Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Power of Performance—the Performance of Power Forum

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
Till Förster ◽  
Aïdas Sanogo
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
West African ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
West African Savannah ◽  
Do So

Abstract:The West African savannah is an area where old and new institutions fill the lacunae that limited statehood has left. Some of them claim a long history, others have emerged recently as a reaction to military and civil crises. The performance of power, its display and presentation, is a theme that all these associations share. They do so on different occasions and by different means, which highlights their diverging ethics and attitudes towards their local communities and the state. This introduction to the guest edited forum outlines central themes of these performances and discusses performativity in West African power associations.

Sylvan katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae) of the Guinean Forests of West Africa hotspot: an overview and descriptions of new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1712 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
PIOTR NASKRECKI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Africa ◽  
West African ◽  
The State ◽  
Published Data ◽  
The West ◽  
African Species ◽  
Forest Coverage

The state of knowledge on sylvan katydids (Tettigoniidae, Pseudophyllinae) of Guinean Forests of West Africa hotspot is discussed. Based on published data on their distribution, and the extent of the current forest coverage of the region it is possible that some of the West African species of the Pseudophyllinae may be threatened or even extinct. Five new species are described (Adapantus affluens sp. nov., A. angulatus sp. nov., A. pragerorurm sp. nov., Tomias gerriesmithae sp. nov., and Mormotus alonsae sp. nov.), and 4 species of West African Pseudophyllinae are redescribed.

scholarly journals The Healthcare Providers-Patients Relationship and State Obligations in Times of Public Health Emergency

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 268-298
Author(s):  
Gloria C. Nwafor ◽  
Anthony O. Nwafor
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
West African ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
State Obligations

The recent outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (evd) in the West African sub-region sprung challenges on the healthcare providers in the observance of their ethical rules in dealing with their patients and the State in fulfilling its obligations to ensure that the rights of patients are respected in times of public health emergency. The ethical rules of medical practice demand that the healthcare providers prefer the interests of their patients to the preservation of self. The State is by law under obligation to protect and respect the rights of the patients in all situations. The paper argues that the responses by the healthcare providers and the States in the West African sub region in the wake of the public health emergency fell short of the demands of the ethical rules of the medical profession and the obligation to ensure that the rights of the patients are respected.

scholarly journals Is the diversity of the Beach Flies adequately known? Some notes on the state of the art of current knowledge (Diptera: Canacidae)

2015 ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Munari
Keyword(s):  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
West African ◽  
The State ◽  
South American ◽  
The West ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The World

An overview of the major zoogeographical gaps in our knowledge of the world beach flies (subfamilies Apetaeninae, Horaismopterinae, Pelomyiinae, and Tethininae) is provided. The identified areas treated in this work are as follows: the subarctic Beringia, the South American circum-Antarctic islands, the Neotropical Region south of the equator, most of the West African seacoasts, the huge area ranging from India, across the Bay of Bengal, to Sumatra and Java, and most of Australia. Apart from the inhospitable northernmost and southernmost areas of the planet, which feature a real very low biodiversity, the remaining vast areas dealt with in this work woefully suffer a dramatic paucity of field collections, as well as of previously collected materials preserved in scientific institutions. This might seem a truism that, however, must be emphasized in order to unequivocally identify the geographic areas that need to be further investigated

scholarly journals Estimation of live bodyweight from linear body measurements and body condition score in the West African Savannah Shorthorn cattle in North-West Benin

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1549767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sèyi Fridaïus Ulrich Vanvanhossou ◽  
Rodrigue Vivien Cao Diogo ◽  
Luc Hippolyte Dossa ◽  
Pedro González-Redondo
Keyword(s):  
Body Condition ◽  
Body Condition Score ◽  
West African ◽  
Body Measurements ◽  
The West ◽  
North West ◽  
Condition Score ◽  
Linear Body ◽  
West African Savannah

Paradigms in Political Science Revisited

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Mona Abul-Fadl
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
The State ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The West ◽  
Moral Ideals ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
To Come ◽  
Do So

