Lionel Cliffe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 88333 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lionel Cliffe |
| PRENOMES | Lionel |
| SOBRENOME | Cliffe |
| ASSINATURA | CLIFFE L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7111-5575 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 256 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1964 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Into the Here and Now
The author reflects upon listeners’ experiences and the practice of developing a number of audio-augmented reality sound installations deployed between 2019 and 2020. The installations realized audioaugmented objects: physical real-world objects augmented with virtual audio content. Focusing on users’ feedback from one such installation environment, the author suggests that audio-augmented objects are capable of realizing virtual audio experience…
Interfacing with history
This article presents and discusses the results from visitors’ interactions with two audio augmented reality experiences containing audio augmented objects; physical, real-world objects to which virtual audio sources have been attached. It then proceeds to discusses the commonly identified themes arising from the observation of visitors’ behaviour within these experiences and the analysis of their verbal and written feedback. The curatorial poten…
A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa
Based on a collaboration with the late Lionel Cliffe, this article suggests agendas and methods for analysing regional patterns of migration and labour mobility in Southern and West Africa. It locates local communities in regional patterns and global processes using two key organising concepts: first, the regionalisation of Africa, as outlined in Samir Amin's work. The authors consider continuities and discontinuities with the paradigms of 'Afric…
Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
This volume will be an essential starting place for analysts, policy-makers, historians and activists seeking to understand what has happened with regards to the struggle over land in Zimbabwe since 2000 and to spotlight the key issues for the next decade. The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the…
Fifty years of making sense of independence politics
Writing almost exactly fifty years since first going to newly independent Tanganyika in 1962, I offer thoughts on three of the reassessment tasks isolated in the introduction to this section: setti
Neoliberal accumulation and class
The articles in this collection emerged as presentations made at a conference in July 2010 which marked the retirement from Oxford of Gavin Williams, one of the founding editors of the Review of African Political Economy ( ROAPE ) and today a member of its International Advisory Board. Conference papers celebrated his several contributions, covering themes that resonated with his best known work, and in several cases that had been inspired by him…
Kicking off a debate on Tanzania's 50 years of independence
This collection, occasioned by one of the latest anniversaries, is a call for more extensive debate on Tanzania's experience of half a century.This experience of half a century is especially noteworthy as its early decades attracted much attention across the continent.It is especially fitting for this anniversary to be marked in these pages, as Tanzania, and its dramatic experiences in searching for a new direction of post-independence developmen…
Zimbabwe's land reform
Zimbabwe's land reform: myths & realities, by Ian Scoones, Nelson Marongwe, Blasio Mavedzenge, Jacob Mahenehene, Felix Murimbarima and Chrispen Sukume, Oxford, James Currey, and Harare, Weaver Pres
Stop the abuse in Eritrea! Respect basic rights
Agricultural land redistribution
Agricultural land redistribution: toward greater consensus, edited by Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Camille Bourguignon and Rogier J.E. van den Brink, Washington, DC, World Bank, 2009, pp. xxii + 464
An overview of Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Events in the last decade around the land question in Zimbabwe and the broader political context in which they have played out have been dramatic and transformational. Sparked by land occupations
Ken Coates (1930–2010)
Ken, who passed away in June 2010, was a socialist well known in the UK and Europe.He has a special place in the memory of those involved with this Review in the early days, even though he had no particular involvement with Africa.The exception was his enduring link with former President Ben Bella of Algeria, whom he brought into international campaigns on human rights and against imperialist wars, including the several war crimes tribunals.These…
Basil Davidson (1915–2010)
Basil's contribution as a writer and historian on Africa is without parallel in Europe.His active study and active involvement in the politics of liberation was also outstanding.It was natural that he provided, as scholar and activist, an inspiration for this Review but also practical support from the word go.He was one of the first to sponsor the project and remained one of our International Editors from 1973 until his death this year.The debt o…
Haroub Othman (1942–2009)
We were saddened and shocked to hear of the early death of Professor Haroub Othman in Zanzibar on 28 June 2009. He was only 66 and had much more to give. Haroub had been Professor of Development St
Plans for a Zimbabwe Aid Package
In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein presents Bolivia as an early case of neo-con, neoliberal strategies for capitalising on disasters in order to promote liberalisat
Conflict and Peace in the Horn of Africa
ROAPE has commissioned several special issues on the Horn of Africa in the last 25 years. The first in 1984 (No. 30), ‘Conflict in the Horn of Africa’, started off by characterising the hallmark of
Eritrea 2008
