Michael Jennings
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3696681 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Jennings |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Jennings |
| ASSINATURA | JENNINGS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8619-2178 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 149 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Self‐help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s
The United Nations has declared 2026 the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development. Against that backdrop, this article examines the experience of volunteerism, and specifically self‐help voluntary labour in Tanzania in the early colonial period, to explore the place of volunteerism in the construction of the post‐colonial state and its role as a site of alternative understandings of the nature of that state. The article draws …
Impacts of child sponsorship communications
Child sponsorship programmes often seek to establish a personal relationship between a sponsor and child through the exchange of letters, photos, and sometimes gifts. This paper examines the impact of these activities using data from communities supported by World Vision in Georgia, Ethiopia, Peru, Senegal, and Sri Lanka. Findings indicate that some types of communications were associated with higher levels of psychosocial wellbeing. While findin…
Desejo de Apokatastasis
A dimensão redentora da política teológica que Benjamin desenvolveu no livro sobre Baudelaire bem pode ter permanecido sem nome: como a tinta na metáfora de onde partimos a redenção pode ter permanecido invisível. A especulação cosmológica no último capítulo do livro está saturada da inflexão muito peculiar que Benjamin confere ao conceito patrístico de apokatastasis uma compreensão fundada não apenas em sua compreensão do dogma cristão, mas por …
A Potent Fuel? Faith Identity and Development Impact in World Vision Community Programming
This paper explores the role of faith identity on impact in development by looking at the programming of a major international faith‐based development organisation (FBDO). It argues that faith identity rests not only in the internal projected identity of the FBDO but also on perceptions of that identity in the community, highlighting the role context plays in the formulation of faith identity and its impact. Secondly, the paper argues that FBDOs …
The challenges of donor engagement with faith-based organizations in Cameroon’s health sector
Substantial global advocacy efforts have been made over the past decade to encourage partnerships and funding of faith-based organizations in international development programmes in efforts to improve social and health outcomes. Whilst there is a wealth of knowledge on religion and development, including its controversies, less attention has been payed to the role that donors might play. The aim of this study was to describe and analyse the engag…
The role of faith-based health professions schools in Cameroon’s health system
Faith-based health professions schools contribute to the training of staff in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Yet little is known about these actors, their role in the health system, potential comparative advantages and challenges faced. This is a qualitative study drawing on 24 qualitative interviews and 3 focus group discussions. Participants included faith-based health professions schools, staff at faith-based health professions schools, M…
Cooperation and competition
Histories of colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa have tended to focus on the role of the colonial state in establishing and running health systems. Where voluntary agency roles have been considered, it has presented them as operating outside that system, independent and isolated. This chapter explores how voluntary (mission) sector health service providers interacted with the colonial state in creating a health system in Tanganyika characteri…
Organizing Missions into Distant Lands
This paper analyzes the medical measures initiated by medical missionaries in the second half of nineteenth century in Kashmir. It was a significant period in the history of Kashmir on account of various economic and political developments. Similarly the valley of Kashmir witnessed an arrival of medical missionaries who introduced the modern forms of medicine and later on this task was persuaded by the colonial masters while reforming and reorgan…
Ujamaa
The idea of Ujamaa emerged from the writing and speeches of Tanzania’s first president, Julius K Nyerere, from the late 1950s and into the 1960s. Usually translated as “familyhood,” it was a form of African socialism that blended broadly conceived socialist principles with a distinctly “communitarian” understanding of African societies, and a strong commitment to egalitarian societies. It was to form the bedrock of efforts to institute profound s…
Ten years of Jeas
Looking back at its first 10 years, we are happy to see that the Journal of Eastern African Studies has established itself as a major Area Studies journal. As our readership has broadened – in addi
Khirbet al-Mafjar
