Literature Reviews on Academic Journals
This paper is a collective literature review on the academic journals (listed below) that spans weeks 11-14 of our class. It is for a political science class that concentrates on African Studies. My professor expects us to summarize each journal followed by an analysis that isn’t limited to personal opinions, experiences or the world around us. Let me know if you have any questions.
Week 11:
THEME: Globalizing Post-Apartheid Southern Africa: Social, Economic & Political Issues
Readings
Rogerson, J. & Mushawemhuka, W. (2015). Transnational entrepreneurship in the Global South: evidence from Southern Africa. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 30(30), pp. 135-146.
K. Johnson, “Globalization, Social Policy, and the State: An analysis of HIV/AIDS in South Africa,” New Political Science, 27, 2005, 309-329
C. Lee, “Sovereignty, Neoliberalism, and the Post-diasporic Politics of Globalization: A Conversation About South Africa with Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai, and Molefi Mafereka Ka Ndlovu,” Radical History Review, 103, 2009, pp. 143-161
N. Trimikliniotis, S. Gordon & B. Zondo, ‘Globalization and Migrant Labor in the “Rainbow Nation”: A Fortress South Africa,’ Third World Quarterly, 29, 2008, pp. 1323-1339
D. Moore, “Neoliberal Globalization and the Triple Crisis of ‘Modernization’ in Africa: Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Africa,” Third World Quarterly, 22, 2001, pp. 909-929
Week 12:
THEME: Reflections On ‘Old’ African Diasporas in The Global Era
Readings
P. Zeleza, “Africa and Its Diaspora: Remembering South America,” Research in African Literatures, 40, 2009, 143-164
Obiagele Lake (Jan., 1995) “Toward a Pan-African Identity: Diaspora African Repatriates in Ghana,”
Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 21-36
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, (2005) Rewriting the African diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic
African Affairs 104 (414):35-68
Ntongela Masilela (Winter 1996). The “Black Atlantic” and African Modernity in South Africa
Research in African Literatures, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 88-96
A. Anderson, “New African Initiated Pentecostalism and Charismatics in South Africa,” Journal of Religion in Africa, 35, 2005, pp. 66- 92
Week 13:
THEME XIV: Black Atlantic and Indian Diasporas WRAP UP
Readings
Kamari Maxine Clarke, “Transnational Yoruba Revivalism and the Diasporic Politics of Heritage,” American Ethnologist, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Nov., 2007), pp. 721-734
Susan J. Rasmussen, “When the Field Space Comes to the Home Space: New Constructions of Ethnographic Knowledge in a New African Diaspora,” Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Winter, 2003), pp. 7-32
