Jimi O Adesina
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 152303 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jimi O Adesina |
| NOMBRES | Jimi |
| APELLIDO | O Adesina |
| FIRMA | ADESINA J O |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6991-9934 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 123 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Land reform as asset-based social protection
‘Social policy by other means?’ land reform, gender and welfare in Zimbabwe
The ‘social policy by other means’ literature, from the viewpoint of mainstream comparative welfare state research, frames land and agrarian reform as a ‘functional equivalent’ of and an ‘unconventional’ form of social policy. Framed within the transformative social policy perspective and focusing on gender, land, and agrarian reform in Zimbabwe, this paper problematizes such a conceptualisationfor reinforcing ethnocentrism with policy instrument…
Social policy dimensions of land reform in rural Zimbabwe
This study repositions land reform as a critical social policy instrument within the transformative social policy framework (TSP), challenging its peripheral status in conventional welfare discourse. Employing a comprehensive analysis of Zimbabwe’s redistributive Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) based on longitudinal research conducted in 2015–2017 and 2022–2024 in Goromonzi and Zvimba districts, we demonstrate how compulsory land redistr…
Bottom-of-the-pyramid business model meets social assistance
Countries in Africa face serious and worsening poverty brought about by historical and recent factors including the global economic downturn and national debt crises. Different actors have tested several mechanisms with the promise to alleviate poverty. Bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) and social assistance programmes in the form of cash transfers are such models. Despite the hype associated with the models, both demonstrate little achievement in the …
Land, Water, and Gender Questions in South Africa
The heated debate around Section 25 of the South African Constitution and the principle of "expropriation of land without compensation" is conspicuously missing the inextricable link between land, water, and gender questions. Within former settler colonies, the "land question" is a "water question" and, by extension, also a "gender question." The racially inequitable land distribution, codified in the Native Land Act of 1913, mirrored the unequal…
Variations in Postcolonial Imagination
This article aims to strengthen contemporary efforts to construct and pursue a pan-African agenda by interrogating the postcolonial imaginings of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah. To counter the present-day tendency to erase and flatten the diversity of this period, the article explores the variations and similarities of the three leaders’ approaches to socialism, pan-African unity, nationhood, economic development, epistem…
Thandika Mkandawire
Thandika Mkandawire, 1940–2020
Thandika Mkandawire, 1940–2020." Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 41(2), pp. 342–343
Policy Merchandising and Social Assistance in Africa
The title of this article draws on a Yorùbá aphorism that roughly translates into 'don't sell me a dummy'. The dark side of social policy, the theme of this Debate, has a distinct character in the African context. The transformation of the African public policy landscape, shaped by the 'counter-revolution' in development thinking, has taken a new form with the donor 'policy merchandising' of cash transfer schemes. The stratified and segregated so…
Children on the Edge
Solutions, exclusion and influence
Power, and how it is exercised within social relations is pivotal in explaining policy change. However, its analysis as an explanatory variable in understanding social protection policy uptake processes in developing countries remains unexplored. Using two cases of cash transfer programmes in Kenya, we examine the dynamics of power relations in the uptake of social protection policies. This article contributes to recent scholarship examining the …
Turbulent but I must endure in silence
As Africa's urban systems change and transform with more women becoming educated and getting work outside the home and more men are confronting unemployment and retrenchment, an emerging phenomenon has surfaced challenging common gender identities and roles in the context of families. Current livelihood realities reconstruct and renegotiate how household needs are met and who meets these needs, consequently questioning traditional patriarchal dic…
International Migrants' Remittances and Kinship Networks in Nigeria
International migrants’ remittances are among the most researched subjects in contemporary globalization scholarship and policy studies. Most studies have examined the impacts of remittances on households in developing countries, and the findings are often positive and optimistic. Many of the existing studies have, however, presented only the positive economic impacts of remittances on households, with very little attention being paid to the equa…
Jedijedi
The nexus of indigenous knowledge systems, medicine and disease conceptualisation remains a critical issue in having sustainable health globally. If knowledge about diseases is not objectively shared, sustainable global health may never be achieved. This is exacerbated by the political economy of South and West relations, which affect medical knowledge flows and acceptance. This article thereby investigates the knowledge gap ramifications of jedi…
