Jan Kees Van Donge
Biographic Data
| ID | 102800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Kees Van Donge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan Kees |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Donge |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DONGE J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | African Studies Centre |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Transfrontier Conservation Areas: People Living on the Edge
Taifa: Making nation and race in urban Tanzania
This book has a theoretical project, which is to describe the formation of racial identities as emerging from below rather than constructed from above. The author sets out to describe the history of identity formation in Dar es Salaam from the end of the First World War to the decades after independence in 1961. A major theme of the book is the relationship between the largest communities in Dar es Salaam, Asians and Africans, although the relati…
Security Beyond the State: Private Security and International Politics
Governance and access to finance for development: An explanation of divergent development trajectories in Kenya and Malaysia
Kenya and Malaysia embarked on quite similar development trajectories in the 1960s, but economic growth figures started to diverge widely in the 1980s and 1990s. Governance issues are often suggested as the major binding constraint in the Kenyan development trajectory whereas Malaysia scores well on governance indicators; but similar governance problems to those in Kenya can be found in Malaysia. However, Malaysia has the resources to overcome th…
Economic Growth and the Common Good: From Crisis to Sustainable Development
The 2008 presidential by-election in Zambia
Democracy and Development
Edited by Bernard Berendsen Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2008, pp. 302, 26.50 euro, ISBN 978 906 8326 116 This volume provides highly stimulating insights on the interface between development researc
Chabal's Honourable Failure
Challenges of African Growth: Opportunities, Constraints and Strategic Directions by Benno J. Ndulu with Lopamudra Chakraborti, Lebohand Lijana, Viojaya Ramachandran and Jerome Wolgin
Beyond the World Bank Agenda: An Institutional Approach to Development by Howard Stein
African Politics in Comparative Perspective by Goran Hyden
Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria
"Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria." The Journal of Development Studies, 44(5), pp. 764–765
The EU Observer Mission to the Zambian Elections 2001: The Politics of Election Monitoring as the Construction of Narratives
There is consensus amongst election monitors and official observers that the 2001 Zambian general elections were flawed and did not express the preferences of Zambian voters. This article argues on the basis of participant observation in the EU Observer Mission that this consensus was more a socially constructed narrative than a reasoned judgement based on observation. Central in this story is how the EU Observer Mission behaved as a rival source…
The plundering of Zambian resources by Frederick Chiluba and his friends: A case study of the interaction between national politics and the international drive towards good governance
This article analyses the accusations that have emerged since 2001 of predatory behaviour during the presidency of Frederick T. Chiluba (1991–2001). It advocates a detailed analysis of the practices that have come to light in order to move beyond a generalized interpretation of the persistence of predatory elites in Africa. Three specific themes appear. First, there is a danger of oversimplification of these conflicts as between the international…
Poverty, Aids and Hunger: Breaking the Poverty Trap in Malawi edited by Anne C. Conroy
The African Food Crisis: Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution by Göran Djurfeldt, Hans Holmén, Magnus Jirström and Rolf Larsson
Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa: Political dysfunction and the struggle for social progress, edited by Tukumbi Lumumba-KasongoDemocratic transitions in East Africa, edited by Paul J. Kaise…
Journal Article Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa: Political dysfunction and the struggle for social progress, edited by Tukumbi Lumumba-KasongoDemocratic transitions in East Africa, edited by Paul J. Kaiser and F. Wafula Okumu Get access Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa: Political dysfunction and the struggle for social progress, edited by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo. Dakar: Codesria books in association with London, New York: Z…
Extended Statehood in the Caribbean: Paradoxes of Quasi Colonialism, Local Autonomy and Extended Statehood in the USA, French, Dutch and British Caribbean edited by Lammert de Jong and Dirk Kruijt
Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics edited by Roger Southall and Henning Melber
Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery by Patrick A. McAllister
Ethnography and Participant Observation
Disordering the Market: The Liberalisation of Burley Tobacco in Malawi in the 1990s
The Malawian tobacco sector has changed considerably in the past decade: the production and marketing of burley tobacco had previously been highly regulated and is now liberalised. The sociological perspective from which this article approaches economic life sees no inherent contradiction between market and regulation: markets are seen as socially constructed, and within regulated systems there can be elements of competition. Elements of regulati…
The fate of an African 'chaebol: Malawi's Press Corporation after democratisation
Press Corporation, a large diversified Malawian company, was the personal property of Kamuzu Banda who ruled Malawi as a dictator for thirty years from independence in 1964. The history of Press is analysed in order to generate insights into the relationship between politics and economics in Africa. Comparative references are made to the experience of East Asian countries, as there are important similarities between their development paths and th…
What Does the `Show Case' Show? Evidence of and Lessons from Adjustment in Uganda
Law and order as a development issue: Land conflicts and the creation of social order in Southern Malawi
Registration of individual title to land in order to create legal security has been the central concern in the rich literature on land and law in Africa. The problem of legal insecurity is approached here from a different angle which has received relatively less attention: dispute settlement. The article results from the observation of land disputes in local political arenas. It portrays a local legal cultural universe in which legal insecurity a…
Disordering the Market: The Liberalisation of Burley Tobacco in Malawi in the 1990s
The Malawian tobacco sector has changed considerably in the past decade: the production and marketing of burley tobacco had previously been highly regulated and is now liberalised. The sociological perspective from which this article approaches economic life sees no inherent contradiction between market and regulation: markets are seen as socially constructed, and within regulated systems there can be elements of competition. Elements of regulati…
What Does the `Show Case' Show? Evidence of and Lessons from Adjustment in Uganda
Waluguru Traders in Dar Es Salaam
Understanding rural Zambia today: The relevance of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute
Opening ParagraphIn the colonial period Zambia, then Northern Rhodesia, was a field for brilliant social research. The social scientists who worked at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute (hereafter abbreviated to RLI) in Lusaka produced studies which can be found in libraries throughout the world. Yet the relevance of this literature for understanding present-day Zambia may not be immediately obvious. Our knowledge of society turns into historical k…
Legal insecurity and land conflicts in Mgeta, Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania
This article explains why people in Mgeta become locked in long and expensive land disputes. These disputes cannot be explained as rational choice strategies: the value of the land involved bears no relation to the costs people claim to incur: and people have recourse to the State legal arena without any reasonable expectation of a resolution of the conflict there. The explanation offered here is that there is a breakdown in the social definition…
Tanzanian Political Culture and the Cabinet
THIS article aims to clarify the national political culture of Tanzania through an analysis of one important institution - the Cabinet. Although attention to the norms and rules that regulate political behaviour in formal and informal ways can reveal insights that are not disclosed by other approaches, political culture has been a neglected field in the study of African politics.By way of contrast, class analysis has been a popular approach to Af…
The fate of an African 'chaebol: Malawi's Press Corporation after democratisation
Press Corporation, a large diversified Malawian company, was the personal property of Kamuzu Banda who ruled Malawi as a dictator for thirty years from independence in 1964. The history of Press is analysed in order to generate insights into the relationship between politics and economics in Africa. Comparative references are made to the experience of East Asian countries, as there are important similarities between their development paths and th…
Reflections on donors, opposition and popular will in the 1996 Zambian general elections
The Zambian general elections held on 18 November 1996 to elect a president and parliament are of more than merely national interest. Even before the elections took place, a vocal opposition already doubted their genuineness, and these claims have found considerable international sympathy. The Zambian government and those who voted them into power for a second term, however, consider these elections a hallmark of the success of the reintroduction…
