Alastair Fraser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alastair Fraser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alastair |
| FAMILY NAME | Fraser |
| SIGNATURE | FRASER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | African Politics, SOAS, University of London, London, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2819-6474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Limits of Governmentality
The spread of mobile telephones in Africa has enabled a broad range of citizens to join live conversations on call-in radio shows. Both African governments and foreign aid agencies claim that broadcasting such debates can raise awareness, amplify the voices of the poor, and facilitate development and better governance; they now fund a large share of interactive shows in some countries. Critics of such participatory initiatives typically accept th…
Post-populism in Zambia
Models explaining populism as a policy response to the interests of the urban poor struggle to understand the instability of populist mobilisations. A focus on political theatre is more helpful. This article extends the debate on populist performance, showing how populists typically do not produce rehearsed performances to passive audiences. In drawing ‘the people’ on stage they are forced to improvise. As a result, populist performances are rare…
Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism
This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in histo
Introduction
Throughout the twentieth century, studies of life on a narrow strip of land in central Africa shaped the way academics understood relations between the rich world and the poor. Anthropologists, economists, historians, and political scientists described how booms and busts in the global copper market repeatedly raised and dashed hopes of prosperity for communities living on the periphery of the international economic system but on top of mineral d…
Negotiating Aid
This article presents a new analytical approach to the study of aid negotiations. Building on existing approaches but trying to overcome their limitations, it argues that factors outside of individual negotiations (or the ‘game’ in game-theoretic approaches) significantly affect the preferences of actors, the negotiating strategies they fashion, and the success of those strategies. This approach was employed to examine and compare the experiences…
Of cabbages and King Cobra
Zambia's 2006 election was won by incumbent President Levy Mwanawasa and his Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). However, it is argued here that the most important outcome of the campaign was the successful articulation of a new populist politics by Michael Sata's Patriotic Front (PF), which won a significant majority in urban areas. Sata's attacks on foreign investors (particularly from China) for their abuse of the workforce and their sup…
Poverty reduction strategy papers
This paper argues that Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) can be understood as a technology of ‘social control’, which seeks to shape domestic political space. Despite widespread recognition that the World Bank and the IMF continue to impose orthodox policy conditions on debt relief and loans to African countries, many suggest the requirement in PRSPs for civil society ‘participation’ introduces a progressive element that could, in time, s…
Populism and Republican Jurisprudence
The antagonistic relation of “Populism vs. the New Class” has been prefigured in Paul Piccone's and G.L. Ulmen's article on European unification. There, populism is understood in terms of autonomous organic communities' resistance to the New Class' centralizing logic of domination. They argue that in the US the populist struggle “to resist capitalist manipulation and New Class domination” has been lost. But in Europe a genuine populist democracy …
Reconstituting Enlightened Despotism
Roberto Mangabeira Unger Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory; Vol. 1, Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task; Vol. 2, False Necessity: Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy; Vol. 3, Plasticity into Power: Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Zambia, mining, and neoliberalism
Boom and bust on the Zambian Copperbelt A.Fraser Historical Perspectives on Zambia's Mining Booms and Busts M.Larmer The Economics of the Copper Price Boom in Zambia C.S.Adam & A.M.Simpasa From Boom to Bust: Diversity and Regulation in Zambia's Privatised Copper Sector D.Haglund Raw Encounters: Chinese Managers, African Workers and the Politics of Casualization in Africa's Chinese Enclaves C.Kwan Lee African Miners and Shape Shifting Flight Capit…
Of cabbages and King Cobra
Zambia's 2006 election was won by incumbent President Levy Mwanawasa and his Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). However, it is argued here that the most important outcome of the campaign was the successful articulation of a new populist politics by Michael Sata's Patriotic Front (PF), which won a significant majority in urban areas. Sata's attacks on foreign investors (particularly from China) for their abuse of the workforce and their sup…
Poverty reduction strategy papers
This paper argues that Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) can be understood as a technology of ‘social control’, which seeks to shape domestic political space. Despite widespread recognition that the World Bank and the IMF continue to impose orthodox policy conditions on debt relief and loans to African countries, many suggest the requirement in PRSPs for civil society ‘participation’ introduces a progressive element that could, in time, s…
