Bruce J. Berman (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)

Submitted: Wed, 27 August 2003


Bruce J. Berman
Professor
Department of Political Studies
Queen's University
Kingston
Ontario
K7L 3N6
Canada

phone:   613-545-6242
fax:     613-545-6848
e-mail:  bermanb@qsilver.queensu.ca



Teaching:
Courses in development theory (graduate), African politics(undergraduate), 
and the politics of science and technology

Selected publications:

Ethnicity, Patronage and the African State: the politics of uncivil 
nationalism, African Affairs, 97, 388, 1998, pp. 305-41.

The State, Computers and African Development: the Information 
Non-Revolution,reprinted in D.M. Hester and P.J. Ford, eds. Computers and 
Ethics in the Cyberage Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001,  pp. 153-166.

African States, Bureaucratic Culture and Computer Fixes,(co-authored with 
W. J. Tettey) Public Administration and Development, 29, 1, 2001, pp. 1-13.

Caught in the Contradictions: the State in Kenya, 1945-97, Critical 
Political Studies: Essays in Honour of Colin Leys, ed. by A. Bakan and E. 
Macdonald, Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2002, pp. 113-34.

The African Colonial State,Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African 
History, ed. by Paul Zaleza and Dickson Eyoh, London and New York: 
Routledge, 2003, pp. 550-56.

Critical Perspectives on Development in Ghana, ed. with W.J. Tettey and 
Korbla Puplampu,  Boston: E.J. Brill Publishers 2003, pp. xxi, 451.

Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa (collected papers of March 2000 workshop) 
edited with Dickson Eyoh and Will Kymlicka., Oxford: James Currey.
expected publication 2003.

"Custom, Modernity and the Search for Kihooto: Kenyatta, Malinowski and the
Making of Facing Mount Kenya," (with J.M. Lonsdale) in Robert Gordon and Helen
Tilley, eds., Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Ordering of Africa,
Manchester: Manchester University Press. expected publication 2003.