Conference: Fifty years of Jamaican Independence: Developments and Impacts
Friday 10 February 2012
Institute for the Study of the Americas, Room 349, 3rd Floor, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU
Entrance to the conference is free but please RSVP to olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
Programme:
10.00 Welcome
10.15 Opening Address
H.E. Anthony Johnson, Jamaican High Commissioner in London
11.00 Break
11.15 Panel One
Andrew Okola: Jamaican Politics Today
Steven Wilson: Jamaica and Caribbean Integration: Did One from Ten leave Nought?
12.15 Panel Two
Amanda Sives: Reconstructing Citizenship: From Empire to Nation to Diaspora Karen Hunte: The Britain that Jamaica made
13.15 Lunch
14.00 Panel Three
Jean Besson: Maroons, Free Villagers and ‘Squatters’ in the Development of Independent Jamaica David Howard: Informality, security and neighbourhood development in downtown Kingston David Dodman: Caribbean environments in the post-colonial era: resources, risk(s) and responses
15.30 Break
16.00 Keynote Address
Professor Brian Meeks, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
17.00 Close and drinks
Funded by the Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Seminar and Book Launch: George Price: A Life Revealed, by Godfrey P. Smith
Seminar and Book Launch: George Price: A Life Revealed, by Godfrey P. Smith
Wednesday 1st February
18.00-20.00
The Beveridge Hall
Senate House
London WC1E 7HU
The Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies cordially invite you to a seminar and book launch to celebrate the publication of the authorised biography of Belizean Prime Minister and father of the nation, George Price, by Godfrey Smith.
Speaker: Godfrey P. Smith
Commentator: Lord Michael Ashcroft
George Price, who died in 2011, was one of the last of the generation of Caribbean leaders whose political careers were moulded by the struggle for independence. The story of Price is inseparable from the story of the modern political development of Belize, involving the birth of nationalist politics; the formation of political parties; the struggle for independence and maintaining the territorial integrity of Belize against claims by Guatemala. Godfrey Smith examines the life and career of Price within the broader Caribbean context, critically appraising his place within the canon of Caribbean nationalist leaders and the legacies for Caribbean politics today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Godfrey Smith is a former member of the Belize House of Representatives for the Pickstock Division previously held by George Price. He served as a cabinet minister in the PUP administration of Said Musa from 1999-2008, holding various positions including Attorney General and Foreign Minister. Smith is a practicing attorney and writes an online blog www.flashpointbelize.com.
Please RSVP to Olga Jimenez on olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
ABOUT THE BOOK:
George Price: A Life Revealed, by Godfrey P Smith Ian Randle Press, 2011
An ascetic and failed priest, a stoic, father of the nation, prime minister and first national hero of the Central American nation of Belize, George Price remains one of the most enigmatic leaders of the 20th century. Nothing in the early years of Price’s life gave any indication that he would become the most uncompromising adversary of the British government in the struggle, first for self-government and later for Belizean independence, and in the process dominate Belizean politics for over 40 years. An indifferent scholastic career, failure to complete studies for the priesthood followed by a decade as the right-hand man for one of the colony’s most astute businessmen, were less than impressive a track record for a future national leader and political firebrand.
Yet for close to 50 years, the story of George Price was inseparable from the story of the modern political development of Belize, involving the birth of nationalist politics; the formation of political parties; the struggle for independence and the national objective of maintaining the territorial integrity of Belize against claims by Guatemala. Here is the story of a man who never married or raised a family, who never had a romantic liaison with a woman and who up to the time of his death at the age of 92 had remained celibate all his life. Price’s first and only lifelong love, his sweetheart, wife and family were Belize and its people.
In this even-handed and revealing authorized biography, Godfrey Smith does not attempt to canonize Price or denigrate his rivals and detractors. Rather, he exposes the contradictions that were a feature of Price s life and career. On the one hand the reader is shown Price as the ardent nationalist and a man of uncommon discipline and tenacity who pursued his vision of an independent Belize with clear-minded focus, courage and determination, yet who by his own admission, had secret relations with Guatemala whom most Belizeans regarded as the enemy.
On a personal level, Smith paints a picture of Price as one who beneath his pious exterior could often be found to be petty, secretive and vindictive, and a man who did not suffer slights lightly. Few political leaders from the region have recorded their memoirs or, like Price, given access by way of interviews or opened their personal papers to researchers or biographers. As one whose political career spanned both the colonial and post independence eras, the information, experiences and insights Price has freely given to his biographer will make this work an important contribution to the study of the political personality, the development of political parties and party politics in the Caribbean at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
In addition, the book sheds new light on Price’s adversarial relationship with local British governors and officials of the Colonial Office in London, and on the central role that the Guatemalan claim on Belize and Price's controversial affiliations with Guatemala played in both the negotiation and timing of Belizean independence. The value of Godfrey Smith’s work as the biographer of George Price lies in the fact that it is at once the revealing story of an important and controversial political leader, and at the same time, a history of the anti-colonial struggle and the modern political development of Belize.