I first visited Asmara to see the ceremony to mark the actual liberation of the city from Ethiopian over‐rule in 1991, and again to take part in the formal Independence celebrations in May 1993. Fo
Imperialism & African Social Formations
In the last Issue of 2004, reviewing 30 years of this journal, an assessment was made of the key dimensions of the new situation facing Africa and the world, and on that basis a 'new agenda' was put forward to highlight priority areas for research and activism.These key areas were:New Imperialism: The processes of globalised capitalism, still leaving Africa steeped in patterns of 'primitive accumulation', and the radical restructuring strategies …
Agendas, past & future
This issue marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of The Review of African Political Economy in 1974. At the time, its founders were unsure if it would get off the ground and they certainly never thought it would last thirty years! Apart from debate about what its role would be, there were doubts about their own stamina, and about whether successor generations would emerge to take it on. The challenge was set out by Anderson in relation to anoth…
Comment War on Iraq
The US administration and the UK government systematically lied about the threat posed by Iraq. In their defence, it has been suggested that this was an " honourable deception'—in a good cause. This notion of an " honourable deception' belongs to a long tradition in political philosophy and practice, stretching from Plato to Machiavelli; through to political realists and present-day theorists and politicians who justify deceit in politics on cons…
Peace in the horn of Africa
(2002). Peace in the horn of Africa. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 29, No. 91, pp. 124-127
Basil Davidson
Basil was awarded the Grande Oficial da Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique (Grand Officer of the Order of Henry the Navigator) insignia. This Order honours those who have rendered services to Portugal, in the country or abroad or have contributed towards the expansion of the Portuguese culture or the knowledge of Portugal's history and values. It was particularly heartening that Basil, now 87, could make what was his first trip beyond his home since a…
Five decades of liberation & revolution
One party democracy
The Policy of Ujamaa Vijijini and the Class Struggle in Tanzania
An overview of Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Events in the last decade around the land question in Zimbabwe and the broader political context in which they have played out have been dramatic and transformational. Sparked by land occupations
Rural class formation in East Africa
Agrarian policy in migrant labour societies
This paper deals with one basic problem that southern African countries will have to face in any transformation of their agriculture: if these societies are ‘labour reserves’ can they be easily transformed so as to eliminate labour migration. Zimbabwe seems to have an official policy of ending ‘divided families’ by pushing some into being unambiguously working class families with no land and others into a settled, non‐migratory peasantry. Thus fo…
Labour migration and peasant differentiation
Peasants in Zambia, as elsewhere in Southern Africa, were drawn into the world economy as labour migrants, and even now, when urban employment is more permanent, the rural areas are given over more to the reproduction of labour than to the production of commodities. The resulting general impoverishment has not, however, precluded significant differentiation among the various regional peasantries. Moreover, in these peasantries, where many men are…
Land reform in South Africa
The newly‐elected South African government began in 1994 to make laws and implement a programme for land reform. It consisted of three dimensions: redistribution (transferring white‐owned commercial farm land to African users); restitution (settling claims for land lost under apartheid measures by restoration of holdings or compensation); and land tenure reform (to provide more secure access to land in the former bantustans). Only a few restituti…
Socialism in Tanzania
Regional dimensions of conflict in the Horn of Africa
A survey of the roots and nature of conflicts in the Horn of Africa is offered to determine the extent and form of their cross-border or interregional dimensions. In southern Africa, up to the end of apartheid, most conflicts could be related to the struggle for liberation and the strategies of the apartheid government to resist change, even though these external promptings interacted with various internal cleavages. By contrast, almost all confl…
Rural class formation and ecological collapse in Botswana
After some early colonial impetus towards commodity production, Botswana was cast in the role of a stagnant labour supply economy from which it has been only partially rescued by the expansion of cattle exports and mining in the post‐Independence area. This form of capitalist development has been built upon and in turn shaped by the class structure of the pre‐colonial Tswana states. The particular and interrelated consequences for rural Botswana …
Matching Response to Context in Complex Political Emergencies
There is an ongoing debate over the value and pitfalls of the policy and practice of ‘linking relief and development’ or ‘developmental relief’ in aid responses to complex political emergencies (CPEs). Driven by concerns about relief creating dependence, sometimes doing harm and failing to address root causes of emergencies despite its high cost, pursuit of both relief and development has become a dominant paradigm among international aid agencie…
Zimbabwe's agricultural ‘success’ and food security in Southern Africa
Zimbabwe's track record is being touted as the latest ‘miracle’ that should be copied in promoting agricultural production. It has indeed succeeded in producing food surpluses in most years and its African smallholders have greatly increased their contribution to marketed crop production since 1980. This article seeks to explore how far it can be the basis for a ‘model’ for agricultural development, at least for the ‘labour‐reserve economies’ of …
