scholarly journals Relative Deprivation, Identity Politics and the Neo-Biafran Movement in Nigeria: Critical Issues of Nation-Building in a Postcolonial African State

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Remi Chukwudi Okeke
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
African State ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Postcolonial State ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the linkages between relative deprivation and identity politics in a postcolonial state. It further investigates the relationship among these variables and nation-building challenges in the postcolony. It is a case study of the Nigerian state in West Africa, which typically harbours the attributes of postcoloniality and indeed, large measures of relative deprivation in her sociopolitical and economic affairs. The study is also an interrogation of the neo-Biafran agitations in Nigeria. It has been attempted in the study to offer distinctive explanations over the problematique of nation-building in the postcolonial African state of Nigeria, using relative deprivation, identity politics and the neo-Biafran movement as variables. In framing the study’s theoretical trajectories and in historicizing the background of the research, ample resort has been made to a significant range of qualitative secondary sources. A particularly salient position of the study is that it will actually be difficult to locate on the planet, any group of people whose subsequent generations (in perpetuity) would wear defeat on the war front, as part of their essential identity. Hence, relative deprivation was found to be more fundamental than identity politics in the neo-Biafran agitations in Nigeria. However, the compelling issues were found to squarely border on nation-building complications in the postcolony.

scholarly journals Advanced Robotics as a Support in Healthcare Organizational Response. A COVID-19 Pandemic case

2021 ◽  
pp. 084047042110424
Author(s):  
Marcin Bartosiak ◽  
Gianni Bonelli ◽  
Lorenzo Stefano Maffioli ◽  
Ugo Palaoro ◽  
Francesco Dentali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Autonomous Robots ◽  
Organizational Response ◽  
Personal Protection ◽  
Healthcare Staff ◽  
Personal Protection Equipment ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Advanced Robotics ◽  
The Relationship

The use of robotics is becoming widespread in healthcare. However, little is known about how robotics can affect the relationship with patients in epidemic emergency response or how it impacts clinicians in their organization and work. As a hospital responding to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic “ASST dei Sette Laghi” (A7L) in Varese, Italy, had to react quickly to protect its staff from infection while coping with high budgetary pressure as prices of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) increased rapidly. In response, it introduced six semi-autonomous robots to mediate interactions between staff and patients. Thanks to the cooperation of multiple departments, A7L implemented the solution in less than 10 weeks. It reduced risks to staff and outlay for PPE. However, the characteristics of the robots affected their perception by healthcare staff. This case study reviews critical issues faced by A7L in introducing these devices and recommendations for the path forward.

Managing the Postcolony: Minority Politics in Montpellier,c.1960–c.2010

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMILE CHABAL
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Algerian War ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Fifth Republic ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Minority Politics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Jewish Populations

AbstractUsing the case study of Montpellier, this article explores the relationship between local political actors and postcolonial minorities since the end of the Algerian War – particularly, the city's pied-noir, harki, Moroccan and Jewish populations. It examines the discourses used to secure the electoral allegiances of these groups and the myriad ways in which they laid claim to certain civic and political spaces. It employs diverse oral, archival and audio-visual sources to demonstrate how postcolonial minorities have gained important concessions from local authorities and how identity politics has developed under the Fifth Republic, despite France's strong republican tradition.

scholarly journals Voluntarism, Virtuous Citizenship, and Nation-Building in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Tanzania

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Postcolonial State ◽  
Postcolonial States

Abstract:This article offers a historical perspective on the concept of voluntarism in modern Africa. It does so by exploring the ways in which postcolonial states grappled with the legacies of colonial-era concepts of voluntarism, using Tanzania as a case study. It argues that the postcolonial state sought to combine two strands of colonial thinking about voluntarism in a new conception of “virtuous citizenship.” But this was a fragile construction, and the language of voluntarism could bring to light divisions in society that many would have preferred to keep hidden.

scholarly journals Role of Taxation in Formulation of Monetary Policy (Case study of Pakistan)

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1844-1849
Author(s):  
Mohammad Salih Memon ◽  
Dr. Subhan KhatoonGaad ◽  
Sarmad Rahat
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Ministry Of Finance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Monetary Assets

Actually this is the problem of most of the countries to move or strengthen their economy by maintaining all necessary requirements in this light we worked out for the identification of the variables/reasons which can create the ways for more money available in the economy for utilizing it for growth and development, for that reason data was collected from the secondary sources like ministry of finance, state bank of Pakistan and applied linear regression to check the relationship, and concluded that model of the equation if perfect which clearly identifies that tax collections are highly and positively correlated with the monetary assets available in the country means when tax collection base is exactly planned or implemented no doubt collection will improve and this improvement will lead to more money available in the economy for the all reasons which leads the economic system towards growth and development.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
John Parker
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
African History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter is concerned about death, dying and the dead in Africa. It focuses on one region of the continent, encompassed by the present-day nation of Ghana, but the chapter seeks to contribute to an understanding of the history of death more broadly. It presents the book's chronological reach, extending over some four centuries, from around 1600 to the 1950s. Indeed, the use of Ghana as a case study was in part determined by a desire to think about changing perceptions, experiences and cultures of mortality in Africa over as long a period as possible. The chapter argues that the long history of encounter and creativity of continent's diverse state-builders, the Akan, and the British is fundamental to the project of writing about death across the divide between the precolonial and colonial eras of African history. Ultimately, the chapter unveils the author's interest and inspiration in writing the relationship between the living and the dead in West Africa.

scholarly journals Reframing Entrepreneurship via Identity, Techné, and Material Culture

