ASRF are among the most published, the most with early tenure and promotion, the most with endowed chairs,
the most invited to give public lectures and media appearances around the world, and our journal is among the
most read in Africa and other countries around the world and now in the top tier on many universities' tenure and
promotion lists in the United States and many other countries..... Bangura
Congrats .... but I hope you did not interpret the critique of the concept Third World as a critique of the Association of scholars
and their activities. That was not the intention.
Concepts and the titles of organizations are never set in stone and cement.
They can be evaluated from time to time. However if the members of the association
are comfortable with the name, so be it. I may join you in Brazil in 2011.
Gloria Emeagwali
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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chambi Chachage [chambi78@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winner Of The 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award
There was a recent fruitful debate on this concept in H-Net, I am taking the liberty to cross-post a bit of it below and leave you with this rhetoric question: Can a concept outlive its usefulness even if it was coined by our very own for a specific purpose in a particular moment in history?
From: Becker Charles Centre d'etudes africaines <beckerleschar@ORANGE.SN>
List Editor: Becker Charles Centre d'etudes africaines <beckerleschar@ORANGE.SN>
Editor's Subject: The term "third world": 3 REPLIES
Author's Subject: The term "third world": 3 REPLIES
Date Written: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:41:51 +0800
Date Posted: Sun, 28 Aug 2010 07:12:43 -0400
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<H-SAFRICA@H-NET.MSU.EDU> From: Jeremy Martens
<jeremy.martens@UWA.EDU.AU>
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REPLY 1
Date: 27 August 2010
From: Jillian Carman
<jillianc@bellatrix.co.za>
Thank you, Christopher Lee, for one of the most cogent arguments so
far in this discussion. "Third world"and "global south" are
constructs, not geographical descriptions, just as "west" is a
construct. Australia, for example, is considered in my discipline,
art history, to be part of the west, not the global south. Global
south (the term that is preferable to us art historians to third or
developing world) refers to those areas which fall outside of the
grand western narrative of the history of art, areas which are
considered the rather exotic "other" by more conservative art
historians, which are under-resourced in research and publishing
facilities, and which are still largely mined for research
opportunities by scholars in better-resourced western institutions
who continue to speak on the global south's behalf. Furthermore,
publishing power is still vested in the west, and western publishing
houses decide what book manuscripts should be published. The South
African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) will address these issues in
a colloquium at the University of the Witwatersrand in January 2011,
OTHER VIEWS: ART HISTORY IN (SOUTH) AFRICA AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH,
organised by SAVAH under the aegis of the Comité International
d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA). SAVAH is the first body on the African
continent to be affiliated to CIHA, this is the first CIHA event to
take place in Africa, and the second in the (geographical) southern
hemisphere. CIHA's first congress in the southern hemisphere was in
2008 in honorary-west Melbourne, Australia. Art historians in South
Africa and Africa know only too well what it means to be positioned
in the under-resourced and intellectually-exploited global south.
And the validity of this term is endorsed by the Getty Foundation,
which has generously made funding available for travel grants for
delegates from Africa, India, South East Asia and South America to
attend the conference. They would otherwise not be
financially-empowered to attend and participate, and (as usual)
better-resourced scholars from western institutions would constitute
the majority of delegates, who would (again, as usual) debate issues
about areas in which they do not reside and of which they have
little experience.
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REPLY 2
Date: 27 August 2010
From: Peter Limb
<plimb@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
I think that in 2010, the term 'Third World' is now used more in an economic
or developmental than (its original) more political sense, though also still
very much in a 'political economy' sense for intersection of both; for
instance, we might still refer to "Third World conditions" (we can't easily
say, in English, "South conditions" or "conditions of the South" etc), so
it's
still a convenient short-hand for some people.
But, sshhh, Routledge seem to have been listening in to our conversation:
their site proudly announces no less than 26 forthcoming books with 'Third
World' in title, and just to throw a publisher's cat among the scholarly
pigeons (should usually be the other way round, I fear), have also a new
series 'ThirdWorlds' with 7 new titles--my favorite is: 'From Third World to
the World of the Third.' Which reminds my of 'Fourth World', sometimes used
for indigenous peoples, as for instance in some works on Botswana and
Namibia.