It is time for Muslim political scientists to come together to debate thestate of the art in their field and to define the grounds and terms for its prospectiveevolution or transformation in the light of alternative perspectives.The underlying assumptions which provide the parameters and the key conceptswhich they currently apply in the course of their normal practice shouldno longer be assumed but should be questioned. To do so, they will needto be made explicit and examined in a new light. The developments of thepast decade make this imminent in more than one way. ln the West the souJsearchingamong social scientists bas intensified and contributed to shakingthe profession out of its complacency. The resulting meta-critique has heightenedcritical awareness.The decade has also coincided with a dawning epistemic consciousnessamong Muslims. Conscientious scholars and intellectuals have staked theirclaims to autonomy on the grounds of a critical disaffection with their field.Perceived disjunctures bred that kind of essential tension which prompteda review of foundational dimensions of consciousness and being. They identifiedtheir source in dissonant cultural forces and processes comprising education,socialization and the reproduction of knowledge, values, and symbolsas underlying the continuities and discontinuities in the fabric of the Ummah.This constituted the diagnosed malaise.' In this process of critical introspection,the idea of the Islamization of knowledge was conceived. Itsnatural focus was the state of modem knowledge and its modes of diffusionand transmission along the educational and cultural arteries in the Ummah.It contested the myth of modem sciences as value-free, a myth that was particularlydominant within Muslim societies themselves. Claims to valueneutralitywere not only questionable as empirical reality, but they were evenmore dubious and questionable as a moral ideals ...

The state of radiology subspecialty training in the west african subregion: The residents′ perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
OmololaMojisola Atalabi ◽  
AdemolaJoseph Adekanmi ◽  
EniolaAdetola Bamgboye
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
The State ◽  
Subspecialty Training ◽  
The West

Community Security and Self-Defense

Unruly People ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Antony
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Famine Relief ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
State Agents ◽  
The Government ◽  
Self Protection ◽  
Do So

Chapter 5 analyzes local self-regulation and law enforcement efforts. In conjunction with government, local communities also devised various methods for their own security and self-defense. Despite the state’s efforts and accomplishments in reaching down into local communities, the countryside was too vast and populous for state agents to penetrate everywhere. Normally the government preferred not to intervene directly in local affairs, but rather, to do so only indirectly through community lecture (xiangyue) and mutual surveillance (baojia) agents. Occasionally, in times of crises, the state would intervene more directly, such as in cases of famine relief and the suppression of riots and rebellions, but more routine security matters were normally left to each individual community. Rural towns and villages adopted a number of strategies for self-protection against bandits, including walls and other fortifications, guardsmen units, crop-watching associations, and militia. Nonetheless, I also argue that there was a complicated mix of activities in local communities involving both protection and predation.

The Pursuit of Social Welfare

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Citizen Action ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Do So

Who makes claims on the state for social welfare, and how and why do they do so? This article examines these dynamics in the rural Indian context, observing that citizens living in the same local communities differ dramatically in their approaches to the state. The author develops a theory to explain these varied patterns of action and inaction, arguing that citizen claim-making is best understood as a product of exposure to people and places beyond the immediate community and locality. This social and spatial exposure builds citizens’ encounters with, knowledge of, and linkages to the state. This in turn develops their aspirations toward the state and their capabilities for state-targeted action. The author tests the theory in rural Rajasthan, drawing on a combination of original survey data and qualitative interviews. She finds that those who traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, and village are more likely to make claims on the state, and that they do so through broader repertoires of action than those who are more constrained by the same boundaries. The article concludes by considering the extensions and limitations of the theory and the role of the state itself in establishing the terrain for citizen action.

Fulfulde Literature in Arabic Script

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 251-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West African ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
African Savanna ◽  
Arabic Script ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Narrative Poem

Scholars of the West African savanna have long been familiar with the use of the Arabic alphabet to create cajami or “non-Arabic” literatures in Fulfulde and Hausa. Maurice Delafosse took a rather negative position on the value of this material, basing his opinion on two formidable obstacles: the absence of natural correspondence between a Semitic alphabet and non-Semitic phonemes and the difficulty of establishing a unified system of of conventions where such a natural correspondence was lacking. He argued that the ajamiyya manuscripts were few in number, poor in quality, and did not deserve the name of literature. By contrast, several more recent authors have stressed the importance and the continuing composition in ajamiyya: Gilbert Vieillard and Alfa Ibrahima Sow, in their work on the Fulfulde of Futa Jalon, Pierre Lacroix in his work on the Adamawa dialect of the same language, and Mervyn Hiskett in his studies in Hausa. Even where the volume of material is small, they have pointed to the critical pedagogical functions of ajamiyya for the spread of Islam.In this paper I wish to show both the importance and the problems of exploiting Fulfulde literature in a somewhat different milieu, the jihad of al-hajj Umar of the mid-nineteenth century and the state which his son Amadu Sheku ran from Segu. To achieve this I will examine a narrative poem taken from the library and archives of Segu but housed since the 1890s at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris under the title Fonds Archinard. In the process I hope to draw attention to the historical circumstances in which the ajamiyya conventions for Fulfulde were developed and maintained in Futa Jalon and then extended to the Umarian entourage, and to the necessity for textual and contextual criticism of written documents based on an understanding of the close relationship between oral and written media and the continual revision that characterize a received tradition.

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