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Format: 1 CD-ROM ; 12 cm ; , 1 Beil. (4 S.) , 12 cm

Language: German

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: CD-ROM ; Konferenzschrift

Author information: Engel, Ulf, 1962-

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Format: 1 online resource.

ISBN: 9789004467316 , 9789004466777

Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; 25

Content: This edited volume offers new insights into the inner life of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and introduces scholars of African security dynamics to innovative epistemological, conceptual and methodological approaches. Based on intellectual openness and an interest in transdisciplinary perspectives, the volume challenges existing orthodoxies, poses new questions and opens a discussion on actual research practice. Drawing on Global Studies and critical International Studies perspectives, the authors follow inductive approaches and let the empirical data enrich their theoretical frameworks and conceptual tools. In this endeavor they focus on actors, practices and narratives involved in African Peace and Security and move beyond the often Western-centric premises of research carried out within rigid disciplinary boundaries. Contributors are Michael Aeby, Yvonne Akpasom, Katharina P.W. Döring, Ulf Engel, Fana Gebresenbet Erda, Linnéa Gelot, Amandine Gnanguênon, Toni Haastrup, Jens Herpolsheimer, Alin Hilowle, Jamie Pring, Lilian Seffer, Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Antonia Witt, Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu.

Additional Edition: Print version: Researching the Inner Life of the African Peace and Security Architecture : APSA Inside-Out. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021 ISBN 9789004466777

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (332 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9789004546400 , 9789004546417

Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; 31

Content: Ce volume édité offre des nouvelles perspectives sur la vie intérieure de l'Architecture africaine de paix et de sécurité (APSA) et présente aux spécialistes dand la domaine paix et securité africaine des approches épistémologiques, conceptuelles et méthodologiques innovantes. Basé sur une ouverture intellectuelle et un intérêt pour les perspectives transdisciplinaires, le volume remet en question les courants dominants, nous invitant à réfléchir sur les pratiques de recherche elles-mêmes. S'appuyant sur les perspectives des études globales et des études critiques internationales, les auteurs suivent des approches inductives et laissent les données empiriques enrichir leurs cadres théoriques et leurs outils conceptuels. Dans cette entreprise, ils se concentrent sur les acteurs, les pratiques et les discours impliqués qui donne forme aux institutions regionales. Les analyses ici-présentes examine les hypothèses qui informent habituellement les études sur le régionalisme et la gouvernance en Afrique.

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Additional Edition: Print version: Recherches sur la vie intérieure de l'Architecture Africaine de Paix et de Sécurité (APSA). Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023. ISBN 9789004546400

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ISBN: 9789047407782 , 9789004144507

Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; 1

Content: This volume is an attempt to analyse the causes of violent conflict in Africa, to review the various approaches to conflict prevention and conflict resolution and to discuss some of the practical difficulties in ending violence. It brings together a wide range of scholars and practitioners, with specialist knowledge of a large number of African countries. The intention here is to provide a survey of the various approaches to conflict in Africa, a systematic discussion of some of the root causes of violence, as well as case studies on the consequences of violence and the effects of conflict resolution.

Note: Contents -- Introduction -- Violence, Power and Rationality: A Political Analysis of Conflict in Contemporary Africa Patrick Chabal -- Part One -- Explaining Conflict and Understanding Conflict Prevention in Africa -- 1 Angola and the Theory of War Christopher Cramer -- 2 Ethnicity and Citizenship in Sub Saharan Africa Anna-Maria Gentili -- 3 Natural Resources, Scarcity and Conflict: a Perspective from Below Mirjam de Bruijn & Han van Dijk -- 4 Empirical Perspectives on African Conflict Resolution Klaas van Walraven -- 5 Area Studies, the Analysis of Conflict and the Evaluation of Preventive Practice in Africa Andreas Mehler -- Part Two -- Managing Conflict and Implementing Conflict Resolution in Africa -- 6 The Social Cost of Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo Theodore Trefon -- 7 Assessing Africa's two-phase Peace Implementation Process: Power-sharing and Democratization Donald Rothchild -- 8 Administrative Decentralisation and Political Conflict in Mali Gerti Hesseling & Han van Dijk -- 9 Principles for Conflict Transformation: Practicioners in Africa Shamil Idriss -- Conclusion -- Violent Conflict and Conflict Prevention in Africa: An Alternative Research Agenda Ulf Engel -- Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Is Violence Inevitable in Africa? : Theories of Conflict and Approaches to Conflict Prevention. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2005 ISBN 9789004144507

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Format: 1 online resource (270 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9789004683082

Series Statement: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024 3

Content: This is the third edition of the Yearbook on the African Union (YBAU). The YBAU is first and foremost an academic project that provides an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements. Despite the increased agency in recent years of the African Union in general, and the AU Commission in particular, little is known - outside expert policy or niche academic circles - about the Union's activities. This is the gap the Yearbook on the African Union wants to systematically address. It seeks to be a reference point for in-depth research, evidence-based policy-making and decision-making. Contributors are Festus Kofi Aubyn, Mandira Bagwandeen, Habibu Yaya Bappah, Bruce Byiers, Annie Barbara Hazviyemurwi Chikwanha, Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu, Linnea Gelot, Cheryl Hendricks, Jens Herpolsheimer, Aïssatou Kanté, Tim Murithi, Edefe Ojomo, Thomas Tieku, Gino Vlavonou, Tim Zajontz.

