Piet Konings
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 119294 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Piet Konings |
| NOMBRES | Piet |
| APELLIDO | Konings |
| FIRMA | KONINGS P |
| AFILIACIONES | African Studies Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4617-3153 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 151 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Development of the Covid-19 Real-Time Information System for Preparedness and Epidemic Response (CRISPER), Australia
Accurate and current information has been highlighted across the globe as a critical requirement for the COVID-19 pandemic response. To address this need, many interactive dashboards providing a range of different information about COVID-19 have been developed. A similar tool in Australia containing current information about COVID-19 could assist general practitioners and public health responders in their pandemic response efforts. The COVID-19 R…
Women Plantation Workers and Economic Crisis in Cameroon
This chapter focuses on women pluckers at the Tole Tea Estate, one of the estates owned by the Cameroon Development Corporation. It examines what categories of women tended to sell their labour power to the estate management and how this relates to customary patriarchal controls in the local communities. The chapter highlights the intensification of managerial control and exploitation of women pluckers during the present economic crisis. What eme…
Spatial Analysis of the Neighborhood Risk Factors for Respiratory Health in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) experienced the worst air quality in the world for several consecutive days following the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires. With a focus on asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), this retrospective study examined the neighborhood-level risk factors for these diseases from 2011 to 2013, including household distance to hospital emergency departments (ED) and general practices (GP) and area-leve…
Anglophone Secessionist Movements in Cameroon
The state and rural class formation in Ghana
Social exclusion, deprivation and child health
Gender and Plantation Labour in Africa. The Story of Tea Pluckers' Struggles in Cameroon
n\tThis book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa, particularly Cameroon. It demonstrates that the introduction of plantation labour during colonial rule has had significant consequences for gender roles and relations within and beyond the capitalist labour process. These effects have been quite ambivalent, being marked by both profound changes and remarkable continuities. The book focuses on two tea estates es…
Church-State Relations in Cameroon’s Postcolony
The socio-political role of mainline Christian churches in the Africanpostcolony tends to be more complex than a number of pessimistic andoptimistic scholars originally assumed. There is growing evidence that therelations between church leaders and the authoritarian and corrupt elites,who seek to exercise hegemony in the African postcolonial states, cannotsimply be reduced to either cooperation or conflict. This study of therelations between the …
Trade Unions and Workplace Democracy in Africa, by Gerard Kester
This book reflects the renewed interest in labour-relations studies in Africa during the era of neo-liberal globalization. It makes a strong case for the democratization of labour relations in Africa, a process that has only just begun and still presents formidable challenges for both the trade union movement and workers. It appears at a time when the political and economic environment does not seem very favourable to the idea of workplace democr…
Privatisation and labour militancy
Privatisation has become a cornerstone of the neo-liberal reforms imposed by western donors and creditors upon African states. This study of the privatisation of the tea estates in Anglophone Cameroon seems to largely confirm widespread evidence that both African governments and civil-society organisations have for various reasons been inclined to oppose externally imposed privatisation schemes. However, it shows that the most militant opposition…
China and Africa
This article focuses on China's growing engagement with Africa – a subject that has not been given due attention in African studies. Following a review of the various shifts and continuities in Sino-African relations since the 1950s, the study sets out to explain the renewed interest of China in Africa since the end of the 1980s. Africa's interests in China complement much of the agenda being promoted by Beijing. Governing and business elites wit…
Assessing the Role of Autonomous Teachers’ Trade Unions in Anglophone Cameroon, 1959–1972
In the literature on African trade unions during decolonization and in the immediate post-independence period, two schools of thought can be distinguished: one is pessimistic about the unions' economic and political roles, and the other is optimistic. This study attempts to assess the role of autonomous teachers' trade unions in Anglophone Cameroon during the period 1959–72. The emergence, development and dissolution of these unions appears to ha…