The plundering of Zambian resources by Frederick Chiluba and his friends: A case study of the interaction between national politics and the international drive towards good governance
This article analyses the accusations that have emerged since 2001 of predatory behaviour during the presidency of Frederick T. Chiluba (1991–2001). It advocates a detailed analysis of the practices that have come to light in order to move beyond a generalized interpretation of the persistence of predatory elites in Africa. Three specific themes appear. First, there is a danger of oversimplification of these conflicts as between the international…
The Mwanza Trial as a Search for a Usable Malawian Political Past
Journal Article THE MWANZA TRIAL AS A SEARCH FOR A USABLE MALAWIAN POLITICAL PAST Get access JAN KEES VAN DONGE JAN KEES VAN DONGE Dr Jan Kees van Donge teaches in the Department of Public Administration, Chancellor College, University of MalawiZomba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 97, Issue 386, January 1998, Pages 91–118, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007923 Publis…
Agricultural Decline in Tanzania: The Case of the Uluguru Mountains
Journal Article AGRICULTURAL DECLINE IN TANZANIA: THE CASE OF THE ULUGURU MOUNTAINS Get access JAN KEES VAN DONGE JAN KEES VAN DONGE Jan Kees van Donge is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology of Rural Development, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands. He is indebted to Athumani Liviga for research assistance, Jan den Ouden and Nestor Luanda for earlier comments on this paper, to Catherine O'Dea for editorial assistance and to …
Rural-Urban Migration and the Rural Alternative in Mwase Lundazi, Eastern Province, Zambia
An attempt is made to explain the persistence of rural-urban migration in the chieftainship of Mwase Lundazi Zambia even after the area had changed in character from a labor reserve to a booming peasant economy. The study is based on research carried out in four villages in 1977-1978. It is concluded that the persistence of this migration can be explained by the poor prospects of young people who usually face poverty in a rural as well as in an u…
Strangers and traders: Yoruba migrants, markets and the state in Northern Ghana
Journal Article Strangers and traders: Yoruba migrants, markets and the state in Northern Ghana Get access Strangers and traders: Yoruba migrants, markets and the state in Northern Ghana, by J. S. Eades. Edinburgh University Press, 1993. xi + 234 pp. GBP £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7486 0386 7 JAN KEES VAN DONGE JAN KEES VAN DONGE University of Malawi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 93,…
The 2008 presidential by-election in Zambia
The 1985 Tanzanian Parliamentary Elections: A Conservative Election
Journal Article THE 1985 TANZANIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: A CONSERVATIVE ELECTION Get access JAN KEES VAN DONGE, JAN KEES VAN DONGE members of the Department of Political Science University of Dar-er-Salaam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ATHUMANI J. LIVIGA ATHUMANI J. LIVIGA members of the Department of Political Science University of Dar-er-Salaam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
In Defence of the Tanzanian Parliament
IN DEFENCE OF THE TANZANIAN PARLIAMENT Jan Kees van Donge, Jan Kees van Donge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Athumani J. Liviga Athumani J. Liviga Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 1986, Pages 230–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052039 Published: 01 April 1986
Transfrontier Conservation Areas: People Living on the Edge
Governance and access to finance for development: An explanation of divergent development trajectories in Kenya and Malaysia
Kenya and Malaysia embarked on quite similar development trajectories in the 1960s, but economic growth figures started to diverge widely in the 1980s and 1990s. Governance issues are often suggested as the major binding constraint in the Kenyan development trajectory whereas Malaysia scores well on governance indicators; but similar governance problems to those in Kenya can be found in Malaysia. However, Malaysia has the resources to overcome th…
Economic Growth and the Common Good: From Crisis to Sustainable Development
The Arbitrary State in the Uluguru Mountains: Legal Arenas and Land Disputes in Tanzania
When Julius Nyerere visited Mgeta in the Uluguru mountains while campaigning in 1987 for the chairmanship of what was then Tanzania's only party, Chama cha Mapinduzi (C.C.M.), he was confronted with a question relating to a long-running land dispute. Given that a national leader can expect to make little political capital from getting embroiled in such a controverty, Nyerere not surprisingly emphasised that he could not interfere with the work of…
