Research Catalog

Title

Global responsibility, local agenda : the legitimacy of modern self-determination and African traditional authority / Manfred O. Hinz, F. Thomas Gatter (eds.).

Publication

Münster : Lit Verlag ; Piscataway, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hinz, Manfred O., 1936-
• Gatter, Frank Thomas, 1946-
• Universität Bremen. Centre of African and Migration Studies.
• Centre for Applied Social Sciences (Windhoek, Namibia)

Description

284 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Afrikanische Studien ; Bd. 18

Uniform Title

Afrikanische Studien (Münster in Westfalen, Germany) ; Bd. 18.

Subject

• Local government > Africa, Southern > Congresses
• Local government > Africa, West > Congresses
• Decentralization in government > Africa, Southern > Congresses
• Decentralization in government > Africa, West > Congresses
• Chiefdoms > Africa, Southern > Congresses
• Chiefdoms > Africa, West > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers from a conference organized by the Centre of African and Migration Studies and the Centre for Applied Social Sciences, and held in April 2002 at the University of Bremen.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English, with 1 contribution in German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Global responsibility as a local agenda / Gunther Hilliges -- The project of "tradition" : constitutionalism in Africa / Manfred O. Hinz -- Legitimacy, legitimacy crises of traditional rule in northern Ghana, and the role of the state / Brigitta Benzing -- The past on the present : Kasikili/Sedudu Island case / Effa Okupa -- The legitimacy of modern self-government : the Namibian case / Gerhard Tötemeyer -- Local self-government : the enlightening case of Germany / Dian Schefold -- Authority and the portrait of the ruler : Africa between tradition and modernity / Helke Kammerer-Grothaus -- Direct democracy, alternative to representative forms of government [Libya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo] / Detlev Quintern -- The divided legitimacy : lessons from empirical research in Namibia / Brian Katjaerua -- "Walking in the middle of the road" [Sekhukhune, South Africa] / Barbara Oomen -- Claims and challenges / Thomas Gatter -- Aboriginal title and the right of internal self-determination under the South African Constitution / Özlem Ülgen -- Autochthonous peoples and their international legal protection / Gerhard Stuby -- The South African constitutional, policy, and statutory framework for traditional leadership and institutions / Nic Olivier -- Environmental education for sustainable development in Namibia / Meike Wulfmeyer -- The African local and the global / Helgard Patemann -- The rule of law and the new African constitutionalism / Manfred O. Hinz.

ISBN

• 382586782X (pbk.)
• 9783825867829 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 68778628
• SCSB-12117884

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library