John A Wiseman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 84559 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John A Wiseman |
| PRENOMES | John A |
| SOBRENOME | Wiseman |
| ASSINATURA | WISEMAN J A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Newcastle University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
From Obscurity to Bright Dawn
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Presidential and parliamentary elections in Malawi, 1999
The continuing case for demo‐optimism in Africa
The widespread democratization process which occurred in Africa during the early 1990s gave rise to a varied range of scholarly assessments. They have been categorized in relation to the extent that they presented more or less optimistic or pessimistic views of the significance of what had taken place. Demo‐pessimists tended to argue that this change was relatively superficial and likely to prove ephemeral, whilst demo‐optimists viewed it as havi…
Malawi
The year 1997 saw the double departure of Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu Banda from the Malawian political scene. In July he finally retired from the Life Presidency of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and in November he died in a South African hospital. From independence in 1964 until his defeat in the multiparty elections of 1994 Banda had dominated Malawian political life. This article analyses the circumstances and consequences of his departure in the…
African Ambiguities
African AmbiguitiesThe Gambia-From Coup to Elections John A. Wiseman (bio) Explaining the readiness of his fellow Nigerians to accept the contrived and limited process through which their country was supposed to return to democracy in 1993, Nobel prizewinning author and dissident Wole Soyinka observed that “Nigerians made up their minds that even a moldy loaf was better than nothing and that the immediate target . . . was to get rid of the milita…
Letting Yahya Jammeh off lightly
Jimmy Kandeh's recent analysis of rule by the 'militariat' in The Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia (ROAPE 69, 1996) makes a useful contribution to comparative analysis of this phenomenon in West Africa. However, it could be suggested that the similarities between his three cases are even stronger than he indicates: specifically that the rule of Yahya Jammeh and the AFPRC in The Gambia resembles that of Valentine Strasser and the NPRC, and that of…
Military rule in The Gambia
On 22 July 1994 the political system of the small West African state of The Gambia was subjected to an abrupt and dislocative change. On that day a group of very young junior officers from the Gambia National Army (GNA) staged a coup d'etat which succeeded in overthrowing the government of Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara and his People's Progressive Party (Ppp) which had ruled the country since independence in 1965.1 Before the coup Jawara had enjoyed t…
Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Africa
Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Africa Get access Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Africa, edited by Harvey Glickman. The African Studies Association Press, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995. iii+484pp. £29.00 paperback. ISBN 0-918456-74-6. JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 381, October 1996, Pages 632–633, …
The July 1994 coup D'Etat in the Gambia
(1995). The July 1994 coup D'Etat in the Gambia: The end of an era? The Round Table: Vol. 84, No. 333, pp. 53-65
The October 1994 elections in Botswana
Book notes
Political Participation and Democracy in Britain by Geraint Parry, George Moyser and Neil Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp.xviii + 510; index, bibliography, three appendices. £60 (hardback); £17.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 33298 2 and 33602 3 Work and Citizenship in the New Europe edited by Harry Coenen and Peter Leisink. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp.254; index, bibliography. £38.50. ISBN 1 85278 739 2 Capitalist Developme…
Democracy and Socialism in Africa
Considers the extent to which popular demands for democracy are both subverting and enriching African political structures. The book explores a wide range of topics, including economic democracy, the state and civil society, the impact of the economic crisis on women, and agrarian reform
Democracy and the new political pluralism in Africa
(1993). Democracy and the new political pluralism in Africa: Causes, consequences and significance. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 439-449
Leadership and Personal Danger in African Politics
To be a political leader in many parts of the world is to follow an extremely hazardous and insecure occupation. In addition, in sub-Saharan Africa, but elsewhere as well, the element of personal danger exists in a particularly acute form. Althought the extent to which this is true varies considerably not only from place to place but also over time, the evidence of the past 30 years clearly suggests that there are remarkably few states in which a…
Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara
Preface Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara Listing of Subjects by Country Chronology Bibliographical Note Index
Early post-redemocratization elections in Africa
