Hagmann / Péclard Negotiating Statehood

Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9557-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination inAfrica provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamicprocesses of state-making in Africa.
* Features a conceptual framework which provides a method foranalysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation ofstatehood in contemporary Africa
* Conceptualizes who negotiates statehood (the actors, resourcesand repertoires), where these negotiation processes take place, andwhat these processes are all about
* Includes a collections of essays that provides empirical andanalytical insights into these processes in eight different countrystudies in Africa
* Critically reflects on the negotiability of statehood inAfrica

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagmann, Tobias

Péclard, Didier

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tobias Hagmann is a Lecturer at the Department of Geography,University of Zürich and a Fellow of the Rift ValleyInstitute. He is the co-editor of Contested Power: TraditionalAuthorities and Multi-party Elections in Ethiopia.
Didier Péclard is Senior Researcher at the SwissPeace Foundation in Bern, where he works on statehood in societiesafter violent conflicts, and Lecturer in political science at theUniversity of Basel. He has published extensively on nationalism,religion and state formation in Angola.