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Family Life in West Africa
From 1990 to 2002, Dr. Robin Poulton wrote about Developing Africa in the Guardian Weekly newspaper. Writing under the pseudonym Robert Lacville, his stories of Africa were popular, amusing, and filled with insights that were new to most of his 350,000 weekly readers. Working in West Africa brought daily inspiration. Africa is exciting, developing, and constantly changing. The stories are presented here in their original form. They offer a unique experience of African life and love seen through the eyes of Robin and his family. Enjoy!
I Dance Therefore I Am
This is a book of dancing around the world written for all children and their grandparents, filled with wit and humor, interspersing dances with personal stories, jokes and home-spun lessons from life - enlivened with word pictures of St Andrews, of beautiful Scotland, of kilts and haggis. Robin Poulton celebrates the worldwide friendship of dancers, offering a philosophy of life that promotes "the greatest happiness to the greatest number" through peace and love and dancing. Read and enjoy!
Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
This book provides a critical analysis of the changing discourse and practice of post-conflict security-promoting interventions since the Cold War, such as disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), and security-sector reform (SSR) Although the international aid and security sectors exhibit an expanding appetite for peace-support operations in the 21st Century, the effectiveness of such interventions are largely untested. This book aims to fill this evidentiary gap and issues a challenge to 'conventional' approaches to security promotion as currently conceived by military and peace-keeping forces, drawing on cutting-edge statistical and qualitative findings from war-torn areas including Afghanistan, Timor Leste, Sudan, Uganda, Colombia and Haiti. By focusing on specific cases where the United Nations and others have sought to contain the (presumed) sources of post-conflict violence and insecurity, it lays out a new research agenda for measuring success or failure. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, peacekeeping, conflict resolution, conflict and development and security studies in general.
A Cause for Our Times
Maggie Black gives a wide-ranging, sometimes critical, account of Oxfam's first 50 years. In doing so, she projects Oxfam's own development against a backcloth of changing ideas in international affairs and charitable giving, of which its growth is both an inspiration and an expression.
Sister Cities: A Story of Friendship Between Virginia and Mali
Meet the people who developed the Richmond-Ségou Sister Cities relationship, and explore the cultural similarities and differences between Virginia and Mali.
The Politics of Expertise
Offers a challenging new interpretation of politics in contemporary Britain through an examination of non-governmental organisations. Demonstrate how politics and political activism has changed over the last half century.
Strolling About on the Roof of the World
This book covers the first one hundred years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, formerly the Royal Central Asian Society. It is generously illustrated and includes some of the Society's previously unpublished archival photographs.
Debating Development Discourse
This book combines critical historical analysis and case studies of the theory and practice of post-1945 international development. Beginning with a Gramscian analysis of institutional and academic development discourse, continuing with critiques of international institutions' current neo-liberal economic and 'governance' practices, and followed by studies of African moral opposition to structural adjustment's 'scientific capitalism', South African housing struggles, Zimbabwean development strategies, Costa Rican agrarian NGO's, and northern Albertan public environmental hearings, it advocates deepening radical and popular participatory democracy.
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Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds
This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world’s Muslims. The volume begins with an introduction that sets out a powerful case for a fresh approach to this kind of research, exhorting anthropologists to pause and reflect on when Islam is, and is not, a central feature of their informants’ life-worlds and identities. The chapters that follow are written by scholars with long-term, specialist research experience in Muslim societies ranging from Kenya to Pakistan and from Yemen to China: thus they explore and compare Islam’s social significance in a variety of settings that ...