Democracy in Black Africa
Democracy in Black Africa
Democracy and the One-Party State in Africa
Journal Article Democracy and the One-Party State in Africa Get access Democracy and the One-Party State in Africa, by Peter Meyns and Dani Wadada Nabudere. Institut für Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg, 1989. xiv+304 pp. DM38.00 paperback. ISBN 3 923519 88 5. JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 356, July 1990, Pages 474–4…
Benin, The Congo, Burkina Faso
Journal Article Benin, The Congo, Burkina Faso: Politics, Economics and Society Get access Benin, The Congo, Burkina Faso: Politics, Economics and Society, by Chris Allen, Michael S. Radu and Keith Somerville, and Joan Baxter. Pinter Publishers, Marxist Regimes series, London, 1989. viii+300 pp. £35.00 hardback, £12.50 paperback. ISBN 0 86187 481 1 and 0 86187 482 X. JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for oth…
Political Corruption in Africa
Journal Article Political Corruption in Africa Get access Political Corruption in Africa, by Robert Williams. Gower, Aldershot, 1987. 145 pp. £18.50. ISBN 0 566 00794 0. JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 87, Issue 346, January 1988, Page 132, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097989 Published: 01 January 198…
Militarism, militarisation and praetorianism in South Africa
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The Gambian presidential and parliamentary elections of 1987
Politics and Administration in Nigeria
Journal Article Politics and Administration in Nigeria Get access Politics and Administration in Nigeria, by Ladipo Adamolekun. Hutchinson, London (in association with Spectrum Books Limited, Ibadan), 1986. 203 pp. £6.95 paperback. ISBN 0 09 158091 9. JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 344, July 1987, Pages 442…
Urban Riots in West Africa, 1977-85
My aim is to examine one particular mode of political participation: the urban riot. In the West African context its importance is enhanced by the fact that there exist few, if any, other ways in which the mass of the population can participate in the political process and seek to bring some influence to bear upon governments. For most of the time, in the majority of states in the region, constitutional mechanisms for influencing governments have…
Political Anthropology
Foreword to the First Edition by Victor Turner Preface The Development of Political Anthropology Types of Preindustrial Political Systems The Evolution of the State Religion and Ritual in Politics From Structure to Process The Individual in the Political Arena: Action Theory and Game Theory The Power of the People: Resistance and Rebellion Gender and Power The Politics of Identity From Modernism to Postmodernism From Modernization to Globalizatio…
Military rule in The Gambia
On 22 July 1994 the political system of the small West African state of The Gambia was subjected to an abrupt and dislocative change. On that day a group of very young junior officers from the Gambia National Army (GNA) staged a coup d'etat which succeeded in overthrowing the government of Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara and his People's Progressive Party (Ppp) which had ruled the country since independence in 1965.1 Before the coup Jawara had enjoyed t…
The July 1994 coup D'Etat in the Gambia
(1995). The July 1994 coup D'Etat in the Gambia: The end of an era? The Round Table: Vol. 84, No. 333, pp. 53-65
Paternalism, Patronage, and Potlatch
The intention of this article is to call anthropologists' attention to some of the theoretical and applied implications of paternalism and to report findings from field research on this question. Having defined paternalism as interference with another's autonomy justified in terms of the wish to benefit him, the article focusses on state (or bureaucratic) paternalism. Its principal concern is the effect of paternalism on corporate groups and cate…
Democracy and Socialism in Africa
Considers the extent to which popular demands for democracy are both subverting and enriching African political structures. The book explores a wide range of topics, including economic democracy, the state and civil society, the impact of the economic crisis on women, and agrarian reform
Urban Riots in West Africa, 1977-85
My aim is to examine one particular mode of political participation: the urban riot. In the West African context its importance is enhanced by the fact that there exist few, if any, other ways in which the mass of the population can participate in the political process and seek to bring some influence to bear upon governments. For most of the time, in the majority of states in the region, constitutional mechanisms for influencing governments have…
The continuing case for demo‐optimism in Africa
The widespread democratization process which occurred in Africa during the early 1990s gave rise to a varied range of scholarly assessments. They have been categorized in relation to the extent that they presented more or less optimistic or pessimistic views of the significance of what had taken place. Demo‐pessimists tended to argue that this change was relatively superficial and likely to prove ephemeral, whilst demo‐optimists viewed it as havi…
African Ambiguities
