Abu Bakarr Bah
Biographic Data
| ID | 4193735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abu Bakarr Bah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abu Bakarr |
| FAMILY NAME | Bah |
| SIGNATURE | BAH A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1839-3212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Interethnic Marriages, Border Markets and Cattle Rustling: A Study of Ethnic Cleavages in Rural Kenya
This paper addresses the question as to whether interethnic marriages reduce cattle rustling and its related violence in rural Kenya? Previous findings on the relationship between interethnic marriages and violent conflicts in rural areas are mixed. On the one hand, contacts resulting from interethnic marriages can build closer ties among ethnic groups. On the other hand, inter‐group competition resulting from closer interaction may breed frictio…
Digitalized Electoral Democracy, Subversive Politics, and Islam: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective
Increasingly democracy is becoming digitalized through the use of information technologies in the conduct of elections and political campaigns. At the same time, politics is becoming more contentious, and even subversive, as democracy fuses with divisive social issues and identity politics. This article examines the issue of subversive politics in a variety of democracy settings. As the authors show, subversive politics is an issue that is affect…
Landholding and the Creation of Lumpen Tenants in Freetown: Youth Economic Survival and Patrimonialism in Postwar Sierra Leone
This article is an ethnographic study that situates the caretaker phenomenon within the wider system of patrimonialism in Sierra Leone. It addresses the ways urban landholding creates a class of lumpen tenants and reproduces patrimonialism in postwar Sierra Leone. The article is based on select data regarding landholding in the environs of Freetown drawn from a larger study of youths and governance. The article shows that in Sierra Leone, patrimo…
Indigenous Knowledge and the Social Construction of Patriarchy: The Case of the Bukusu of Kenya
This article is an ethnographic study on the Bukusu number system and the connections between Indigenous knowledge and patriarchy. It examines the ways patriarchy is embedded in everyday knowledge through a number system that has deep gender hierarchy symbolisms. The findings show strong connection between everyday knowledge and social norms that define the status of men and women. While this article is centered on Bukusu society in Kenya, it is …
Positive Peace and the Methodology of Costing Peacebuilding Needs: The Case of Burundi
Studies on conflict and social justice issues are increasingly focusing on positive peace instead of violence itself. Accordingly, a key challenge facing the international community in promoting positive peace is the cost of peacebuilding needs. This is a particularly difficult issue for the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, tasked with developing peacebuilding programs for fragile countries at risk of returning to civil war and putting th…
People-Centered Liberalism: An Alternative Approach to International State-Building in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Efforts to build stable states in Africa have often been conditioned by ideological and policy debates about the right approach for enhancing freedom and social wellbeing. Since independence, African countries have experimented with unorthodox variants of liberalism and socialism. However, neither of these has enhanced African states. This article examines the shift from orthodox neoliberalism in the international approach to state-building in Af…
State Decay: A Conceptual Frame of Failing and Failed States in West Africa
State Decay and Civil War: A Discourse on Power in Sierra Leone
Building upon the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Alexis de Tocqueville and Michel Foucault, this article develops a concept of power that bridges the structure-agency, control-benefit and macro-micro divides in sociology. Using Sierra Leone as a case study, the article identifies three forms of power that are manifested in political, economic, and everyday life situations. It traces political and economic power to the struggles for control over t…
Democracy and civil war: Citizenship and peacemaking in Cote d'Ivoire
Journal Article Democracy and civil war: Citizenship and peacemaking in Côte d'Ivoire Get access Abu Bakarr Bah Abu Bakarr Bah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 109, Issue 437, October 2010, Pages 597–615, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adq046 Published: 19 August 2010
Racial Profiling and the War on Terror: Changing Trends and Perspectives
Minorities in the United States have often been treated unfairly by law enforcement agencies. Prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States, Blacks were the main victims of racial profiling. Since the terrorist attack, however, Arabs and Muslims are becoming the primary targets for profiling by law enforcement agencies. There are some remarkable similarities between the profiling of Blacks and the profiling of Arabs and M…
Democracy and civil war: Citizenship and peacemaking in Cote d'Ivoire
Journal Article Democracy and civil war: Citizenship and peacemaking in Côte d'Ivoire Get access Abu Bakarr Bah Abu Bakarr Bah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 109, Issue 437, October 2010, Pages 597–615, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adq046 Published: 19 August 2010
State Decay and Civil War: A Discourse on Power in Sierra Leone
Building upon the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Alexis de Tocqueville and Michel Foucault, this article develops a concept of power that bridges the structure-agency, control-benefit and macro-micro divides in sociology. Using Sierra Leone as a case study, the article identifies three forms of power that are manifested in political, economic, and everyday life situations. It traces political and economic power to the struggles for control over t…
State Decay: A Conceptual Frame of Failing and Failed States in West Africa
Racial Profiling and the War on Terror: Changing Trends and Perspectives
Minorities in the United States have often been treated unfairly by law enforcement agencies. Prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States, Blacks were the main victims of racial profiling. Since the terrorist attack, however, Arabs and Muslims are becoming the primary targets for profiling by law enforcement agencies. There are some remarkable similarities between the profiling of Blacks and the profiling of Arabs and M…
