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The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia (2023)
Journal Article
Fraser, A. (2024). The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 36(1), 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2023.2283179

The spread of mobile telephones in Africa has enabled a broad range of citizens to join live conversations on call-in radio shows. Both African governments and foreign aid agencies claim that broadcasting such debates can raise awareness, amplify the... Read More about The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia.

Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks (2023)
Thesis
Hale, S. Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The street protests that erupted in Ukraine in late 2013 prompted by the government’s sudden pull-back from the process of joining the European Union, leading to the government’s collapse two months later, are widely understood as a pivotal moment of... Read More about Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks.

The Somaliland Social Covenant: An Experiment in Non-State Coexistence (2023)
Thesis
Gordon, M. The Somaliland Social Covenant: An Experiment in Non-State Coexistence. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Somaliland, which emerged from the collapse of the Somali Republic as a self-governing territory, is today considered one of Africa’s success stories, an experiment in locally-owned reconciliation and bottom-up democratisation that confounds scholars... Read More about The Somaliland Social Covenant: An Experiment in Non-State Coexistence.

Doing Democracy in Malawi: MPs and their Home Styles (2022)
Thesis
Fisher, C. S. Doing Democracy in Malawi: MPs and their Home Styles. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Political scientists have under-studied those who actually “do” formal politics – politicians, particularly those operating below the level of heads of state. This neglect has been acute in African politics, resulting from, and contributing to, a gen... Read More about Doing Democracy in Malawi: MPs and their Home Styles.

Post-populism in Zambia: Michael Sata’s rise, demise and legacy (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser, A. (2017). Post-populism in Zambia: Michael Sata’s rise, demise and legacy. International Political Science Review, 38(4), 456-472. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512117720809

Models explaining populism as a policy response to the interests of the urban poor struggle to understand the instability of populist mobilisations. A focus on political theatre is more helpful. This article extends the debate on populist performance... Read More about Post-populism in Zambia: Michael Sata’s rise, demise and legacy.

The Political Economy of Sponsored Call-In Radio in Zambia (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fraser, A. The Political Economy of Sponsored Call-In Radio in Zambia. Cambridge, UK

This working paper provides a context for the assessment of hopes that there might be a transformation in political accountability in Africa as a result of previously powerless and voiceless populations having their agendas strengthened via interacti... Read More about The Political Economy of Sponsored Call-In Radio in Zambia.

Let's Be Responsible Citizens! Contesting the agenda of a sponsored call-in radio programme (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fraser, A. Let's Be Responsible Citizens! Contesting the agenda of a sponsored call-in radio programme. Cambridge, UK

This working paper considers in detail how the hosts of and listeners to one call-in radio programme in Zambia were influenced by, resisted and co-opted the agendas of the sponsor that paid for its production. It develops a detailed case-study coveri... Read More about Let's Be Responsible Citizens! Contesting the agenda of a sponsored call-in radio programme.

Interactive media audiences in Africa : A comparison of four constituencies in Kenya and Zambia (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Lopes, C. A., Mudhai, O. F., Mitullah, W. V., Simutanyi, N., Balongo, S., Diepeveen, S., Fraser, A., Milapo, N., Mwangi, S., Tembo, E., & Srinivasan, S. Interactive media audiences in Africa : A comparison of four constituencies in Kenya and Zambia. Cambridge

To better understand who participates in media-driven public discussion and opinion-making, this working paper presents the results of a randomised household survey implemented in four constituencies in Kenya and Zambia, one urban and one rural const... Read More about Interactive media audiences in Africa : A comparison of four constituencies in Kenya and Zambia.

Negotiating Aid: The structural conditions shaping the negotiating strategies of African governments (2010)
Journal Article
Whitfield, L., & Fraser, A. (2010). Negotiating Aid: The structural conditions shaping the negotiating strategies of African governments. International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, 15(3), 341-366. https://doi.org/10.1163/157180610X529582

This article presents a new analytical approach to the study of aid negotiations. Building on existing approaches but trying to overcome their limitations, it argues that factors outside of individual negotiations (or the ‘game’ in game-theoretic app... Read More about Negotiating Aid: The structural conditions shaping the negotiating strategies of African governments.

Introduction: boom and bust on the Zambian Copperbelt (2010)
Book Chapter
Fraser, A. (2010). Introduction: boom and bust on the Zambian Copperbelt. In A. Fraser, & M. Larmer (Eds.), Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism (1-30). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115590_1

Throughout the twentieth century, studies of life on a narrow strip of land in central Africa shaped the way academics understood relations between the rich world and the poor. Anthropologists, economists, historians, and political scientists describ... Read More about Introduction: boom and bust on the Zambian Copperbelt.

Introduction: Aid and sovereignty (2009)
Book Chapter
Whitfield, L., & Fraser, A. (2009). Introduction: Aid and sovereignty. In L. Whitfield (Ed.), The politics of aid: African strategies for dealing with donors (1-26). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199560172.003.0001

A coalition of priests, politicians, and pop-stars are campaigning to ‘make poverty history’. They claim that rich countries have a responsibility to provide the money to do so. As a result, international development policy now has a higher public pr... Read More about Introduction: Aid and sovereignty.

Aid-recipient sovereignty in historical context (2009)
Book Chapter
Fraser, A. (2009). Aid-recipient sovereignty in historical context. In L. Whitfield (Ed.), The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors (45-73). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199560172.003.0003

The previous chapter laid out a series of challenges to the rational actor model that has been widely used to analyse aid negotiations. It argued that the strategies recipients adopt in aid negotiations are heavily constrained by factors that go well... Read More about Aid-recipient sovereignty in historical context.

Of cabbages and King Cobra: populist politics and Zambia's 2006 election (2007)
Journal Article
Larmer, M., & Fraser, A. (2007). Of cabbages and King Cobra: populist politics and Zambia's 2006 election. African Affairs, 106(425), 611-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adm058

Zambia's 2006 election was won by incumbent President Levy Mwanawasa and his Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). However, it is argued here that the most important outcome of the campaign was the successful articulation of a new populist politi... Read More about Of cabbages and King Cobra: populist politics and Zambia's 2006 election.