This paper presents a framework to understand how conservation, in particular protected
areas and national parks, are resisted, based on theories of subaltern politics and a review …

“No condition is permanent,” a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara S. Berry's
theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book …

Micheline Ishay recounts the dramatic struggle for human rights across the ages in a book
that brilliantly synthesizes historical and intellectual developments from the Mesopotamian …

THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF AN EFFORT to bring historiographies of Africa, Latin America,
and Asia-with their particular scholarly traditions, insights, and blind spots-into relationship …

Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite
capable of acting in their own interests. But, do coherent political ideas emerge within …

From Egypt to South Africa, Nigeria to Ethiopia, a new force for political change is emerging
across Africa: popular protest. Widespread urban uprisings by youth, the unemployed, trade …

The events of May 2008 in which 62 people were killed simply for being" foreign" and
thousands were turned overnight into refugees shook the South African nation. This book is …

How are people in one of Africa's largest cities, Dar es Salaam, capable of surviving day to
day when the downward decline of Tanzania's economy has become so pronounced that …

Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be
regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical …

Uganda has attracted much attention and political visibility for its significant economic
recovery after a catastrophic decline. In her groundbreaking book, Aili Mari Tripp provides …