The existentialities of Ethiopian and Nigerian migrants in South Africa
Many studies on international migrations have concentrated on South-North migrations, causes and consequences of such migrations, sending and receiving countries and characteristics of migrants’ interfaces. there is much less scholarly work on South-South migrations, and academic and policy works on wider Africans’ migrations into South Africa are particularly scarce. even among the very few existing studies on South-South migrations, very few ac…
Return to a Wider Vision of Social Policy
The Welfare (State) Regime Paradigm is rife with paradoxes. In spite of the general awareness of the much wider remit of Social Policy (as a field of study and public policy), the paradigm has narrowed the focus of the field to a set of social protection instruments. This is most evident in the ‘decommodification’ index used in Esping-Andersen's original typology. Equally problematic is the idea of ‘decommodification’. The diminution of social po…
Corruption and the Nigerian Development Quagmire
One of the most difficult and dangerous issues in Nigeria is corruption. Corruption is so common in Nigeria that there can hardly be any new perspective and approach to it. In fact, corruption is so pervasive in the country that it would be nearly correct to opine that it is a way of life. To this extent, everyone in Nigeria, whether educated or otherwise, knows something about corruption, can cite cases and can attempt some level of analysis. Ge…
Tributes
Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane (1930–2013)
Transformative Social Policy
Archie Mafeje and the Pursuit of Endogeny
Professor Archibald Monwabisi Mafeje passed away on 28 March 2007. The meaning of Archie Mafeje, for three generations of African scholars and social scientists, is profound and about diverse encounters. For some it was personal; for others it was through his works, and for most in the community the encounter via scholarly works became personal and intimate. The meaning of Mafeje for generations of African scholars is found in his uncompromising …
Beyond the social protection paradigm
The experience of sub-Saharan Africa with social development in the period between 1981 and 2005 has been grim, indeed. Over the period, policy focus has turned from a wider vision of social policy to narrow social protection concerns. This is what we refer to as the social protection paradigm (SPP). We offer an assessment of the paradigm. In its place, we offer an alternative vision encapsulated in the idea of transformative social policy, stres…
Re-appropriating Matrifocality
A central concern of many Southern sociologists has been the crisis ‘intellectual dependence’ (Alatas 2000). Averting what Hountondji (1997) refers to as ‘extraversion’ involves separat- ing what is idiographic in western social science scholarship from its nomothetic aspirations; what chakrabathy (2000) called ‘provincializing europe.’ It involves excavating local ‘li- braries’ (Zeleza 2006b) and scholarship that takes its ‘locale’ or research s…
Return to a Wider Vision of Social Development
Social policy in sub‐Saharan Africa
In this article we take a retrospective look at social policy in post‐colonial sub‐Saharan Africa and account for two distinct phases. The first phase, from 1960 to 1980, is the nationalist phase; the second, framed by the neoliberal policy regime, marked the last two decades of the 20th century. We argue that social policy in the nationalist phase played a transformative role – intrinsic and instrumental. Investment in education and healthcare, …
Beyond the social protection paradigm
The experience of sub-Saharan Africa with social development in the period between 1981 and 2005 has been grim, indeed. Over the period, policy focus has turned from a wider vision of social policy to narrow social protection concerns. This is what we refer to as the social protection paradigm (SPP). We offer an assessment of the paradigm. In its place, we offer an alternative vision encapsulated in the idea of transformative social policy, stres…
Social policy in sub‐Saharan Africa
In this article we take a retrospective look at social policy in post‐colonial sub‐Saharan Africa and account for two distinct phases. The first phase, from 1960 to 1980, is the nationalist phase; the second, framed by the neoliberal policy regime, marked the last two decades of the 20th century. We argue that social policy in the nationalist phase played a transformative role – intrinsic and instrumental. Investment in education and healthcare, …
Turbulent but I must endure in silence
As Africa's urban systems change and transform with more women becoming educated and getting work outside the home and more men are confronting unemployment and retrenchment, an emerging phenomenon has surfaced challenging common gender identities and roles in the context of families. Current livelihood realities reconstruct and renegotiate how household needs are met and who meets these needs, consequently questioning traditional patriarchal dic…
Solutions, exclusion and influence
Power, and how it is exercised within social relations is pivotal in explaining policy change. However, its analysis as an explanatory variable in understanding social protection policy uptake processes in developing countries remains unexplored. Using two cases of cash transfer programmes in Kenya, we examine the dynamics of power relations in the uptake of social protection policies. This article contributes to recent scholarship examining the …
Policy Merchandising and Social Assistance in Africa
