Nigeria: Economy and Society
SATURDAY
12-1.30pm
Nigeria: Economy and Society
Chair: JDY Peel. Discussant: Bjorn Beckman
Ruth Watson:
Gavin, Garveyism, and Literary Materialism in Colonial Ibadan
Kathryn Nwajiaku:
The politics of oil and identity in Nigeria: A political economy of ethnic nationalism
Gunilla Andrae:
Organising the Informal Economy: Union power and civil society in Nigeria
AR Mustapha:
Why there is Agrarian Capitalism in Nigeria: The Zimbabwean Farmers in the Nigerian Middlebelt
Weber & Marx
FRIDAY
3-4.30pm
Weber & Marx
Chair: Jan-Georg Deutsch. Discussant: Bob Shenton
Jeremy Seekings:
Webers ghost and the study of stratification in South Africa
Kate Meagher:
Weber meets Godzilla: Social Networks and the Spirit of Capitalism
Swagato Sarkar:
Marxs politics vis-a-vis post-Marxists
Agrarian Societies
FRIDAY
1.30-2.30pm
Agrarian Societies
Chair: Peter Lawrence, Discussant: Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Barbara Harriss-White:
Taking the part of petty commodity producers
Judith Heyer:
The political economy of development in an industrialising rural area of South India
Lindsay Whitfield:
A New Kind of Agrarian Capitalism in Ghana: Capitalist farmers in the horticulture export industry.
Political and Development Theories
FRIDAY
11-12.30pm
Political and Development Theories
Chair: Valpy Fitzgerald. Discussant: Martin Murray
Bjorn Beckman:
Where do effective institutions come from?
Sara Dorman:
Primary contradictions: thinking about state formation in post-colonial Africa
Alastair Frasier:
Participation, liberation and tyranny - from JS Mill to PRSPs
Deborah Bryceson:
Discovery and Denial: Social Science Theory and Interdisciplinarity in African Studies
Gavin Williams: An Appreciation
FRIDAY
9.30-10.30 Opening Session:
Chair: Barbara Harriss-White.
Keynote Address: Lionel Cliffe.Gavin Williams: An Appreciation.
Messages from absent friends.
The student experience: consumers and revolutionaries_4of4
A conversation between Elizabeth Frazer (PPE, 1984; DPhil 1987), Matthew Powell (PPE, 2010) and Nick Alexander (PPE, 1976).
Matthew and Nick discuss their learning experiences at Oxford across the internet divide, and find that they have much in common.
Teaching vs learning and instrumentalism in education_3of4
A conversation between Elizabeth Frazer (PPE, 1984; DPhil 1987), Matthew Powell (PPE, 2010) and Nick Alexander (PPE, 1976).
Matthew and Nick discuss their learning experiences at Oxford across the internet divide, and find that they have much in common.
PPE: three subjects, one degree_2of4
A conversation between Elizabeth Frazer (PPE, 1984; DPhil 1987), Matthew Powell (PPE, 2010) and Nick Alexander (PPE, 1976).
Matthew and Nick discuss their learning experiences at Oxford across the internet divide, and find that they have much in common.
Technology_1of4
A conversation between Elizabeth Frazer (PPE, 1984; DPhil 1987), Matthew Powell (PPE, 2010) and Nick Alexander (PPE, 1976).
Matthew and Nick discuss their learning experiences at Oxford across the internet divide, and find that they have much in common.