Abstract “Queer” is a relatively recent and somewhat controversial term in African studies. Yet it proving to be productive, not only for understanding subjectivities of sexuality gender, but also situating Africa’s position the larger economy knowledge. Otu van Klinken explore productive tensions between “queer” “Africa,” aim read Africa as queer from Africa. Thus, rather than imagining polar ...

Linear orderings are an open problem for a uni ed theory of reciprocity, which, in a nutshell, can be stated in the following terms. The semantic spectrum of each other is notoriously wide. Theoreticians agree that three schema are particularly signi cant in this spectrum: strong reciprocity, weak reciprocity and linear orderings (see e.g. Beck, 2001; Gillon, 2003). Linear orderings are irrecon...

2 The reciprocity problem 3 2.1 Quadratic reciprocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Cubic reciprocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Biquadratic reciprocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4 Generalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.5 Hilber...

This paper provides evidence about the determinants of trust and reciprocal inclinations, that is, a tendency for people to respond in kind to hostile or kind actions, in a representative setting. We investigate the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, the correlation between trust and positive and negative reciprocal inclinations within person, the individual determinants of reciprocit...

Reciprocity is often invoked to explain cooperation. Reciprocity is cognitively demanding, and both direct and indirect reciprocity require that individuals store information about the propensity of their partners to cooperate. By contrast, generalized reciprocity, wherein individuals help on the condition that they received help previously, only relies on whether an individual received help in...