The title of this article draws on a Yorùbá aphorism that roughly translates into 'don't sell me a dummy'. The dark side of social policy, the theme of this Debate, has a distinct character in the African context. The transformation of the African public policy landscape, shaped by the 'counter-revolution' in development thinking, has taken a new form with the donor 'policy merchandising' of cash transfer schemes. The stratified and segregated so…
Sociology beyond despair
Sociology as a scholarly vocation within the university in South Africa is bedevilled with the claims of its demise. Both the discipline and a cross-section of its practitioners seem beset with ‘status anxiety’ and what I call ‘status ambiguity’ In this presidential address, delivered to the 2005 Congress of the South African Sociological Association (SASA), I examine these claims. The paper examines the sources of the anxiety. It argues that the…
International Migrants' Remittances and Kinship Networks in Nigeria
International migrants’ remittances are among the most researched subjects in contemporary globalization scholarship and policy studies. Most studies have examined the impacts of remittances on households in developing countries, and the findings are often positive and optimistic. Many of the existing studies have, however, presented only the positive economic impacts of remittances on households, with very little attention being paid to the equa…
Variations in Postcolonial Imagination
This article aims to strengthen contemporary efforts to construct and pursue a pan-African agenda by interrogating the postcolonial imaginings of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah. To counter the present-day tendency to erase and flatten the diversity of this period, the article explores the variations and similarities of the three leaders’ approaches to socialism, pan-African unity, nationhood, economic development, epistem…
Thandika Mkandawire, 1940–2020
Thandika Mkandawire, 1940–2020." Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 41(2), pp. 342–343
Corruption and the Nigerian Development Quagmire
One of the most difficult and dangerous issues in Nigeria is corruption. Corruption is so common in Nigeria that there can hardly be any new perspective and approach to it. In fact, corruption is so pervasive in the country that it would be nearly correct to opine that it is a way of life. To this extent, everyone in Nigeria, whether educated or otherwise, knows something about corruption, can cite cases and can attempt some level of analysis. Ge…
Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane (1930–2013)
Archie Mafeje and the Pursuit of Endogeny
Professor Archibald Monwabisi Mafeje passed away on 28 March 2007. The meaning of Archie Mafeje, for three generations of African scholars and social scientists, is profound and about diverse encounters. For some it was personal; for others it was through his works, and for most in the community the encounter via scholarly works became personal and intimate. The meaning of Mafeje for generations of African scholars is found in his uncompromising …
The construction of social communities in work
Adesina discusses the construction of social communities in work, identifying the significance of 'vertical' and 'lateral' communities in the workplace
Income Distribution and Inequality
This paper examines the impacts of gender and labour market status on income distribution and inequality. This is against the background of the macroeconomic policy instruments deployed since 1982 in Nigeria. The study is based on data from a sample survey of 473 households (with 2,412 members) drawn from the urban, semi-urban, and rural areas in southwestern Nigeria. The study shows a complex relationship between the key variables. The relations…
Sociology and Yoruba Studies
Sociology beyond despair
Sociology as a scholarly vocation within the university in South Africa is bedevilled with the claims of its demise. Both the discipline and a cross-section of its practitioners seem beset with ‘status anxiety’ and what I call ‘status ambiguity’ In this presidential address, delivered to the 2005 Congress of the South African Sociological Association (SASA), I examine these claims. The paper examines the sources of the anxiety. It argues that the…
In Search of Inclusive Development
This chapter provides an overview of the research project on Social Policy in Late Industrializers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Challenge of Social Policy. Eight studies were commissioned, focusing on four regional and linguistic clusters, and organized around two sets of thematic concerns. East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa formed the regional cluster, but this was supplemented by a study of selected francophone West and Central Africa…
Social Policy in Sub-Saharan African Context
This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of social policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare, and highlight important conceptual and policy issues for rebuilding Africa
Against Alterity – The Pursuit of Endogeneity
Social policy in sub‐Saharan Africa
In this article we take a retrospective look at social policy in post‐colonial sub‐Saharan Africa and account for two distinct phases. The first phase, from 1960 to 1980, is the nationalist phase; the second, framed by the neoliberal policy regime, marked the last two decades of the 20th century. We argue that social policy in the nationalist phase played a transformative role – intrinsic and instrumental. Investment in education and healthcare, …
Re-appropriating Matrifocality
