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Title: Ethnicity and Sociopolitical Change in Africa and Other
Developing Countries: A Constructive Discourse in State Building Editor: Santosh Saha Publisher: Lexington Books Year of Publication: 2008 Discounted Price: $55.25 (15% off) List Price: $65.00 Cloth 0-7391-2332-7 / 978-0-7391-2332-4 Mar 2008 266pp To Purchase Copies: http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/catalog (Type in "Santosh Saha" in Author space) According to Clayton J. Peoples, University of Nevada, Reno, "Saha has put together an impressive set of new articles and essays that challenge the conventional pessimistic view of ethnicity as a negative force in African and other developing nations, instead illustrating the positive role of ethnicity in political and social life. This is a refreshing perspective on the value of ethnic diversity at a time when ethnicity is too often cited as the primary source of social ills and conflict. It is therefore a valuable book for anyone seeking a more balanced perspective on the multifaceted—and potentially positive—role of ethnicity in the developing world." This edited collection of essays answers a basic question posed by contemporary discourse on state building: How might people's identification with a particular ethnic group matter? Essays in this book use an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to understanding regional and local community culture and socio-political development in developing countries-especially in Sub-Saharan Africa-to argue that the state, as well as civil society, confers on cultural differences a legitimacy that can be achieved in no other way but by positive cooperation. Contributors from different countries look at local patterns in state building and modernization as they have unfolded over the course of the last fifty years. They claim that the people and ethnic groups in most developing countries adhere to a concept of popular sovereignty that testifies that aspects of positive and moral ethnicity can contribute to social change as in China, economic development as in India, or in a democratization process as in Rwanda and Burundi. The eventual methodological assumption made by these essays presumes that ethnic conflicts in such countries as Cyprus, Turkey, India, and Rwanda have no moral sanction; ethnicity has not assumed a political ideology. One conclusion reached by the contributors is that some form of accommodation between opposing ethnically diversified groups, as well as between state and ethnic elements, is feasible. Table of Contents for Ethnicity and Sociopolitical Change in
Africa and Other Developing Countries: A
Constructive Discourse in State Building.
Title: Africa and the New Globalization (192 PP +index), 2008 Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company, United Kingdom Editor: George Klay Kieh, Jr. Contributors: George Klay Kieh, Jr., P.I. Idahosa, Jack Mangala, John Mbaku, E.Ike Udogu, all members of the ASRF/ATWS family; and Amy Paterson, a friend of the ASRF/ATWS family To Purchase Copies: http://www.ashgatepublishing.com The Editor, George Klay Kieh, Jr., has this to say: " I would like to thank John Mbaku, the former President of the African Studies and Research Forum, Ike Udogu, the former Director of Research and Publications, Moju Okome, the current President of the ASRF, and Abdul Karim Bangura, the current Director of Research and Publications of the ASRF, for their support which helped make the publication of the book a reality." Authors: Erin McCandless and Karim Bangura; Editors: Mary |
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George Kieh, Liberia's First Civil War: The Crisis of
Underdevelopment, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 2007. The book can be purchased from: Peter Lang Publishing USA 29 Broadway New York, NY 10006 Telephone: 800-770LANG E-mail: customerservice@plang.com Internet: www.peterlang.com Shu-hui Wu, Lien Heng (1878-1936): Taiwan's Search for
Identity and Tradition, Indiana University, 2005. |