Wednesday 1st February
18.00-20.00
The Beveridge Hall
Senate House
London WC1E 7HU
The Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies cordially invite you to a seminar and book launch to celebrate the publication of the authorised biography of Belizean Prime Minister and father of the nation, George Price, by Godfrey Smith.
Speaker: Godfrey P. Smith
Commentator: Lord Michael Ashcroft
George Price, who died in 2011, was one of the last of the generation of Caribbean leaders whose political careers were moulded by the struggle for independence. The story of Price is inseparable from the story of the modern political development of Belize, involving the birth of nationalist politics; the formation of political parties; the struggle for independence and maintaining the territorial integrity of Belize against claims by Guatemala. Godfrey Smith examines the life and career of Price within the broader Caribbean context, critically appraising his place within the canon of Caribbean nationalist leaders and the legacies for Caribbean politics today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Godfrey Smith is a former member of the Belize House of Representatives for the Pickstock Division previously held by George Price. He served as a cabinet minister in the PUP administration of Said Musa from 1999-2008, holding various positions including Attorney General and Foreign Minister. Smith is a practicing attorney and writes an online blog www.flashpointbelize.com.
Please RSVP to Olga Jimenez on olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
ABOUT THE BOOK:
George Price: A Life Revealed, by Godfrey P Smith Ian Randle Press, 2011
An ascetic and failed priest, a stoic, father of the nation, prime minister and first national hero of the Central American nation of Belize, George Price remains one of the most enigmatic leaders of the 20th century. Nothing in the early years of Price’s life gave any indication that he would become the most uncompromising adversary of the British government in the struggle, first for self-government and later for Belizean independence, and in the process dominate Belizean politics for over 40 years. An indifferent scholastic career, failure to complete studies for the priesthood followed by a decade as the right-hand man for one of the colony’s most astute businessmen, were less than impressive a track record for a future national leader and political firebrand.
Yet for close to 50 years, the story of George Price was inseparable from the story of the modern political development of Belize, involving the birth of nationalist politics; the formation of political parties; the struggle for independence and the national objective of maintaining the territorial integrity of Belize against claims by Guatemala. Here is the story of a man who never married or raised a family, who never had a romantic liaison with a woman and who up to the time of his death at the age of 92 had remained celibate all his life. Price’s first and only lifelong love, his sweetheart, wife and family were Belize and its people.
In this even-handed and revealing authorized biography, Godfrey Smith does not attempt to canonize Price or denigrate his rivals and detractors. Rather, he exposes the contradictions that were a feature of Price s life and career. On the one hand the reader is shown Price as the ardent nationalist and a man of uncommon discipline and tenacity who pursued his vision of an independent Belize with clear-minded focus, courage and determination, yet who by his own admission, had secret relations with Guatemala whom most Belizeans regarded as the enemy.
On a personal level, Smith paints a picture of Price as one who beneath his pious exterior could often be found to be petty, secretive and vindictive, and a man who did not suffer slights lightly. Few political leaders from the region have recorded their memoirs or, like Price, given access by way of interviews or opened their personal papers to researchers or biographers. As one whose political career spanned both the colonial and post independence eras, the information, experiences and insights Price has freely given to his biographer will make this work an important contribution to the study of the political personality, the development of political parties and party politics in the Caribbean at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
In addition, the book sheds new light on Price’s adversarial relationship with local British governors and officials of the Colonial Office in London, and on the central role that the Guatemalan claim on Belize and Price's controversial affiliations with Guatemala played in both the negotiation and timing of Belizean independence. The value of Godfrey Smith’s work as the biographer of George Price lies in the fact that it is at once the revealing story of an important and controversial political leader, and at the same time, a history of the anti-colonial struggle and the modern political development of Belize.
Monday, 9 January 2012
SCOLMA 50th anniversary conference, June 25–26 2012
SCOLMA 50th anniversary conference, June 25–26 2012,
Rothermere American Institute, Oxford
Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
Provisional Programme
(NB This programme is subject to change)
Monday 25 June
9.00–10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00–11.00 Keynote: Dr John Darwin, Beit University Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth, Nuffield College, Oxford ‘Africa in Global History’
11.00–12.30 Panel 1
Jos Damen, African Studies Centre, Leiden ‘Who needs a paper library in Africa?’
