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Economy: Africa Final Exam Summary Notes Week 1-12 (Readings and Lecture Notes)

N. Bernards “The internationalization of labour politics in Africa” in Critical African Studies 7 (2015) pp. 7-25. M. Gallien Understanding Informal Economies in North Africa. From Law and Order to Social Justice, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (2018). ILO, Report on employment in Africa (Re-Africa), ILO Geneva 2020.

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 11 “Demography Urbanisation and Inequality” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 207-221. F.P. Yatta “Urbanization in Africa: Trends, Regional Specificities, and Challenges” in International and Transnational Perspectives on Urban Systems, C. Rozenblat et al. eds. Springer (2018) pp. 317-339. van Noorlos, F. and M. Kloosterboer. 2018. “Africa’s New Cities: The Contested Future of Urbanization.” Urban Stu...

S. Moyo, P. Jha and P. Yeros, “Introduction” in The Scramble for Land and Natural Resources in Africa, Springer (2015) pp. 3-30 Y. Berriane, ch. 3 “Reforming Gendered Property Rights: The Case of Collective Land in Morocco” in Women and Social Change in North Africa: What Counts as Revolutionary? D.H. Gray and N. Sonneveld, eds. CUP (2017) pp. 69-90.

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 13 “World Trade and Late Industrialization” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 239-262. E. Owusu-Sekyere, ch. 40 “The Political Economy of Industrialization in Africa” in The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy, S. O. Oloruntoba, T. Falola, eds. Palgrave (2020) pp. 739-756.

FAO, ch. 1 “Introduction” and ch. 2 “Agriculture, food security and nutrition” in Agriculture food and nutrition for Africa, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 1997: http://www.fao.org/3/w0078e/w0078e00.htm A. Joya “Food Sovereignty and the Struggle for Socio‐economic Justice in North Africa” in Development and change 52 (2021) pp. 202-213.

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 5 “Conflict, War and State Fragility” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 77-93. P.T. Zeleza “Introduction: The Causes & Costs of War in Africa. From Liberation Struggles to the ‘War on Terror’”, in The Roots of African Conflicts The Causes and Costs, A. Nhema and P.T. Zeleza, eds. OSSREA and James Currey (2009) pp. 1-34. Case study: Mercenaries in Africa: https://africanarguments.org/2020/06/making-akilling-i...

A summary of the reading notes from week 7 to week 12 for the Economy: Africa Final Exam.

A sumary of - Susan Thomson, Whispering Truth to Power: The Everyday Resistance of Rwandan Peasants to PostGenocide Reconciliation, African Affairs, 110/440 (2011), 439-456. - Optional reading 1: Why Infrapolitics Matters 77 - Optional reading 2: Infrapolitics and Mobilizations: A response by James C. Scott - Lecture Notes

Summary of Week 1-12 for Politics: Africa