Crises of Governance in Asia and Africa

by Maclean, Sandra Jean; Quadir, Fahimul; Shaw, Timothy M.

• ISBN13: 9780754614104
• ISBN10: 0754614107
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

Investigating the relations between ethnicity and governance in Asia and Africa and going well beyond traditional and orthodox treatments, this volume is not only a stimulating text, but also an invaluable tool for original and innovative research.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Abbreviations	viii
Contributors	xii
Preface	xvi
Part I: Overview
Pluralisms and the Changing Global Political Economy: Ethnicities in Crises of Governance in Asia and Africa	3	(30)
Fahimul Quadir
Sandra J. MacLean
Timothy M. Shaw
Part II: Governance and Economy
Globalization, Capital and Governance in a Newly Industrializing Plural Society: Malaysia during the 1990s	33	(19)
Johan Saravanamuttu
Globalization, Industrialization and Crisis: The Coming-of-Age of Malaysian Women Workers?	52	(18)
Maznah Mohamad
Cecilia Ng
Tan Beng Hui
Comparative Responses to the Challenges of Governance and Globalization: Malaysia and South Africa	70	(19)
Janis van der Westhuizen
South Africa and the Political Economy of Wine: From Sanctions to Globalizations/Liberalizations	89	(20)
Timothy M. Shaw
Part III: Governance and Civil Society
Transnational, National, or Local? Gender-based NGOs and Information Networks in India	109	(20)
J.P. Singh
Promoting Democratic Governance at the Grassroots in the Twenty-first Century: Myths and Realities of NGO Programs in Bangladesh	129	(19)
Fahimul Quadir
Prospects for Democratic Governance in Africa: Impacts of Civil Societies and Ethnicities	148	(19)
Maria Nzomo
Post-Settler State-Society Relations in Zimbabwe: The Rise of Civil Society and the Decline of Authoritarianism	167	(18)
Alfred G. Nhema
Ethnicity and Race in the Changing Political Economies of South Africa and Zimbabwe	185	(22)
Sandra J. MacLean
Part IV: Governance and Conflict
The Political Economy of Angola's Ethnic Conflict	207	(20)
Assis V. Malaquias
Ethnicities in Crises of Governance in Africa: The Case of Uganda in the Great Lakes Region	227	(18)
Pamela Mbabazi
Ethnicity, Power, Governance and Conflict in the Great Lakes Region	245	(16)
Abillah H. Omari
The Peace and Conflict Impact of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) in Sri Lanka	261	(18)
Kenneth D. Bush
References	279	(33)
Index	312