From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures: Reflections on Africa - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108476600 ISBN 13: 9781108476607

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Hiroyuki Hino is DUCIGS Fellow at Duke University and Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town, where his field specialities are African economic development, social cohesion and poverty in Africa, and economic policies in Africa. He is a co-editor of Youth and Employment in Sub-Sahara Africa: Working But Poor (2013) and Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa: Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge, 2012).

Arnim Langer is Director of the Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD), Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Peacebuilding and Associate Professor of International Politics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. In addition, he is currently holding an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on matters of ethnicity, inequality and conflict.

John Lonsdale is a fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge where he retired as Professor of Modern African History. He was co-winner of the Trevor Reece prize in Commonwealth history (1992) with co-author Bruce Berman, for Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa (1992), he has co-edited and contributed to Mau Mau and Nationhood (2003); Writing for Kenya: The Life and Works of Henry Muoria (2009); Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa (Cambridge, 2012); and S. H. Fazan's memoir, Colonial Kenya Observed (2015).

Frances Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford. Her previous publications include Advancing Human Development: Theory and Practice (2018) with Gustav Ranis and Emma Samman; Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies (2008); and War and Underdevelopment, with E. V. K. Fitzerald and others (2001).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1108476600
• ISBN 13: 9781108476607
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 468
• Herausgeber: Hino Hiroyuki, Langer Arnim, Lonsdale John
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italien