Tag: Reconfiguring

Free Download Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century
by Mingwei Huang
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1478026790 | 323 Pages | PDF | 7.3 MB

Free Download Jon Abbink, Tobias Hagmann, "Reconfiguring Ethiopia: The Politics of Authoritarian Reform"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1032925825, 0415813875 | EPUB | pages: 238 | 0.6 mb
This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991. Decentralization, attempted democratization via ethno-national representation, and partial economic liberalization have reconfigured Ethiopian society and state in the past two decades. Yet, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, ‘democracy’ in Ethiopia has not changed the authority structures and the culture of centralist decision-making of the past. The political system is tightly engineered and controlled from top to bottom by the ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). Navigating between its 1991 announcements to democratise the country and its aversion to power-sharing, the EPRDF has established a de facto one-party state that enjoys considerable international support. This ruling party has embarked upon a technocratic ‘developmental state’ trajectory ostensibly aimed at ‘depoliticizing’ national policy and delegitimizing alternative courses. The contributors analyze the dynamics of authoritarian state-building, political ethnicity, electoral politics and state-society relations that have marked the Ethiopian polity since the downfall of the socialist Derg regime. Chapters on ethnic federalism, ‘revolutionary democracy’, opposition parties, the press, the judiciary, state-religion, and state-foreign donor relations provide the most comprehensive and thought-provoking review of contemporary Ethiopian national politics to date.

Free Download Leon Cremonini, "Reconfiguring National, Institutional and Human Strategies for the 21st Century: Converging Internationalizations "
English | ISBN: 303105105X | 2022 | 299 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book addresses policies and strategies on internationalization across very different higher education systems globally, including inter alia from South America, Asia and Africa. The volume zooms in on the interplay between the national, institutional and "human" levels of internationalization. The latter is especially novel in that it pays particular attention to how internationalization shapes individuals – rather than only to the effects on student learning or research productivity. The work expounds on (a) the role of internationalization in fostering ethical forms of integration and preparing citizens to engage in dialogue across those differences, (b) the possible trade-offs between private benefits and negative social effects, and © the contribution of internationalization to a "global community of minds". By discussing the human dimension, it becomes clear how internationalization can contribute to defining unique ways to confront today’s societal challenges. Moreover, as the world is facing unprecedented challenges in the wake of the coronavirus, a specific chapter examines how the pandemic has made diversity among different student groups more explicit and what implications this holds for the globalisation of higher education. A range of methodologies was adopted, including qualitative (case studies and interviews) and quantitative (e.g. surveys). The book draws on both strategic frameworks and research projects to provide new perspectives on how internationalization plays out, especially linking strategies with human impacts.

Free Download Reconfiguring the Portrait
by Abraham Geil, Tomáš Jirsa
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399525077 | 313 Pages | True PDF | 15.7 MB

Free Download Reconfiguring Islamic tradition : reform, rationality, and modernity By Muḥammad ʻAbduh; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb; Muḥammad ʻAbduh; Haj, Samira; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb
2009 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 0804769753 | EPUB + PDF | 1 MB
Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers-Muhammad ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab (1703-1787) and Muhammad ‘Abduh (1849-1905)-each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam. Their works are examined primarily through the prism of two conceptual questions: the idea of the modern and the formation of a Muslim subject. Approaching Islam through the works of these two Muslims, she illuminates aspects of Islamic modernity that have been obscured and problematizes assumptions founded on the oppositional dichotomies of modern/traditional, secular/sacred, and liberal/fundamentalist. The book explores the notions of the community-society and the subject’s location within it to demonstrate how Muslims in different historical contexts responded differently to theological and practical questions. This knowledge will help us better understand the conflicts currently unfolding in parts of the Arab world.