Power to the People? Abuses of Power in Customary Justice in Uganda
In: African conflict & peacebuilding review: ACPR, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 27-54
ISSN: 2156-7263
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In: African conflict & peacebuilding review: ACPR, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 27-54
ISSN: 2156-7263
In: Worldview, Volume 18, Issue 5, p. 11-15
I begin, with apologies, by mentioning two of my own books; Can American Democracy Survive Cold War? (1963) and The Intelligence Establishment (1970). The titles say much about the development of a debate that promises to be with us for some time.The first title/question posed the dilemma of an American democracy facing a perceived threat (perceived at least by the foreign policy elite) to national security. An assumed monolithic "world communism" provoked the creation of a vast arsenal of foreign policy instruments, including espionage and covert political operations overseas. Managing mis mammoth security apparatus required highly centralized control. Indeed, at times it required deception, lying, and deep secrecy.
In: International affairs, Volume 83, Issue 2, p. 375-377
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Harvard international review, Volume 27, Issue 2, p. 48-53
ISSN: 0739-1854
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Volume 75, Issue 4, p. 219-224
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: National civic review: publ. by the National Municipal League, Volume 75, Issue 4, p. 219
ISSN: 0027-9013
In: Journal of peace research, Volume 42, Issue 2, p. 219-235
ISSN: 1460-3578
Using Foucault's concepts of power relations, discourse and internalization, this article uncovers some basic dissemination and internalization strategies of power relations on several levels. First, it looks at power at the individual level, with an analysis of family abuse and torture. It then applies this analysis to Westernization in Africa, arguing that the basic strategies by which power is disseminated and internalized into the bodies, psyches and cultures of Africans are the same as in abuse. The internalization of the Western discourse at the individual and small-community levels was studied through field research, undertaken in Ghana, that included participant observation and interviews. The research shows that even in the case of small, local, sustainable development projects, one sees a Westernization of power relations between men and women, chiefs and population, and elders and youth, with changes in related values. The field research reveals that actors are not merely passive victims of changes in discourses: they resist it, cooperate, disseminate and adapt it to their needs, but within the rules of the Western regime of discourse. The general conditions, processes and actors' strategies in this process of discursive change go further than a mere analogy to abuse and torture. The article shows that the process by which an initially violent, dominant discourse is transformed into a 'normal' way of living, into beliefs and wishes, is the same in these different cases, suggesting that there exist some general strategies by which power is disseminated at the international and individual levels and by which it is propagated and internalized by individuals.
In: Administration & society, Volume 19, Issue 3, p. 267-284
ISSN: 0095-3997
In: Emerald interdisciplinary connexions
Do witches and witchcraft represent our understanding of how women who threaten the patriarchy are demonised? If to be born female is to be born deviant, how deviant is a body transformed to be female? There are few explorations of whether power exercised by women is as robust as that exercised by men, and therefore whether it is more open to abusive use. This fascinating anthology examines these questions through the lens of literary critique, history, criminology, and psychology to explore another representation of women - in relation to how they abuse power, or how they react when they are the victims of that abuse. With themes ranging from the personal consideration of female bodies, to the supernatural hidden realm, to the public condemnation of women who fall foul of either the law or of a male-dominated world, this collection of interdisciplinary essays provides an in-depth look at the fate of women who abuse or are abused by power.
In: American federationist: official monthly magazine of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Volume 34, p. 1435-1444
ISSN: 0002-8428
In: American political science review, Volume 99, Issue 1, p. 29-43
ISSN: 0003-0554
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