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Review of: The African Stakes of the Congo War The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa (2008)
Journal Article
Marriage, Z. (2008). Review of: The African Stakes of the Congo War The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa. Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, 16(1), 225-238. https://doi.org/10.1163/156920608X276378

Social and Ritual Activity In and Out of Place: the 'Negotiation of Locality' in a Sudanese Refugee Settlement (2008)
Journal Article
Kaiser, T. (2008). Social and Ritual Activity In and Out of Place: the 'Negotiation of Locality' in a Sudanese Refugee Settlement. Mobilities, 3(3. Special Issue: 'Migrant Worlds, Material Cultures'), 375-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450100802376670

This article argues that peoples’ affective relationships with the specific physical territories that they inhabit are informed by and constructive of the social relations and practices which are enacted in them. When people are forced to leave their... Read More about Social and Ritual Activity In and Out of Place: the 'Negotiation of Locality' in a Sudanese Refugee Settlement.

Conflict, peacebuilding and NGO legitimacy: National NGOs in Sri Lanka (2008)
Journal Article
Walton, O. (2008). Conflict, peacebuilding and NGO legitimacy: National NGOs in Sri Lanka. Conflict, Security & Development, 8(1), 133-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678800801977146

This paper explores the growing role of national NGOs in the interventions of western governments in conflict-affected
regions. Using three case studies of national NGOs working in Sri Lanka, it focuses on the complex relationships
between national... Read More about Conflict, peacebuilding and NGO legitimacy: National NGOs in Sri Lanka.

Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organisations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular (2008)
Book
Jennings, M., & Clarke, G. (Eds.). (2008). Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organisations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371262

This book examines the role of faith-based organizations in managing international aid, providing services, defending human rights and protecting democracy. It argues that greater engagement with faith communities and organizations is needed, and que... Read More about Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organisations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular.

Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania (2008)
Book
Jennings, M. (2008). Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania. Kumarian Press

Surrogates of the State explores the delicate relationship between development NGOs and the states they work in using the exhaustive and illuminating case study of Tanzania in the 1960s and 70s. During that time Tanzania instituted the rural socialis... Read More about Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania.