Travelling Models in African Conflict Management

Translating Technologies of Social Ordering
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26460-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies

Travelling Models offers a theoretical concept for comparative research on conflict management in Africa in processes of globalization: how is change in one place related to developments in other places? Why are certain issues that are important in one place taken up in other places, while others are not? The authors examine how the travel of models enact changes, particularly in African conflict situations, most often in unexpected ways. They look at what happens when a model has been put into practice at a conflict site, and they pay attention to the forms of social (re-)ordering resulting from this process. The authors look, among others, at conflict managing models of power- and revenue sharing, mediation, freedom of expression, disaster management, community involvement and workshopping.

Contributors are: Andrea Behrends, Lydie Cabane, Veronika Fuest, Dejene Gemechu, Mutasim Bashir Ali Hadi, Remadji Hoinathy, Mario Krämer, Sung-Joon Park, Tinashe Pfigu, Richard Rottenburg, Sylvanus Spencer and Kees van der Waal.

The Introduction of this volume is being offered in Open Access

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Behrends, Andrea

Park, Sung-Joon

Rottenburg, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Generalities

Preface
Andrea Behrends

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Travelling Models. Introducing an analytical concept to globalisation studies
Andrea Behrends, Sung-Joon Park and Richard Rottenburg

Part I Expert interventions and local redefinitions

Chapter 2 Workshopping owners. Policies, procedures and pitfalls of peace-building in the non-state sector of Liberia
Veronika Fuest

Chapter 3 Does rationality travel? Translations of a World Bank model for fair oil revenue distribution in Chad
Remadji Hoinathy and Andrea Behrends

Chapter 4 Conflicts as disasters. Translations of conflict in post-apartheid South Africa?
Lydie Cabane

Part II Institutions of political ordering

Chapter 5 Power-sharing in southeast Darfur. Local translations of an international model
Mutasim Bashir Ali Hadi

Chapter 6 Travelling ideologies and the resurgence of traditional institutions in post-1991 Ethiopia
Dejene Gemechu

Chapter 7 Democratisation between violent conflict and the resurgence of chieftaincy. Local transformations of a travelling model in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Mario Krämer

Part III Mobilisation and communities in social ordering

Chapter 8 Singing for change. Music as a means of political expression for young people in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Sylvanus Spencer

Chapter 9 Translating community policing in different social orders in Stellenbosch, South Africa
Tinashe Pfigu and Kees van der Waal

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Behrends, Dr. phil., is Principal Investigator of a cooperative research project on "Oil and Social Change in Niger and Chad". Her publications focus on political anthropology and Africa.

Sung-Joon Park, is Research Fellow at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. He has published on mass HIV treatment in Uganda.

Richard Rottenburg holds a Chair in Anthropology at the University of Halle, Germany. His research focuses on the anthropology of law, organisation, science and technology (LOST).