Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa
Subtitle: Dialogues between Past and Present
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: Sep 15, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780821422564
Description: Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience. Yet studies of citizenship in Africa have often tended to foreshorten historical time and privilege the present at the expense of the deeper past. Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa provides a critical reflection on citizenship in Africa by bringing together scholars working with very different case studies and with very different understandings of what is meant by citizenship. By bringing historians and social scientists into dialogue within the same volume, it argues that a revised reading of the past can offer powerful new perspectives on the present, in ways that might also indicate new paths for the future. In so doing, contributors engage in thoughtful ways with the watershed book in the field, Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject.
Notes: Source title: Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa: Dialogues between Past and Present (Cambridge Centre of African Studies)