Solving Transportation Problems in African Cities
The youth of New Bell, one of the largest and poorest immigrant quarters in Douala, have devised two innovative activities: one, commonly known as "bendskin," is the use of motorbikes as taxis; the other, "pousse-pousse," is the use of handcarts for transporting merchandise. These activities not only secure a sustainable livelihood and a feeling of self-esteem, but also make a contribution to solving the neighborhood's transportation problems. Be…
Anglophone university students and Anglophone nationalist struggles in Cameroon
The importance of student politics in Africa during economic and political liberalization cannot be underestimated. However, this study of anglophone students in Cameroon cautions against treating students as a homogeneous group. It shows that although anglophone students today feel even more marginalized than their francophone counterparts, they have actually displayed a rather ambivalent attitude towards the francophone-dominated State. The aut…
The Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria boundary
Recent studies of African boundaries have tended to focus either on the growing number of border disputes between states or on frontier regions that are said to offer local inhabitants a wide range of economic opportunities. This article attempts to combine both approaches and to demonstrate the ambiguous nature of the Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria border. On the one hand, the border has been subject to regular skirmishes between Cameroon and Niger…
Opposition and social-democratic change in Africa
This article assesses the role of opposition parties in Africa's democratic transition by focusing on the Social Democratic Front (SDF) in Cameroon, one of the largest and most popular opposition parties in Africa. Several explanations are offered as to why the SDF has failed to seize power and effect social-democratic change in the country and why the party displays a lack of consensus on the so-called 'Anglophone problem'. The regime's repressi…
Occupation of Public Space Anglophone Nationalism in Cameroon
Occupation de l’espace public. Le nationalisme anglophone au Cameroun. – Cet article examine le processus historique qui a abouti à l’émergence d’un nationalisme anglophone dans l’espace public au cours du processus actuel de libéralisation au Cameroun. Le nationalisme anglophone représente une sérieuse menace pour le projet de construction de la nation entrepris par l’État post-colonial, projet motivé par la ferme résolution de l’élite politique…
Negotiating an Anglophone Identity
Negotiating an Anglophone Identity
This is a significant and timely book on the politics of belonging. It captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the current widespread disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial African politics. Until the liberation struggles of the 1990s, dictatorship only paid lip service to democracy with impunity, often by silencing those perceived to threaten national unity. Since then, indivi…
Organised labour and neo-liberal economic and political reforms in west and central Africa
Neo-liberal economie and political reforms in Africa have been the focus of a considerable number of studies in the last two decades. Nevertheless, some conspicuous lacunae still exist in the growing body of literature. In their overview of the literature on democratisation
Religious Revival in the Roman Catholic Church and the Autochthony-Allochthony Conflict in Cameroon
This article explores the reasons for, and the repercussions of, a virulent and protracted crisis in the South West Province of anglophone Cameroon during the 1990s caused by the emergence of a Pentecostalism-inspired revival movement within the Roman Catholic Church. The so-called Maranatha movement and main-line Catholicism were viewed by both parties as incompatible, almost leading to a schism within the Church. The originally internal Church …
University Students' Revolt, Ethnic Militia, and Violence during Political Liberalization in Cameroon
Political liberalization provided space for students at the University of Yaounde to organize and voice their multiple grievances about the poor living and study conditions on campus and the process of "institutional liberalization," blocking their pursuit of upward mobility.The unprecedented degree of violence that accompanied the protracted strike actions during the period 1990-96 may be attributed not only to the persistent refusal of the univ…
Mobility and Exclusion
Political liberalisation in Africa has often been accompanied by a somewhat paradoxical obsession with autochthony, leading to more or less violent forms of exclusion of migrants. South West Province, one of the two provinces in the Anglophone region of Cameroon, provides an interesting case study to illustrate this striking phenomenon. In an area where a plantation economy was established during German colonial rule, massive labour migration has…
Construction and deconstruction
Unilever, contract farmers and co‐operatives in Cameroon