Khirbet al-Mafjar is an Islamic monument near Jericho, famous for its mosaics, statues and stuccos of the Umayyad period. The site was excavated in the 1930s and 1940s. New excavations called the Jericho Mafjar Project are a joint venture by the Palestinian department and the University of Chicago. The present article demonstrates the process of hypothesis and excavations employed in the course of this research. The most recent season in 2015 fou…
The precariousness of the franchise state
Racism? Administrative and Community Perspectives in Data-Driven Decision Making
This case study describes tensions that became apparent between community members and school administrators after a proposal to close a historically African American public high school in a large urban Southwestern city. When members of the city’s longstanding African American community responded with outrage, the school district’s senior administration backed away from their proposal to close the school, despite making what it felt was a “neutra…
‘Do not turn away a poor man’
Critical race pedagogy 2.0
In this article, we attempt to honor the rich legacy of Derrick Bell by detailing how exploring his specific contributions to critical race theory (CRT) provided lessons for developing and refining critical race pedagogy (CRP). We examine Bell’s racial realism thesis in connection with his pedagogical work. In doing so, we find that he was as committed to developing a ‘community-based’ law classroom as he was to articulating a strong critique of …
Common Counsel, Common Policy
Analysis of the voluntary sector in sub-Saharan Africa has tended to focus on the role of the NGO, and the types of relationships this institution establishes and maintains with donors, national governments and the communities with which they work. The voluntary sector in Africa is therefore usually defined through, and often treated as synonymous with, the institution of the NGO. As a result, the boundaries of understandings of the 'third sector…
Réhabiliter les nationalismes
Cet article examine les relations entre nationalisme, développement et conscience nationale. En Tanzanie, après l'indépendance, la construction de la nation a abouti à l'édification d'une conscience nationale suffisamment versatile pour équilibrer et contenir la plupart des idées concurrentes sur ce que signifie faire partie de la nation tanzanienne. Revenant sur la manière dont la construction nationale s'est accompagnée d'un discours sur le dév…
Power, politics, and critical race pedagogy
In this article, the authors explore the analytic connections between the scholarship on Black teachers and the development of the concept of critical pedagogy. In particular, the authors conduct a detailed analysis of both of these discourses and then explore the work of two African‐American male teachers in an urban school in Los Angeles. The findings reveal that the links between critical pedagogy and the scholarship on Black teachers is stron…
Reconciling Social and Biological Needs in an Endangered Ecosystem
Donovan, S. M., C. Looney, T. Hanson, Y. Sánchez de León, J. Wulfhorst, S. D. Eigenbrode, M. Jennings, J. Johnson-Maynard, and N. A. Bosque Pérez. 2009. Reconciling social and biological needs in an endangered ecosystem: the Palouse as a model for bioregional planning. Ecology and Society 14(1): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02736-140109
Building better people
This article explores development policy in colonial Tanganyika in the late 1940s and 1950s. It argues that the increased interventionism of this period reflected not just a desire by colonial authorities to regulate the actions and behaviour of Tanganyikans, but sought to create new, "modern" identities. In regarding "the African" as the key challenge facing development planners, increasingly coercive measures were justified to enforce change th…
The Spirit of Brotherhood
Looking at Africa today, it is hard to imagine that in the early 1960s, the place of Christianity in Africa was believed by some to be under threat. As Paul Gifford has written, ‘Thirty years ago, it was commonly thought that Christianity in independent Africa would become ever less significant, because it was associated so closely with colonialism’ (Gifford 1994: 514). At the end of Empire, the place of the Christian Churches in sub-Saharan Afri…
The Charitable Impulse
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become one of the prominent features in the political landscape of relief and development. From the provision of relief in emergencies to the establishment of development projects, these organisations have forged a dominant role in many Southern nations, as well as being visible in Northern countries where they undertake publicity, advocacy and lobbying activities. This book examines the historical and c…
The Emperor's New Clothes? Continuities in governance in late colonial and early post-colonial East Africa
Much of the Africanist literature that has emerged on postcolonial politics and society over the past four decades has emphasized the shaping influence of colonial rule on forms of governance that evolved after independence. Dependency theorists and the radical critics of early postcolonial regimes who dominated debate on East Africa in the late 1960s and 1970s viewed the structures and styles of governance as fundamentally unchanged from the col…
"A Very Real War"
