Collapse of Societies in Africa under Globalization

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It was the main purpose to ne-examine my theoretical framework and to analyze documents collected in my field research last year so as to finalize report.In this regard, it was very fortunate to participate in a research project organized at the Institute for Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) focusing on "Conflicts and States in the South." A part of my main research findings was already published in a form of a book part, entitled as "New 'Modes' of Conflict in Post-Apartheid South Africa : A Continuing Culture of Valence"(The book title was Stag Volence, and Politics : Conflicts in Asia and Africa). In this article, organized violence such as vigilantism and "taxi wai" was analyzed from the perspective of continuing culture of violence, which was fermented in the era of Apartheid. This was a sample of "collapse" of society under globalization.I made an effort to elaborate my analytical framework by absorbing arguments developed by well-known sociologist Manuel Castells. In addition to these findings, I also refer to very interesting research reports written by members of a South African NGO, Mobo Songololo, on the issue of trafficking. This phenomenon was also closely related to globalization.However, it is never possible to consider that all new phenomena have been derived from globalization. My point is that new phenomena have been emerging in the new context that "places" have special meaning in the sense that both time (in a historical sense) and space determine a political culture of these places.