This study examines the role of the contract farmers' co‐operative associated with Pamol, a subsidiary of the giant Unilever company, in the South West Province of Anglophone Cameroon. This cooperative is dominated by a small stratum of large producers with close links to the Pamol management and the state. Although they are the most important contract farmers in terms of quantity and quality of produce, they are most dependent on the management …
The Anglophone Problem in Cameroon
THE political agenda in Cameroon has become increasingly dominated by what is known as the ‘anglophone problem’, which poses a major challenge to the efforts of the post-colonial state to forge national unity and integration, and has led to the reintroduction of forceful arguments and actions in favour of ‘federalism’ or even ‘secession’
University Students' Revolt, Ethnic Militia, and Violence during Political Liberalization in Cameroon
Political liberalization provided space for students at the University of Yaounde to organize and voice their multiple grievances about the poor living and study conditions on campus and the process of "institutional liberalization," blocking their pursuit of upward mobility.The unprecedented degree of violence that accompanied the protracted strike actions during the period 1990-96 may be attributed not only to the persistent refusal of the univ…
Occupation of Public Space Anglophone Nationalism in Cameroon
Occupation de l’espace public. Le nationalisme anglophone au Cameroun. – Cet article examine le processus historique qui a abouti à l’émergence d’un nationalisme anglophone dans l’espace public au cours du processus actuel de libéralisation au Cameroun. Le nationalisme anglophone représente une sérieuse menace pour le projet de construction de la nation entrepris par l’État post-colonial, projet motivé par la ferme résolution de l’élite politique…
Religious Revival in the Roman Catholic Church and the Autochthony-Allochthony Conflict in Cameroon
This article explores the reasons for, and the repercussions of, a virulent and protracted crisis in the South West Province of anglophone Cameroon during the 1990s caused by the emergence of a Pentecostalism-inspired revival movement within the Roman Catholic Church. The so-called Maranatha movement and main-line Catholicism were viewed by both parties as incompatible, almost leading to a schism within the Church. The originally internal Church …
The Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria boundary
Recent studies of African boundaries have tended to focus either on the growing number of border disputes between states or on frontier regions that are said to offer local inhabitants a wide range of economic opportunities. This article attempts to combine both approaches and to demonstrate the ambiguous nature of the Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria border. On the one hand, the border has been subject to regular skirmishes between Cameroon and Niger…
Construction and deconstruction
China and Africa
This article focuses on China's growing engagement with Africa – a subject that has not been given due attention in African studies. Following a review of the various shifts and continuities in Sino-African relations since the 1950s, the study sets out to explain the renewed interest of China in Africa since the end of the 1980s. Africa's interests in China complement much of the agenda being promoted by Beijing. Governing and business elites wit…
Opposition and social-democratic change in Africa
This article assesses the role of opposition parties in Africa's democratic transition by focusing on the Social Democratic Front (SDF) in Cameroon, one of the largest and most popular opposition parties in Africa. Several explanations are offered as to why the SDF has failed to seize power and effect social-democratic change in the country and why the party displays a lack of consensus on the so-called 'Anglophone problem'. The regime's repressi…
Negotiating an Anglophone Identity
Unilever, contract farmers and co‐operatives in Cameroon
This study examines the role of the contract farmers' co‐operative associated with Pamol, a subsidiary of the giant Unilever company, in the South West Province of Anglophone Cameroon. This cooperative is dominated by a small stratum of large producers with close links to the Pamol management and the state. Although they are the most important contract farmers in terms of quantity and quality of produce, they are most dependent on the management …
Le «problème anglophone» au Cameroun dans les années 1990
The «anglophone problem» in the 90's. Following political liberalization in Cameroon in the early 1990's part of the anglophone elite started organizing in various associations and pressure groups to protest against the supposed subordinate position of the anglophone minority in the francophone-dominated unitary state. The major anglophone movements initially called for a return to the federal state. The Biya-govemment's persistent denial of any …
Travail et main d'oeuvre au Cameroun sous régime français, 1916-1952
Social exclusion, deprivation and child health
Assessing the Role of Autonomous Teachers’ Trade Unions in Anglophone Cameroon, 1959–1972
