$6
Tenkir Bonger
ISBN: 0850-2633
CODESRIA 1996
Dimensoes da Pobreza e da vulnerabilidade em Cabo Verde: Uma Abordagem Sistémica e Interdisplinar (Printed)
“Dimensões da pobreza e da vulnerabilidade em Cabo Verde: Uma abordagem sistémica e interdisciplinar” resulta de um trabalho de investigação realizado por um grupo de pesquisadores cabo-verdiano no âmbito da iniciativa do CODESRIA para os países africanos lusófonos.
Constituiu o leitmotiv da investigação a compreensão do fenómeno da pobreza e da vulnerabilidade no contexto cabo-verdiano, buscando ultrapassar as abordagens até então hegemónicas e que colocam o acento tónico essencialmente no rendimento. Na verdade, a abordagem retida por este estudo não exclui e nem subestima a importância do rendimento na determinação da pobreza e da vulnerabilidade. Contudo, pretendeu-se avançar um pouco mais, trazendo novas determinantes do fenómeno, cortando com uma visão uni- causal na explicação da pobreza.
Uma das questões que se colocou, ao menos para reflexão, se prende com o facto de se, na verdade, o rendimento é efectivamente uma determinante da pobreza, quando é a situação da pobreza que pode condicionar o acesso a rendimentos e a demais bens e serviços, incluindo os bens simbólicos. Assim, a investigação procura situar a abordagem numa perspectiva sistémica e integrada, busca captar as múltiplas dimensões da pobreza e da vulnerabilidade, tanto em termos de suas determinantes quanto de sua manifestação e de tradução discursiva.
Cláudio Alves Furtado
West Africa’s Trouble Spots and the Imperative for Peace -Building
This monograph highlights the necessity for taking preventive measures in the form of peace-building as a sustainable and long-term solution to conflicts in West Africa, with a special focus on the Mano River Union countries. Apart from the Mano River Union countries, efforts at resolving other conflicts in say, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, C?te d’Ivoire and Nigeria, have suffered from a lack of attention on the post-conflict imperatives of building peace in order to ensure that sustainable peace is achieved. Given the often intractable and inter-related nature of conflicts in this region, it argues for the need to revisit the existing mechanisms of conflict resolution in the sub-region with a view to canvassing a stronger case for stakeholders towards adopting the peace-building strategy as a more practical and sustainable way of avoiding wars in the sub-region. Peace-building in consonance with its infrastructure is a more sustainable approach to ensuring regional peace and stability and, therefore, ensuring development for the peoples of West Africa. Dr Osita Agbu is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos. His areas of specialization include Peace and Conflict studies, Governance and Democratization and Technology and Development. He was until recently, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan.
Usages et pratiques des TIC dans les situations éducatives et de formation pour la résolution de problèmes complexes (Ebook)
L’université Gaston Berger de St Louis a entrepris depuis quelques années un processus dynamique de diversification de son offre de formation et d’amélioration de ses stratégies pédagogiques. Dans ce cadre, il a été mis en place une UFR des Sciences de l’éducation. Ce travail cherche à voir de quelles manières, les étudiants africains peuvent participer à la réflexion globale sur les défis de nos pays par la mise en oeuvre de curriculum d’enseignement et de formation en technologie éducative cohérent et pragmatique prenant en charge les dynamiques de changement dans lesquelles s’engagent nos états. Il cherche également à réinterroger le rôle des écoles et des institutions d’enseignement supérieur dans la manière de repenser nos défis en termes d’habiletés indispensables. En se fondant sur les approches innovantes en Technologie éducative, qui prennent appui sur les théories socioconstructivistes en sciences de l’apprentissage, des dispositifs numériques seront utilisés pour collaborer (coélaborer) à la résolution de problèmes complexes inhérents aux mutations des sociétés modernes. Et pour cela, il est envisagé une approche méthodologique fondée sur l’approche par les compétences par une mise en application des principes qui encadrent la coélaboration de connaissances (12 Principes de Knowledge Building) et à travers une démarche itérative s’appuyant sur la « Design Based-Research » (Recherche basée sur la conception).
Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy (Printed)
« Riveting, compelling, engaging and inspiring… Not only is Kenya : The Struggle for Democracy a book of first-rate scholarship, it is an informative and readable treatise on the everyday expressions of Kenyan citizens’ intense passion for openness, justice and responsible governance ». Lisa Aubrey, Ohio University « A very refreshing, rigorous, informative and multidisciplinary analysis of Kenya’s transition to democratic governance, Kenya : The Struggle for Democracy not only identifies the reasons behind Kenya’s failure to institutionalise democracy, but it also provides possible solutions ». John Mukum Mbaku, Willard L. Eccles Professor of Economics and John S. Hinckley Fellow, Weber State University « A moving and comprehensive analysis of institutions and actors that have shaped Kenya’s future… For Africanists, this is compulsory reading which requires a response ». Winnie Mitullah, University of Nairobi.
Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa – Myths of Decolonization
Coloniality of Power marries the historical complexities of the past with the ambiguities of the present to expose the obstacles imposed by domination and exploitation, while at the same time revealing the oppositional strategies of intellectual and other forms of everyday and organized resistance and nationalism on behalf of the ongoing project of nation building. The urgency of the moment drives the practical insurgencies to produce The Africa We Want.
Toyin Falola, Professor and author of Decolonizing African Studies
“Ndlovu-Gatsheni demonstrates an encyclopedic knowledge of post-colonial and colonial theory in his evaluation of current African problems.” (From review of Coloniality of Power in Journal of Retracing Africa)
Jason Morgan, University of Texas at Austin
“To decolonise is not automatically to emancipate; to proclaim the postcolonial is not necessarily to end dependency. These terms become often a rhetoric to avoid a sometimes painful exploration and interrogation of the contradictions involved in the long road to true and authentic freedoms. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s startling and important new book refuses us the luxury of rhetoric and invites us to go very much deeper.”
Stephen Chan, Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
CHASING FREEDOM Histories, Analyses and Voices of Student Activism in South Africa
Zukiswa Mqolomba is a former SRC President of the University of Cape Town, former Provincial Executive Committee member of SASCO and alumnus student leader. She is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar and Chevening scholar. She has two master’s degrees and also holds an executive leadership training certificate. Mqolomba now works for the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa.
Suntosh R. Pillay is a clinical psychologist and researcher in the public sector in Durban, South Africa, with roots in student journalism, community mobilizing and mental health advocacy. He completed his Masters in Social Sciences degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), and is affiliated to UKZN’s Department of Clinical Medicine. He is committed to developing critical psychopolitical theory and practices in South Africa.
Love and Desire : Concepts, Narratives and Practices of sex Amongst Youths in Maputo City (Printed)
This monograph analyses the perceptions and practices of sexuality among young people in post-colonial and post-socialist Maputo city. Using a combination of various methods, it compares sexuality in two different generation and describes two diverse kinds of relationships : the occasional and steady.
Occasional relationships tend to show a new pattern of condom use that corroborates the discourse advocated in the prevention of HIV/AIDS ; and the steady where sex is proposition of commitment on the part of young men, and where, there are major possibilities of HIV/AIDS infection. In both kinds of relationships, sex, described by informants in terms of a model of heterosexual penetration, is perceived as a factor that permits transition from childhood to adulthood, by passing parental and other senior kin control.
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