Joshua B Forrest
Biographic Data
| ID | 84654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua B Forrest |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua B |
| FAMILY NAME | Forrest |
| SIGNATURE | FORREST J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0767-5679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Local autonomy as a human right
The case for interpreting ‘local autonomy’ as a human right is presented first on legal and moral grounds, then on the empirical basis of the worldwide efforts by local communities to assert policy control within their respective local territories. Three types of cases exemplify such assertions: rural village and riparian communities struggling to retain control of their lands and riverine areas; attempts by local authorities to broaden decentral…
History and Identity in Senegambia and on the Upper Guinea Coast
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History and Identity in Senegambia and on the Upper Guinea Coast
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Lineages of State Fragility
A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa
A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa. By Patrick Chabal with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, and Elisa Silva Andrade. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 339; 1 map. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa explores contemporary debates regarding African politics in the context of the countries of Africa, that is, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, a…
Re-examining Liberation in Namibia
During 2001, the Uppsala-based Nordic Africa Institute (established in 1962 as The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies) initiated a research project on 'Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa'. 1 It highlights processes of political and economic transformation, or the lack thereof, mainly, but not exclusively, under the liberation movements that seized legitimate political power and have occupied the state apparatus since independence …
Lineages of State Fragility
Introduction - I THE PRECOLONIAL CONTEXT & THE AFRO-EUROPEAN ENCOUNTER Indigenous polities & intersocietal relations in precolonial Guinea-Bissau - Overview of Portuguese-African political relations & warfare 1446-1890 - African kingdoms at war, changing Fulbe alliances & Portuguese aggression 1840s-1910 II VANQUISHED STATE, TERRORIST STATE The vanquished state: multiethnic resistance & the great siege of Bissau, 1890s-1909 - The terrorist state:…
Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions
The Drought Policy Bureaucracy, Decentralization, and Policy Networks in Post-Apartheid Namibia
In Namibia in 1990, apartheid was ended, and a democratic form of government was installed; 2 years later, the national government established a system of partially decentralized regional governments. At the same time, the government reacted to the severe drought of 1992 by instituting a national drought relief bureaucracy with particular attention to the predominantly Black African communal areas, which incorporated the new regional councils. Th…
Public Administration in Africa
Part One: Main Issues Governance Context and Reorientation of Government (Ladipo Adamolekun) Central Government Organization (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Enterprise (Mouftaou Laleye) Decentralization, Sub-National Governments and Intergovernmental Relations (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Financial Management (Kithinji Kiragu) Human Resources Management (Dele Olowu, Ladipo Adamolekun) Records Management, Information Systems and Technology (Kithinji Kira…
Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions
Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions
Ethnic‐State political relations in Post‐Apartheid Namibia
Namibia--The First Postapartheid Democracy
Namibia—the First Postapartheid Democracy Joshua Bernard Forrest (bio) Namibia became a free nation in March 1990, after 75 years of South African colonial rule. It has been functioning as a multiparty democracy ever since. Its people had suffered the same racially and ethnically based legalized inequalities that existed in South Africa itself. During the course of their long years in exile abroad, however, Namibia's black nationalist politicians…
Landlords and Strangers. Ecology, Society and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630
Power, Prayer and Production
Guinea-Bissau, Power, Conflict, Renewal in a West African Nation
Guinea-Bissau
Historical survey politics in Guinea-Bissau the economy of independent Guinea-Bissau society in Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau toward the future
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, and yet it managed to wrest its independence from Portugal back in 1973, at the cost of a long and bitter struggle against seemingly implacable odds. This was a time to be proud of, and there was also a moment about two decades ago, when it looked like a trendsetter for democracy. Since then things have gone seriously wrong, with a collapsing infrastructure, a dilapidated economy and a political st…
Forum
Reply to Markovitz's response
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
The Quest for State "Hardness" in Africa
Those who comprise the contemporary in sub-Saharan Africa have, since independence, carried out a sustained drive to achieve through which they have attempted to augment the political and economic power of the state. By hardness I refer specifically to (1) structural autonomy, whereby institutions, leaders, and officials effectively remove themselves from the influence of societal actors and influences and are thereby able to act and make decisio…
