Owen Sichone
Biographic Data
| ID | 76555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Sichone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sichone |
| SIGNATURE | SICHONE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Predatory Co-optation and Party System Reversal: A Behavioural Perspective on Zambian Political Parties
Based on a Zambian case study of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), this paper applies the behavioural theory of party competition to explain how, through vote-seeking and office-seeking strategies, political parties may employ rapacious predatory co-optation of members from competing political parties as a mobilisation strategy. The paper concludes that in the absence of a dominant political party, parties and political elites may reso…
Refractory Frontier: Intra-party Democracy in the Zambian Polity
Despite the important role that intra-party democracy plays in democratic consolidation, particularly in third-wave democracies, it has not received as much attention as inter-party democracy. Based on the Zambian polity, this article uses the concept of selectocracy to explain why, to a large extent, intra-party democracy has remained a refractory frontier. Two traits of intra-party democracy are examined: leadership transitions at party preside…
Democratic Participation in Rural Tanzania and Zambia: The Impact of Civic Education
To see ourselves as we need to see us: Ethnography's primative turn in the early cold war years
Against a backdrop of calls for a more layered understanding of the dominant societal concerns which influence anthropologists' thinking, and thus the need to address the philosophies and assumptions that for so long misrepresented those characterized as 'primitive' along with others marked out as culturally or biologically inferior, I reflect on the existential crisis that engulfed Euroamerica in the early Cold War years. This was a threat anthr…
Beyond Urban Socio-anthropology
The Management of Urban Development in Zambia by Emmanuel Mutale. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2004, xv + 268 pp., ISBN 0 7546 3596 1 Zambia is said to be one of the most urbanized countries in Africa and is known in the social sciences as one of the main research sites for the study of urbanization. Anthropologists, for example, recognize the research conducted on the Copperbelt in the colonial period as being on par with that produced by the …
Globalization
Jonathan Friedman, Cultural Identity & Global Process. (London: Sage Publications, 1994), pp. 253. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 366. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), pp. 229. Zymaut Bauman, Globalization: The Human Consequences. (Cambridge: Polity, 1998), pp. 136. Anthony Giddens, Runaway World: How Gl…
Introduction: Ethnicity and conflict
Paradigms slightly obscured? A partial view of the Jsas conference paradigms lost, paradigms regained held at York university, UK, 9–11 September 1994
Death and the Invisible Powers: The World of Kongo Belief
The Politics of Harmony: Land Dispute Strategies in Swaziland
Poèmes
To see ourselves as we need to see us: Ethnography's primative turn in the early cold war years
Against a backdrop of calls for a more layered understanding of the dominant societal concerns which influence anthropologists' thinking, and thus the need to address the philosophies and assumptions that for so long misrepresented those characterized as 'primitive' along with others marked out as culturally or biologically inferior, I reflect on the existential crisis that engulfed Euroamerica in the early Cold War years. This was a threat anthr…
The Politics of Harmony: Land Dispute Strategies in Swaziland
Poèmes
The Politics of Harmony: Land Dispute Strategies in Swaziland
Paradigms slightly obscured? A partial view of the Jsas conference paradigms lost, paradigms regained held at York university, UK, 9–11 September 1994
Death and the Invisible Powers: The World of Kongo Belief
Introduction: Ethnicity and conflict
Globalization
Jonathan Friedman, Cultural Identity & Global Process. (London: Sage Publications, 1994), pp. 253. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 366. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), pp. 229. Zymaut Bauman, Globalization: The Human Consequences. (Cambridge: Polity, 1998), pp. 136. Anthony Giddens, Runaway World: How Gl…
Beyond Urban Socio-anthropology
The Management of Urban Development in Zambia by Emmanuel Mutale. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2004, xv + 268 pp., ISBN 0 7546 3596 1 Zambia is said to be one of the most urbanized countries in Africa and is known in the social sciences as one of the main research sites for the study of urbanization. Anthropologists, for example, recognize the research conducted on the Copperbelt in the colonial period as being on par with that produced by the …
To see ourselves as we need to see us: Ethnography's primative turn in the early cold war years
Against a backdrop of calls for a more layered understanding of the dominant societal concerns which influence anthropologists' thinking, and thus the need to address the philosophies and assumptions that for so long misrepresented those characterized as 'primitive' along with others marked out as culturally or biologically inferior, I reflect on the existential crisis that engulfed Euroamerica in the early Cold War years. This was a threat anthr…
Democratic Participation in Rural Tanzania and Zambia: The Impact of Civic Education
Refractory Frontier: Intra-party Democracy in the Zambian Polity
Despite the important role that intra-party democracy plays in democratic consolidation, particularly in third-wave democracies, it has not received as much attention as inter-party democracy. Based on the Zambian polity, this article uses the concept of selectocracy to explain why, to a large extent, intra-party democracy has remained a refractory frontier. Two traits of intra-party democracy are examined: leadership transitions at party preside…
Predatory Co-optation and Party System Reversal: A Behavioural Perspective on Zambian Political Parties
Based on a Zambian case study of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), this paper applies the behavioural theory of party competition to explain how, through vote-seeking and office-seeking strategies, political parties may employ rapacious predatory co-optation of members from competing political parties as a mobilisation strategy. The paper concludes that in the absence of a dominant political party, parties and political elites may reso…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)