William Munro
Biographic Data
| ID | 96279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Munro |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Munro |
| SIGNATURE | MUNRO W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0760-0397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Distributive Governance and Persistent Inequalities in the Cashew Value Chain of Côte d’Ivoire
This paper illuminates the role of the state in global value chain (GVC) governance, specifically the processes of distributive governance through which state agencies redistribute value towards certain GVC actors. Through a case study of the cashew value chain in Côte d’Ivoire, we analyze how the state’s regulatory authority, the Cotton and Cashew Council (CCA), seeks to move value up the chain to promote fair producer prices and a domestic proc…
Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire
Many mainstream development actors and scholars concerned about rural poverty and hunger in Africa recommend integrating smallholder farmers, especially women, into formally structured agricultural value chains (AVCs). This influential approach rests on the assumption that productivity-enhancing technologies and stronger market linkages will raise farmer incomes, and in turn improve food and nutrition security (FNS) in farmer households via incre…
Lost in Translation
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Bringing to Scale
The concept of "scaling up" value chains dominates the African agricultural development literature. Scaling up commonly refers to three inter-related objectives: increasing agricultural production and quality, expanding farmer engagement with markets, and adding greater value to commodities that benefits all actors. Bassett, Koné, and Munro provide a critique of the assumption of linear and progressive development embedded in the scaling-up conce…
Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture for Africa's Agricultural Transformation
Over the past two decades, transnationally networked actors have promoted a vision of transforming African agriculture from an object of poverty-alleviating development assistance to a motor of economic growth by integrating smallholders into markets and promoting agribusiness through multi-stakeholder initiatives. Munro and Schurman analyze the networking and communicative labor that key policy actors have performed to advance this vision. An in…
Limits of the New Green Revolution for Africa
In order to address food insecurity, the New Green Revolution for Africa (GR4A) promotes tighter integration of African smallholder farmers, especially women, into formal markets via value chains to improve farmers' input access and to encourage the sale of crop surpluses. This commentary offers a theoretical and practical critique of the GR4A model, drawing on early findings from a five-year study of value chain initiatives in Burkina Faso, Côte…
Targeting Capital
In the late 1990s, the British anti-genetic engineering (GE) movement effectively closed Britain's market for genetically modified foods, while the U.S. anti-GE movement had a negligible impact. In seeking to explain the different outcomes of these similar social movements, the authors draw upon the global commodity chains (GCC) literature to extend the understanding of the economic and industry-related openings and closures social movements face…
Overcoming Apartheid
Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? By James L. Gibson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. 448p. $47.50 cloth, $22.50 paper. In this engaging and meticulously constructed statistical analysis of attitudes among South Africa's apartheid-defined racial groups (African/black, Coloured, Asian, white), James Gibson sets out to do two things. One is to map the state of political reconciliation among these groups. The secon…
Measuring Democracy and Human Rights in Southern Africa
Book Review| May 01 2006 Measuring Democracy and Human Rights in Southern Africa Measuring Democracy and Human Rights in Southern Africa Henning Melber, comp. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2002 (Discussion Paper no. 18) 49 pp., $15.95 (paper) William A. Munro William A. Munro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 153–154. https://doi.org/10.121…
Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Southern Africa (review)
Reviewed by: Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Southern Africa William A. Munro Hitchcock, Robert, and Diana Vinding , eds. 2004. Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Southern Africa. Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. 278 pp. $25.00 (paper). This book examines systematic patterns of social exclusion and discrimination experienced by the San and Khoe of southern Africa. The authors maintain that such patterns, reflected in these gr…
Ideas, thinkers, and social networks
The Moral Economy of the State
The Political Consequences of Local Electoral Systems
Political transitions contain volatile moments when long established political landscapes change markedly. Old political sensibilities are challenged. New political forces are constituted. Popular social groups claim new rights. Even where transitions are peacefully negotiated, new institutional arrangements are fragile, and the opportunities for securing democracy are uncertain. The destabilizing effects of transitional moments thus pose challen…
Uneven Zimbabwe
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People in Political Science
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The Moral Economy of the State
The Moral Economy of the State examines state formation in Zimbabwe from the colonial period through the first decade of independence. Drawing on the works of Gramsci, E. P. Thompson, and James Scott, William Munro develops a theory of that explores negotiations between rural citizens and state agents over legitimate state incursions in social life. This analysis demonstrates how states try to shape the meanings of citizenship for agrarian popula…
A Most Promising Weed
A Most Promising Weed examines the work experience, living conditions, and social relations of thousands of African men, women, and children on European-owned tobacco farms in colonial Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1945. Steven C. Rubert provides evidence that Africans were not passive in their responses to the penetration of European capitalism into Zimbabwe but, on the contrary, helped to shape both the work and living conditions they encountered as th…
Power, Peasants and Political Development
Recent writing on political development in Africa has shown a marked tendency to de-privilege the state. We might discern three broad, related, reasons for this trend. The first is the deepening political crisis involving what Crawford Young has described as 'shrinkage in the competence, credibility and probity of the state.' The second is the growing dissatisfaction among scholars with the narrow analytical focus of state-centered scholarship on…