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Victoria E. Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
New Models ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
Social Biases ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
English Equivalent

Entrepreneurship is typically understood as capitalist, but new models are emerging; these new models, like Welter et al.’s “everyday-entrepreneur,” can be understood in the tradition of techné, in which entrepreneurship is an embodied practice balancing the sociality of identity politics and the materiality of objects and infrastructures. With no English equivalent, techné is typically understood as either art, skill or craft, but none of the placeholders provide a suitable encapsulation of the term itself (Pender). Examining identity against the backdrop of entrepreneurship illuminates the rhetorical ways entrepreneurs cultivate and innovate the processes of making, especially in terms of the material cultures that this process springs from and operates within. Intersectional issues related to entrepreneurial identity present opportunities for diversification and growth in the existing scholarship. A reframing of entrepreneurial identity and continued development of Welter et al.’s everyday-entrepreneurship is argued for, showing how social biases render gender and objects invisible. The article uses data from an on-going study to demonstrate how reframing entrepreneurial identity uncovers the ways in which systemic biases are embedded in the relationship between identity and everyday things. The case study delves into connections between identity, technology, and innovation illustrating how entrepreneurial identity can be seen as a kind of techné, which helps readers better understand identity in relation to material objects and culture—including the biases at work there.

scholarly journals Employee Welfare Package and Its Impact on Productivity (A Case Study of Roesons Industries Ltd Enugu-Ukwu, Anambra State, Nigeria)

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ufoaroh, Ebere Theresa ◽  
Udemezue, Annulika ◽  
O. Anyadufu, Anthony
Keyword(s):  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Productivity Level ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Employee Welfare ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company ◽  
Productive Worker

In the study, Employee Welfare Package and its Impact on Productivity were investigated to properly determine how welfare package of a company for its employees can affect their productivity level. The researchers sourced their data from two sources which are primary and secondary sources. The company under-study has a population of 42 employees and the population was adopted as the sampling size due to their small figure. Properly constructed questionnaires were administered to the respondents of which all were completely answered and returned. The descriptive statistical method was used to analyze the data to determine their mean, range, standard deviations etc. These were further helped by tables showing questions from the questionnaire, the Yes response and No response with their percentages. The correlation analysis was used to test the relationship between the two responses/variables while goodness-of-fit statistical analysis was used to test and validate the significance of the responses/variables. This research study shows that the productivity level of any employee depends on the welfare package available to him/her. In other words, a highly motivated worker is a highly productive worker as observed from this research.

scholarly journals Politik Identitas dan Negara Bangsa di Riau

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Erman ' ◽  
Muchid Albintani
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Vision 2020 ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
The Relationship

Riau Vision 2020, regional regulations on Lembaga Adat Melayu[LAM] Riau, the issue of sons and non-sons of the region in regional head elections are the main characteristic of the ongoing revival of the Political Identity of the era of regional autonomy in Riau. The Rise of Identity Politics in Riau is considered to be at odds with the nation-state whose essence is recognizing diversity. The politics of identity in this context is considered to jeopardize the development of the diversity-based nation-state [nationalism]. This research aims, firstly, to address the PoliticalIdentity relationship with the nation-state in Riau in an effort to prevent local disintegration.Second, explaining the main obstacles to the Political Identity relationship with the nation-state in Riau in an effort to prevent local disintegration. The Political Approach to Identity and Nation-State is used as a theoretical framework. This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive analysis method. Data is collected based on documents supported by interviews. After collecting the data analyzed qualitatively. The results of the study concluded, first, that the existence of theRiau 2020 vision, and the Riau Malay Customary Institution as a forum for empowerment of ‘Malays’ in the context of the Politics of Identity and State-nation, kept the potential for ethnicideological conflict.The concept of ‘Melayu’ in the vision impresses the sultry between Malay [ethnic] and Islam [ideology]. The vision is the consequence of local-minority hegemony. ‘Melayu’,structurally and constitutionally suggests that Melayu Malays ’control, even though there are minorities if they are accumulated with other ethnic groups. Second, the various obstacles that occur in the relationship between the Politics of Identity and State-nation are, [1] Malays are interpreted as hegemony in terms of relative deprivation. [2] Structural and cultural constraints have an effect on the relationship between the nation-state and the Politics of Identity [the existence of Riau LAM suggests more superiority and cultural domination. [3] Shifting issues in Political Idenitas, does not work linearly due to institutional-based personal interests. Practically this research provides an important reference for the relationship between LAM Riau and local governments that can prevent local disintegration. Academically, the relationship between the nation-state and the Politics of Identity can be constructed into a model and approach that can anticipate potential identity conflicts, especially in Riau.

scholarly journals EMERGENCE OF ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE APPROACH IN WEST AFRICA: CASE OF A TELCO IN BURKINA FASO

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 391-400
Author(s):  
Dr. Honoré Ouédraogo ◽  
Dr. Théophile Bindeouè Nassè
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Intelligence Approach

This paper focuses on the relationship between economic intelligence (EI, understood in the informational sense of the term, Martre (1994) and performance. It raises the question of the impact of the deployment of EI on improving the company’s results. Our theoretical approach is based on the corpus of management of the EI system, which is a dedicated IS. The epistemological positioning is of the constructivist type and the methodological approach, of the qualitative type. As for our approach, it is based on an exploration based on a case study in the mobile phone sector investigated in 2018 in BurkinaFaso, especially in the city of Ouagadougou. Our results showthat steering the dynamics of EI improves the performance of the organization in the terms of achieving pre-established objectives. This case study addresses its own limits and it may be subject to some extensions in the future.

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