What Happens to the State in Conflict
It is now part of received wisdom that humanitarian assistance in conflict and post-conflict situations may be ineffective or even counterproductive in the absence of an informed understanding of the broader political context in which so-called 'complex political emergencies' (CPEs) occur. Though recognising that specific cases have to be understood in their own terms, this article offers a framework for incorporating political analysis in policy…
Complex political emergencies and the state
It is argued that an understanding of the role and nature of the state and of processes of state collapse are vital for understanding Complex Political Emergencies for various practical reasons and for drawing general lessons from particular experiences: CPEs are often rooted in prior state collapse; humanitarian assistance may have to contend with a fractured, ineffective or nonexistent state; part of post-conflict recovery will involve reconsti…
The conservation issue in Zimbabwe
(1988). The conservation issue in Zimbabwe. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 15, No. 42, pp. 48-58
Government and Rural Development in East Africa
I. Introduction 'Penetration' and the East African Context.- The Concept of Political Penetration.- 'Penetration' and Rural Development in the East African Context.- II. The Colonial Legacy and the Dynamics of Political Control.- Teso in Transformation: colonial penetration in Teso District, Eastern Uganda, and its contemporary significance.- Local Participation in National Politics: Ugugo, Tanzania.- The Legitimacy of the Uganda Government in Bu…
A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa
Based on a collaboration with the late Lionel Cliffe, this article suggests agendas and methods for analysing regional patterns of migration and labour mobility in Southern and West Africa. It locates local communities in regional patterns and global processes using two key organising concepts: first, the regionalisation of Africa, as outlined in Samir Amin's work. The authors consider continuities and discontinuities with the paradigms of 'Afric…
Conflict and Peace in the Horn of Africa
ROAPE has commissioned several special issues on the Horn of Africa in the last 25 years. The first in 1984 (No. 30), ‘Conflict in the Horn of Africa’, started off by characterising the hallmark of
Agendas, past & future
This issue marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of The Review of African Political Economy in 1974. At the time, its founders were unsure if it would get off the ground and they certainly never thought it would last thirty years! Apart from debate about what its role would be, there were doubts about their own stamina, and about whether successor generations would emerge to take it on. The challenge was set out by Anderson in relation to anoth…
Forging a nation
(1989). Forging a nation: The Eritrean experience. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 131-147
Neoliberal accumulation and class
The articles in this collection emerged as presentations made at a conference in July 2010 which marked the retirement from Oxford of Gavin Williams, one of the founding editors of the Review of African Political Economy ( ROAPE ) and today a member of its International Advisory Board. Conference papers celebrated his several contributions, covering themes that resonated with his best known work, and in several cases that had been inspired by him…
Africa in a new world order
In this the 50th issue of the Review, and at the beginning of the last decade of the millenium, we take stock of the dramatic changes currently taking place in the global political economy and consider their significance for developments in Africa. We focus on the implications of the collapse of 'state socialism' in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and the character of the emerging 'new world order' following the end of the Cold War, so triump…
The Debate on African Peasantries
Imperialism & African Social Formations
In the last Issue of 2004, reviewing 30 years of this journal, an assessment was made of the key dimensions of the new situation facing Africa and the world, and on that basis a 'new agenda' was put forward to highlight priority areas for research and activism.These key areas were:New Imperialism: The processes of globalised capitalism, still leaving Africa steeped in patterns of 'primitive accumulation', and the radical restructuring strategies …
The Impact of War and the Response to it in Different Agrarian Systems in Eritrea
Capitalism or feudalism? the famine in Ethiopia
The famine in Ethiopia, as in the Sahel, is not simply a ‘natural’ disaster but has social and economic origins. Moreover, the suffering is not simply the compounding of the effects of food shortage by the harsh burdens borne by tenant formers. While southern Ethiopia, where famine is now beginning to strike, had a feudal land system imposed in the 19th Century, the northern provinces where the famine first hit has a system where there were lords…
Fifty years of making sense of independence politics
Writing almost exactly fifty years since first going to newly independent Tanganyika in 1962, I offer thoughts on three of the reassessment tasks isolated in the introduction to this section: setti
Tanganyika’s Two Years of Independence
Essay| March 01 1964 Tanganyika’s Two Years of Independence Lionel Cliffe Lionel Cliffe Tutor in Political Science, Kivukoni College, Tanganyika Lionel Cliffe, currently at Kivukoni College in Dar es Salaam, is a graduate of Nottingham University in Britain. Formerly he was Information and Research Assistant for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief and an Oxford City Councilor. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google S…