Jonathan Harle, Association of Commonwealth Universities ‘Understanding the research environments of African universities and their implications for the use of digital resources’
Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace, British Library ‘African studies in the digital age: Challenges for research and national libraries’
12.30–1.30 Lunch
1.30–3.00 Panels 2 & 3 in parallel
Panel 2
Daniel A. Reboussin, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida ‘Library research behaviour in the digital environment: Implications for librarians’
Brenda van Wyk, UNIZULU Library Service, University of Zululand ‘Information and content management of institutional repositories in southern Africa: A comparative study’
Pier Luigi Rossi, Research Institute for Development (IRD), Bondy ‘Log analysis and text mining on internet access to dissertations of the Dakar sports faculty (INSEPS)’
Panel 3
Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town, and Peter Limb, Michigan State University ‘Southern African history in the digital era’
Angel David Nieves, Hamilton College and Marla Jaksch, The College of New Jersey ‘Using digital history to narrate the liberation struggle in Tanzania and South Africa’
Lucia Lovison-Golob, Afriterra Foundation (tbc) The Integration of Historical Cartography into Present-Day Cartography: The Darfur Case’
3.00–3.30 Tea
3.30–5.00 Panels 4 & 5 in parallel
Panel 4
Simon Tanner, King’s College London ‘The impact of digitisation in Africa’
James Lowry, International Records Management Trust ‘Digitising colonial and post-independence government papers in Kenya’
Edgar Taylor, Ashley Rockenbach and Natalie Bond, University of Michigan ‘Archives and the past: Cataloging and digitization in Uganda’s archives’
Panel 5
Kate Haines, University of Sussex ‘Dialogue, text and memory: Social media and literary responses to the post-election violence in Kenya’
Jenni Orme, The National Archives (UK) ‘Viewing “Africa through a lens”: Using digitisation and online tools at The National Archives to widen audience reach’
Thomas Sharp, University of Manchester ‘A counter-hegemonic archive? The revelation of hidden histories on the internet: a case study from Cameroon’
5.15 Tour of Rhodes House
7.00 SCOLMA Golden Jubilee conference dinner
St Cross College
Guest speaker: Professor John McIlwaine, Emeritus Professor of the Bibliography of Asia and Africa, University College London
Tuesday 26 June
9.30–10.15 Keynote: Christine Kanyengo, Deputy Librarian, University of Zambia Library
10.15–10.45 Coffee
10.45–12.30 Panel 6
Stephanie Newell, University of Sussex ‘From stacks to pixels: How archival preservation shapes (re)search methods in African news’
John Pinfold ‘“Can you write a biography without papers?”: Researching the life of African adventurer Herbert Rhodes’
Diana Jeater, University of the West of England ‘Data, data everywhere, but not a byte to think: Use of digital resources in the HE Humanities sector in southern Africa’
12.30–2.00 Lunch and SCOLMA AGM
2.00–3.30 Panels 7 & 8 in parallel
Panel 7
Michelle Guittar & David L. Easterbrook, Melville J. Herskovits Library, Northwestern University ‘Digitization at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies: A consideration of processes and outcomes’
Geoffrey Mukasa, University Library, Uganda Christian University Library, Mukono (tbc) ‘Digital library information resources in Uganda’
Guy Thomas, Archives and Library, Basel Mission ‘Reconfiguring concepts of living archives through remote access’
Panel 8
Gabriela Redwine, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin ‘At home and abroad: Born-digital African literary archives in the digital age’
Amidu Sanni, Lagos State University (tbc) ‘The West African Arabic manuscript heritage: challenges of the digital revolution in a research economy’
Korklu Laryea, University Library, University of Ghana (tbc) ‘Research pathways in African studies’
Massimo Zaccaria, University of Pavia ‘Recovering the African printed past. The case of a dispersed collection and the attempt to virtually rejoin it: the Eritrean case’
3.30–4.00 Coffee
4.00–5.00 Plenary: Dis/connects: Building and maintaining digital libraries on Africa
Led by Peter Limb, Michigan State University
For enquiries and bookings please contact the SCOLMA Secretary:
Lucy McCann, Archivist, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 270908 Email: mailto:lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
SCOLMA website: http://www.scolma.org/
Rothermere American Institute, Oxford
Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
Provisional Programme
(NB This programme is subject to change)
Monday 25 June
9.00–10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00–11.00 Keynote: Dr John Darwin, Beit University Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth, Nuffield College, Oxford ‘Africa in Global History’
11.00–12.30 Panel 1
Jos Damen, African Studies Centre, Leiden ‘Who needs a paper library in Africa?’
