473 research outputs found
Shivji, Issa G. Law, State and the Working Class in Tanzania, c. 1920-1964
No full textGutkind Peter C. Shivji, Issa G. Law, State and the Working Class in Tanzania, c. 1920-1964. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 27, n°107-108, 1987. Mémoires, Histoires, Identités. pp. 450-452
Marx, Lenin and Pashukanis on self-determination: response to Robert Knox
No full textThis response to Robert Knox’s very kind and constructive review1 of my 2008 book The
Degradation of the International Legal Order?: The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of
Politics gives me the opportunity not only to answer some of his criticisms, but also, on the basis
of my own reflections since 2008, to fill in some gaps. Indeed, to revise a number of my
arguments. First, I restate my attempt at a materialist account of human rights. Next I explain
why, for me, the right of peoples to self-determination is absolutely central to a materialist
understanding of human rights; and also fill a serious gap in my own account in the book. This
leads me not only to a reply to Robert Knox on the question of ‘indeterminacy’ in international
law, but also to a disagreement with him on the use or misuse of the language of self-determination.
My fourth section returns to our very different evaluations of the significance and meaning of
the work of Yevgeny Pashukanis, and what, for me, is Pashukanis’s misunderstanding, for
reasons consistent with his general theoretical trajectory, of Marx and Lenin on the Irish
question. Finally, I present an outline of a re-evaluation of Marx’s principled position on
self-determination
Eco-socialist alternatives to the global crises = 另闢生態社會主義路徑
No full textSpeakers : John Bellamy FOSTER (University of Oregon; Monthly Review, USA) WANG Hui (Tsinghua University, China) Alain BADIOU (Universite de Paris VIII, France)
Discussants : Boaventura DE SOUSA SANTOS (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Isabel MONAL (University of Havana, Cuba) Issa SHIVJI (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) Praveen JHA (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Accumulation in an African Periphery : A Theoretical Framework
No full textThe 'Washington consensus' which ushered in neo-liberal policies in Africa is over. It was buried at the G20 meeting in London in early April, 2009. The world capitalist system is in shambles. The champions of capitalism in the global North are rewriting the rules of the game to save it. The crisis creates an opening for the global South, in particular Africa, to refuse to play the capitalist-imperialist game, whatever the rules. It is time to rethink and revisit the development direction and strategies on the continent. This is the central message of this intensely argued book. Issa Shivji demonstrates the need to go back to the basics of radical political economy and ask fundamental questions: who produces the society's surplus product, who appropriates and accumulates it and how is this done. What is the character of accumulation and what is the social agency of change? The book provides an alternative theoretical framework to help African researchers and intellectuals to understand their societies better and contribute towards changing them in the interest of the working people
HEVC-SVS: Low-level HEVC features and CNN features for TVSum, SumMe, OVP and VSUMM datasets
No full textProposed HEVC feature sets along with CNN features from GoogleNet, AlexNet, Inception-ResNet-V2, and VGG16 for TVSum, SumMe, OVP and VSUMM datasets. The new modified datasets names are "HEVC-SVS-TVSum", "HEVC-SVS-SumMe", "HEVC-SVS-OVP" and "HEVC-SVS-VSUMM", respectively.The datasets contain the original ground truth data they came with, and these stayed unmodified.Upon using any of these datasets, please do cite our publications where we proposed the HEVC feature set for the first time:If you are using (HEVC-SVS-OVP) and/or (HEVC-SVS-VSUMM) datasets: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9815254/@article{issa_cnn_2022,title = {{CNN} and {HEVC} {Video} {Coding} {Features} for {Static} {Video} {Summarization}},volume = {10},issn = {2169-3536},url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9815254/},doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3188638},urldate = {2022-09-29},journal = {IEEE Access},author = {Issa, Obada and Shanableh, Tamer},year = {2022},pages = {72080--72091},}If you are using (HEVC-SVS-TVSum) and/or (HEVC-SVS-SumMe) datasets: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/10/6065@article{issa_static_2023,title = {Static {Video} {Summarization} {Using} {Video} {Coding} {Features} with {Frame}-{Level} {Temporal} {Subsampling} and {Deep} {Learning}},volume = {13},issn = {2076-3417},url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/10/6065},doi = {10.3390/app13106065},number = {10},journal = {Applied Sciences},author = {Issa, Obada and Shanableh, Tamer},month = may,year = {2023},pages = {6065},}Make sure to also cite the original authors for each of the datasets:TVSum (https://people.csail.mit.edu/yalesong/tvsum/)SumMe (https://gyglim.github.io/me/vsum/index.html)OVP and VSUMM (https://www.sites.google.com/site/vsummsite/download)Acknowledgement:The work in this research project is supported by the American University of Sharjah under research grant number FRG22-E-E44. This research work represents the opinions of the author(s) and does not mean to represent the position or opinions of the American University of Sharjah