Note: Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / , English

Additional Edition: Print version: Yearbook on the African Union Volume 3 (2022). Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. ISBN 9789004683075

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ISBN: 9789047420934

Series Statement: Brill eBook titles 2007

Content: This collection of articles aims to stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity and to go beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances by analyzing those initiatives that offer alternatives to the prevailing paradigms. It moves away from African 'victimhood' by stressing African 'agency' and by demonstrating that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced. This is further detailed in the context of the literary contest between local and global; of issues of land rights and property; of livelihoods and poverty; of the popular culture; of demystifying African migrations; the changing parameters of territoriality; and the dynamics of the tourist encounter.

Note: Preliminary Materials / , Introduction / , Social And Historical Trajectories Of Agency In Africa / , On The Powers And Limits Of Literature / , Land And The Politics Of Belonging In Africa / , Studies In African Livelihoods: Current Issues And Future Prospects / , Politics, Popular Culture And Livelihood Strategies Among Young Men In A Nairobi Slum / , African Migrations: Continuities, Discontinuities And Recent Transformations / , Migration As Reterritorialization: Migrant Movement, Sovereignty And Authority In Contemporary Southern Africa / , Approaching African Tourism: Paradigms And Paradoxes / , List Of Contributors / , Index /

Additional Edition: African alternatives ISBN 9004161139

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004161139

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Format: 1 online resource (235 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9789042031166

Series Statement: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 142

Content: Modernist literature and art have been dominated by a disinterest in mere empirical and social reality and a discontent with habitualized perception and the world-view of convention, reason, and pragmatism. This anti-realistic attitude originated in the epistemological scepticism of the early 20th century which was even radicalized by the advent of the »linguistic turn«, constructivism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism. Yet it would be a gross simplification to describe the 20th century flatly and globally as an age of anti-realism. Especially in its second half many neo-realist movements were launched, and non-Western literatures (e.g. »magic realism«) challenged Western modernity and its constructivist epistemology. Today, we can not only read many texts which might be attributed to a »postmodernist realism« but may even be watching the rise of a post-postmodernist realism. This vast field of research is discussed in a series of theoretical reflections and case studies of selected texts, movies and the internet which geographically embrace Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia. The volume may be of interest for students and scholars of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies as well as for students and experts in the cultures, authors and artists that are covered in the collection of essays.

Note: Preliminary Material -- , Introduction / , Introduction / , Réalisme et antiréalisme Une généalogie complexe / , Égalité de la mimesis et de l'antimimesis Quelques notes sur le paradoxe de l'institution de l'œuvre / , »Laquelle est la vraie?« La parole hybride de la poésie / , Forms and Functions of Anti-Realism in the Literature of High Modernism (Woolf, Proust, Kafka) / , Anti-Realism and the »Livre de peintre« From Symbolism to Surrealism / , Le surréalisme comme réalisme ouvert / , »À la recherche de la réalité perdue« Ambiguous Alliances between Literature and Photography (P. Härtling, C. Nooteboom, M. Vargas Llosa, M. Beyer) / , Gilles Deleuze and Italian Neorealism The Irruption of the Virtual / , Social Action as Neo-Realistic Discourse in Níkos Kazantzákis's The Last Temptation of Christ (1960) / , Realism and Fantasy in Novels by Kubin, Raspail, and Cărtărescu / , Magic and Realism The Tribal Imagination in Louise Erdrich's Novels / , La littérature romanesque d'Afrique noire francophone entre réalisme, postcolonialisme et postmodernisme / , Realism as Efficacy On the Tectonics of Texts in the Web / , The Stories of Park Ji-Won Pragmatic Realism Directed against the Confucian Nobility in 18th-Century Korea / , Select Bibliography / Bibliographie sélectionnée -- , The Authors / Les Contributeurs. , Articles in English and French.

Additional Edition: Print version: Realism/anti-realism in 20th-century literature. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010 ISBN 9789042031159

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ISBN: 9789004367012

Series Statement: Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies ; v. 20

Content: The edited collection Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa presents research findings from the German Research Council's Priority Programme 1448 "Adaptation and Change in Africa" (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are important new spatial practices that have emerged after the end of the Cold War in the fields of conflict, climate change, migration and urban development, to name but a few, and their ordering effects with regard to social relations. These findings bear particular relevance for the co-production of territorialities and sovereignties, for borders and migrations, as well as infrastructures and orders. Contributors are: Sabine Baumgart, Andrea Behrends, Marc Boeckler, Martin Doevenspeck, Ulf Engel, Claudia Gebauer, Karsten Giese, Katharina Heitz Tokpa, Shahadat Hossain, Anna Hüncke, Gabriel Klaeger, Kelly Si Miao Liang, Andreas Mehler, Felix Müller, Detlef Müller-Mahn, Wolfgang Scholz, Sophie Schramm, Jannik Schritt, Michael Stasik, Florian Weisser, Julia Willers, and Franzisca Zanker.

