AFRICAN ISSUES
A groundbreaking series that provokes debate on many of the critical issues facing the continent. NEW & RECENT
Inside Mining Capitalism
The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars
The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts
Old Wars and New Wars [Expanded 3rd Edition]
Edited by BENJAMIN RUBBERS A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continent. This title is available as open access 978 1 84701 286 9 £19.99 /$25.95, October 2021 978 1 84701 286 9, 2 maps; 186pp, PB
DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in Sudan’s new south and South Sudan. £19.99 /$25.95, November 2016 978 1 84701 151 0, 3 line illus.; 272pp, PB
Women & Peacebuilding in Africa
Volunteer Economies
The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa
Edited by LADAN AFFI, LIV TØNNESSEN & AILI MARI TRIPP A key book for conflict and peace studies, reveals the gendered nature of peacebuilding, its consequences, and the importance of women playing a part in peace processes in Africa. £19.99 /$24.95, £75/$130, October 2021 978 1 84701 281 4, 978 1 84701 282 1, 1 map, 4 tables.; 208pp, PB/HB
Land, Investment & Politics
Edited by RUTH PRINCE & HANNAH BROWN Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility. £19.99 /$25.95, June 2016 978 1 84701 139 8, 2 b/w illus.; 280pp, PB
Reconfiguring Eastern Africa’s Pastoral Drylands
Africa’s Land Rush
Edited by JEREMY LIND, DORIS OKENWA & IAN SCOONES
Edited by RUTH HALL, IAN SCOONES & DZODZI TSIKATA
Examines the new challenges facing Africa’s pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples. £19.99 /$25.95, May 2020 978 1 84701 249 4, 15 line illus.; 224pp, PB
Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change Interrogates the narratives of “land grabbing” and “agricultural investment” through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa’s land and agricultural economy. £19.99 /$25.95, July 2015 978 1 84701 130 5, 15 line illus.; 224pp, PB
Electricity in Africa
The Development State
The Politics of Transformation in Uganda CHRISTOPHER GORE
Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offering a critical window into development politics in African states. This title is available as open access 978 1 78744 057 9 £19.99 /$25.95, August 2017 978 1 84701 168 8, 5 b/w, 3 line illus.; 200pp, PB
Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania MAIA GREEN
A timely, ethnographically informed account of the “development state” of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, politically, socially and economically. £19.99 /$25.95, November 2014 978 1 84701 108 4, 2 line illus.; 229pp, PB
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