African studies and sociopolitical issues

Agrarian structures based on small peasant property can have two opposite kinds of impact on urban wages. In the first type, stable smallholder farming bringing high returns puts upward pressure on wages. In the second type, smallholder farming that does not bring sufficient returns leads to semi-proletarianization in…

• BURAK GÜREL

Although the existence of rural indebtedness in the Ottoman empire in the nineteenth century and some of its consequences are well known, information about the grassroots structure and causes of indebtedness and the structure of debt relationships is limited. This article explores rural collective indebtedness using t…

• ERDEN ATTİLA AYTEKİN

In this article, we consider the model having co-infection of TB and HIV for numerical analysis and modelling. For this purpose, used non-standard finite difference scheme with Mickens approach rather than h to control this disease. Furthermore, we analyse the well-posedness and stability of the system. Also, check th…

• ALİ AKGÜL

The essay presents an exploratory study of the equub, a form of community-based finance that is well-established in the Ethiopian diaspora in Germany.Equubs render visible the financial expertise developed in the majority world and its circulation in diasporic space.As such, equubs exemplify the power of People of Afr…

• ESRA ERDEM DAVIS

The essay presents an exploratory study of the equub, a form of community-based finance that is well-established in the Ethiopian diaspora in Germany.Equubs render visible the financial expertise developed in the majority world and its circulation in diasporic space.As such, equubs exemplify the power of People of Afr…

The characterization of agrarian structures in contemporary underdeveloped countries has been haunting social scientists for a long time. As in Latin America and India, from the late sixties onwards a strong controversy emerged among Marxists in Turkey concerning the question of why capitalism had not transformed rura…

The various manifestations of environmentalism across the globe are distinguished by their predominant attributes concerning the problems, causes, demands, methods and actors. These attributes are articulated through distinct notions, such as "environmentalism of the rich," encompassing nature conservation and eco-eff…

• NEJDET ÖZBERK

(1997). The political economy of agrarian transition in Mozambique. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 191-218.

• ALFREDO ANTONİO SAAD FILHO

Abstract Taking as a starting point two strikes in colonial Cyprus in the 1930s—the miners' strike in 1936 in which both Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots were involved and the all-female spinners' strike in 1938—this paper looks at how the labor movement deeply transformed the political landscape of the island. In…

After the tragic end of Democratic Party Government Turkey entered a new era with its allies. In this new era, Turkey’s responsibilities and obligations of NATO membership has not been quitely changed. In the Cold War years, Turkey still continues its stability on foreign policy. U.S. response to the threat of the Sov…

• GÖKHAN EŞEL

This paper reads Nthikeng Mohlele’s 2013 novel Small Things with a view to understanding a qualitative shift in South Africa’s post-apartheid historical consciousness: an emergent sense of being in “exile from history.” This is not simply a relationship to history of being “post,” but rather a melancholic attachment t…

Abstract This article examines the 2015 art-film Necktie Youth (Sibs Shongwe-La Mer) with a view to understanding new affective, temporal and genre formations in post-transitional South Africa. A quasi-documentary portrait of ennui and depression among a circle of privileged 'born-free' youth in Johannesburg's wealthy…