African Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Jessica Achberger

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Economics and HIV

   The Sickness of Economics

   By Deborah Johnston

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   This book explains how, and why, economics has been applied to a terrible pandemic, using a range of examples mostly drawn from the region most affected, sub-Saharan Africa. Part I shows that microeconomic approaches have found fertile ground in a public health approach that ‘blames’ individual...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Transnational Companies and Security Governance

   Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World

   By Jana Hönke

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This book examines non-state governance in areas of limited statehood by looking at the security practices of multinational companies. It investigates the everyday security practices of mining companies in Subsaharan Africa to illustrate a much broader and highly relevant phenomenon: hybrid...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. Human Rights, Natural Resource and Investment Law in a Globalised World

   Shades of Grey in the Shadow of the Law

   By Lorenzo Cotula

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   In the world’s developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power – from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of...

   Published May 4th 2013 by Routledge
5. Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

   Edited by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge
6. The Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa

   Uganda in Comparative African Perspective

   By Roger Tangri

   Series: Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations

   This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines elite corruption in government as well as in the political and military spheres of state activity, and focuses on illegal behaviour on the part of state...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
7. Regional Organizations in African Security

   Edited by Fredrik Soderbaum, Rodrigo Tavares

   The African continent is plagued by some of the most brutal and violent conflicts in the world. At the same time that warfare is changing, so has the state’s capacity to provide security and political stability to its citizens. This book deals with the role of regional organizations in Africa’s...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
8. China's Rise in Africa

   Perspectives on a Developing Connection

   Edited by Ian Taylor, Dominik Kopinski, Andrzej Polus

   In seeking to cultivate external relations with African countries, China has long stressed its commonly shared roots with African nations as a developing country rather than a Western state, and as such the symbolic attraction of China clearly reverberates with many African elites who seem to look...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Sport Past and Present in South Africa

   (Trans)forming the Nation

   Edited by Scarlett Cornelissen, Albert Grundlingh

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   This book provides an interpretation of sport in contemporary South Africa through an historical account of the evolution and social ramifications of sport in the twentieth century. It comprises chapters which trace the growth of sports such as football, cricket, surfing, boxing and rugby, and...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Democracy and Violence

    Global Debates and Local Challenges

    Edited by John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar

    Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge