Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania
Subtitle: Freedom, Democracy, and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781107088177
Subjects: Political participation; Democracy; Tanzania, social conditions
Description: "Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics in the era of decolonization in Africa. Decolonization is often understood as a moment when Western forms of political order were imposed on non-Western societies, but this book draws attention instead to debates over universal questions about the nature of politics, concept of freedom and the meaning of citizenship. These debates generated political narratives that were formed in dialogue with both global discourses and local political arguments. The United Nations Trusteeship Territory of Tanganyika, now mainland Tanzania, serves as a compelling example of these processes. Starting in 1945 and culminating with the Arusha Declaration of 1967, Emma Hunter explores political argument in Tanzania's public sphere to show how political narratives succeeded when they managed to combine promises of freedom with new forms of belonging at local and national level"--