A central concern of many Southern sociologists has been the crisis ‘intellectual dependence’ (Alatas 2000). Averting what Hountondji (1997) refers to as ‘extraversion’ involves separat- ing what is idiographic in western social science scholarship from its nomothetic aspirations; what chakrabathy (2000) called ‘provincializing europe.’ It involves excavating local ‘li- braries’ (Zeleza 2006b) and scholarship that takes its ‘locale’ or research s…
Return to a Wider Vision of Social Development
Archie Mafeje and the Pursuit of Endogeny
Professor Archibald Monwabisi Mafeje passed away on 28 March 2007. The meaning of Archie Mafeje, for three generations of African scholars and social scientists, is profound and about diverse encounters. For some it was personal; for others it was through his works, and for most in the community the encounter via scholarly works became personal and intimate. The meaning of Mafeje for generations of African scholars is found in his uncompromising …
Beyond the social protection paradigm
The experience of sub-Saharan Africa with social development in the period between 1981 and 2005 has been grim, indeed. Over the period, policy focus has turned from a wider vision of social policy to narrow social protection concerns. This is what we refer to as the social protection paradigm (SPP). We offer an assessment of the paradigm. In its place, we offer an alternative vision encapsulated in the idea of transformative social policy, stres…
Transformative Social Policy
Tributes
Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane (1930–2013)
Return to a Wider Vision of Social Policy
The Welfare (State) Regime Paradigm is rife with paradoxes. In spite of the general awareness of the much wider remit of Social Policy (as a field of study and public policy), the paradigm has narrowed the focus of the field to a set of social protection instruments. This is most evident in the ‘decommodification’ index used in Esping-Andersen's original typology. Equally problematic is the idea of ‘decommodification’. The diminution of social po…
Corruption and the Nigerian Development Quagmire
One of the most difficult and dangerous issues in Nigeria is corruption. Corruption is so common in Nigeria that there can hardly be any new perspective and approach to it. In fact, corruption is so pervasive in the country that it would be nearly correct to opine that it is a way of life. To this extent, everyone in Nigeria, whether educated or otherwise, knows something about corruption, can cite cases and can attempt some level of analysis. Ge…
The existentialities of Ethiopian and Nigerian migrants in South Africa
Many studies on international migrations have concentrated on South-North migrations, causes and consequences of such migrations, sending and receiving countries and characteristics of migrants’ interfaces. there is much less scholarly work on South-South migrations, and academic and policy works on wider Africans’ migrations into South Africa are particularly scarce. even among the very few existing studies on South-South migrations, very few ac…
International Migrants' Remittances and Kinship Networks in Nigeria
International migrants’ remittances are among the most researched subjects in contemporary globalization scholarship and policy studies. Most studies have examined the impacts of remittances on households in developing countries, and the findings are often positive and optimistic. Many of the existing studies have, however, presented only the positive economic impacts of remittances on households, with very little attention being paid to the equa…
Jedijedi
The nexus of indigenous knowledge systems, medicine and disease conceptualisation remains a critical issue in having sustainable health globally. If knowledge about diseases is not objectively shared, sustainable global health may never be achieved. This is exacerbated by the political economy of South and West relations, which affect medical knowledge flows and acceptance. This article thereby investigates the knowledge gap ramifications of jedi…
Turbulent but I must endure in silence
As Africa's urban systems change and transform with more women becoming educated and getting work outside the home and more men are confronting unemployment and retrenchment, an emerging phenomenon has surfaced challenging common gender identities and roles in the context of families. Current livelihood realities reconstruct and renegotiate how household needs are met and who meets these needs, consequently questioning traditional patriarchal dic…
Children on the Edge
Solutions, exclusion and influence
Power, and how it is exercised within social relations is pivotal in explaining policy change. However, its analysis as an explanatory variable in understanding social protection policy uptake processes in developing countries remains unexplored. Using two cases of cash transfer programmes in Kenya, we examine the dynamics of power relations in the uptake of social protection policies. This article contributes to recent scholarship examining the …
Thandika Mkandawire, 1940–2020
Thandika Mkandawire, 1940–2020." Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 41(2), pp. 342–343
Policy Merchandising and Social Assistance in Africa
The title of this article draws on a Yorùbá aphorism that roughly translates into 'don't sell me a dummy'. The dark side of social policy, the theme of this Debate, has a distinct character in the African context. The transformation of the African public policy landscape, shaped by the 'counter-revolution' in development thinking, has taken a new form with the donor 'policy merchandising' of cash transfer schemes. The stratified and segregated so…
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