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A collection of essays by anthropologists engaged in contemporary research with a sociopolitical focus, this book looks at theories of change in Africa. The focus here is on globalization. The book offers a theory of comparative research on conflict resolution; this would allow researchers to ask questions about why one culture, situation, or nation is strongly influenced by an outside development and another is not, and how change in one place related to events in another. The system of analysis used in this book is common in organization studies but not usual in anthropology. Contributors discuss the theory that a model of how to handle conflict is applied at one site and then travels to others, changing situations elsewhere in Africa in often unexpected ways. Specific models of conflict management discussed here include power- and revenue-sharing, disaster management, mediation, freedom of expression, community involvement, and workshops. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Travelling models are a concept that offers to examine the translation of conflict management models into differing practices of ordering in African countries.

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"Understanding the relationship between the local and the global has caught the imagination of so many researchers before. This book is a new addition with a new perspective on this debate. It is based on case studies of conflict management situations from six African countries (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and South Africa) that are all characterized as post-conflict communities. Each situation deals with a model that has moved or traveled from another local or global context. By trying to understand the dynamic interconnections underlying such intricate relationships, the authors of the book have skilfully used the concept of translation to discuss the process by which models travel from one context to another (de-contextualized and re-contextualized). Starting from different disciplinary backgrounds, such as anthropology, sociology, history, and political science, and dealing with diverse topics the book is a vivid demonstration of how both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches can be successfully married. The book is appealing to wider readership both for its theoretical thrust and ethnographic richness." Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil, University of Khartoum, Sudan "In spite of numerous pleas for a "symmetrical approach" in field studies, research on Africa has suffered from seemingly unavoidable exoticism, framed into the space and time of "the Other". "Travelling Models" breaks out of this framework decisively, applying an analytical frame well known from organisation studies to scrutinise conflict management in African countries. The results are an important contribution to globalisation studies, revealing both the unyielding traits of global models and the intricate nuances of local translations; unexpected similarities and unanticipated differences. A collection of studies that is a source of new knowledge as well as a template for new kind of global studies." Barbara Czarniawska, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Contents

Generalities

Preface
Andrea Behrends

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Travelling Models. Introducing an analytical concept to
globalisation studies
Andrea Behrends, Sung-Joon Park and Richard Rottenburg

Part I Expert interventions and local redefinitions

Chapter 2 Workshopping owners. Policies, procedures and pitfalls of
peace-building in the non-state sector of Liberia
Veronika Fuest

Chapter 3 Does rationality travel? Translations of a World Bank model for
fair oil revenue distribution in Chad
Remadji Hoinathy and Andrea Behrends

Chapter 4 Conflicts as disasters. Translations of conflict in post-apartheid
South Africa?
Lydie Cabane


Part II Institutions of political ordering

Chapter 5 Power-sharing in southeast Darfur. Local translations of an
international model
Mutasim Bashir Ali Hadi

Chapter 6 Travelling ideologies and the resurgence of traditional
institutions in post-1991 Ethiopia
Dejene Gemechu

Chapter 7 Democratisation between violent conflict and the resurgence of
chieftaincy. Local transformations of a travelling model in KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa
Mario Krämer


Part III Mobilisation and communities in social ordering

Chapter 8 Singing for change. Music as a means of political expression for
young people in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Sylvanus Spencer

Chapter 9 Translating community policing in different social orders in
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Tinashe Pfigu and Kees van der Waal

Index
Andrea Behrends, Dr. phil., is Principal Investigator of a cooperative research project on "Oil and Social Change in Niger and Chad". Her publications focus on political anthropology and Africa.

Sung-Joon Park, is Research Fellow at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. He has published on mass HIV treatment in Uganda.

Richard Rottenburg holds a Chair in Anthropology at the University of Halle, Germany. His research focuses on the anthropology of law, organisation, science and technology (LOST).