The contemporary African state
A number of analysts claim that, by adopting an economically exploitative and politically aggressive posture towards rural society, the state in post-independent Africa in fact is acting as a type of ruling class. In this contribution I briefly review the arguments of the principal proponents of this view, after which I present a critique of these arguments, in which I challenge the conceptual basis of the 'state as class' analytic school
Guinea-Bissau Since Independence
Amílcar Cabral was perhaps the foremost political thinker to emerge out of the many independence movements of post-World War II Africa. His insightful theory of class struggle in the continent, his informative analysis of the history of Guinea-Bissau, his original concept of 'class suicide', and his notion of the relationship between national liberation and culture,1 helped convince many scholars of the viability of a class and ideological approa…
Landlords and Strangers. Ecology, Society and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630
The Quest for State "Hardness" in Africa
Those who comprise the contemporary in sub-Saharan Africa have, since independence, carried out a sustained drive to achieve through which they have attempted to augment the political and economic power of the state. By hardness I refer specifically to (1) structural autonomy, whereby institutions, leaders, and officials effectively remove themselves from the influence of societal actors and influences and are thereby able to act and make decisio…
Re-examining Liberation in Namibia
During 2001, the Uppsala-based Nordic Africa Institute (established in 1962 as The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies) initiated a research project on 'Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa'. 1 It highlights processes of political and economic transformation, or the lack thereof, mainly, but not exclusively, under the liberation movements that seized legitimate political power and have occupied the state apparatus since independence …
Lineages of State Fragility
Introduction - I THE PRECOLONIAL CONTEXT & THE AFRO-EUROPEAN ENCOUNTER Indigenous polities & intersocietal relations in precolonial Guinea-Bissau - Overview of Portuguese-African political relations & warfare 1446-1890 - African kingdoms at war, changing Fulbe alliances & Portuguese aggression 1840s-1910 II VANQUISHED STATE, TERRORIST STATE The vanquished state: multiethnic resistance & the great siege of Bissau, 1890s-1909 - The terrorist state:…
Public Administration in Africa
Part One: Main Issues Governance Context and Reorientation of Government (Ladipo Adamolekun) Central Government Organization (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Enterprise (Mouftaou Laleye) Decentralization, Sub-National Governments and Intergovernmental Relations (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Financial Management (Kithinji Kiragu) Human Resources Management (Dele Olowu, Ladipo Adamolekun) Records Management, Information Systems and Technology (Kithinji Kira…
Guinea-Bissau
Historical survey politics in Guinea-Bissau the economy of independent Guinea-Bissau society in Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau toward the future
A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa
A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa. By Patrick Chabal with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, and Elisa Silva Andrade. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 339; 1 map. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa explores contemporary debates regarding African politics in the context of the countries of Africa, that is, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, a…
Ethnic‐State political relations in Post‐Apartheid Namibia
Lineages of State Fragility
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Local autonomy as a human right
The case for interpreting ‘local autonomy’ as a human right is presented first on legal and moral grounds, then on the empirical basis of the worldwide efforts by local communities to assert policy control within their respective local territories. Three types of cases exemplify such assertions: rural village and riparian communities struggling to retain control of their lands and riverine areas; attempts by local authorities to broaden decentral…
Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions
Namibia--The First Postapartheid Democracy
Namibia—the First Postapartheid Democracy Joshua Bernard Forrest (bio) Namibia became a free nation in March 1990, after 75 years of South African colonial rule. It has been functioning as a multiparty democracy ever since. Its people had suffered the same racially and ethnically based legalized inequalities that existed in South Africa itself. During the course of their long years in exile abroad, however, Namibia's black nationalist politicians…
The contemporary African state
A number of analysts claim that, by adopting an economically exploitative and politically aggressive posture towards rural society, the state in post-independent Africa in fact is acting as a type of ruling class. In this contribution I briefly review the arguments of the principal proponents of this view, after which I present a critique of these arguments, in which I challenge the conceptual basis of the 'state as class' analytic school
The contemporary African state
A number of analysts claim that, by adopting an economically exploitative and politically aggressive posture towards rural society, the state in post-independent Africa in fact is acting as a type of ruling class. In this contribution I briefly review the arguments of the principal proponents of this view, after which I present a critique of these arguments, in which I challenge the conceptual basis of the 'state as class' analytic school