Jonathan Harle, Association of Commonwealth Universities ‘Understanding the research environments of African universities and their implications for the use of digital resources’
Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace, British Library ‘African studies in the digital age: Challenges for research and national libraries’
12.30–1.30 Lunch
1.30–3.00 Panels 2 & 3 in parallel
Panel 2
Daniel A. Reboussin, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida ‘Library research behaviour in the digital environment: Implications for librarians’
Brenda van Wyk, UNIZULU Library Service, University of Zululand ‘Information and content management of institutional repositories in southern Africa: A comparative study’
Pier Luigi Rossi, Research Institute for Development (IRD), Bondy ‘Log analysis and text mining on internet access to dissertations of the Dakar sports faculty (INSEPS)’
Panel 3
Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town, and Peter Limb, Michigan State University ‘Southern African history in the digital era’
Angel David Nieves, Hamilton College and Marla Jaksch, The College of New Jersey ‘Using digital history to narrate the liberation struggle in Tanzania and South Africa’
Lucia Lovison-Golob, Afriterra Foundation (tbc) The Integration of Historical Cartography into Present-Day Cartography: The Darfur Case’
3.00–3.30 Tea
3.30–5.00 Panels 4 & 5 in parallel
Panel 4
Simon Tanner, King’s College London ‘The impact of digitisation in Africa’
James Lowry, International Records Management Trust ‘Digitising colonial and post-independence government papers in Kenya’
Edgar Taylor, Ashley Rockenbach and Natalie Bond, University of Michigan ‘Archives and the past: Cataloging and digitization in Uganda’s archives’
Panel 5
Kate Haines, University of Sussex ‘Dialogue, text and memory: Social media and literary responses to the post-election violence in Kenya’
Jenni Orme, The National Archives (UK) ‘Viewing “Africa through a lens”: Using digitisation and online tools at The National Archives to widen audience reach’
Thomas Sharp, University of Manchester ‘A counter-hegemonic archive? The revelation of hidden histories on the internet: a case study from Cameroon’
5.15 Tour of Rhodes House
7.00 SCOLMA Golden Jubilee conference dinner
St Cross College
Guest speaker: Professor John McIlwaine, Emeritus Professor of the Bibliography of Asia and Africa, University College London
Tuesday 26 June
9.30–10.15 Keynote: Christine Kanyengo, Deputy Librarian, University of Zambia Library
10.15–10.45 Coffee
10.45–12.30 Panel 6
Stephanie Newell, University of Sussex ‘From stacks to pixels: How archival preservation shapes (re)search methods in African news’
John Pinfold ‘“Can you write a biography without papers?”: Researching the life of African adventurer Herbert Rhodes’
Diana Jeater, University of the West of England ‘Data, data everywhere, but not a byte to think: Use of digital resources in the HE Humanities sector in southern Africa’
12.30–2.00 Lunch and SCOLMA AGM
2.00–3.30 Panels 7 & 8 in parallel
Panel 7
Michelle Guittar & David L. Easterbrook, Melville J. Herskovits Library, Northwestern University ‘Digitization at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies: A consideration of processes and outcomes’
Geoffrey Mukasa, University Library, Uganda Christian University Library, Mukono (tbc) ‘Digital library information resources in Uganda’
Guy Thomas, Archives and Library, Basel Mission ‘Reconfiguring concepts of living archives through remote access’
Panel 8
Gabriela Redwine, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin ‘At home and abroad: Born-digital African literary archives in the digital age’
Amidu Sanni, Lagos State University (tbc) ‘The West African Arabic manuscript heritage: challenges of the digital revolution in a research economy’
Korklu Laryea, University Library, University of Ghana (tbc) ‘Research pathways in African studies’
Massimo Zaccaria, University of Pavia ‘Recovering the African printed past. The case of a dispersed collection and the attempt to virtually rejoin it: the Eritrean case’
3.30–4.00 Coffee
4.00–5.00 Plenary: Dis/connects: Building and maintaining digital libraries on Africa
Led by Peter Limb, Michigan State University
For enquiries and bookings please contact the SCOLMA Secretary:
Lucy McCann, Archivist, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 270908 Email: mailto:lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
SCOLMA website: http://www.scolma.org/
Friday, 6 January 2012
ANC Centenary
It is one hundred years since the African National Congress was founded, On January 8th 1912, chiefs, representatives of people`s and church organisations, and other prominent individuals gathered in Bloemfontein and formed the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), later named the African National Congress (1923). The ANC declared its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms.