Parties and elections in Africa: The 1982 elections for membership of the national executive committee of Chama Cha Mapundizi: a case study of political recruitment in Tanzania
Politicians, bureaucrats and farmers: A Zambian case study
This case study from Eastern Zambia challenges the thesis that after independence an elite of privileged farmers entrenched itself through domination of the local political arena and a coalition with the civil service. It argues that such a view may be a reification due to misplaced assumptions about historical continuity and the uniformity of social behaviour; a lack of attention to the actual operation of government departments at the lowest le…
Nadine Gordimer's “a guest of honour: A failure to understand Zambian society
(1982). Nadine Gordimer's “a guest of honour”: a failure to understand Zambian society. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 74-92
Rural-Urban Migration and the Rural Alternative in Mwase Lundazi, Eastern Province, Zambia
An attempt is made to explain the persistence of rural-urban migration in the chieftainship of Mwase Lundazi Zambia even after the area had changed in character from a labor reserve to a booming peasant economy. The study is based on research carried out in four villages in 1977-1978. It is concluded that the persistence of this migration can be explained by the poor prospects of young people who usually face poverty in a rural as well as in an u…
Parties and elections in Africa: The 1982 elections for membership of the national executive committee of Chama Cha Mapundizi: a case study of political recruitment in Tanzania
An Episode From the Independence Struggle in Zambia: A Case Study From Mwase Lundazi
Journal Article AN EPISODE FROM THE INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE IN ZAMBIA: A CASE STUDY FROM MWASE LUNDAZI Get access JAN KEES VAN DONGE JAN KEES VAN DONGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 335, April 1985, Pages 265–277, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097683 Published: 01 April 1985
Understanding rural Zambia today: The relevance of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute
Opening ParagraphIn the colonial period Zambia, then Northern Rhodesia, was a field for brilliant social research. The social scientists who worked at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute (hereafter abbreviated to RLI) in Lusaka produced studies which can be found in libraries throughout the world. Yet the relevance of this literature for understanding present-day Zambia may not be immediately obvious. Our knowledge of society turns into historical k…
In Defence of the Tanzanian Parliament
IN DEFENCE OF THE TANZANIAN PARLIAMENT Jan Kees van Donge, Jan Kees van Donge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Athumani J. Liviga Athumani J. Liviga Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 1986, Pages 230–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052039 Published: 01 April 1986
Tanzanian Political Culture and the Cabinet
THIS article aims to clarify the national political culture of Tanzania through an analysis of one important institution - the Cabinet. Although attention to the norms and rules that regulate political behaviour in formal and informal ways can reveal insights that are not disclosed by other approaches, political culture has been a neglected field in the study of African politics.By way of contrast, class analysis has been a popular approach to Af…
The 1985 Tanzanian Parliamentary Elections: A Conservative Election
Journal Article THE 1985 TANZANIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: A CONSERVATIVE ELECTION Get access JAN KEES VAN DONGE, JAN KEES VAN DONGE members of the Department of Political Science University of Dar-er-Salaam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ATHUMANI J. LIVIGA ATHUMANI J. LIVIGA members of the Department of Political Science University of Dar-er-Salaam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
The Democratisation of Zanzibar and the 1985 general elections
Agricultural Decline in Tanzania: The Case of the Uluguru Mountains
Journal Article AGRICULTURAL DECLINE IN TANZANIA: THE CASE OF THE ULUGURU MOUNTAINS Get access JAN KEES VAN DONGE JAN KEES VAN DONGE Jan Kees van Donge is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology of Rural Development, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands. He is indebted to Athumani Liviga for research assistance, Jan den Ouden and Nestor Luanda for earlier comments on this paper, to Catherine O'Dea for editorial assistance and to …
Waluguru Traders in Dar Es Salaam
Trapped in decline: A sociological analysis of economic life in Mgeta, Uluguru Mountains Tanzania
The research for this thesis was carried out in Tanzania during the period 1985- 89 and focuses on the Mgeta division in the Uluguru mountains, Morogoro rural district. Research was also undertaken among migrants from the area living in Dar es Salaam where they traded in foodstuffs. I made a return visit to the area in November 1991 to look again at questions which arose during writing up. The research also reflects seven years' employment at the…
