is rural, it is the small town with which they have the most frequent and intense contacts and which provides the foci for economic, social, political and cultural rural-urban interaction. The papers in this book address a wide range of issues relating to the small town in rural context from both the macro perspective, including the role of the state, to the micro perspective where attention is given to the vitality and adaptability of individual actors through their utilisation of rural and urban opportunities. Case studies are drawn from Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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South-south relations in a changing world order
- 1982
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The traditional division of labour in the world economy, with its clearest expressions during the colonial period, is gradually disappearing. The emerging world order exhibits as one of its most significant features, increasing economic and political contacts between countries situated in the South. This trend represents a challenge to the previously so dominant North-South relations. It therefore raises a number of important questions, particularly with regard to the future of the South. To examine and discuss the problem areas involved, the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies organized a seminar in May 1981 on "The Emergence of South-South Relations in a Changing World Order". The agenda of the seminar concentrated on two major issues: Do South-South relations contain possibilities for development in the South not found in the old international division of labour? Or do they simply possess the same exploitative characteristics as the classic North-South exchange, therefore creating a process of accelerating unequal development in the South? The present volume addresses itself to these important issues by focusing on two particularly interesting cases of expansionism in the South, the Brazilian penetration of West Africa and the Indian activities in Asia and Africa.
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The IMF and the World Bank in Africa : conditionality, impact and alternatives
- 1987
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Most Sub-Saharan African countries have, during the 1980s, implemented a program of structural adjustment in conjunction with the IMF and the World Bank. These international institutions have thus had a decisive role in the formulation of economic policies in these countries.In early 1987, a conference on the "IMF and the World Bank in Africa" was arranged by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies in Uppsala. In the conference the character of the conditionality requirements attached to these programs were investigated by a group of international experts and their impacts were analysed on a macro-level and through specific studies of Nigeria, the Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, the Ivory Coast and India for comparative purposes. The conference also aimed at suggesting alternative and improved conditionality in the African context.
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The making of a periphery : economic development and cultural encounters in southern Tanzania
- 1998
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What makes a periphery? The southeastern corner of Tanzania is officially one of the poorest corners of the world and is always presented as a peripheral area. This volume presents a lively discussion on the making of a periphery. The contributors show the interaction between the perceptions of outsiders, the views of local people, and the actual development efforts. The authors perceive development as a negotiated and contested field. Culture is not considered a factor constraining development but is seen rather as an engine which, due to the plurarlity of local and outsider cultures, sets the parameters for the battle. The volume include chapters on the major local economic sectors, social development, and cultural debates. In each chapter, the making of periphery is addressed from a different perspective.
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When the grass is gone : development intervention in African arid lands
- 1991
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book discusses some of the consequences of development interventions for ordinary people, and some of their environmental concomitants. The contributors all raise new questions of how to redeem the people who live in the arid lands from their present predicament and how to enable them to manage their own future. Many of the insights have been sharpened by ideas well-known to peasants and pastoralists, but seldom discussed among policymakers.
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The rural-urban interface in Africa : expansion and adaption
- 1995
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book explores how some of the specific sectors, organisations and actors influence and shape the functioning of small towns in Africa. A number of the contributors of the volume point to the resilience and ingenuity of Africa's rural and urban population and demonstrate how they adapt strategies which enables them to survive and, in some cases, even to thrive. Case studies are drawn from Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. The volume fills a gap for undergraduate and graduate courses in geography, sociology, anthropology, development studies, as well as urban and rural planning.
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