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Global media discussion and policy responses to the armed conflict in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, are marked by bias and incompleteness in information sources and gaps in contextual understanding. In this paper (2nd edition) Jon Abbink analyses the emerging Atlantic discourse and some of its assumptions
En 2012 les auteurs de ce livre sont retournées au Mali-Sud, où elles ont travaillé dans le programme Femmes et Développement de la Compagnie Malienne pour le Développement des Textiles (CMDT) entre 1987 et 1995. Elles étaient curieuses de découvrir ce qui avait changé pour les femmes dans la zone cotonnière depuis 1980. Les femmes ont-elles pu améliorer leur position économique? More information and English translation: read more.
This volume by Jon Abbink and Shauna LaTosky explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinating examples of the effects of rhetoric used (un)consciously in social praxis. The elements of power, competition and political persuasion figure prominently. It is an accessible collection of studies, speaking to common issues and problems in social life, and shows the heuristic and often explanatory value of the rhetorical perspective. Of the thirteen chapters, seven are on African cases.
Islam is an essential feature of the area that encompasses northern Nigeria and southern Niger. Today it assumes new forms in terms of discourses, practices, and modes of dissemination. In order to capture their changing complexity and diversity, regional Islamic dynamics need to be observed form both sides of the Niger-Nigeria border, where religious patterns echo each other but also obey different socio-political injunctions. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Niger, Nigeria, France and the United Kingdom was set up to conduct this transnational study.