The Arbitrary State in the Uluguru Mountains: Legal Arenas and Land Disputes in Tanzania
When Julius Nyerere visited Mgeta in the Uluguru mountains while campaigning in 1987 for the chairmanship of what was then Tanzania's only party, Chama cha Mapinduzi (C.C.M.), he was confronted with a question relating to a long-running land dispute. Given that a national leader can expect to make little political capital from getting embroiled in such a controverty, Nyerere not surprisingly emphasised that he could not interfere with the work of…
Tears of Rain: Ethnicity and History in Central Western Zambia
Legal insecurity and land conflicts in Mgeta, Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania
This article explains why people in Mgeta become locked in long and expensive land disputes. These disputes cannot be explained as rational choice strategies: the value of the land involved bears no relation to the costs people claim to incur: and people have recourse to the State legal arena without any reasonable expectation of a resolution of the conflict there. The explanation offered here is that there is a breakdown in the social definition…
Strangers and traders: Yoruba migrants, markets and the state in Northern Ghana
Journal Article Strangers and traders: Yoruba migrants, markets and the state in Northern Ghana Get access Strangers and traders: Yoruba migrants, markets and the state in Northern Ghana, by J. S. Eades. Edinburgh University Press, 1993. xi + 234 pp. GBP £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7486 0386 7 JAN KEES VAN DONGE JAN KEES VAN DONGE University of Malawi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 93,…
Making a Market: The Institutional Transformation of an African Society
Development theory, the problem of order and a history of the ‘Longue Durée
A History of Mozambique. By Malyn Newitt. London: Hurst, 1995. Pp.xxii + 679. £16.50. ISBN 1 85065 172 8
Historical Dictionary of Malawi
Journal Article Historical Dictionary of Malawi Get access Historical Dictionary of Malawi (2nd edition), by Cynthia A. Crosby. The Scarecrow Press, Inc, Metuchen, N.J. and London, 1993. xxxv-202 pp. £30.00 Alk Paper. ISBN 0-8108-2628-3. JAN KEES VAN DONGE JAN KEES VAN DONGE University of Malawi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 376, July 1995, Pages 449–450, https://doi.org…
The New Struggle for Democracy in Africa
Journal Article The New Struggle for Democracy in Africa Get access The New Struggle for Democracy in Africa by John A. Wiseman. Avebury, Aldershot and Vermont, 1996. pp. vi+196. £37.50 hardback. ISBN 1 85972 332 2. JAN KEES VAN DONGE JAN KEES VAN DONGE Chancellor College, University of Malawi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 385, October 1997, Pages 622–623, https://doi.or…
The Mwanza Trial as a Search for a Usable Malawian Political Past
Journal Article THE MWANZA TRIAL AS A SEARCH FOR A USABLE MALAWIAN POLITICAL PAST Get access JAN KEES VAN DONGE JAN KEES VAN DONGE Dr Jan Kees van Donge teaches in the Department of Public Administration, Chancellor College, University of MalawiZomba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 97, Issue 386, January 1998, Pages 91–118, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007923 Publis…
Reflections on donors, opposition and popular will in the 1996 Zambian general elections
The Zambian general elections held on 18 November 1996 to elect a president and parliament are of more than merely national interest. Even before the elections took place, a vocal opposition already doubted their genuineness, and these claims have found considerable international sympathy. The Zambian government and those who voted them into power for a second term, however, consider these elections a hallmark of the success of the reintroduction…
Law and order as a development issue: Land conflicts and the creation of social order in Southern Malawi
Registration of individual title to land in order to create legal security has been the central concern in the rich literature on land and law in Africa. The problem of legal insecurity is approached here from a different angle which has received relatively less attention: dispute settlement. The article results from the observation of land disputes in local political arenas. It portrays a local legal cultural universe in which legal insecurity a…
Halfway to Paradise: African Christians in Europe
Journal Article Halfway to Paradise: African Christians in Europe Get access Halfway to Paradise: African Christians in Europe, by Gerrie ter Haar. Cardiff: Cardiff Academic Press, 1998. vi+220 pp. £19.95 paperback. ISBN 1-899025-03-0. JAN KEES VAN DONGE JAN KEES VAN DONGE Institute of Social StudiesThe Hague Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 393, October 1999, Pages 587–589…
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