Beside the state
Subtitle: emergent powers in contemporary Africa
By: Alice Bellagamba and Georg Klute (eds.).
Series: Topics in African studies -- v. 10; Topics in African studies -- v. 10.
Publisher: R. Köppe
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783896452542
Subjects: Congresses; Politics and government; Political leadership; Political culture; Aufsatzsammlung; Politische Stabilität; Internationale Kooperation; Häuptling; Bürgerliche Gesellschaft; Staat
Notes: In part, papers presented at an international workshop held at the University of Milan-Bicocca in December 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-231).
Table of contents: title: Tracing emergent powers in contemporary Africa / Alice Bellagamba and Georg Klute; title: Violence and its mediations : civil society, community conflict, and the state in East Africa / John G. Galaty; title: No representation without redistribution : Somaliland plural authorities, the search for a state, and the 2005 parliamentary elections / Luca Ciabarri; title: New forms of political order in Northe Kivu (DRC) : the case of the governor Eugene Serufuli / Luca Jourdan; title: The impossibility of civil organizations in post-war Chad / Mirjam de Bruijn; title: On the virtue of margins : a story of conflict between government and Muslim leadership in post-1994 Gambia / Alice Bellagamba; title: Border anomalies : the role of local actors in shaping spaces along the Senegal-Gambia and Ghana-Togo borders / Paul Nugent; title: "He who sets the boundary" : chieftancy as a 'necessary" institution in modern Ghana / Pierluigi Valsecchi; title: 'Traditional' leaders formalization in post-war Mozambique : exploring the ambiguous space between state and non-state domains / Helene Maria Kyed; title: Rethinking chiefdoms / Peter Skalnik; title: Beside the state / Stephen Ellis.