The ANC has a website showcasing their history and events taking place as part of the celebrations.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies has a wide range of material on and published by the ANC, as well as other important groups who were part of the South African liberation struggle. The collection includes material catalogued as part of our political pamphlets project, and the library holds over 400 individual titles published by the ANC, including newsletters and journals as well as pamphlets, leaflets, manifestos, etc.
Archive collections include a specific collection of material from the ANC and Indian organisations in South Africa (in both print and microfilm), the Mandela Trials papers, as well as papers of activists including Ruth First, Mary Benson, Ruth Hayman, Marion Friedmann , Baruch Hirson, Tim Matthews, Z K Matthews, Josie Palmer.
The archive collection also includes Ralph Johnson Bunche's account of the Silver Anniversary meeting of the African National Congress in Bloemfontein in December 1937
The ANC has a website showcasing their history and events taking place as part of the celebrations.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies has a wide range of material on and published by the ANC, as well as other important groups who were part of the South African liberation struggle. The collection includes material catalogued as part of our political pamphlets project, and the library holds over 400 individual titles published by the ANC, including newsletters and journals as well as pamphlets, leaflets, manifestos, etc.
Archive collections include a specific collection of material from the ANC and Indian organisations in South Africa (in both print and microfilm), the Mandela Trials papers, as well as papers of activists including Ruth First, Mary Benson, Ruth Hayman, Marion Friedmann , Baruch Hirson, Tim Matthews, Z K Matthews, Josie Palmer.
The archive collection also includes Ralph Johnson Bunche's account of the Silver Anniversary meeting of the African National Congress in Bloemfontein in December 1937
Thursday, 5 January 2012
New Books - November and December 2011 (Part 2)
Part 2 of our list of new book added to the catalogue in November and December 2011
Kirk, Neville, Labour and the politics of empire : Britain and Australia, 1900 to the present, Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Hoffstaedter, Gerhard, Modern Muslim identities : negotiating religion and ethnicity in Malaysia, Copenhagen : NIAS [u.a.], 2011.
Teo, Youyenn, Neoliberal morality in Singapore : how family policies make state and society, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Jega, Attahiru M. and Jacqueline W. Farris (eds), Nigeria at fifty : contributions to peace, democracy, and development, Abuja, Nigeria : Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Foundation, c2010.
Kelsey, Jane, No ordinary deal : unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement, Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books with the New Zealand Law Foundation, 2010.
Granatstein, J. L. and Dean F. Oliver, The Oxford companion to Canadian military history, Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Courtney, John C. and David E. Smith (eds), The Oxford handbook of Canadian politics, Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Allan, Kate (ed), Paper wars : access to information in South Africa, Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2009.
Waugh, Colin M., Paul Kagame and Rwanda : power, genocide and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2004.
Abidi, Syed A.H. (ed), Peace in Uganda : the role of the civil society, Kampala : ABETO, 2011.
Alfred, Taiaiake, Peace, power, righteousness : an indigenous manifesto, Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Mohanty, Manoranjan, Partha Nath Mukherji, with Olle Törnquist (eds), People's rights : social movements and the state in the third world, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1998.
Jeffery, Anthea, People's war : new light on the struggle for South Africa, Johannesburg : Jonathan Ball, 2009
Barchiesi, Franco, Precarious liberation : workers, the state, and contested social citizenship in postapartheid South Africa, Albany : State University of New York Press ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, c2011.
Tan, Jeff, Privatization in Malaysia : regulation, rent-seeking and policy failure, London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Morck, Randall (ed), Recreating Canada : essays in honour of Paul Weiler, Montreal : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
African Human Security Initiative, Sierra Leone : a country review of crime and criminal justice, 2008, Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa : Institute for Security Studies, 2009.
Holt, John Clifford (ed), The Sri Lanka reader : history, culture, politics, Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
White , Lucie E. and Jeremy Perelman (eds), Stones of hope : how African activists reclaim human rights to challenge global poverty , Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
de Feyter, Koen and George Pavlakos (eds), The tension between group rights and human rights : a multidisciplinary approach, Oxford : Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2008.
Singapore Economic Roundtable (10th : 2008), The tenth Singapore Economic Roundtable, December 2008, Singapore : Straits Times Press Reference, c2009.
De Schutter, Olivier (ed), Transnational corporations and human rights, Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2006.
Mamdani, Mahmood, When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002, c2001.
Waring, Marilyn et al (ed), Who cares? : the economics of dignity, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2010.
Kirk, Neville, Labour and the politics of empire : Britain and Australia, 1900 to the present, Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Hoffstaedter, Gerhard, Modern Muslim identities : negotiating religion and ethnicity in Malaysia, Copenhagen : NIAS [u.a.], 2011.
