Geopolitical transition and state formation: the changing political geographies of Angola, Mozambique and Namibia

Sidaway, James D.; Simon, David

doi:10.1080/03057079308708344

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“…We used an inductive analysis, in order to explore the process without rigid preconceptions. Angola offered a suitable research setting, given the country's deep transitions, first from a colonial to an independent condition, in November 1975, and then from a centralized to a decentralizing economy (Sidaway & Simon, 1993). Because we were interested in extending/modifying theory (Lee, Mitchell, & Sablinski, 1999), an inductive logic could serve the purpose of building knowledge about the Angolan context in a conceptually unconstrained way.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ambidextrous leadership, paradox and contingency: evidence from Angola

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Fortes

Gomes

et al. 2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Ambidextrous leadership, paradox and contingency: evidence from Angola

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Fortes

Gomes

et al. 2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…Wearied of endless colonial wars, the 1974 Revolution of the Carnations led to the end of fascist rule in Portugal and immediate decolonisation [Harsgor, 1980]. Many settlers fled and the incoming revolutionary governments experimented with state socialism [Rocha-Trindade, 1995, Sidaway and Simon, 1993, Scott, 1988; in the case of Mozambique and Angola, this was followed on by civil conflicts, with the rise of rebel movements nurtured and sponsored by apartheid South Africa and the CIA. The end of the cold war led to the end of such conflicts, and democratisation in all the former Portuguese colonies, accompanied by radical neoliberal reforms Haines, 1998, Wood, 1999].…”

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Corporate Governance and Human Resource Management

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Brewster

2016

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“…Accordingly, in a manner reminiscent of earlier theoretical and ideologically driven debates on the social and economic transformation of (post)colonial political economies and urban transitions, rather than incremental reform [37][38][39], there are increasing arguments in favour of thinking in transformative terms about the conditions and nature of change required in addressing climate change. This is as true at the local government level as any other.…”

Section: From Resilience To Transformative Urban Governance and Adaptmentioning

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Local Authority Responses to Climate Change in South Africa: The Challenges of Transboundary Governance

Leck

Simon

2018

Sustainability

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Recent progress and innovation are testament to the willingness of municipal authorities to address climate change. However, urban regions worldwide exhibit an immense diversity of conditions, capabilities and responses to the challenges of changing climatic conditions. While separated by politico-administrative borders, adjacent municipalities within such regions are connected through biophysical, politico-economic, and social systems likely to be reconfigured under changing climatic/environmental conditions. Yet, to date, politico-administrative borders have largely determined the parameters of local government climate change adaptation strategies, with insufficient attention to the role of inter-municipal collaboration, especially between neighbouring rural, peri-urban and urban municipalities, for co-ordinating such policies and interventions. Within a multi-level governance framework, this paper considers the recent evolution of climate agendas in the eThekwini (formerly Durban City Council) metropolitan municipality and the adjacent Ugu (predominantly rural) district municipality on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal province (KZN), South Africa, focusing particularly on cross-border collaboration within the greater city region. The challenges were investigated by means of 53 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with municipal, regional and local authority association staff in November 2009, March 2012, and August 2017. Our core argument is that weak inter-municipal collaboration, particularly between urban, peri-urban and rural areas within metropolitan and functional city regions, has been a significant impediment to realizing transformative adaptation within such regions. The experiences of these two contiguous yet contrasting municipalities represent a microcosm of the dramatic discontinuities and inequalities on all variables within adjacent urban metropolitan and rural contexts in South Africa and beyond. Despite promising recent signs, the challenges of inter-municipal collaborative action are therefore formidable.

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Geopolitical transition and state formation: the changing political geographies of Angola, Mozambique and Namibia

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Ambidextrous leadership, paradox and contingency: evidence from Angola

Ambidextrous leadership, paradox and contingency: evidence from Angola

Corporate Governance and Human Resource Management

Local Authority Responses to Climate Change in South Africa: The Challenges of Transboundary Governance

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