This volume provides new insights and conceptual understandings of the human and gender dimension of vulnerability in relation to the dynamics of tenure reforms in the dryland forests of Asia and Africa. The book analyzes the interaction between biophysical factors such as climate variability (e.g. droughts) with socio-political processes (e.g. new institutions and authority) and gender dimensi…
This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. It is conducted by tracing and analysing place-naming processes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa during colonial times (British, French, Belgian, Portuguese), with a considerable attention to both the pre-colonial…
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut-Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban ‘modernity’ in Africa.
Perjanjian yang menciptakan Pengadilan Afrika dan Hak Asasi Manusia dan Masyarakat, jika dan ketika mulai berlaku, mengandung unsur-unsur inovatif yang berpotensi signifikan tidak dapat berimplikasi pada pendekatan substantif dan prosedural saat ini terhadap penyelesaian sengketa regional dan internasional. Menyatukan otoritas terkemuka dalam hukum pidana internasional, hak asasi manusia, dan k…
Menelusuri kebangkitan dan kejatuhan Dar es Salaam sebagai pusat revolusi Dunia Ketiga, George Roberts mengeksplorasi hubungan antara Perang Dingin global, perjuangan pembebasan Afrika, dan upaya Tanzania untuk membangun negara sosialis.Alih-alih memahami dekolonisasi melalui lensa nasional, ia menempatkan persimpangan dinamika ini di kota yang terhubung secara global di Afrika Timur. Pembuat…