Teo, Youyenn, Neoliberal morality in Singapore : how family policies make state and society, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Jega, Attahiru M. and Jacqueline W. Farris (eds), Nigeria at fifty : contributions to peace, democracy, and development, Abuja, Nigeria : Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Foundation, c2010.
Kelsey, Jane, No ordinary deal : unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement, Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books with the New Zealand Law Foundation, 2010.
Granatstein, J. L. and Dean F. Oliver, The Oxford companion to Canadian military history, Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Courtney, John C. and David E. Smith (eds), The Oxford handbook of Canadian politics, Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Allan, Kate (ed), Paper wars : access to information in South Africa, Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2009.
Waugh, Colin M., Paul Kagame and Rwanda : power, genocide and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2004.
Abidi, Syed A.H. (ed), Peace in Uganda : the role of the civil society, Kampala : ABETO, 2011.
Alfred, Taiaiake, Peace, power, righteousness : an indigenous manifesto, Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Mohanty, Manoranjan, Partha Nath Mukherji, with Olle Törnquist (eds), People's rights : social movements and the state in the third world, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1998.
Jeffery, Anthea, People's war : new light on the struggle for South Africa, Johannesburg : Jonathan Ball, 2009
Barchiesi, Franco, Precarious liberation : workers, the state, and contested social citizenship in postapartheid South Africa, Albany : State University of New York Press ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, c2011.
Tan, Jeff, Privatization in Malaysia : regulation, rent-seeking and policy failure, London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Morck, Randall (ed), Recreating Canada : essays in honour of Paul Weiler, Montreal : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
African Human Security Initiative, Sierra Leone : a country review of crime and criminal justice, 2008, Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa : Institute for Security Studies, 2009.
Holt, John Clifford (ed), The Sri Lanka reader : history, culture, politics, Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
White , Lucie E. and Jeremy Perelman (eds), Stones of hope : how African activists reclaim human rights to challenge global poverty , Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
de Feyter, Koen and George Pavlakos (eds), The tension between group rights and human rights : a multidisciplinary approach, Oxford : Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2008.
Singapore Economic Roundtable (10th : 2008), The tenth Singapore Economic Roundtable, December 2008, Singapore : Straits Times Press Reference, c2009.
De Schutter, Olivier (ed), Transnational corporations and human rights, Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2006.
Mamdani, Mahmood, When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002, c2001.
Waring, Marilyn et al (ed), Who cares? : the economics of dignity, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2010.
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
New Books - November and December 2011 (Part 1)
New books acquired and added to the catalogue in the last two months of 2011 included the following:
Kitakule, Sarah and Margaret Snyder, Above the odds : a decade of change for Ugandan women entrepreneurs, Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2011.
Quataert, Jean H., Advocating dignity : human rights mobilizations in global politics, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
Stapleton, Timothy, African police and soldiers in colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80, Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2011.
Shapiro, Ian and Kahreen Tebeau (eds), After apartheid : reinventing South Africa, Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Bangladesh Sixth Five Year Plan, FY2011-FY2015 : accelerating growth and reducing poverty, Dhaka : Planning Commission, Ministry of Planning, Govt. of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, 2011.
Hodgson, Dorothy L., Being Maasai, becoming indigenous : postcolonial politics in a neoliberal world, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Hamilton, Carolyn, Bernard K. Mbenga, and Robert Ross, The Cambridge history of South Africa, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010-<2011>
Samara, Tony Roshan, Cape Town after apartheid : crime and governance in the divided city, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
Bourne, Richard, Catastrophe : what went wrong in Zimbabwe?, London ; New York : Zed Books, c2011.
Kamya, John (comp), Children's rights : a compilation of international, regional, and Uganda's legal and human rights instruments, Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2008.
Kumssa, Asfaw, James Herbert Williams and John F. Jones (eds), Conflict and human security in Africa : Kenya in perspective, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Mulwafu, Wapulumuka Oliver, Conservation song : a history of peasant-state relations and the environment in Malawi, 1860-2000, Cambridge, UK : White Horse Press, 2011.
BakamaNume, Bakama B. (ed), A contemporary geography of Uganda, Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota, c2010.
Nweze , Chima Centus, Contemporary issues on public international and comparative law : essays in honor of Professor Christian Nwachukwu Okeke, Lake Mary, Fla. : Vandeplas Pub., c2009
Kangumu, Bennett, Contesting Caprivi : a history of colonial isolation and regional nationalism in Namibia, Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Namibia Resource Center & Southern Africa Library, 2011.
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Chamberlain, Mary, Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean : Barbados, 1937-66, Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press.
Ang, James B. Financial development and economic growth in Malaysia, London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
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Beneria, Lourdes and Savitri Bisnath (eds), Global tensions : challenges and opportunities in the world economy, New York : Routledge, 2004.
