Format:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781444395563
Series Statement:
Development and change
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa -- 2 Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo-Ugandan Border -- 3 The Struggle Continues? The Spectre of Liberation, Memory Politics and 'War Veterans' in Namibia -- 4 Federal Restructuring in Ethiopia: Renegotiating Identity and Borders along the Oromo-Somali Ethnic Frontiers -- 5 Facing Up to the Centre: The Emergence of Regional Elite Associations in Angola's Political Transition Process -- 6 The People, the Power and the Public Service: Political Identification during Guinea's General Strikes in 2007 -- 7 The Party and the State: Frelimo and Social Stratification in Post-socialist Mozambique -- 8 Maintenant, on sait qui est qui: Statehood and Political Reconfiguration in Northern Côte d'Ivoire -- 9 Negotiating Statehood in a Hybrid Political Order: The Case of Somaliland -- 10 Researching African Statehood Dynamics: Negotiability and its Limits -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781444338683
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781444338683
Language:
English
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