Revisiting tradition, reconstructing identity? Afrikaner nationalism and political transition in South Africa
Recent theories of democratic consolidation stress the importance of elite accommodation between contending groups; thus they emphasise group cohesion and solidarity. However, the process of transition itself involves political schisms within authoritarian groups which complicate group identification for institutionalising groupbased politics. This is shown in the case of Afrikaner nationalism. Intensifying tensions in the 1980s between a race‐ba…
Building the Post-Colonial State
Le gouvernement du Zimbabwe rencontre des difficultes dans la construction de son autorite et du nationalisme dans les campagnes. La strategie de villagisation et la gestion des ressources sont des reponses aux problemes de gestion sociale et de legitimation etatique en reorientant les identites communautaires. Mais des contraintes structurelles et politiques habitent le projet meme et freinent la construction de l'Etat post-colonial
Activities and Appointments
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Education and Government Control in Zimbabwe
Activities and Appointments
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Other Activities
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Personal and Miscellaneous
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Limits of the New Green Revolution for Africa
In order to address food insecurity, the New Green Revolution for Africa (GR4A) promotes tighter integration of African smallholder farmers, especially women, into formal markets via value chains to improve farmers' input access and to encourage the sale of crop surpluses. This commentary offers a theoretical and practical critique of the GR4A model, drawing on early findings from a five-year study of value chain initiatives in Burkina Faso, Côte…
Targeting Capital
In the late 1990s, the British anti-genetic engineering (GE) movement effectively closed Britain's market for genetically modified foods, while the U.S. anti-GE movement had a negligible impact. In seeking to explain the different outcomes of these similar social movements, the authors draw upon the global commodity chains (GCC) literature to extend the understanding of the economic and industry-related openings and closures social movements face…
Uneven Zimbabwe
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Ideas, thinkers, and social networks
Power, Peasants and Political Development
Recent writing on political development in Africa has shown a marked tendency to de-privilege the state. We might discern three broad, related, reasons for this trend. The first is the deepening political crisis involving what Crawford Young has described as 'shrinkage in the competence, credibility and probity of the state.' The second is the growing dissatisfaction among scholars with the narrow analytical focus of state-centered scholarship on…
Revisiting tradition, reconstructing identity? Afrikaner nationalism and political transition in South Africa
Recent theories of democratic consolidation stress the importance of elite accommodation between contending groups; thus they emphasise group cohesion and solidarity. However, the process of transition itself involves political schisms within authoritarian groups which complicate group identification for institutionalising groupbased politics. This is shown in the case of Afrikaner nationalism. Intensifying tensions in the 1980s between a race‐ba…
The Political Consequences of Local Electoral Systems
Political transitions contain volatile moments when long established political landscapes change markedly. Old political sensibilities are challenged. New political forces are constituted. Popular social groups claim new rights. Even where transitions are peacefully negotiated, new institutional arrangements are fragile, and the opportunities for securing democracy are uncertain. The destabilizing effects of transitional moments thus pose challen…
Building the Post-Colonial State
Le gouvernement du Zimbabwe rencontre des difficultes dans la construction de son autorite et du nationalisme dans les campagnes. La strategie de villagisation et la gestion des ressources sont des reponses aux problemes de gestion sociale et de legitimation etatique en reorientant les identites communautaires. Mais des contraintes structurelles et politiques habitent le projet meme et freinent la construction de l'Etat post-colonial
Bringing to Scale
The concept of "scaling up" value chains dominates the African agricultural development literature. Scaling up commonly refers to three inter-related objectives: increasing agricultural production and quality, expanding farmer engagement with markets, and adding greater value to commodities that benefits all actors. Bassett, Koné, and Munro provide a critique of the assumption of linear and progressive development embedded in the scaling-up conce…
Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture for Africa's Agricultural Transformation
Over the past two decades, transnationally networked actors have promoted a vision of transforming African agriculture from an object of poverty-alleviating development assistance to a motor of economic growth by integrating smallholders into markets and promoting agribusiness through multi-stakeholder initiatives. Munro and Schurman analyze the networking and communicative labor that key policy actors have performed to advance this vision. An in…
Lost in Translation
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Other Activities
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Personal and Miscellaneous
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Personal and Miscellaneous
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Personal and Miscellaneous
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Personal and Miscellaneous
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Other Activities
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Activities and Appointments
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Education and Government Control in Zimbabwe
Activities and Appointments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Revisiting tradition, reconstructing identity? Afrikaner nationalism and political transition in South Africa
Recent theories of democratic consolidation stress the importance of elite accommodation between contending groups; thus they emphasise group cohesion and solidarity. However, the process of transition itself involves political schisms within authoritarian groups which complicate group identification for institutionalising groupbased politics. This is shown in the case of Afrikaner nationalism. Intensifying tensions in the 1980s between a race‐ba…