In his inaugural address as President in December 1962, Julius Nyerere outlined difficulties country now faced: I know there are still a few people who think we are joking when they hear us using word war. Let me assure them that we are not... every year thousands of our children die needlessly for no other reason than a lack of proper care born of ignorance.1 In declaring this war, Nyerere began identification of Tanzania with process of economi…
Development, civil society and faith-based organizations
Surrogates of the State
In Surrogates of the State Jennings explores the delicate relationship between development NGOs and the states they work in using his exhaustive and illuminating case study of Tanzania in the 1960s and 70s. During that time Tanzania instituted the rural socialist Ujamaa program, resulting in the forced resettlement of 6 million people to villages, transforming the map of the country. Rather than questioning this policy, NGOs working in the area (…
Power, politics, and critical race pedagogy
In this article, the authors explore the analytic connections between the scholarship on Black teachers and the development of the concept of critical pedagogy. In particular, the authors conduct a detailed analysis of both of these discourses and then explore the work of two African‐American male teachers in an urban school in Los Angeles. The findings reveal that the links between critical pedagogy and the scholarship on Black teachers is stron…
We Must Run While Others Walk
The early independence period in Tanzania was not simply an ante-chamber to the post-Arusha Declaration period of Ujamaa. The state undertook to incorporate, for the first time, the people of Tanzania in the formal development planning structures in an attempt to marry national developmental objectives to local needs. Self-help, or 'nation building' as it was also known, was an attempt to bring consensus and dialogue to the planning process. The …
Healing of Bodies, Salvation of Souls
This paper re-examines missionary medicine in Tanganyika, considering its relationship with the colonial state, the impulses that led it to evolve in the way that it did, and the nature of the medical services it offered. The paper suggests that, contrary to traditional depictions, missionary medicine was not entirely curative in focus, small in scale, nor inappropriate to the health needs of the communities in which it was based. Rather, mission…
Critical race pedagogy 2.0
In this article, we attempt to honor the rich legacy of Derrick Bell by detailing how exploring his specific contributions to critical race theory (CRT) provided lessons for developing and refining critical race pedagogy (CRP). We examine Bell’s racial realism thesis in connection with his pedagogical work. In doing so, we find that he was as committed to developing a ‘community-based’ law classroom as he was to articulating a strong critique of …
Consumer-run mental health services
Racism? Administrative and Community Perspectives in Data-Driven Decision Making
This case study describes tensions that became apparent between community members and school administrators after a proposal to close a historically African American public high school in a large urban Southwestern city. When members of the city’s longstanding African American community responded with outrage, the school district’s senior administration backed away from their proposal to close the school, despite making what it felt was a “neutra…
Building better people
This article explores development policy in colonial Tanganyika in the late 1940s and 1950s. It argues that the increased interventionism of this period reflected not just a desire by colonial authorities to regulate the actions and behaviour of Tanganyikans, but sought to create new, "modern" identities. In regarding "the African" as the key challenge facing development planners, increasingly coercive measures were justified to enforce change th…
Almost an Oxfam in itself
This article examines how Oxfam came to forge an exceptionally close relationship with the Tanzanian state during the 1960s and 1970s. Oxfam, an organization that sought in this period to build and strengthen grassroots participation in development planning and implementation, participated in a development programme in Tanzania that, during the 1970s, actually withdrew power from the peasantry. The government shifted ever more towards an authorit…
Reconciling Social and Biological Needs in an Endangered Ecosystem
Donovan, S. M., C. Looney, T. Hanson, Y. Sánchez de León, J. Wulfhorst, S. D. Eigenbrode, M. Jennings, J. Johnson-Maynard, and N. A. Bosque Pérez. 2009. Reconciling social and biological needs in an endangered ecosystem: the Palouse as a model for bioregional planning. Ecology and Society 14(1): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02736-140109
The precariousness of the franchise state
Chinese Medicine and Medical Pluralism in Dar es Salaam
African healing systems have always been pluralistic in form and structure, capable of absorbing new traditions and practices. The spread of Chinese medicine in Tanzania over the past decade is a testament to the flexibility of pluralistic healing systems, as well as evidence of south-south processes of globalisation that are often ignored by the literature on globalisation. This article suggests, through a study of a Chinese medical clinic in Da…
Common Counsel, Common Policy
