Competing Norms: State Regulations and Local Praxis in Sub-Saharan Africa Volume 19

ISBN-13: 9783593506531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 271 str.

Mamadou Diawara; Ute Roschenthaler

Opis

States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on the extent to which the public has become involved in policy making and whether the state regulations that have been produced have proven publicly beneficial. Offering a new anthropological perspective, Competing Norms fills that gap by exploring how people in sub-Saharan Africa view new regulations in the light of preexisting local norms with which new regulations often compete. A collection of international, interdisciplinary contributors discusses the competing local, state, and international norms as they have evolved over time, unfolding the intricate ambivalences and contradictions that often characterize state regulations.

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Contents

Preface 7

Introduction: What do people do when states are working? 9

Mamadou Diawara and Ute Röschenthaler

Part I: Markets, governance, and resources

Pastoralism in the Office du Niger: Norms and praxis in natural resource management 25

Boureima Touré

Governanance and management of public health in Bamako: The operational challenges that result when nobody is fully in charge 51

Mamadou Diarra

Regulation of information and transparency in the grain market in Mali 73

Issa Fofana

Part II: Land, environment, and resettlement

A clash of norms: Land rights in Navrongo, Upper East Region of Ghana 99

Patricia Awiah

The doubtful business of extracting gold: Challenges of environmental law in Mali's mining sector 121

Mbaye Bathé

People facing resettlement in Ekondo Kondo, Cameroon 145

Kerstin Schopp

Responsible practices with irresponsible effects: Mining and involuntary resettlement in Kwale, Kenya 167

Andreas Jacobs

Part III: Media, society, and politics

The proliferation of newspapers in Mali: Successful pluralism or mismanaged regulation? 191

Bakary Doumbia

The duty to inform: Malian radio hosts between state control, social constraints, and gender roles 213

Anneliese Sozanski

Weddings without couples: Moghamo migrants in the United States and their families' marital strategies in Cameroon 239

Isaiah Afu

About the authors 265

Index 267

O autorze

Mamadou Diawara ist Professor für die Ethnologie Afrikas an der Universität Frankfurt am Main. Ute Röschenthaler ist Professorin am Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Universität Mainz.