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Advocacy in conflict : critical perspectives on transnational activism / / edited by Alex De Waal
| Advocacy in conflict : critical perspectives on transnational activism / / edited by Alex De Waal |
| Autore | De Waal Alex |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 pages) |
| Disciplina | 303.66 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mass media and social service
Social advocacy Celebrities Human rights Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) |
| ISBN |
1-350-21805-7
1-78360-272-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Transnational Advocacy In Contention / Keren Yohannes -- 2. Genealogies Of Transnational Activism / Alex de Waal -- 3. Burma's Struggle For Democracy: A Critical Appraisal / Trisha Taneja -- 4. The Janus Face Of International Activism And Guatemala's Indigenous Peoples / Roddy Brett -- 5. Advocacy Delegitimized: The Convoluted Case Of Gaza / Anat Biletzki -- 6. Conflict Minerals In Congo: The Consequences Of Oversimplification / Laura Seay -- 7.̀Make Him Famous': The Single Conflict Narrative Of Kony And Kony2012 / Mareike Schomerus -- 8. Getting Away With Mass Murder: The Spla And Its American Lobbies / Alex de Waal -- 9. From Whose Perspective Anyway? The Quest For African Disability Rights Activism / Kudzai Shava -- 10. Activism And The Arms Trade: Exposing The Shadow World / Alex de Waal -- 11.A Right To Land? Activism Against Land Grabbing In Africa / Rachel Ibreck -- 12. Conclusion: Reclaiming Activism / Jennifer Ambrose. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788130503321 |
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| London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Advocacy in conflict : critical perspectives on transnational activism / / edited by Alex De Waal
| Advocacy in conflict : critical perspectives on transnational activism / / edited by Alex De Waal |
| Autore | De Waal Alex |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 pages) |
| Disciplina | 303.66 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mass media and social service
Social advocacy Celebrities Human rights Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) |
| ISBN |
1-350-21805-7
1-78360-272-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Transnational Advocacy In Contention / Keren Yohannes -- 2. Genealogies Of Transnational Activism / Alex de Waal -- 3. Burma's Struggle For Democracy: A Critical Appraisal / Trisha Taneja -- 4. The Janus Face Of International Activism And Guatemala's Indigenous Peoples / Roddy Brett -- 5. Advocacy Delegitimized: The Convoluted Case Of Gaza / Anat Biletzki -- 6. Conflict Minerals In Congo: The Consequences Of Oversimplification / Laura Seay -- 7.̀Make Him Famous': The Single Conflict Narrative Of Kony And Kony2012 / Mareike Schomerus -- 8. Getting Away With Mass Murder: The Spla And Its American Lobbies / Alex de Waal -- 9. From Whose Perspective Anyway? The Quest For African Disability Rights Activism / Kudzai Shava -- 10. Activism And The Arms Trade: Exposing The Shadow World / Alex de Waal -- 11.A Right To Land? Activism Against Land Grabbing In Africa / Rachel Ibreck -- 12. Conclusion: Reclaiming Activism / Jennifer Ambrose. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808630603321 |
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| London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The real politics of the Horn of Africa : money, war and the business of power / / Alex de Waal
| The real politics of the Horn of Africa : money, war and the business of power / / Alex de Waal |
| Autore | De Waal Alex |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.20963 |
| Soggetto topico |
Political culture - Horn of Africa
Political violence - Horn of Africa Political corruption - Horn of Africa |
| ISBN | 0-7456-9561-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Dedication""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Figures and Maps""; ""Figures""; ""Maps""; ""Acronyms""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements""; ""1: Introduction""; ""The View from the Edge""; ""A Vignette: The Darfur Negotiations""; ""Vernacular Politics in Sudan""; ""From Political Vernacular to Political Theory""; ""Outline of the Book""; ""Notes""; ""2: The Political Marketplace""; ""'No Condition is Permanent'""; ""The Political Marketplace and Real Politics""; ""Political Entrepreneurs and Business Managers""; ""Specifying the Variables of 'Real Politics'""
""State-Building versus Political-Business Management""""A Story of Men""; ""Notes""; ""3: The Horn of Africa""; ""Visualizing the Horn of Africa""; ""A Laboratory of Conflicts""; ""The Contested Political Geography of the Horn""; ""When Things Fell Apart""; ""Africa's Subcontinental War""; ""The New Rentierism and the African Security Architecture""; ""Notes""; ""4: Darfur""; ""A Near-Perfect Political Marketplace""; ""Closed Districts and the Thirty Years' War""; ""The Auction of Loyalties""; ""Regulating the Market?""; ""The Functions and Limits of Violence"" ""Implications: the Interwar""""Notes""; ""5: Sudan""; ""The Unexpected Survivor""; ""The Financial Skeleton of Sudanese Politics""; ""Nimeiri's Chameleon Dictatorship 1969-85""; ""Sadiq al Mahdi's Impossible Balancing Act""; ""The 1990s: Survival Against the Odds""; ""The Oil Boom and Rentier Peace""; ""Post-Separation Sudan""; ""Implications""; ""Notes""; ""6: South Sudan""; ""The Price of Independence""; ""Garang's Challenges""; ""Salva's Business Plan""; ""The Skeleton of the South Sudanese State""; ""New War, Old Peace""; ""An Alternative Ethic?""; ""Notes""; ""7: Somalia"" ""Mogadishu 1992""""The Somali Nation and State""; ""Siyad Barre's Security Rentier Kleptocracy""; ""Commerce without a State""; ""Political Rentierism without a State""; ""The Communications Revolution""; ""Islamist Challenges""; ""Globalized Somalia""; ""Piracy and Counter-Piracy""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""8: Somaliland""; ""Somaliland Exceptionalism""; ""Convening Somaliland""; ""Political Finance""; ""How Was Somaliland Secured?""; ""Implications""; ""Notes""; ""9: Eritrea""; ""Fascism and Maoism""; ""Militarized Developmental State- and Nation-Building"" ""Funding a Garrison State, 2001-2011""""The Seeds of a Rentier Political Marketplace""; ""Implications""; ""Notes""; ""10: Ethiopia""; ""The Ethiopian Configuration""; ""Meles Zenawi in Government: Theory and Practice""; ""Is State Building (Still) Possible?""; ""Notes""; ""11: Transnational Patronage and Dollarization""; ""The 'Non-Integrated Gap'""; ""The Commodities Boom""; ""Illicit Finance""; ""Aid Rents and Global Governance""; ""Counter-Terrorism Rent""; ""Criminal and Law-Enforcement Rents""; ""The 'New Peacekeeping'""; ""Peacemaking in the Political Marketplace"" ""Globalizing Patronage"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910157453903321 |
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De Waal Alex
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| Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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