Analysis of the voluntary sector in sub-Saharan Africa has tended to focus on the role of the NGO, and the types of relationships this institution establishes and maintains with donors, national governments and the communities with which they work. The voluntary sector in Africa is therefore usually defined through, and often treated as synonymous with, the institution of the NGO. As a result, the boundaries of understandings of the 'third sector…
On the Banks of a New Lethe
Research Article| February 01 2003 On the Banks of a New Lethe: Commodification and Experience in Benjamin's Baudelaire Book Michael Jennings Michael Jennings Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 89–104. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-1-89 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Jennings; On the Banks of a New Lethe: Commodificat…
This Mysterious and Intangible Enemy
From the first moment of the UMCA's incursion into the African interior, the greatest challenge it faced was the problem of mortality and morbidity. Between 1860 and 1918, over one-third of the mission staff were lost to death, or invalided out due to ill-health. This article tracks the institutional response to the problems of death and disease, and seeks to explain why, from the mid-1890s, there was a notable downward shift, both in the numbers…
Ujamaa
The idea of Ujamaa emerged from the writing and speeches of Tanzania’s first president, Julius K Nyerere, from the late 1950s and into the 1960s. Usually translated as “familyhood,” it was a form of African socialism that blended broadly conceived socialist principles with a distinctly “communitarian” understanding of African societies, and a strong commitment to egalitarian societies. It was to form the bedrock of efforts to institute profound s…
Réhabiliter les nationalismes
Cet article examine les relations entre nationalisme, développement et conscience nationale. En Tanzanie, après l'indépendance, la construction de la nation a abouti à l'édification d'une conscience nationale suffisamment versatile pour équilibrer et contenir la plupart des idées concurrentes sur ce que signifie faire partie de la nation tanzanienne. Revenant sur la manière dont la construction nationale s'est accompagnée d'un discours sur le dév…
Agriculture, Industry, and the Birth of the Photo-Essay in the Late Weimar Republic
Use of the environmentally sensitive areas rule by county governments in Washington State
Use of the environmentally sensitive areas rule by county governments in Washington State
Consumer-run mental health services
Agriculture, Industry, and the Birth of the Photo-Essay in the Late Weimar Republic
This Mysterious and Intangible Enemy
From the first moment of the UMCA's incursion into the African interior, the greatest challenge it faced was the problem of mortality and morbidity. Between 1860 and 1918, over one-third of the mission staff were lost to death, or invalided out due to ill-health. This article tracks the institutional response to the problems of death and disease, and seeks to explain why, from the mid-1890s, there was a notable downward shift, both in the numbers…
Almost an Oxfam in itself
This article examines how Oxfam came to forge an exceptionally close relationship with the Tanzanian state during the 1960s and 1970s. Oxfam, an organization that sought in this period to build and strengthen grassroots participation in development planning and implementation, participated in a development programme in Tanzania that, during the 1970s, actually withdrew power from the peasantry. The government shifted ever more towards an authorit…
On the Banks of a New Lethe
Research Article| February 01 2003 On the Banks of a New Lethe: Commodification and Experience in Benjamin's Baudelaire Book Michael Jennings Michael Jennings Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 89–104. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-1-89 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Jennings; On the Banks of a New Lethe: Commodificat…
We Must Run While Others Walk
The early independence period in Tanzania was not simply an ante-chamber to the post-Arusha Declaration period of Ujamaa. The state undertook to incorporate, for the first time, the people of Tanzania in the formal development planning structures in an attempt to marry national developmental objectives to local needs. Self-help, or 'nation building' as it was also known, was an attempt to bring consensus and dialogue to the planning process. The …
Chinese Medicine and Medical Pluralism in Dar es Salaam
African healing systems have always been pluralistic in form and structure, capable of absorbing new traditions and practices. The spread of Chinese medicine in Tanzania over the past decade is a testament to the flexibility of pluralistic healing systems, as well as evidence of south-south processes of globalisation that are often ignored by the literature on globalisation. This article suggests, through a study of a Chinese medical clinic in Da…
‘A Matter of Vital Importance’
Surrogates of the State
In Surrogates of the State Jennings explores the delicate relationship between development NGOs and the states they work in using his exhaustive and illuminating case study of Tanzania in the 1960s and 70s. During that time Tanzania instituted the rural socialist Ujamaa program, resulting in the forced resettlement of 6 million people to villages, transforming the map of the country. Rather than questioning this policy, NGOs working in the area (…