Trajectories of accumulation: how neoliberal primitive accumulation is planting the seeds of suicide
No full textThe disparity we see between workers and owners, between rural and urban areas and between colonised and metropolitan countries is the result of a process of unequal exchange that goes back several centuries. Prof Shivji traces the wretched path of expropriation that has shaped social and economic relations over this period and up to the present with a grim warning of how this mode of exchange threatens the very source of life on earth: the seeds we use to grow our food
Using transformative constitutions to build counter-hegemonic consciousness in society: Response to Professor Justice Willy Mutunga’s inaugural lecture at Kabarak School of Law, In search and defence of radical legal education: A personal footnote on 28 January 2022: Issa Shivji
No full textTo start with, Vice Chancellor, Professor Justice ndugu comrade Willy Mutunga, eminent academic community, distinguished guests and participants, and friends and comrades. I’d like to start off by congratulating the Vice Chancellor for ‘capturing a person of Professor Mutunga’s calibre’. As it has been said, Professor Mutunga comes with a lot of experience at the bar, at the bench, in academia, and in civil society. And I am sure any university in the world would be proud to be able to get a person like Professor Mutunga on its faculty and staff
HEVC-SVS: Low-level HEVC features and CNN features for TVSum, SumMe, OVP and VSUMM datasets
No full text**HEVC-SVS Datasets**Proposed HEVC feature sets along with CNN features from GoogleNet, AlexNet, Inception-ResNet-V2, and VGG16 for TVSum, SumMe, OVP and VSUMM datasets. The new modified datasets names are "HEVC-SVS-TVSum", "HEVC-SVS-SumMe", "HEVC-SVS-OVP" and "HEVC-SVS-VSUMM", respectively.The datasets contain the original ground truth data they came with, and these stayed unmodified.Upon using any of these datasets, please do cite our publication where we proposed the HEVC feature set for the first time:If you are using (HEVC-SVS-OVP) and/or (HEVC-SVS-VSUMM) datasets:@article{issa_cnn_2022,title = {{CNN} and {HEVC} {Video} {Coding} {Features} for {Static} {Video} {Summarization}},volume = {10},copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-ND)},issn = {2169-3536},url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9815254/},doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3188638},urldate = {2022-09-29},journal = {IEEE Access},author = {Issa, Obada and Shanableh, Tamer},year = {2022},pages = {72080--72091},}If you are using (HEVC-SVS-TVSum) and/or (HEVC-SVS-SumMe) datasets:{ PENDING }Make sure to also cite the original authors for each of the datasets:TVSum:@INPROCEEDINGS{7299154, author = {Yale Song and Vallmitjana, Jordi and Stent, Amanda and Jaimes, Alejandro}, booktitle = {2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, title = {TVSum: Summarizing web videos using titles}, year = {2015}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {5179-5187}, doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2015.7299154}}SumMe:@inproceedings{GygliECCV14, author ={Gygli, Michael and Grabner, Helmut and Riemenschneider, Hayko and Van Gool, Luc}, title = {Creating Summaries from User Videos}, booktitle = {ECCV}, year = {2014}}OVP and VSUMM:@article{Avila, title = "VSUMM: A mechanism designed to produce static video summaries and a novel evaluation method", journal = "Pattern Recognition Letters", volume = "32", number = "1", pages = "56 - 68", year = "2011", note = "<ce:title>Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in Latin America</ce:title>", issn = "0167-8655", doi = "10.1016/j.patrec.2010.08.004", author = "Sandra Eliza Fontes de Avila and Ana Paula Brand„o Lopes and Antonio da Luz Jr. and Arnaldo de Albuquerque Ara˙jo",}Acknowledgement:The work in this research project is supported by the American University of Sharjah under research grant number FRG22-E-E44. This research work represents the opinions of the author(s) and does not mean to represent the position or opinions of the American University of Sharjah
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