In just over a decade, mobile phones have become part of everyday life almost everywhere, radically transforming how we access and exchange information. Many have argued that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, this improved access to technology and in…
Introduction: living, not merely surviving -- The communication landscape -- Display and disguise -- Crime and carelessness -- Love and deceit -- Sex and money -- Truth and willful blindness -- Conclusion: mobile phones and the demands of intimacy
In just over a decade, mobile phones have become part of everyday life almost everywhere, radically transforming how we access and exchange information. Many have argued that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, this improved access to technology and in…
In just over a decade, mobile phones have become part of everyday life almost everywhere, radically transforming how we access and exchange information. Many have argued that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, this improved access to technology and in…
Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe - the chocolate islands - through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm…
Joseph Burtt and William Cadbury -- Cocoa controversy -- Chocolate island -- Sleeping sickness and slavery -- Luanda and the coast -- The slave route -- Mozambican miners -- Cadbury, Burtt, and Portuguese Africa -- Cocoa and slavery.
What determines economic growth after civil wars? States emerging from civil war face a host of political, social, and economic challenges to recovery. But, extant research demonstrates that states with greater economic growth after civil war are more likely to sustain the peace…
Despite widespread depiction of civil war as a pathway to autocracy or state failure, the empirical record shows significant variation in post-civil war states’ regime trajectories. While some states settled into durable authoritarianism, others went on to enter the ranks of ele…
French sociologist Claude Fischler has said that food is central to our sense of identity as individuals, as family members and as members of larger groups. This dissertation examines the relationship between food and identity in the context of the culture and history of the peo…
The starting point of the present dissertation is the study of the historical formation of Southern Africa as an integrated region of the modern world-economy. This is considered through the analysis of the main forms of successive, unequal relationship between the core and the …
Local and regional procurement (LRP) relative to global food aid deliveries saw a sharp increase from 8% in 2001 to a historical high of nearly 30% in 2011. Despite this growing importance, relatively little is known about the LRP impacts on local market prices, household welfar…
Background In many countries, vaccine-preventable diseases remain major causes of child mortality. Childhood vaccination is one of the most cost-effective and efficient ways of protecting the health of children across the globe. As countries strive towards universal vaccination …
Colonial narratives and nationalist rhetoric in Africa have always associated female sexuality with male desire and consumption, aberrance, or perversion. While historical narratives suggested that native women’s bodies should be tamed and possessed, African nationalist narrativ…
American foreign policy is made in a complex institutional setting in which a number of actors or groups may influence both the process and the substance of policy. Unfortunately, studies of American foreign policy do not typically recognize or cope with this, preferring to focu…
This project seeks to answer the question to what extent do specific individual, domestic, and system level variables affect the U.S. decision to intervene in intrastate conflicts from 1948 to 1997? Using the Correlates of War intrastate war dataset and a newly constructed datas…
This dissertation examines the role of the United Nations in the resolution of civil wars. I examine the UN's intervention decisions, the ultimate success of the peacekeeping missions, and the connections between these decisions and the success of these missions. In UN Peacekeep…
This collection focuses on David Lewis-Williams and the extent of his personal impact on the field of rock art research. It is largely through his work that San rock art has come to be understood so well, as a complex symbolic and metaphoric representation of San religious belie…
