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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"SPS/13 Storia e istituzioni dell'Africa"”.
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What Happened to Participation? Urban Development and Authoritarian Upgrading in Cairo's Informal Neighbourhoods
Participation appeared in development discourses for the first time in the 1970s, as a generic call for the involvement of the poor in development initiatives. Over the last three decades, the initial perspectives on participation intended as a project method for poverty reduction have evolved into …
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Cooperazione internazionale e turismo a Zanzibar e in Tunisia. Società locale e domanda esogena nel rinnovamento dell’offerta
… E come, tali progetti, si inseriscono nei luoghi dell’azione e in contesti nei quali il turismo, di stampo occidentale, ridisegna il territorio e ha una decisa influenza sull’economia, la società e la cultura? Sono queste, in sintesi, le domande alle quali la tesi cerca di rispondere. I due casi …
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Haratin di Mauritania: da status ascritto a rivendicazione identitaria. La schiavitù in prospettiva postcoloniale
The dissertation analyses the construction of the community of the Haratines of Mauritania, ethnic group of former slaves and their descendants, of black origins and Arabised over time. Despite abolition of slavery, 10-15% of the Haratines are still considered in dependence on their former masters, …
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L’Africa Occidentale Francese fra Autonomie e Fallimenti. Il caso del Soudan/Mali
… analyses the decolonization process of West Africa French territories, since the Brazzaville’s Conference until the obtaining of Independence. The aim of this research project refers to the importance of French Soudan, nowadays Mali, in French West Africa, and how the leaders of this …
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Left outside or trapped in the visible and invisible gate. Insights into the continuities and discontinuities in the creation of good and just living in open and gated suburbs of Johannesburg.
… different neighbourhoods of Johannesburg, South Africa: a newly built gated golf estate (Eagle Canyon) and an old open suburb (Northcliff). In order to develop insights into the ways in which life in a gated community is related to the life outside, an ethnographic study of three years has been …
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Essays on the demand and supply of small business finance
… their SME finance portfolio between 2009 and 2013. Since commercial banks are not the only players in the provision of finance to small firms, the dissertation studies the entire financial landscape of both formal and informal financial providers, including institutions such as microfinance …
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Decentralisation and Poverty Alleviation in Zambia: Achievable Goal or Deceptive Promise?
Since the 1990s, decentralisation has acquired increasing popularity among governments and aid agencies. Today, it is hard to find a country that has not undergone the reform of its local government system. Since 2000, decentralisation has been heavily promoted by donors as an important tool to …
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Una testimonianza silenziosa.Storia della Chiesa cattolica in Tunisia dal Trattato del Bardo alla ‘rivoluzione dei gelsomini’
… in returning to the ancient “greatness of the African Church”, as the Eucharistic Congress in Carthage in 1930 made quite clear. The Congress itself planted the first seed in the twentyfive- year struggle that led the Tunisian population to independence in 1956 and the founding of the Republic …
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Labour, Environment and Empire in the South Atlantic (1780-1860)
The South Atlantic Ocean and its islands (Saint Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Ascension) were a periphery of the British Empire. Nevertheless this region faced a dramatic transformation during the Global Age of Revolutions (1780-1830) and moved from being a transition zone between Europe and Asia into …
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New Maps for Africa? Contextualising the 'Chinese Model' within Ethiopian and Kenyan Paradigms of Development
… other developing countries—particularly those in Africa—to follow, and that this poses a profound challenge to the dominant global development paradigm. A highly-charged media and policy debate has increasingly made its way into the academic literature, with central questions focusing around the …
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THE INTERPLAY OF STATE AND FIRM IN ZAMBIA: PATH DEPENDENCY IN THE MINING SECTOR
… mines and state. In 1924 the British South African Company retained the nation’s mineral rights after the establishment of the British Protectorate. The company only ceded the administrative rights of the territory which created a clear barrier between the precursor of the Zambian state and …