Third World Area Studies

Required: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart; a novel (London: Heinemann, 1958)

Required: POLI-3313 Course Kit

Mahmood Mamdani, ‘Introduction’ in Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 3 – 34

Thursday, 29 September Zubairu Wai, ‘On the Banality of Violence: State, Power and the Everyday in Africa’ in Violence in/and the Great Lakes: The Thought of V.Y. Mudimbe and Beyond, edited by Grant Farred, Leonhard Praeg and Kaseraka Kavwahirehi, (Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press), pp. 128-160.

Thursday, 6 October Thandika Mkandawire, ‘Thinking about Developmental States in Africa,’ Cambridge Journal of Economics 25, no. 3 (2001), pp. 289 – 313

Ndongo Samba Sylla, ‘From a marginalised to an emerging Africa? A critical analysis?’ Review of African Political Economy, vol. 41, no. S1 (2014): S7–S25

Tuesday, 18 October Richard Joseph, ‘Democratisation in Africa, After 1989: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives,’ Comparative Politics 29, no. 4 (1997), pp. 363 – 82

John S. Saul, ‘‘For Fear of Being Condemned as Old Fashioned’: Liberal Democracy vs. Popular Democracy in Africa,’ Review of African Political Economy 24, no. 73 (1997), pp. 339-353

Said Adejumobi, ‘Democratic Performance in Africa: Uneven Progress, Faltering Hopes’ in National Democratic Reforms in Africa: Changes and Challenges; Said Adejumobi edited (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 1-22

October 25 Chandra T. Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,’ Feminist Review 30 (1988), pp. 61 – 88

Obioma Nnaemeka, ‘Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology’, in African Gender Studies: A Reader, edited by Oyeronke Oyewumi (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 51-65

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, ‘The Myth of Tribe in African Politics,’ Transition 101, (2009), pp. 16-23

Jean-Francois Bayart, ‘The Shadow Theatre of Ethnicity’ in The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly 2e (London: Polity: 2009), pp. 41-59

Christopher Cramer, ‘Homo Economicus Goes to War: Methodological Individualism, Rational Choice and the Political Economy of War”, World Development 30, no. 2, (2002): 1845 – 1864

Bénédicte Maccatory, Makama Bawa Oumarou & Marc Poncelet, ‘West African Social Movements “Against the High Cost of Living”: From the Economic to the Political, from the Global to the National,’ Review of African Political Economy vol. 37, no.125, (2010), pp. 345-359

Angela Joya, ‘The Egyptian Revolution: Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Potential for Democratic Politics,’ Review of African Political Economy 38, no. 129 (2011), pp. 367-386

Tania Murray Li, “Centering Labor in the Land Grab Debate,” Journal of Peasant Studies 38, no.2 (2011), pp. 281-298

Bikrum Gill, ‘Can the River Speak? Epistemological Confrontation in the Rise and Fall of the Land Grab in Gambella, Ethiopia’ Environment and Planning A, (2015) 1– 19; DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15610243

Denis M. Tull, ‘China’s Engagement in Africa: Scope, Significance, and Consequences’ Journal of Modern African Studies, 44, no. 3 (2006), pp. 459–479