Tanzania
Essay| April 01 1965 Tanzania: Myth and Reality Lionel Cliffe Lionel Cliffe Tutor in Political Science, Kivukoni College, Tanganyika Lionel Cliffe, before joining the staff at Kivukoni College in Dar es Salaam, was Information and Research Assistant for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief and an Oxford (England) City Councilor. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1965) 48 (284): 219–225. h…
East Africa—Unity and Diversity
Essay| March 01 1966 East Africa—Unity and Diversity Lionel Cliffe Lionel Cliffe Research Fellow, East African Institute of Social Research Makerere College, Kampala Lionel Cliffe is working at Makerere College with James S. Coleman, who is directing a new political science research program. Mr. Cliffe was formerly on the staff of Kivukoni College in Dar es Salaam. Previously, he was Information and Research Assistant for the Oxford Committee for…
Western Economic Involvement in Portugal and the Colonies in the 1970s
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Capitalism or feudalism? the famine in Ethiopia
The famine in Ethiopia, as in the Sahel, is not simply a ‘natural’ disaster but has social and economic origins. Moreover, the suffering is not simply the compounding of the effects of food shortage by the harsh burdens borne by tenant formers. While southern Ethiopia, where famine is now beginning to strike, had a feudal land system imposed in the 19th Century, the northern provinces where the famine first hit has a system where there were lords…
Socialism in Tanzania
Briefings
Government and Rural Development in East Africa
‘Penetration’ and Rural Development in the East African Context
Rural class formation in East Africa
Labour migration and peasant differentiation
Peasants in Zambia, as elsewhere in Southern Africa, were drawn into the world economy as labour migrants, and even now, when urban employment is more permanent, the rural areas are given over more to the reproduction of labour than to the production of commodities. The resulting general impoverishment has not, however, precluded significant differentiation among the various regional peasantries. Moreover, in these peasantries, where many men are…
Rural class formation and ecological collapse in Botswana
After some early colonial impetus towards commodity production, Botswana was cast in the role of a stagnant labour supply economy from which it has been only partially rescued by the expansion of cattle exports and mining in the post‐Independence area. This form of capitalist development has been built upon and in turn shaped by the class structure of the pre‐colonial Tswana states. The particular and interrelated consequences for rural Botswana …
The Jimbabwe elections
Government and Rural Development in East Africa
I. Introduction 'Penetration' and the East African Context.- The Concept of Political Penetration.- 'Penetration' and Rural Development in the East African Context.- II. The Colonial Legacy and the Dynamics of Political Control.- Teso in Transformation: colonial penetration in Teso District, Eastern Uganda, and its contemporary significance.- Local Participation in National Politics: Ugugo, Tanzania.- The Legitimacy of the Uganda Government in Bu…
Steel
Prepared for a November 1982 UN/ Sheffield City Council conference on Transnationals and South Africa, this paper shows how British dependence on apartheid's 'strategic raw materials' is avoidable and trade sanctions would sustain rather than destroy UK steel jobs
Agrarian policy in migrant labour societies
This paper deals with one basic problem that southern African countries will have to face in any transformation of their agriculture: if these societies are ‘labour reserves’ can they be easily transformed so as to eliminate labour migration. Zimbabwe seems to have an official policy of ending ‘divided families’ by pushing some into being unambiguously working class families with no land and others into a settled, non‐migratory peasantry. Thus fo…
Dramatic shifts in the military balance in the horn
Jitendra Mohan
Congress in Eritrea
The EPLF second congress
(1987). The EPLF second congress. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 14, No. 38, pp. 107-107
The Debate on African Peasantries
Drought, war and pestilence
On 4 January 1988, the Department interviewed a further 25 signatories on temporary staff and told them to sign apologies or face dismissal. Twenty-three signed, one was given a hearing and one was given more time to consider whether he wanted to sign the apology or be dismissed; the outcome is not known at this time, nor is the fate of members of the permanent staff against whom disciplinary action is pending
The conservation issue in Zimbabwe
(1988). The conservation issue in Zimbabwe. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 15, No. 42, pp. 48-58
Zimbabwe's agricultural ‘success’ and food security in Southern Africa
Zimbabwe's track record is being touted as the latest ‘miracle’ that should be copied in promoting agricultural production. It has indeed succeeded in producing food surpluses in most years and its African smallholders have greatly increased their contribution to marketed crop production since 1980. This article seeks to explore how far it can be the basis for a ‘model’ for agricultural development, at least for the ‘labour‐reserve economies’ of …
Prospects for Namibian independence
The last six months have seen significant developments in negotiations to bring about a resolution of the long war in the Western Sahara (see my article 'Morocco and the Western Sahara' in ROAPE no.38, 1987). The formal acceptance at the end of August last year by both the Moroccan government and the Polisario Front of UN proposals for a cease fire and a subsequent referendum in the Western Sahara on the future status of the territory was followe…
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