Abstract: Part 1 Appraising the modern African state: extracts from creating political order, A. Zolberg markets and states in tropical Africa, Robert H. Bates no shortcuts to progress, Goran Hyden personal rule theory and practice in Africa, Robert H. Bates and C.G. Rosberg bringing the ruling class back in - class state and hegemony in Africa, R. Fatton l'etat, J.-F. Bayart citizen and subject, Mahmood Mamdani Africa works, Patrick Chabal and J.-P. Daloz. Part 2 Dimensions of conflict: internal dimension of warfare in Chad, Roy May confronting Leviathan - Mozambique since independence, M. Hall and Tom Young violence in Nigeria, Toyin Falola ritual and political forms of violent practice among the Suri of southern Ethiopia the spread of political violence in Congo-Brazzaville, R. Bazenguissa-Ganga. Part 3 The local and the traditional: chiefs, sub-chiefs and local control - negotiations over land, struggles over meaning, M. Goheen commensality, process and the moral order - an example from southern Ethiopia, John Hamer locating the politics of a Sierra Leonean chiefdom, Richard Fanthorpe between peace and justice - dispute settlement between Karaboro agriculturalists and Fulbe agro-pastoralists in Burkina Faso. Part 4 The politics of new social forces: urban youth and Senegalese politics, M. Diouf the social power of religious organization and civil society, Ronald Kassimir changing the rules - the politics of liberalization and the urban informal economy in Tanzania, Aili Mari Tripp gender, democratization and associational life in Kenya, Bessie House-Midamba. Part 5 Political change: the local state in post-war Mozambique, Jocelyn Alexander post-socialist micro-politics - Kilimanjaro 1993, Sally Falk Moore aspects of democracy and democratization in Zambia and Botswana, Wim van Binsbergen imagining democracy - political culture and democratization in Buganda, Mikael Karlstrom witchcraft, violence and democracy in the new South Africa, Adam Ashforth.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-02-14
Language: en
Type: book
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