African AmbiguitiesThe Gambia-From Coup to Elections John A. Wiseman (bio) Explaining the readiness of his fellow Nigerians to accept the contrived and limited process through which their country was supposed to return to democracy in 1993, Nobel prizewinning author and dissident Wole Soyinka observed that “Nigerians made up their minds that even a moldy loaf was better than nothing and that the immediate target . . . was to get rid of the milita…
Early post-redemocratization elections in Africa
The October 1994 elections in Botswana
Structural and Ideological Tensions in a Rural Hausa Village
In this article an attempt is made to achieve three separate but complementary tasks. First, to make a contribution to the ethnography of the Hausa of northern Nigeria. Although considerable attention has been paid to the historical development of the centralized emirate systems which provide the overarching framework for the organization of Hausa society (see for example Smith: 1960), comparatively little attention has been paid to the lower lev…
Presidential and parliamentary elections in Malawi, 1999
Democracy and the new political pluralism in Africa
(1993). Democracy and the new political pluralism in Africa: Causes, consequences and significance. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 439-449
Democracy in Black Africa
Parties and elections in Africa
Multi-Partyism in Africa
Journal Article MULTI-PARTYISM IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF BOTSWANA Get access JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 302, January 1977, Pages 70–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096830 Published: 01 January 1977
Letting Yahya Jammeh off lightly
Jimmy Kandeh's recent analysis of rule by the 'militariat' in The Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia (ROAPE 69, 1996) makes a useful contribution to comparative analysis of this phenomenon in West Africa. However, it could be suggested that the similarities between his three cases are even stronger than he indicates: specifically that the rule of Yahya Jammeh and the AFPRC in The Gambia resembles that of Valentine Strasser and the NPRC, and that of…
Democracy in Black Africa
Malawi
The year 1997 saw the double departure of Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu Banda from the Malawian political scene. In July he finally retired from the Life Presidency of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and in November he died in a South African hospital. From independence in 1964 until his defeat in the multiparty elections of 1994 Banda had dominated Malawian political life. This article analyses the circumstances and consequences of his departure in the…
Leadership and Personal Danger in African Politics
To be a political leader in many parts of the world is to follow an extremely hazardous and insecure occupation. In addition, in sub-Saharan Africa, but elsewhere as well, the element of personal danger exists in a particularly acute form. Althought the extent to which this is true varies considerably not only from place to place but also over time, the evidence of the past 30 years clearly suggests that there are remarkably few states in which a…
Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara
Preface Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara Listing of Subjects by Country Chronology Bibliographical Note Index
Revolt in the Gambia
Local elections in the Gambia
Aspects of Social Organisation in a Nigerian Petrol Queue
This short article is based on the rather unusual research methodology of enforced participant observation. The participatory element was not simply a device to facilitate observation, but was enforced by the need to get petrol.1 The analysis presented here of Nigerian petrol queues has obvious parallels with earlier works by such writers as Max Gluckman and J. Clyde Mitchell.2 There are, however, some important differences, in terms of both the …
Conflict and Conflict Alliances in the Kgatleng District of Botswana
Following the useful distinction made by Marc J. Swartz this is a study in 'local-level' rather than 'local' politics, because of the fundamental fact that 'actors and groups outside the range of the local multiplex relationships are vitally and directly involved in the political processes of the local group'.1 The political process is therefore not discrete. My focus is on the interrelationships existing between political forces within and outsi…
Multi-Partyism in Africa
Journal Article MULTI-PARTYISM IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF BOTSWANA Get access JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 302, January 1977, Pages 70–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096830 Published: 01 January 1977
Multi-Partyism in Botswana
Journal Article MULTI-PARTYISM IN BOTSWANA: A REPLY TO A REJOINDER Get access JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 306, January 1978, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096950 Published: 01 January 1978
Conflict and Conflict Alliances in the Kgatleng District of Botswana
Following the useful distinction made by Marc J. Swartz this is a study in 'local-level' rather than 'local' politics, because of the fundamental fact that 'actors and groups outside the range of the local multiplex relationships are vitally and directly involved in the political processes of the local group'.1 The political process is therefore not discrete. My focus is on the interrelationships existing between political forces within and outsi…
