ASR, Volume 12, n° 2, 2008 - Full Issue

Abstract

CONTENTS

Editorial ....................................... 1

Articles

The Challenges of Studying the African Diasporas
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ............................... 4

Social sciences internationally: The problem of marginalisation and its consequences for the discipline of sociology
W. Keim ...................................... 22

Xenophobia and the place of the refugee in the rainbow nation of human rights

Ashwin Desai................................... 49

Prendre en compte les échelles: Le mouvement patriotique et la construction de ‘l’autochtone’ en Côte d’Ivoire
Karel Arnaut .................................. 69

Address

Sociology, Hypocrisy, and Social Order
Layi Erinosho ................................. 85

Research Reports

Family planning dialogue: Identifying the key determinants of young women’s use and selection of contraception in Namibia
Nelago Indongo & Kammila Naidoo ...................... 98

Local perspectives on transnational relations of Cameroonian migrants
Michaela Pelican, Peter Tatah & Basile Ndjio............ 117

Adjustment Patterns of and Obstacles against Social Rehabilitation of Sex Workers in Nigeria
R. A. Aborisade & A. A. Aderinto ................... 128

‘I want to be a star’: Doping technology and the incidence of performance-enhancing drugs among actors in Nigeria
Charles Emeka Nwadigwe ........................ 144

Measuring Ethnic Identification and Attachment in sub-Saharan Africa
Yoku Shaw-Taylor.............................. 155

Debate

Can the ‘African household’ be presented meaningfully in large-scale surveys?

Marlize Rabe ......................... 167

Book Reviews

Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Miltin, eds., Can NGOs Make a Difference? The Challenge of Development
Alternatives
Reviewed by Kirk D Helliker .......................... 182

Dapo Adelugba and Philip Ogo Ujomu, eds., Rethinking Security in Nigeria: Conceptual Issues in the Quest for Social Order and
National Integration
Reviewed by Wilson Akpan .................. 184

Isaac Mazonde and Pradip Thomas, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century: Perspectives from Southern Africa
Reviewed by Rosabelle Boswell ................... 187

Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst, eds., Ways of walking: Ethnography and practice on foot
Reviewed by Detlev Krige ............................ 191