African politics of survival : extraversion and informality in the contemporary world / edited by Mitsugi Endo, Ato Kwamena Onoma & Michael Neocosmos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Endō, Mitsugi, 1962- editor, contributor.

Onoma, Ato Kwamena, 1975- editor, contributor.

Neocosmos, M., editor, contributor.

Matsuda, Motoji, 1955- series editor.

Series:

African potentials (Series) ; v. 1.

African potentials (Series) ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Institutional cooperation.

Politics and government.

Africa--Social conditions--21st century.

Africa.

Social conditions.

Africa--Politics and government--21st century.

Institutional cooperation--Africa.

Physical Description:

xv, 290 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2021]

Summary:

"This volume addresses two primary research concerns: first, considering extraversion (or extroversion) as a term for characterizing a region that is "mobilizing resources from their (possibly unequal) relationship with the external environment", a dynamic that constitutes a possible African potential; and, second, a survey of competing systems and strategies with a focus on relationships between formal and informal institutions in terms of their collaborations and conflicts. In addition, this volume contains three chapters examining very recent African responses to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic from a variety of perspectives. The final part of this volume contains an important contribution to the conceptualization of 'African Potentials'. This has proven to be a significant conceptual innovation, that allows intellectual access to alternative ways of thinking about latent ideas of universality."-Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A Legitimate Proxy? The United Nations Operation in Cote d'lvoire from the Perspective of African Regional Organizations / Akira Sato

2. Overcoming the Dichotomy between Africa and the West: Norms and Measures for Arms Transfers to Non-State Actors (NSAs) / Tamara Enomofo

3. Competing Local Knowledges of an Indigenous Plant: The Social Construction of Legitimate Rooibos Use in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Toshihiro Abe

4. The Working Collapsed State as a Resilient Reaction in the Contemporary World: The Case of Somalia / Mitsugi Endo

5. When African Potentials Fail to Work: The Background to Recent Land Conflicts in Africa / Shinichi Takeuchi

6. `Peace from Below' as an African Potential: Wars and Peace in South Sudan / Fisei Kurimoto

7. Institutional Bricolage in Responses to Public Health Crises in South Africa: Between Path Dependency and Flexibility / Kumiko Makino

8. Kusina Amai Hakuendwe: Diasporan Zimbabweans, COVID-19 and Nomadic Global Citizenship / Artwell Nhemachena

9. Epidemics, Negotiability and Futurity in Africa and Beyond / Ato Kwamena Onoma

10. African Potentials and the Thought of Universal Humanity: The Latent Universalism in African Popular Cultures / Michael Neocosmos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789956551682

9956551686

OCLC:

1241163631

Publisher Number:

99989206697