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A Research Itinerary from Fieldwork to Archives: Cape Town (South Africa), Festivals, Music, ‘Identities,’ Politics
Martin, Denis-Constant. 2021. A Research Itinerary from Fieldwork to Archives: Cape Town (South Africa), Festivals, Music, ‘Identities,’ Pol...
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National Identity and State Formation in Africa
Castells, Manuel and Bernard Lategan, B. (Eds.). 2021. National Identity and State Formation in Africa. Polity Press. https://politybooks.co...
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Ethiopia’s Challenge: Multiple Identities vs. Mono-Identity
Identity conflicts abound globally.
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Beyond Shame: The Decline of the “Rainbow Nation.”
Adam, Heribert. 2016. Beyond Shame: The Decline of the “Rainbow Nation.” Pp. 38–43 in Re-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in t...
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National Identities and State Formation
National identity is the set of inter-related cultural attributes that provides meaning and self-recognition to a collective of humans who define themselves as a national community.
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The new middle class in Africa in comparative perspective
Comparative perspectives from the global south can tell us much about the meteoric rise of the new middle class in Africa.
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A Social History of Democratic South African Told in Nine Lives
The book I am writing is a social history of the first two decades of South African democracy.
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Democracy at the Crossroads? Normative, performance and legitimacy changes in contemporary democracies
Current crises can hardly be reduced to fiscal or economic phenomena; they seem to be much deeper, including the crisis of democracy per se.