In the literature on African trade unions during decolonization and in the immediate post-independence period, two schools of thought can be distinguished: one is pessimistic about the unions' economic and political roles, and the other is optimistic. This study attempts to assess the role of autonomous teachers' trade unions in Anglophone Cameroon during the period 1959–72. The emergence, development and dissolution of these unions appears to ha…
Privatisation and labour militancy
Privatisation has become a cornerstone of the neo-liberal reforms imposed by western donors and creditors upon African states. This study of the privatisation of the tea estates in Anglophone Cameroon seems to largely confirm widespread evidence that both African governments and civil-society organisations have for various reasons been inclined to oppose externally imposed privatisation schemes. However, it shows that the most militant opposition…
Solving Transportation Problems in African Cities
The youth of New Bell, one of the largest and poorest immigrant quarters in Douala, have devised two innovative activities: one, commonly known as "bendskin," is the use of motorbikes as taxis; the other, "pousse-pousse," is the use of handcarts for transporting merchandise. These activities not only secure a sustainable livelihood and a feeling of self-esteem, but also make a contribution to solving the neighborhood's transportation problems. Be…
Organised labour and neo-liberal economic and political reforms in west and central Africa
Neo-liberal economie and political reforms in Africa have been the focus of a considerable number of studies in the last two decades. Nevertheless, some conspicuous lacunae still exist in the growing body of literature. In their overview of the literature on democratisation
Plantation Labour and Economie Crisis in Cameroon
The few existing studies on the response of labour to the economic crisis and structural adjustment in African countries tend to focus on the (oppositional) relations between the state and central labour organizations. They largely ignore the response of workers and unions at the workplace. This article describes how workers and unions in the tea estates of Cameroon have dealt with the economic crisis and structural adjustment. It shows that the …
West African Workers
Riziculteurs capitalistes et petits paysans
Konings Piet,Buijtenhuijs Robert. Riziculteurs capitalistes et petits paysans : la naissance d’un conflit de classe au Ghana. In: Politique africaine, n°11, 1983. Quelle démocratie pour l'Afrique ? pp. 77-94
Capitalist Rice Farming and Land Allocation in Northern Ghana
n\tThe recent introduction of capitalist rice farming in the Gbedembilisi Valley (a river valley located in the south-east of the Builsa Traditional Area in the upper Region of Ghana) has given rise to the emergence of a small class of mainly stranger and partly absentee farmers within local peasant communities. This class of capitalist rice farmers has been highly dependent on local peasant communities for the allocation of land and for the supp…
L'État, l' agro-industrie et la paysannerie au Cameroun
A N S un article rcent, G.-Courade (1) a montr de faon trs convqincante que 1'Etat postcolonial camerounais a prfr fbire dpendre le dveloppement agricole de quelques complexes agro-industriels coteux plutt que d'une multitude d'exploitations paysannes familiales.L'une des raisons principales de ce traitement de faveur accord a& entreprises agroindustrielles a t l'ide, largement rpandue au sein de la bureaucratie tatique (2), que la paysannerie lo…
The State and Rural Class Formation in Ghana
Travail et main d'oeuvre au Cameroun sous régime français, 1916-1952
Proceedings. Conference on the Political Economy of Cameroon
Conference on the Political Economy of Cameroon -- Historical Perspectives (2 Vols.)
Empirical Studies and Conceptual Dilemmas. A Reply to Janet Roitman
Geschiere Peter, Konings Piet. Empirical Studies and Conceptual Dilemmas. A Reply to Janet Roitman. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 35, n°140, 1995. Encrages. pp. 927-928
Plantation Labour and Economie Crisis in Cameroon
The few existing studies on the response of labour to the economic crisis and structural adjustment in African countries tend to focus on the (oppositional) relations between the state and central labour organizations. They largely ignore the response of workers and unions at the workplace. This article describes how workers and unions in the tea estates of Cameroon have dealt with the economic crisis and structural adjustment. It shows that the …
Chieftaincy, Labour Control and Capitalist Development in Cameroon
n\tContrary to the studies of ethnic authorities in the Zambian and Ghanaian mines by A.L. Epstein (1958), J. Crisp (1984), and C. Lentz and V. Erlmann (1989), the present study demonstrates that chieftaincy has continued to play an important mediating role between capital and labour in estate tea production at Ndu, a small Wimbum town in the northeastern part of the Bamenda Grassfields in Cameroon, where the author conducted fieldwork in 1991. C…
Privatisation of agro‐industrial parastatals and Anglophone opposition in Cameroon