Building the Post-Colonial State
Le gouvernement du Zimbabwe rencontre des difficultes dans la construction de son autorite et du nationalisme dans les campagnes. La strategie de villagisation et la gestion des ressources sont des reponses aux problemes de gestion sociale et de legitimation etatique en reorientant les identites communautaires. Mais des contraintes structurelles et politiques habitent le projet meme et freinent la construction de l'Etat post-colonial
Power, Peasants and Political Development
Recent writing on political development in Africa has shown a marked tendency to de-privilege the state. We might discern three broad, related, reasons for this trend. The first is the deepening political crisis involving what Crawford Young has described as 'shrinkage in the competence, credibility and probity of the state.' The second is the growing dissatisfaction among scholars with the narrow analytical focus of state-centered scholarship on…
A Most Promising Weed
A Most Promising Weed examines the work experience, living conditions, and social relations of thousands of African men, women, and children on European-owned tobacco farms in colonial Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1945. Steven C. Rubert provides evidence that Africans were not passive in their responses to the penetration of European capitalism into Zimbabwe but, on the contrary, helped to shape both the work and living conditions they encountered as th…
The Moral Economy of the State
The Moral Economy of the State examines state formation in Zimbabwe from the colonial period through the first decade of independence. Drawing on the works of Gramsci, E. P. Thompson, and James Scott, William Munro develops a theory of that explores negotiations between rural citizens and state agents over legitimate state incursions in social life. This analysis demonstrates how states try to shape the meanings of citizenship for agrarian popula…
People in Political Science
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Political Consequences of Local Electoral Systems
Political transitions contain volatile moments when long established political landscapes change markedly. Old political sensibilities are challenged. New political forces are constituted. Popular social groups claim new rights. Even where transitions are peacefully negotiated, new institutional arrangements are fragile, and the opportunities for securing democracy are uncertain. The destabilizing effects of transitional moments thus pose challen…
Uneven Zimbabwe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Moral Economy of the State
Measuring Democracy and Human Rights in Southern Africa
Book Review| May 01 2006 Measuring Democracy and Human Rights in Southern Africa Measuring Democracy and Human Rights in Southern Africa Henning Melber, comp. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2002 (Discussion Paper no. 18) 49 pp., $15.95 (paper) William A. Munro William A. Munro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 153–154. https://doi.org/10.121…
Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Southern Africa (review)
Reviewed by: Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Southern Africa William A. Munro Hitchcock, Robert, and Diana Vinding , eds. 2004. Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Southern Africa. Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. 278 pp. $25.00 (paper). This book examines systematic patterns of social exclusion and discrimination experienced by the San and Khoe of southern Africa. The authors maintain that such patterns, reflected in these gr…
Ideas, thinkers, and social networks
Overcoming Apartheid
Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? By James L. Gibson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. 448p. $47.50 cloth, $22.50 paper. In this engaging and meticulously constructed statistical analysis of attitudes among South Africa's apartheid-defined racial groups (African/black, Coloured, Asian, white), James Gibson sets out to do two things. One is to map the state of political reconciliation among these groups. The secon…
Targeting Capital
In the late 1990s, the British anti-genetic engineering (GE) movement effectively closed Britain's market for genetically modified foods, while the U.S. anti-GE movement had a negligible impact. In seeking to explain the different outcomes of these similar social movements, the authors draw upon the global commodity chains (GCC) literature to extend the understanding of the economic and industry-related openings and closures social movements face…
Limits of the New Green Revolution for Africa
In order to address food insecurity, the New Green Revolution for Africa (GR4A) promotes tighter integration of African smallholder farmers, especially women, into formal markets via value chains to improve farmers' input access and to encourage the sale of crop surpluses. This commentary offers a theoretical and practical critique of the GR4A model, drawing on early findings from a five-year study of value chain initiatives in Burkina Faso, Côte…
Lost in Translation
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Bringing to Scale
The concept of "scaling up" value chains dominates the African agricultural development literature. Scaling up commonly refers to three inter-related objectives: increasing agricultural production and quality, expanding farmer engagement with markets, and adding greater value to commodities that benefits all actors. Bassett, Koné, and Munro provide a critique of the assumption of linear and progressive development embedded in the scaling-up conce…
Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture for Africa's Agricultural Transformation
Over the past two decades, transnationally networked actors have promoted a vision of transforming African agriculture from an object of poverty-alleviating development assistance to a motor of economic growth by integrating smallholders into markets and promoting agribusiness through multi-stakeholder initiatives. Munro and Schurman analyze the networking and communicative labor that key policy actors have performed to advance this vision. An in…
Agricultural Value Chain Development Projects and Household Nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Côte d'Ivoire
Many mainstream development actors and scholars concerned about rural poverty and hunger in Africa recommend integrating smallholder farmers, especially women, into formally structured agricultural value chains (AVCs). This influential approach rests on the assumption that productivity-enhancing technologies and stronger market linkages will raise farmer incomes, and in turn improve food and nutrition security (FNS) in farmer households via incre…
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