Negotiating Aid
This article presents a new analytical approach to the study of aid negotiations. Building on existing approaches but trying to overcome their limitations, it argues that factors outside of individual negotiations (or the ‘game’ in game-theoretic approaches) significantly affect the preferences of actors, the negotiating strategies they fashion, and the success of those strategies. This approach was employed to examine and compare the experiences…
Post-populism in Zambia
Models explaining populism as a policy response to the interests of the urban poor struggle to understand the instability of populist mobilisations. A focus on political theatre is more helpful. This article extends the debate on populist performance, showing how populists typically do not produce rehearsed performances to passive audiences. In drawing ‘the people’ on stage they are forced to improvise. As a result, populist performances are rare…
Reconstituting Enlightened Despotism
Roberto Mangabeira Unger Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory; Vol. 1, Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task; Vol. 2, False Necessity: Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy; Vol. 3, Plasticity into Power: Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Populism and Republican Jurisprudence
The antagonistic relation of “Populism vs. the New Class” has been prefigured in Paul Piccone's and G.L. Ulmen's article on European unification. There, populism is understood in terms of autonomous organic communities' resistance to the New Class' centralizing logic of domination. They argue that in the US the populist struggle “to resist capitalist manipulation and New Class domination” has been lost. But in Europe a genuine populist democracy …
Poverty reduction strategy papers
This paper argues that Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) can be understood as a technology of ‘social control’, which seeks to shape domestic political space. Despite widespread recognition that the World Bank and the IMF continue to impose orthodox policy conditions on debt relief and loans to African countries, many suggest the requirement in PRSPs for civil society ‘participation’ introduces a progressive element that could, in time, s…
Of cabbages and King Cobra
Zambia's 2006 election was won by incumbent President Levy Mwanawasa and his Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). However, it is argued here that the most important outcome of the campaign was the successful articulation of a new populist politics by Michael Sata's Patriotic Front (PF), which won a significant majority in urban areas. Sata's attacks on foreign investors (particularly from China) for their abuse of the workforce and their sup…
Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism
This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in histo
Introduction
Throughout the twentieth century, studies of life on a narrow strip of land in central Africa shaped the way academics understood relations between the rich world and the poor. Anthropologists, economists, historians, and political scientists described how booms and busts in the global copper market repeatedly raised and dashed hopes of prosperity for communities living on the periphery of the international economic system but on top of mineral d…
Negotiating Aid
This article presents a new analytical approach to the study of aid negotiations. Building on existing approaches but trying to overcome their limitations, it argues that factors outside of individual negotiations (or the ‘game’ in game-theoretic approaches) significantly affect the preferences of actors, the negotiating strategies they fashion, and the success of those strategies. This approach was employed to examine and compare the experiences…
Post-populism in Zambia
Models explaining populism as a policy response to the interests of the urban poor struggle to understand the instability of populist mobilisations. A focus on political theatre is more helpful. This article extends the debate on populist performance, showing how populists typically do not produce rehearsed performances to passive audiences. In drawing ‘the people’ on stage they are forced to improvise. As a result, populist performances are rare…
Zambia, mining, and neoliberalism
Boom and bust on the Zambian Copperbelt A.Fraser Historical Perspectives on Zambia's Mining Booms and Busts M.Larmer The Economics of the Copper Price Boom in Zambia C.S.Adam & A.M.Simpasa From Boom to Bust: Diversity and Regulation in Zambia's Privatised Copper Sector D.Haglund Raw Encounters: Chinese Managers, African Workers and the Politics of Casualization in Africa's Chinese Enclaves C.Kwan Lee African Miners and Shape Shifting Flight Capit…
The Limits of Governmentality
The spread of mobile telephones in Africa has enabled a broad range of citizens to join live conversations on call-in radio shows. Both African governments and foreign aid agencies claim that broadcasting such debates can raise awareness, amplify the voices of the poor, and facilitate development and better governance; they now fund a large share of interactive shows in some countries. Critics of such participatory initiatives typically accept th…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (4 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)