I expect I would tend to not use 'Third World' in print, but rather sometimes
in conversation: might that say about changing discourse?
Here are some recent instances:
* The Politics of Family Planning in the Third World. Routledge 2011
Political Change in the Third World. Routledge 2011
* Women's Roles and Population Trends in the Third World. Anker, R. Routledge
2011
* Learning from China? Development and Environment in Third World Countries.
Routledge 2011
* Learning from China? Development and Environment in Third World Countries.
Routledge 2011
with plenty of other recent titles:
International Law and the Third World. Routledge-Cavendish, 2010
Dislocation and Resettlement in Development: From Third World to the World of
the Third. Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society
After the Third World? Edited by Mark T. Berger. Series: ThirdWorlds
Tourism and Sustainability Development, Globalisation and New Tourism in the
Third World. By Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt
Democracy and Political Change in the Third World. Series: Routledge/ECPR
Studies in European Political Science 2006 Routledge
and other publishers are still not vetoing it: MIT Press, Longman et al.
Trade and poverty: when the Third World fell behind / Cambridge Mass: MIT
Press, 2011
The challenge of Third World development / Longman, 2011
Economic Planning and Social Justice in Third World Countries.
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REPLY 3
Date: 27 August 2010
From: Peter Rachleff
<rachleff@macalester.edu>
Thank you, Christopher Lee, for your well-taken points on the notion of
"Third World." My first foray into this conversation was a lazy one,
merely recommending Vijay Prashad's THE DARKER NATIONS, without explaining
why. I concur with Christopher Lee's exposition on this list, but want to
add one more element directly from Prashad, who uses the term "Third World *
project*." That is, he calls readers', scholars', and activists' attention
to the idea that various organizations, movements, and intellectuals made
the *creation* of a "Third World" the focus of their work. It has been --
and might yet be -- an ideological, cultural, political, and even economic
center, an intersection, a coalition, a goal, for the many peoples exploited
by the central institutions of global capitalism. These peoples might well
live within as well as outside metropolitan centers. I appreciate Prashad's
and Lee's efforts to keep scholars from reifying and discarding this
notion. They remind us of its complexity and potential value.
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Sent: Mon, October 11, 2010 7:43:14 PM
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winner Of The 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award
Good Greetings Mwalima Gloria Emeagwali and Mwalimu Toyin Adepoju:
Thanks a heap for your postings. Your take on the Third World concept is a good one. We even had a panel on the issue during our conference in Cape Coast, Ghana last year. Nonetheless, it is up to us who are well informed about the concept to educate those who are less informed about its correct meaning. I hope that the small sample of URLs below to my essay titled "Pan-Third Worldism: A Challenge to the Association of Third World Studies" published in the Journal of Third World Studies (Spring 2003, Vol. 20, Number 1, p. 13-17) and works in which it has been referenced will be helpful.
Those of us who are members of the African Studies and Research Forum (ASRF), an affiliate organization of the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS), are not uncomfortable with the name. Our work in academia and community service all over Africa and its Diaspora are testimony to that. Besides, ours is the only scholarly organization that has United Nations membership, and members of the ASRF are among the most published, the most with early tenure and promotion, the most with endowed chairs, the most invited to give public lectures and media appearances around the world, and our journal is among the most read in Africa and other countries around the world and now in the top tier on many universities' tenure and promotion lists in the United States and many other countries.
Our annual conferences are more than just opportunities for renewing acquaintances. Sessions do not take place at the hotel bars or the hall ways. It is our tradition to present completed essays for suggestive evaluations and potential publication.
I hope you can join us next year in Brazil for our ATWS (African Samba) conference!