Guinea-Bissau Since Independence
Amílcar Cabral was perhaps the foremost political thinker to emerge out of the many independence movements of post-World War II Africa. His insightful theory of class struggle in the continent, his informative analysis of the history of Guinea-Bissau, his original concept of 'class suicide', and his notion of the relationship between national liberation and culture,1 helped convince many scholars of the viability of a class and ideological approa…
The Quest for State "Hardness" in Africa
Those who comprise the contemporary in sub-Saharan Africa have, since independence, carried out a sustained drive to achieve through which they have attempted to augment the political and economic power of the state. By hardness I refer specifically to (1) structural autonomy, whereby institutions, leaders, and officials effectively remove themselves from the influence of societal actors and influences and are thereby able to act and make decisio…
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Forum
Reply to Markovitz's response
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, and yet it managed to wrest its independence from Portugal back in 1973, at the cost of a long and bitter struggle against seemingly implacable odds. This was a time to be proud of, and there was also a moment about two decades ago, when it looked like a trendsetter for democracy. Since then things have gone seriously wrong, with a collapsing infrastructure, a dilapidated economy and a political st…
Guinea-Bissau, Power, Conflict, Renewal in a West African Nation
Guinea-Bissau
Historical survey politics in Guinea-Bissau the economy of independent Guinea-Bissau society in Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau toward the future
Ethnic‐State political relations in Post‐Apartheid Namibia
Namibia--The First Postapartheid Democracy
Namibia—the First Postapartheid Democracy Joshua Bernard Forrest (bio) Namibia became a free nation in March 1990, after 75 years of South African colonial rule. It has been functioning as a multiparty democracy ever since. Its people had suffered the same racially and ethnically based legalized inequalities that existed in South Africa itself. During the course of their long years in exile abroad, however, Namibia's black nationalist politicians…
Landlords and Strangers. Ecology, Society and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630
Power, Prayer and Production
Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions
Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions
The Drought Policy Bureaucracy, Decentralization, and Policy Networks in Post-Apartheid Namibia
In Namibia in 1990, apartheid was ended, and a democratic form of government was installed; 2 years later, the national government established a system of partially decentralized regional governments. At the same time, the government reacted to the severe drought of 1992 by instituting a national drought relief bureaucracy with particular attention to the predominantly Black African communal areas, which incorporated the new regional councils. Th…
Public Administration in Africa
Part One: Main Issues Governance Context and Reorientation of Government (Ladipo Adamolekun) Central Government Organization (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Enterprise (Mouftaou Laleye) Decentralization, Sub-National Governments and Intergovernmental Relations (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Financial Management (Kithinji Kiragu) Human Resources Management (Dele Olowu, Ladipo Adamolekun) Records Management, Information Systems and Technology (Kithinji Kira…
Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions
Lineages of State Fragility
Introduction - I THE PRECOLONIAL CONTEXT & THE AFRO-EUROPEAN ENCOUNTER Indigenous polities & intersocietal relations in precolonial Guinea-Bissau - Overview of Portuguese-African political relations & warfare 1446-1890 - African kingdoms at war, changing Fulbe alliances & Portuguese aggression 1840s-1910 II VANQUISHED STATE, TERRORIST STATE The vanquished state: multiethnic resistance & the great siege of Bissau, 1890s-1909 - The terrorist state:…
History and Identity in Senegambia and on the Upper Guinea Coast
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
History and Identity in Senegambia and on the Upper Guinea Coast
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Lineages of State Fragility
A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa
A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa. By Patrick Chabal with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, and Elisa Silva Andrade. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 339; 1 map. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa explores contemporary debates regarding African politics in the context of the countries of Africa, that is, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, a…
Re-examining Liberation in Namibia
During 2001, the Uppsala-based Nordic Africa Institute (established in 1962 as The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies) initiated a research project on 'Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa'. 1 It highlights processes of political and economic transformation, or the lack thereof, mainly, but not exclusively, under the liberation movements that seized legitimate political power and have occupied the state apparatus since independence …
Political science (20 works) · Geography (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · African history and culture studies (12 works) · Economics (12 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Ethnology (8 works) · Law (8 works)