Watson, James and Lachy Paterson (eds), A great New Zealand prime minister? : reappraising William Ferguson Massey, Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2011.
Juma, Monica and Jennifer Klot, HIV/AIDS, gender, human security, and violence in Southern Africa, Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2011.
Friedman, John T., Imagining the post-apartheid state : an ethnographic account of Namibia, New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Wolpert, Stanley, India and Pakistan : continued conflict or cooperation? Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c2010.
Mawdsley, Emma and Gerard McCann (eds), India in Africa : changing geographies of power, Cape Town : Pambazuka Press, 2011.
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Quataert, Jean H., Advocating dignity : human rights mobilizations in global politics, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
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Kangumu, Bennett, Contesting Caprivi : a history of colonial isolation and regional nationalism in Namibia, Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Namibia Resource Center & Southern Africa Library, 2011.
Ker-Lindsay, James, The Cyprus problem : what everyone needs to know, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Kathyola, Janet and Oluwatoyin Job (eds), Decentralisation in Commonwealth Africa : experiences from Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania, London : Commonwealth Secretarial c2011.
Keating, Christine, Decolonizing democracy : transforming the social contract in India, University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011
Newbury, Darren, Defiant images : photography and apartheid South Africa, Pretoria : UNISA Press, c2010.
Altink, Henrice, Destined for a life of service : defining African-Jamaican womanhood, 1865-1938, Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Tripodi, Christian, Edge of empire : the British political officer and tribal administration on the North-West frontier, 1877-1947, Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington VT : Ashgate, 2011.
Wasswa-Matovu, Joseph, Effects of transaction costs on community forest management in Uganda, Addis Ababa : Organisation For Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, 2010.
Singapore Economic Roundtable (11th : 2009 : Singapore), The eleventh Singapore Economic Roundtable, June 2009, Singapore : Straits Times Press Reference for National University of Singapore, c2010.
Chamberlain, Mary, Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean : Barbados, 1937-66, Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press.
Ang, James B. Financial development and economic growth in Malaysia, London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Wallimann and Michael N. Dobkowski, Genocide and the modern age : etiology and case studies of mass death, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Beneria, Lourdes and Savitri Bisnath (eds), Global tensions : challenges and opportunities in the world economy, New York : Routledge, 2004.
Watson, James and Lachy Paterson (eds), A great New Zealand prime minister? : reappraising William Ferguson Massey, Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2011.
Juma, Monica and Jennifer Klot, HIV/AIDS, gender, human security, and violence in Southern Africa, Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2011.
Friedman, John T., Imagining the post-apartheid state : an ethnographic account of Namibia, New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Wolpert, Stanley, India and Pakistan : continued conflict or cooperation? Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c2010.
Mawdsley, Emma and Gerard McCann (eds), India in Africa : changing geographies of power, Cape Town : Pambazuka Press, 2011.
Srikanth, H. Indigenous peoples in liberal democratic states : a comparative study of conflict and accommodation in Canada and India, Boulder, Colo. : Bäuu Press, 2010.
Neuffer, Elizabeth. The key to my neighbour's house : seeking justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, London : Bloomsbury, 2002.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 37th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2012 May 28 - June 1, 2012 - Le Gosier, Guadeloupe
CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 37th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2012 May 28 - June 1, 2012 - Le Gosier, Guadeloupe
UNPACKING CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP[S] : Rights, participation and belonging
The Caribbean Studies Association issues a call for papers for its 37th Annual Conference with the theme "Unpacking Caribbean Citizenship: Rights, Participation and Belonging". We invite scholars and practitioners in the humanities, social sciences, public policy and members of civil society organizations whose works focus on the wider Caribbean and its diasporas to submit abstracts of approximately 200 words for research papers and presentations.
The aim of the 2012 conference is to throw light on the concept, its development, evolution and dynamics in particular in its three dimensions: Rights, Participation and Belonging. We want to explore the ways in which citizens in the Caribbean conceive and participate in decisions that affect their lives, their cultures and their environment.
This is a call for contributions for a Special Colloquium / Panel proposal on Corporate citizenship, ethics and social responsibility : Representations, practices and managerial innovations in Small Businesses (SMEs) and/or in the Caribbean
This panel is dedicated to understanding how small and medium enterprises (SME) are impacted by and react to societal issues and stakeholders demands such as sustainable development, social responsibility and ethics in business. Implementing such strategies questions SMEs' missions and goals, decision processes, values and relationships with stakeholders. Management therefore plays a key role in implementing such devices and spirit. Designing new ways, new processes, new organizations to introduce or develop ethics and social responsibility in SME remains an important challenge that calls for innovations abilities. Due to many structural constraints (size of enterprises, financial resources, geographical situation, competencies, etc.), SMEs have difficulties investing in technological innovation, although public policies insist on the necessity to innovate. But others ways exist for SMEs innovation as organizational levers can be mobilized for social and economic progress. Room for action and managerial innovation remains in terms of relevant strategic choices, decision processes, management of resources, sustainable human resource strategies, the development of core individual and collective competencies, responsibility.
