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Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal
Uncovers the stories of children liberated from slavery in Senegal after 1848 and relegated to tutelle or guardianship.
Le Sénégal contemporain
Il manquait à toute la littérature disponible sur le Sénégal une synthèse présentant les faits et phases majeurs de son évolution depuis l'indépendance. Cet ouvrage cherche à combler une telle lacune. Il constitue la première tentative de cette envergure pour écrire une histoire intellectuelle, sociale et politique de ce pays. Il s'agit, dans différents domaines, de déterminer, par-delà l'enchevêtrement des faits, les tendances lourdes des changements observés et de caractériser les principaux défis auxquels ce pays devra faire face durant les prochaines décennies. Elaboré par une équipe pluridisciplinaire composée de chercheurs de générations et de nationalités diff...
Organization Theory and Transnational Social Movements
This book explores the internal functioning and exercise of power inside a widely acclaimed transnational social organization: the alternative globalization movement. Drawing on new empirical data and perspectives from the Organizational Theory (OT), it highlights the movements' many unique features that are yet to be fully grasped within theoretical debates: ideological flexibility, emphasis on networking, informal structure and refusal to accept order from political parties. The book asserts that organizational power is a real issue not only within economic enterprises or formal political and labour organizations but also within informal transnational networks and coalition groups seeking to vehicle utopian projects.
The Métis of Senegal
Examines the politics and society of an influential group of mixed-race people who settled in coastal Africa under French colonialism, becoming middleman traders for European merchants and ultimately power brokers against French rule.
Symbolic Confrontations
Expert on African religion and politics, Donal Cruise O'Brien, suggests that we should put an end to the lamentation over the state of African beauracracy and learn more about what politics means to African people. This book is based on the authors writings over the past 20 years which consider the relationship between Muslim societies and the African State.
Reconfiguring Slavery
A fascinating collection that advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.
Freedom Papers
Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family's quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States. Freed during the Haitian Revolution, Rosalie and her daughter Elisabeth fled to Cuba in 1803. A few years later, Elisabeth departed...
Globalization and the Cultures of Business in Africa
Can Africa develop businesses beyond the extractive or agricultural sectors? What would it take for Africa to play a major role in global business? By focusing on recent changes, Scott D. Taylor demonstrates how Africa's business culture is marked by an unprecedented receptivity to private enterprise. Challenging persistent stereotypes about crony capitalism and the lack of development, Taylor reveals a long and dynamic history of business in Africa. He shows how a hospitable climate for business has been spurred by institutional change, globalization, and political and economic reform. Taylor encourages a broader understanding of the mosaic of African business and the diversity of influences and cultures that shape it.
Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory
Essays exploring the importance of archives as artifacts of culture
Desiring Whiteness
Desiring Whiteness uncovers the intertwined histories of commercial sex and racial politics in France and the French Empire. Since the French Revolution of 1789, the absence of laws banning interracial marriages has served to reinforce two myths about modern France—first, that it is a sexual democracy and second, it is a color-blind nation where all French citizens can freely marry whomever they wish regardless of their race. Caroline Séquin challenges the narrative of French exceptionalism by revealing the role of prostitution regulation in policing intimate relationships across racial and colonial boundaries in the century following the abolition of slavery. Desiring Whiteness traces th...