Landholding and the Creation of Lumpen Tenants in Freetown: Youth Economic Survival and Patrimonialism in Postwar Sierra Leone
This article is an ethnographic study that situates the caretaker phenomenon within the wider system of patrimonialism in Sierra Leone. It addresses the ways urban landholding creates a class of lumpen tenants and reproduces patrimonialism in postwar Sierra Leone. The article is based on select data regarding landholding in the environs of Freetown drawn from a larger study of youths and governance. The article shows that in Sierra Leone, patrimo…
Indigenous Knowledge and the Social Construction of Patriarchy: The Case of the Bukusu of Kenya
This article is an ethnographic study on the Bukusu number system and the connections between Indigenous knowledge and patriarchy. It examines the ways patriarchy is embedded in everyday knowledge through a number system that has deep gender hierarchy symbolisms. The findings show strong connection between everyday knowledge and social norms that define the status of men and women. While this article is centered on Bukusu society in Kenya, it is …
Positive Peace and the Methodology of Costing Peacebuilding Needs: The Case of Burundi
Studies on conflict and social justice issues are increasingly focusing on positive peace instead of violence itself. Accordingly, a key challenge facing the international community in promoting positive peace is the cost of peacebuilding needs. This is a particularly difficult issue for the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, tasked with developing peacebuilding programs for fragile countries at risk of returning to civil war and putting th…
Racial Profiling and the War on Terror: Changing Trends and Perspectives
Minorities in the United States have often been treated unfairly by law enforcement agencies. Prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States, Blacks were the main victims of racial profiling. Since the terrorist attack, however, Arabs and Muslims are becoming the primary targets for profiling by law enforcement agencies. There are some remarkable similarities between the profiling of Blacks and the profiling of Arabs and M…
Democracy and civil war: Citizenship and peacemaking in Cote d'Ivoire
Journal Article Democracy and civil war: Citizenship and peacemaking in Côte d'Ivoire Get access Abu Bakarr Bah Abu Bakarr Bah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 109, Issue 437, October 2010, Pages 597–615, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adq046 Published: 19 August 2010
State Decay and Civil War: A Discourse on Power in Sierra Leone
Building upon the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Alexis de Tocqueville and Michel Foucault, this article develops a concept of power that bridges the structure-agency, control-benefit and macro-micro divides in sociology. Using Sierra Leone as a case study, the article identifies three forms of power that are manifested in political, economic, and everyday life situations. It traces political and economic power to the struggles for control over t…
State Decay: A Conceptual Frame of Failing and Failed States in West Africa
People-Centered Liberalism: An Alternative Approach to International State-Building in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Efforts to build stable states in Africa have often been conditioned by ideological and policy debates about the right approach for enhancing freedom and social wellbeing. Since independence, African countries have experimented with unorthodox variants of liberalism and socialism. However, neither of these has enhanced African states. This article examines the shift from orthodox neoliberalism in the international approach to state-building in Af…
Positive Peace and the Methodology of Costing Peacebuilding Needs: The Case of Burundi
Studies on conflict and social justice issues are increasingly focusing on positive peace instead of violence itself. Accordingly, a key challenge facing the international community in promoting positive peace is the cost of peacebuilding needs. This is a particularly difficult issue for the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, tasked with developing peacebuilding programs for fragile countries at risk of returning to civil war and putting th…
Landholding and the Creation of Lumpen Tenants in Freetown: Youth Economic Survival and Patrimonialism in Postwar Sierra Leone
This article is an ethnographic study that situates the caretaker phenomenon within the wider system of patrimonialism in Sierra Leone. It addresses the ways urban landholding creates a class of lumpen tenants and reproduces patrimonialism in postwar Sierra Leone. The article is based on select data regarding landholding in the environs of Freetown drawn from a larger study of youths and governance. The article shows that in Sierra Leone, patrimo…
Indigenous Knowledge and the Social Construction of Patriarchy: The Case of the Bukusu of Kenya
This article is an ethnographic study on the Bukusu number system and the connections between Indigenous knowledge and patriarchy. It examines the ways patriarchy is embedded in everyday knowledge through a number system that has deep gender hierarchy symbolisms. The findings show strong connection between everyday knowledge and social norms that define the status of men and women. While this article is centered on Bukusu society in Kenya, it is …
Digitalized Electoral Democracy, Subversive Politics, and Islam: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective
Increasingly democracy is becoming digitalized through the use of information technologies in the conduct of elections and political campaigns. At the same time, politics is becoming more contentious, and even subversive, as democracy fuses with divisive social issues and identity politics. This article examines the issue of subversive politics in a variety of democracy settings. As the authors show, subversive politics is an issue that is affect…
Interethnic Marriages, Border Markets and Cattle Rustling: A Study of Ethnic Cleavages in Rural Kenya
This paper addresses the question as to whether interethnic marriages reduce cattle rustling and its related violence in rural Kenya? Previous findings on the relationship between interethnic marriages and violent conflicts in rural areas are mixed. On the one hand, contacts resulting from interethnic marriages can build closer ties among ethnic groups. On the other hand, inter‐group competition resulting from closer interaction may breed frictio…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Sierra leone (3 works) · Spanish Civil War (3 works)