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Negotiating Statehood – Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa -

Negotiating Statehood – Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa

Software / Digital Media
240 Seiten
2011
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Hersteller)
9781444395587 (ISBN)
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Negotiating Statehood presents a new conceptual framework that reveals how state and non-state actors forge statehood in Africa, where these processes occur, and what configurations of state and political authority they produce.
Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa. Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation of statehood in contemporary Africa Conceptualizes who negotiates statehood (the actors, resources and repertoires), where these negotiation processes take place, and what these processes are all about Includes a collections of essays that provides empirical and analytical insights into these processes in eight different country studies in Africa Critically reflects on the negotiability of statehood in Africa

Tobias Hagmann is a Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich and a Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute. He is the co-editor of Contested Power: Traditional Authorities and Multi-party Elections in Ethiopia. Didier Peclard is Senior Researcher at the Swiss Peace Foundation in Bern, where he works on statehood in societies after violent conflicts, and Lecturer in political science at the University of Basel. He has published extensively on nationalism, religion and state formation in Angola.

Notes on Contributors vii 1 Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa Tobias Hagmann and Didier Peclard 1 2 Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo-Ugandan Border Timothy Raeymaekers 24 3 The Struggle Continues? The Spectre of Liberation, Memory Politics and 'War Veterans' in Namibia Lalli Metsola 49 4 Federal Restructuring in Ethiopia: Renegotiating Identity and Borders along the Oromo-Somali Ethnic Frontiers Asnake Kefale 74 5 Facing Up to the Centre: The Emergence of Regional Elite Associations in Angola's Political Transition Process Inge Ruigrok 95 6 The People, the Power and the Public Service: Political Identification during Guinea's General Strikes in 2007 Anita Schroven 116 7 The Party and the State: Frelimo and Social Stratification in Post-socialist Mozambique Jason Sumich 134 8 Maintenant, on sait qui est qui: Statehood and Political Reconfiguration in Northern Cote d'Ivoire Till Forster 154 9 Negotiating Statehood in a Hybrid Political Order: The Case of Somaliland Marleen Renders and Ulf Terlinden 177 10 Researching African Statehood Dynamics: Negotiability and its Limits Martin Doornbos 200 Index 222

Verlagsort Chicester
Sprache englisch
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Gewicht 666 g
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ISBN-13 9781444395587 / 9781444395587
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