Remembering Nyerere: Political rhetoric and dissent in contemporary Tanzania

Remembering Nyerere: Political Rhetoric and Dissent in Contemporary Tanzania

This article examines the changing uses of political rhetoric around the burial of Julius Nyerere in 1999. It argues that the ruling party uses rhetoric as a means of ‘soft power’, but also documents how this rhetoric, though geared towards legitimizing Nyerere’s successors, employed tropes that were rejected by some people and were used by others to critique leaders who were perceived to lack ...

An analysis of the Political Rhetoric of a Traditional Concept in Contemporary South Africa

A Political-economic Approach to Organizational Dissent

COMMENTS WELCOME We thank Michael Jacobides, and especially Jackson Nickerson, for helpful comments on earlier versions.

Political dissent and "sluggish" schizophrenia in the Soviet Union.

MEDICAL JOURNAL Political dissent and "sluggish" schizophrenia in the Soviet Union "It is considered by some governments that if a person does not agree with the views of the state, his sanity must be called into question. Extensive documentation exists on the misuse of psychiatry and psychiatric drugs in the Soviet Union."' Amnesty International, Bloch and Reddaway, and the International Assoc...

assessing political stability and instability in central asia and caucasus; case study, azerbaijan and kyrgyzstan

منطقه ی آسیای مرکزی وقفقاز به عنوان منطقه ای تاریخی و به دلیل دارا بودن ذخایر عظیم هیدرو کربنی از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. کشورهای این منطقه از عوامل عمده ی بی ثباتی نظیر عوامل جغرافیایی، اقتصادی، امنیتی، اجتماعی و سیاسی رنج می برند. پس از فروپاشی اتحاد جماهیر شوروی کشورهای منطقه از نعمت استقلال ناخواسته ای برخوردار شدند که مشکلات فوق را برای آن ها چندین برابر می کرد. در این روند برخی از این...