This article focuses on the regional anglophone opposition in Cameroon which arose after 15 July 1994, when the government was forced by international donors to announce the privatization of 15 public enterprises, notably in the transport and agroindustrial sectors. The most prominent among them was the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), founded in 1946/1947. The author argues that the strong resistance of anglophones in general and the Bakw…
Le «problème anglophone» au Cameroun dans les années 1990
The «anglophone problem» in the 90's. Following political liberalization in Cameroon in the early 1990's part of the anglophone elite started organizing in various associations and pressure groups to protest against the supposed subordinate position of the anglophone minority in the francophone-dominated unitary state. The major anglophone movements initially called for a return to the federal state. The Biya-govemment's persistent denial of any …
Labour Resistance in Cameroon
The Anglophone Problem in Cameroon
THE political agenda in Cameroon has become increasingly dominated by what is known as the ‘anglophone problem’, which poses a major challenge to the efforts of the post-colonial state to forge national unity and integration, and has led to the reintroduction of forceful arguments and actions in favour of ‘federalism’ or even ‘secession’
Unilever, contract farmers and co‐operatives in Cameroon
This study examines the role of the contract farmers' co‐operative associated with Pamol, a subsidiary of the giant Unilever company, in the South West Province of Anglophone Cameroon. This cooperative is dominated by a small stratum of large producers with close links to the Pamol management and the state. Although they are the most important contract farmers in terms of quantity and quality of produce, they are most dependent on the management …
Construction and deconstruction
Mobility and Exclusion
Political liberalisation in Africa has often been accompanied by a somewhat paradoxical obsession with autochthony, leading to more or less violent forms of exclusion of migrants. South West Province, one of the two provinces in the Anglophone region of Cameroon, provides an interesting case study to illustrate this striking phenomenon. In an area where a plantation economy was established during German colonial rule, massive labour migration has…
University Students' Revolt, Ethnic Militia, and Violence during Political Liberalization in Cameroon
Political liberalization provided space for students at the University of Yaounde to organize and voice their multiple grievances about the poor living and study conditions on campus and the process of "institutional liberalization," blocking their pursuit of upward mobility.The unprecedented degree of violence that accompanied the protracted strike actions during the period 1990-96 may be attributed not only to the persistent refusal of the univ…
Negotiating an Anglophone Identity
This is a significant and timely book on the politics of belonging. It captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the current widespread disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial African politics. Until the liberation struggles of the 1990s, dictatorship only paid lip service to democracy with impunity, often by silencing those perceived to threaten national unity. Since then, indivi…
Organised labour and neo-liberal economic and political reforms in west and central Africa
Neo-liberal economie and political reforms in Africa have been the focus of a considerable number of studies in the last two decades. Nevertheless, some conspicuous lacunae still exist in the growing body of literature. In their overview of the literature on democratisation
Religious Revival in the Roman Catholic Church and the Autochthony-Allochthony Conflict in Cameroon
This article explores the reasons for, and the repercussions of, a virulent and protracted crisis in the South West Province of anglophone Cameroon during the 1990s caused by the emergence of a Pentecostalism-inspired revival movement within the Roman Catholic Church. The so-called Maranatha movement and main-line Catholicism were viewed by both parties as incompatible, almost leading to a schism within the Church. The originally internal Church …
Opposition and social-democratic change in Africa
This article assesses the role of opposition parties in Africa's democratic transition by focusing on the Social Democratic Front (SDF) in Cameroon, one of the largest and most popular opposition parties in Africa. Several explanations are offered as to why the SDF has failed to seize power and effect social-democratic change in the country and why the party displays a lack of consensus on the so-called 'Anglophone problem'. The regime's repressi…
Occupation of Public Space Anglophone Nationalism in Cameroon
Occupation de l’espace public. Le nationalisme anglophone au Cameroun. – Cet article examine le processus historique qui a abouti à l’émergence d’un nationalisme anglophone dans l’espace public au cours du processus actuel de libéralisation au Cameroun. Le nationalisme anglophone représente une sérieuse menace pour le projet de construction de la nation entrepris par l’État post-colonial, projet motivé par la ferme résolution de l’élite politique…
Negotiating an Anglophone Identity
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