Playing the Marginality Game

Identity Politics in West Africa
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-189-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Integration and Conflict Studies

In Guinea, situated against the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics through contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generations-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides. Simultaneously, administrative reform and national unrest lead to the creative re-combination of sources of authority and practices of legitimate rule. Past periods of colonization, socialism and authoritarian regime are reflected in contemporary struggles to make sense of participatory democracy and the future of the embattled Guinean national state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schroven, Anita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Names and Spelling

List of Acronyms

Introduction: Identity at the Margins: A Place in Guinea

Chapter 1. A Journey to the Margins?

Chapter 2. Maintaining Marginality: Ethnic and National Elements of Identification

Chapter 3. Reaching for the Margins: Negotiating State Power

Chapter 4. Mixing and Mingling: New Politics, Old Structures?

Chapter 5. Bargaining with an Ailing State

Chapter 6. Citizenship at the Margins: Performing the Future State

Conclusion: Liberties at the Margins: Playing the Game

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schroven, Anita
Anita Schroven is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She has researched state identities in West Africa, along with practices of humanitarian intervention, science and knowledge production in the context of political and medical crises. She has held fellowships with the Pasteur Institute, France, and UNICAMP, Brazil.

Anita Schroven is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She has researched state identities in West Africa, along with practices of humanitarian intervention, science and knowledge production in the context of political and medical crises. She has held fellowships with the Pasteur Institute, France, and UNICAMP, Brazil.