Note: Includes index. , Front Matter -- , Copyright -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , Abbreviations -- , List of Figures -- , Contributors -- , Regimes of Territorialization: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa / , Territories and Sovereignties -- , Struggling for Sovereignty: Political Authority and the Governance of Climate Change in Ethiopia / , Adaptation to Climate Change and New Spaces of Facilitated Control in Rwanda / , Ethiopian Federalism Revisited: Reterritorialization, Nationality, and the (De)legitimization of Ordering Practices / , Territorialisation in Post-Conflict Contexts: Claims to Space and Conflict Management / , Borders and Mobilities -- , Territorial Power without Sovereignty: Hunters and the State on Côte d'Ivoire's Northern Margins / , At a Crossing Point: Negotiating Access to Spaces at the South African-Zimbabwean Border / , Shifting Territorialities of an African Space in China / , Infrastructure and Order(s) -- , Reordering Ghana's Roadside Spaces: Hawking in Times of Infrastructural Renewal / , On-demand Connections, Formalization and Multiplications: Dis/ordering Water Supply in Kimara Mwisho, Dar es Salaam / , Territorialisation, Urban Planning and Spatial Dis/order in Dar es Salaam / , "Western" and "Chinese" Oil Zones: Petro-Infrastructures and the Emergence of New Trans-territorial Spaces of Order in Niger and Chad /

Additional Edition: Print version: Spatial practices Boston : Brill, 2018 ISBN 9789004366190

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Format: 1 online resource (232 pages)

ISBN: 9789004256507

Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary studies ; v. 11

Content: Fifty years after the foundation of the OAU and the consolidation of most African states and institutions, the international panorama and Africa's position in it have changed considerably. The world's geopolitical and economic configuration has evolved, with new actors appearing in a new period of globalization. In tone with ECAS 2013, this volume proposes that the experiences appearing in Africa question dominant paradigms in terms of political practice and academic reflection and thus offer a clear challenge to the academic community. The volume offers clues to answer questions such as: What is the impact of the current processes of globalization for African countries and African citizens? How should African Studies be engaged to gauge African dynamics, both at a local and global level? What interdisciplinary means and tools should be brought in to produce an epistemologically relevant view (or narrative) of the issues under analysis?

Note: Preliminary Material / , African Dynamics in a Multipolar World / , Maputo Home Spaces: Working for a Home, Working at Home / , Changing Patterns of Intimacy among Young People in Africa / , Listening and Archiving Migrant Voices: How it all began / , Overcoming the cost to Africa of being a Good Neighbour to Denmark: Unconstrained Geography as an Alternative to the end of History / , Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa: New Trends for Development? A New Field for African Studies? / , Africa's Demographics: A Threat or a Bonus? / , Doctoral Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Planned Ressesa Intervention / , Africa Globalized? Multipolarity and the Paradoxes of Time-Space Compression / , 'The Road to Sudan, A Pipe Dream?' Kenya's New Infrastructural Dispensation in a Multipolar World / , The Compulsion to do the Right Thing: Development Knowledge and its Limits / , The Study of Africa in a Multipolar World a Perspective from Within / , Index /

Additional Edition: Print version: Engel, Ulf. African Dynamics in a Multipolar World. BRILL 2013 ISBN 9789004256040

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Format: 1 online resource (342 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9789004222366

Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, v. 15

Content: For more than four decades Robert Chazan has been a copious source of original insights into the history and culture of medieval European Jewry, challenging conventional wisdom with profound erudition and sober analysis. In this volume, thirteen leading Judaicists and medievalists engage subjects that have been of particular concern to Professor Chazan during his distinguished career: the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry. Taken together they offer a comprehensive portrait of the state of the field of medieval Jewish studies.

Note: Preliminary Material / , Robert Chazan: In Appreciation and Friendship / , Guibert of Nogent and William of Flay and the Problem of Jewish Conversion at the Time of the First Crusade / , Rashi's Choice: The Humash Commentary As Rewritten Midrash / , The Commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian Debate / , Were Jews Made in the Image of God? Christian Perspectives and Jewish Existence in Medieval Europe / , Jewish Knowledge of Christianity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / , Dreams As a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe during the High Middle Ages / , Orality and Literacy: The French Tosaphists / , Torah and the Messianic Age: The Polemical and Exegetical History of a Rabbinic Text / , Textual Flesh, Incarnation, and the Imaginal Body: Abraham Abulafia's Polemic with Christianity / , The Jewish Cemeteries of France after the Expulsion of 1306 / , The Cruel Jewish Father: From Miracle to Murder / , From Solomon Bar Samson to Solomon Ibn Verga: Tales and Ideas of Jewish Martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah / , Salo Baron's View of the Middle Ages in Jewish History: Early Sources / , Bibliography of the Works of Robert Chazan / , Index /

Additional Edition: Print version: Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History: Festschrift in Honor of Robert Chazan Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2012, ISBN 9789004222335

Language: English

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