We expect contributions that focus on the issues of SME's corporate citizenship, managers' ethics, social responsibility and managerial / organizational innovation.
More specifically, we welcome contributions that will bring answers to the following questions:
- What conceptual frameworks/concepts/theoretical approaches are adapted to understanding and analyzing these issues?
- What practices, what strategies of corporate citizenship in SMEs?
- What kind of processes/devices/categories of managerial innovation in SMEs?
- How do these issues impact working conditions and work relationships?
- What is the meaning given by actors to these strategies? How do these issues enable actors to give meaning to work?
- How do these issues impact professional identities and organizational culture?
- How do historical, post-colonial, social and cultural contexts impact corporate citizenship, ethical behaviours and social responsibility?
- In what manner do collective representations and/or social uses of History contribute to or limit the development of corporate citizenship and social responsibility strategies?
We invite contributions that will bring together different theoretical fields, new or critical perspectives in management and social science.
Interested contributors must send a communication proposal (around 250 words) in English or French before January 5th 2012 to :
management.research@univ-ag.fr
After the conference, authors will have the possibility to submit their paper for publication in an academic journal or a collective book.
Info : http://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/
www2.univ-ag.fr/CRPLC/
UNPACKING CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP[S] : Rights, participation and belonging
The Caribbean Studies Association issues a call for papers for its 37th Annual Conference with the theme "Unpacking Caribbean Citizenship: Rights, Participation and Belonging". We invite scholars and practitioners in the humanities, social sciences, public policy and members of civil society organizations whose works focus on the wider Caribbean and its diasporas to submit abstracts of approximately 200 words for research papers and presentations.
The aim of the 2012 conference is to throw light on the concept, its development, evolution and dynamics in particular in its three dimensions: Rights, Participation and Belonging. We want to explore the ways in which citizens in the Caribbean conceive and participate in decisions that affect their lives, their cultures and their environment.
This is a call for contributions for a Special Colloquium / Panel proposal on Corporate citizenship, ethics and social responsibility : Representations, practices and managerial innovations in Small Businesses (SMEs) and/or in the Caribbean
This panel is dedicated to understanding how small and medium enterprises (SME) are impacted by and react to societal issues and stakeholders demands such as sustainable development, social responsibility and ethics in business. Implementing such strategies questions SMEs' missions and goals, decision processes, values and relationships with stakeholders. Management therefore plays a key role in implementing such devices and spirit. Designing new ways, new processes, new organizations to introduce or develop ethics and social responsibility in SME remains an important challenge that calls for innovations abilities. Due to many structural constraints (size of enterprises, financial resources, geographical situation, competencies, etc.), SMEs have difficulties investing in technological innovation, although public policies insist on the necessity to innovate. But others ways exist for SMEs innovation as organizational levers can be mobilized for social and economic progress. Room for action and managerial innovation remains in terms of relevant strategic choices, decision processes, management of resources, sustainable human resource strategies, the development of core individual and collective competencies, responsibility.
We expect contributions that focus on the issues of SME's corporate citizenship, managers' ethics, social responsibility and managerial / organizational innovation.
More specifically, we welcome contributions that will bring answers to the following questions:
- What conceptual frameworks/concepts/theoretical approaches are adapted to understanding and analyzing these issues?
- What practices, what strategies of corporate citizenship in SMEs?
- What kind of processes/devices/categories of managerial innovation in SMEs?
- How do these issues impact working conditions and work relationships?
- What is the meaning given by actors to these strategies? How do these issues enable actors to give meaning to work?
- How do these issues impact professional identities and organizational culture?
- How do historical, post-colonial, social and cultural contexts impact corporate citizenship, ethical behaviours and social responsibility?
- In what manner do collective representations and/or social uses of History contribute to or limit the development of corporate citizenship and social responsibility strategies?
We invite contributions that will bring together different theoretical fields, new or critical perspectives in management and social science.
Interested contributors must send a communication proposal (around 250 words) in English or French before January 5th 2012 to :
management.research@univ-ag.fr
After the conference, authors will have the possibility to submit their paper for publication in an academic journal or a collective book.
Info : http://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/
www2.univ-ag.fr/CRPLC/
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