The Spirit of Brotherhood
Looking at Africa today, it is hard to imagine that in the early 1960s, the place of Christianity in Africa was believed by some to be under threat. As Paul Gifford has written, ‘Thirty years ago, it was commonly thought that Christianity in independent Africa would become ever less significant, because it was associated so closely with colonialism’ (Gifford 1994: 514). At the end of Empire, the place of the Christian Churches in sub-Saharan Afri…
Conclusion
At the heart of this collection is a discussion of the role of faith in modern society. What can faith-based organizations (FBO), communities and l eaders contribute to social, economic and political development, in the contemporary world? In particular, what are the links between faith and modernity? Does religion speak to what is often presented as a secular mission, the eradication of poverty and the empowerment of the poor? For much of the tw…
Can NGOs Make a Difference
"Can NGOs Make a Difference: The Challenge of Development Alternatives." The Journal of Development Studies, 44(5), pp. 766–767
Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organizations
This book examines the role of faith-based organizations in managing international aid, providing services, defending human rights and protecting democracy. It argues that greater engagement with fait
Healing of Bodies, Salvation of Souls
This paper re-examines missionary medicine in Tanganyika, considering its relationship with the colonial state, the impulses that led it to evolve in the way that it did, and the nature of the medical services it offered. The paper suggests that, contrary to traditional depictions, missionary medicine was not entirely curative in focus, small in scale, nor inappropriate to the health needs of the communities in which it was based. Rather, mission…
Cultivating Success in Uganda
Power, politics, and critical race pedagogy
In this article, the authors explore the analytic connections between the scholarship on Black teachers and the development of the concept of critical pedagogy. In particular, the authors conduct a detailed analysis of both of these discourses and then explore the work of two African‐American male teachers in an urban school in Los Angeles. The findings reveal that the links between critical pedagogy and the scholarship on Black teachers is stron…
Reconciling Social and Biological Needs in an Endangered Ecosystem
Donovan, S. M., C. Looney, T. Hanson, Y. Sánchez de León, J. Wulfhorst, S. D. Eigenbrode, M. Jennings, J. Johnson-Maynard, and N. A. Bosque Pérez. 2009. Reconciling social and biological needs in an endangered ecosystem: the Palouse as a model for bioregional planning. Ecology and Society 14(1): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02736-140109
Building better people
This article explores development policy in colonial Tanganyika in the late 1940s and 1950s. It argues that the increased interventionism of this period reflected not just a desire by colonial authorities to regulate the actions and behaviour of Tanganyikans, but sought to create new, "modern" identities. In regarding "the African" as the key challenge facing development planners, increasingly coercive measures were justified to enforce change th…
Réhabiliter les nationalismes
Cet article examine les relations entre nationalisme, développement et conscience nationale. En Tanzanie, après l'indépendance, la construction de la nation a abouti à l'édification d'une conscience nationale suffisamment versatile pour équilibrer et contenir la plupart des idées concurrentes sur ce que signifie faire partie de la nation tanzanienne. Revenant sur la manière dont la construction nationale s'est accompagnée d'un discours sur le dév…
‘Do not turn away a poor man’
Critical race pedagogy 2.0
In this article, we attempt to honor the rich legacy of Derrick Bell by detailing how exploring his specific contributions to critical race theory (CRT) provided lessons for developing and refining critical race pedagogy (CRP). We examine Bell’s racial realism thesis in connection with his pedagogical work. In doing so, we find that he was as committed to developing a ‘community-based’ law classroom as he was to articulating a strong critique of …
Common Counsel, Common Policy
Analysis of the voluntary sector in sub-Saharan Africa has tended to focus on the role of the NGO, and the types of relationships this institution establishes and maintains with donors, national governments and the communities with which they work. The voluntary sector in Africa is therefore usually defined through, and often treated as synonymous with, the institution of the NGO. As a result, the boundaries of understandings of the 'third sector…
Racism? Administrative and Community Perspectives in Data-Driven Decision Making
This case study describes tensions that became apparent between community members and school administrators after a proposal to close a historically African American public high school in a large urban Southwestern city. When members of the city’s longstanding African American community responded with outrage, the school district’s senior administration backed away from their proposal to close the school, despite making what it felt was a “neutra…
The precariousness of the franchise state
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