Le thème de cette édition du Bulletin du CODESRIA s’écarte des priorités thématiques du Plan stratégique 2017-2021 qui sont : «Processus démocratiques, gouvernance, citoyenneté et sécurité en Afrique» et «Écologies, économies et sociétés en Afrique». Le Bulletin aborde deux séries de questions importantes. La première est de déterminer comment l’Afrique, avec tous les changements et les transformations qui la définissent aujourd’hui, est et devrait être gouvernée. Le thème intègre les questions d’État au sens statutaire, la démocratisation, l’état de droit et les droits de l’homme, la sécurité et la violence, la justice transitionnelle, et autres processus et mécanismes de gouvernance aux niveaux local, national, régional et international. Ces questions constituent encore d’importantes préoccupations dans de nombreux pays africains et, naturellement, orientent également les travaux du Conseil. La seconde série de questions explore les aspects de l’Anthropocène en Afrique, ses formes, son histoire, ses trajectoires et son impact sur des secteurs variés, notamment les économies en plein essor du continent. Ce thème soulève d’importantes questions liées à la terre, à la sécurité alimentaire et à la pauvreté qui dominent de manière persistante le débat public et demeurent une préoccupation mondiale. L’Afrique est toujours confrontée aux contradictions et à la complexité du « développement », du changement climatique et de la croissance démographique, en particulier dans les villes. La nature évolutive des centres ruraux et urbains, tirée notamment par le pouvoir d’achat croissant de nouvelles élites, conjuguée à l’écart grandissant de richesse, redéfinit et crée une nouvelle dynamique de cohabitation. L’insécurité, l’incertitude et l’indignité des conditions de vie constituent des défis majeurs pour un continent qui continue à se débattre avec le système capitaliste mondial. Lire l'éditorial au complet

Publiée: janvier 15, 2019

This issue of the CODESRIA Bulletin is produced at the end of the 2013–2016 programme cycle, and therefore at the beginning of a new programatic cycle and strategic plan. The 2017–2021 programme cycle has been entrusted with: “Reaching New Frontiers in Social Science Research and Knowledge Production for African Transformation and Development.” The new strategic plan builds on the recommendations of major comprehensive internal reviews aimed at sharpening the council’s mandate to develop the social sciences and humanities in Africa for better transformation and development within the context of continual global changes. These include: review of the intellectual agenda, membership, governance and management. The new strategic plan builds on the achievements of the past strategic cycle, ensuring consolidation and renewal, and ushering innovations in programme delivery and management; deeply emphasising the importance of basic research, and its relevance for policy, as well as community and civil society engagements. The new strategic plan prioritises three key thematic areas: democratic processes, governance, citizenship and security; ecologies, economies and societies; and higher education dynamics in a changing Africa. In addition to these three thematic priorities, a set of six crosscutting themes meant to suffuse all CODESRIA research; training and publications have been set. These include: gender; generations; alternatives and futures; inequality, rurality and urbanity; and memory and history. Most notable is a re-imagination and narrowing of research vehicles such as the traditional National Working Groups, Comparative Research Networks, and Multinational Working Groups which have now been collapsed under one vehicle – the Meaning-Making Research Initiative (MRI) to offer researchers the space to carryout and produce deeper empirical but also much more theoretically grounded and policy relevant basic research. Read the Full Editorial

Publiée: juin 22, 2018

Ours is the era of the anthropocene; the age in which the human factor is, it is agreed, probably more determining in almost everything than it has ever been. The very first question that this raises is how to understand this era, and finding answers to that question requires the full mobilization of the humanities and social sciences. It also calls for a repositioning of the disciplines in order to make them speak to each other in ways that could make multidisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity truly meaningful. Another question that arises is that of how to build a new ‘civilization’, which, after all, is what ‘development’ according to one of the founders of CODESRIA, Professor Samir Amin, should be about. The new civilization will be ecological and characterized by all the good things that make our societies, economies and governance systems, and our world more inclusive, just, and accommodating; in short: democratic and ‘developing’. It would certainly not be ‘dreamland’ or nirvana, but one where the ‘good life’ for the individual and collective would not seem totally unrealizable. Read the Full Editorial

Publiée: décembre 21, 2016

The state of intellectual freedom is, in many ways, both a Treflection of the degree of openness and inclusiveness of our societies and of the state of democracy. Academic freedom, in the words of Thandika Mkandawire, is, in truth, about the building of a new civilization. It is a site of struggle for democracy, and one could argue that where intellectual freedom really exists, authoritarianism and fundamentalism will find it more difficult to go unchecked. Read the Full Editorial

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