In Peace Always,
Abdul Karim Bangura/.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200304/ai_n9173367/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-worldism
http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Third-worldism
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From: "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"
Sent: Oct 11, 2010 10:39 AM
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com"
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winner Of The 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award
Toyin Adepoju has a point. These days the term Third World is used insultingly. See for example
Huffingtonpost.com<http://huffingtonpost.com/> on the series 'Third World America'.
Studies of Emerging Economies, African and Asian Studies, Non-Aligned Studies
or Majority Studies are some possible alternatives that come to mind.
GE
www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winner Of The 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award
Very impressive.
Within the name of the prize,however,I have a problem with the section I highlight in black:
"Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award"
I am wary of such self categorisation,even if it has a degree of validity. Is Africa,for one,Third to the West,in all aspects?Even if one argues that, taken generally,this classification can be sustained,how helpful is it to the psyche of those who belong to this so called Third World?
I might have problems,I might not be living up to my potential but I would not be keen to be NAMED IN TERMS OF MY PROBLEMS beceause I am convinced I can rise above them sooner or later.
I would be much more comfortable if the prize were simply named Toyin Falola Africa Book Award
Thanks
Toyin
On 10 October 2010 23:52, Abdul Karim Bangura > wrote:
Professor Patrick Manning Is the Winner of the 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award
Good Greetings:
It is with great enthusiasm that I share with you the wonderful news that the winner of the 2010 Association of Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award is Professor Patrick Manning of the University of Pittsburgh for his book titled The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (2009) published by Columbia University Press. As in previous years, the Award's committee received numerous and excellent books from which the selection was made. The following is just a small sample of what the judges of the Award had to say about Manning's effulgent book:
"The author is adept at tying together what are seemingly separate and unconnected phenomena. Integrating such a complexity (six centuries and several continents) was challenging enough, but it was done with an almost elegant simplicity...."
"Manning challenges three paradigms that have shaped the study of African peoples: (1) their exclusion from studies on modernity, (2) their exclusion from a global integrated study as a group, and (3) their absence of clearly defined thematic structures that encapsulate the experiences of the Africana. Through a new approach to the study of the African Diaspora, Manning shows how African peoples in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean contributed to modernity through Diasporas, networks, mixes, hinterlands, and exchanges on the roads between centers...."
Please find below more details on the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award and the call for next year's Award. Next year's ATWS conference will be convened in Brazil, home of the Afrikan Samba.
In Peace Always
Abdul Karim Bangura/
Committee Chair
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CALL FOR BOOKS
THE 2010-2011 TOYIN FALOLA
ATWS AFRICA BOOK AWARD
The Toyin Falola Africa Book Award, in honor of Toyin Falola, one of Africa's outstanding historians and intellectuals, will be given for the best book on Africa published in 2010-2011. Book submissions must be published in 2010 through June 15, 2011. The deadline for the submission of entries is June 30, 2011. The award will not automatically be given each year, but only whenever the committee decides that a book of considerable merit has been submitted. ATWS members are encouraged to enter their publications into the competition. The recipient will receive an elegant plaque, citation, and a $500 cash award.
Qualifications are:
1. Only monographs and studies will be considered. Please do not submit anthologies or edited works.
2. An individual who wishes to be considered must send a letter of application to the committee chair, Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura, The African Institution, 7532 Eighth Street, Washington, D.C. 20012 E-mail: theafricaninstitution@verizon.net
3. Publishers are permitted to nominate an author's book as long as the above rules are observed.
4. An individual seeking the award is responsible for sending a copy of his/her book to each member of the committee.
Committee members are:
Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura, committee chair, The African Institution, 7532 Eighth Street, Washington, D.C. 20012. E-mail: theafricaninstitution@verizon.net
Dr. James T. Gire, Department of Psychology, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA 24450. E-mail: GireJT@vmi.edu
Dr. Jose Arimateia da Cruz, Department of Criminal Justice, Social and Political Science, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA 31419-1997. E-mail: dacruzjo@mail.armstrong.edu
Dr. Ishmael Munene, Center for Education Excellence, Northern Arizona University, Flagg Staff, AZ 86011-5774. E-mail: Munene@nau.edu
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