scholarly journals Rethinking African Studies: Four Challenges and the Case for Comparative African Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-206
Author(s):  
Matthias Basedau
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Causal Relationships ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

This article takes stock of the state of African Studies and argues that (1) research on Africa is strongly dominated by outside, non-African, mostly Western views; (2) there is a tendency towards undifferentiated views on “Africa,” which usually concentrate on negative aspects, overlooking progress in many areas; (3) methodologies that focus on causal identification are rarely used; and (4) the field focuses on micro-perspectives while few works examine the big picture and the longue durée. The article then argues that Comparative African Studies, which builds upon the concept of Comparative Area Studies, can address some of these challenges. A pronouncedly comparative perspective would help to systematically combine and contrast “outside” and “inside” perspectives in order to better identify causal relationships and general trends both within Africa and between Africa and other regions. Consequently, African Studies requires more resources and should more effectively engage in multi-disciplinary and mixed-methods research.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-54
Author(s):  
Irfan Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Electoral Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Electoral Democracy ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

The ‘Introduction’ proposes a framework to understand the truth behind, as opposed to mere reality of, democratic–electoral politics. Rather than viewing the understandings of politics as a function of the state in opposition to the understandings of politics as not limited to the state, it advances the thesis that an important way to analyse democracy is to understand it as an intertwined phenomenon of warfare and welfare. This algebra of warfare-welfare is constitutive of democracy in general, including in India. To this end, the ‘Introduction’ examines important works on the 2014 Indian elections informed by ‘democratic triumphalism’. From an interdisciplinary and in-disciplinary approach, it aims to throw a pebble into the calm, muddy, unquestioned—to some even unquestionable—water of democracy to craft an alternative and democratic idea of democracy. Stressing a longue durée frame, it puts human subjectivity rather than cold statistics at the centre of our understanding of electoral democracy.

Introduction

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-101
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Previous Issue ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
The Many ◽  
State Of The Field

This issue of TRI opens with four articles which, in rather diverse ways, address the present stakes and states of feminism in and of performance. Some of the issues these articles take up and the ‘state of the field’ are introduced by Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, the editorial secretary of the journal. The two additional articles in this issue, besides the many book reviews, including those that were left out by mistake in the previous issue are by Min Tian and Gabriele Brandstetter. They are both examples of theatre/performance historiography, the former dealing with a very short but decisive moment for modern theatre history, concerning a meeting between Gordon Craig and Mei Lanfang that ‘hardly’ can be said to have taken place but still happened, and the second dealing with the longue durée of the fascinating notion of virtuosity. F.R

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Micaela Langellotti ◽  
Dominic Rathbone
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Key Features ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Rural Institutions ◽  
Village Studies

This chapter provides a overview of the state of research on rural institutions in the ancient world, with a focus on Egypt. It is divided in three main sections. The first section explores the reasons behind the scholarly importance of studying village institutions in Egypt in the longue durée, from the early Roman to the Arab period. The second section includes a review of the most representative village studies of the ancient world and their key features and shows how this volume stands out from existing works. Finally, the last section examines the best attested village institutions as they are investigated in the eleven papers of this volume.

scholarly journals The state of mixed methods research in nursing: A focused mapping review and synthesis

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (11) ◽  
pp. 2798-2809
Author(s):  
Fiona E. Irvine ◽  
Maria T. Clark ◽  
Nikolaos Efstathiou ◽  
Oliver R. Herber ◽  
Fiona Howroyd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
The State ◽  
Mapping Review

The State of Mixed Methods Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 904-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Hendren ◽  
Qian Eric Luo ◽  
Sanjay K. Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
The State

scholarly journals DEPOIS DO ESTADO-NAÇÃO: MIGRAÇÕES, SOBERANIA E DIREITOS NA AURORA DA CRISE SISTÊMICA

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Fatima Sabrina da Rosa ◽  
Damaris Bertuzzi
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
The State ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Systemic Crisis ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern Nation State

Este texto pretende discutir a relação entre migrações e a perda da soberania do estado-nação no contexto da última crise sistêmica que vem se desenvolvendo. Para tanto, utiliza como base e pano de fundo as noções de modern world-sistem de Wallerstein e de longue durée de Braudel, bem como localiza a discussão sobre o Estado na perspectiva de crise sistêmica, de Arrighi, e de pós-nacionalismo, de Appadurai. Nesse sentido, o texto é dividido em quatro partes: apresentação do problema; contexto da crise migratória e da emergência do estado-nação; crise do estado-nação moderno e, por fim, algumas considerações acerca dos efeitos dos fluxos migratórios e de capitais sobre as noções de soberania e territorialidade do Estado.Palavras-chave: Estado-nação. Migrações. Soberania. Crise sistêmica.ABSTRACTThis text intends to discuss the relationship between migrations and the nation-state sovereignty loss in the context of last systemic crisis that has been developing. For that, it uses the notions of Wallerstein about the modern world-system and Braudel’s about the longue durée as background, as well as locating the discussion about the State in the Arrighi’s perspective about the systemic crisis and Appadurai’s about the post-nationalism. In this sense, the text is divided into four parts: the presentation of the problem; the migratory crisis context and the nation-state emergence; the crisis about the modern nation-state, and finally, some considerations about the effects of migratory flows and capital on the notions of state sovereignty and territoriality.Keywords: Nation-state. Migrations. Sovereignty. Systemic crisis.

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