Local elections in the Gambia
Aspects of Social Organisation in a Nigerian Petrol Queue
This short article is based on the rather unusual research methodology of enforced participant observation. The participatory element was not simply a device to facilitate observation, but was enforced by the need to get petrol.1 The analysis presented here of Nigerian petrol queues has obvious parallels with earlier works by such writers as Max Gluckman and J. Clyde Mitchell.2 There are, however, some important differences, in terms of both the …
Structural and Ideological Tensions in a Rural Hausa Village
In this article an attempt is made to achieve three separate but complementary tasks. First, to make a contribution to the ethnography of the Hausa of northern Nigeria. Although considerable attention has been paid to the historical development of the centralized emirate systems which provide the overarching framework for the organization of Hausa society (see for example Smith: 1960), comparatively little attention has been paid to the lower lev…
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The dangers of nuclear war The Dangers of Nuclear War. Edited by FRANKYLN GRIFFITHS and JOHN C. POLANYI. University of Toronto Press, 1979. (Price not marked.) A RECIPE FOR DISASTER Life Chances. Approaches to Social and Political Theory. RALF DAHRENDORF. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 181 pp. £8.95. After Social Democracy. RALF DAHRENDORF. Liberal Publication Department, London, for the The Unservile State Group. 20 pp. £0.50. The Reluctant Party: Labou…
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Revolt in the Gambia
Correspondence/Correspondance
Parties and elections in Africa
Paternalism, Patronage, and Potlatch
The intention of this article is to call anthropologists' attention to some of the theoretical and applied implications of paternalism and to report findings from field research on this question. Having defined paternalism as interference with another's autonomy justified in terms of the wish to benefit him, the article focusses on state (or bureaucratic) paternalism. Its principal concern is the effect of paternalism on corporate groups and cate…
Political Anthropology
Foreword to the First Edition by Victor Turner Preface The Development of Political Anthropology Types of Preindustrial Political Systems The Evolution of the State Religion and Ritual in Politics From Structure to Process The Individual in the Political Arena: Action Theory and Game Theory The Power of the People: Resistance and Rebellion Gender and Power The Politics of Identity From Modernism to Postmodernism From Modernization to Globalizatio…
Urban Riots in West Africa, 1977-85
My aim is to examine one particular mode of political participation: the urban riot. In the West African context its importance is enhanced by the fact that there exist few, if any, other ways in which the mass of the population can participate in the political process and seek to bring some influence to bear upon governments. For most of the time, in the majority of states in the region, constitutional mechanisms for influencing governments have…
The Gambian presidential and parliamentary elections of 1987
Politics and Administration in Nigeria
Journal Article Politics and Administration in Nigeria Get access Politics and Administration in Nigeria, by Ladipo Adamolekun. Hutchinson, London (in association with Spectrum Books Limited, Ibadan), 1986. 203 pp. £6.95 paperback. ISBN 0 09 158091 9. JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 344, July 1987, Pages 442…
Political Corruption in Africa
Journal Article Political Corruption in Africa Get access Political Corruption in Africa, by Robert Williams. Gower, Aldershot, 1987. 145 pp. £18.50. ISBN 0 566 00794 0. JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 87, Issue 346, January 1988, Page 132, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097989 Published: 01 January 198…
Militarism, militarisation and praetorianism in South Africa
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
Democracy in Black Africa
Democracy and the One-Party State in Africa
Journal Article Democracy and the One-Party State in Africa Get access Democracy and the One-Party State in Africa, by Peter Meyns and Dani Wadada Nabudere. Institut für Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg, 1989. xiv+304 pp. DM38.00 paperback. ISBN 3 923519 88 5. JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 356, July 1990, Pages 474–4…
Benin, The Congo, Burkina Faso
Journal Article Benin, The Congo, Burkina Faso: Politics, Economics and Society Get access Benin, The Congo, Burkina Faso: Politics, Economics and Society, by Chris Allen, Michael S. Radu and Keith Somerville, and Joan Baxter. Pinter Publishers, Marxist Regimes series, London, 1989. viii+300 pp. £35.00 hardback, £12.50 paperback. ISBN 0 86187 481 1 and 0 86187 482 X. JOHN A. WISEMAN JOHN A. WISEMAN University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for oth…
Democracy in Black Africa
Early post-redemocratization elections in Africa
Democracy and the new political pluralism in Africa
(1993). Democracy and the new political pluralism in Africa: Causes, consequences and significance. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 439-449
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