Researching Power and Identity in African State Formation

ISBN-13: 9781868886579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 544 str.

M.R. Doornbos;W.M.J. Van Binsbergen

Spis treści

• PART I - INCORPORATION AND POLITICAL PENETRATION
• Part Introduction
• 1. ‘Big-man’ and his big brother: Some notes on incorporation by Martin Doornbos
• 2. The post-colonial state, ‘state penetration’ and the Nkoya experience in Western Central Zambia by Wim van Binsbergen
• 3. Recurring penetration strategies in East Africa by Martin Doornbos
• 4. Aspects of modern state penetration in Africa by Wim van Binsbergen
• PART II - ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY: WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
• Part introduction
• 5. Some conceptual problems concerning ethnicity in integration analysis by Martin Doornbos
• 6. From tribe to ethnicity in Western Zambia: The unit of study as an ideological problem by Wim van Binsbergen
• 7. Kumanyana and Rwenzururu: Two responses to ethnic inequality in Uganda by Martin Doornbos
• 8. The Kazanga festival: Ethnicity as cultural mediation and transformation in Western Central Zambia by Wim van Binsbergen
• 9. Rwenzururu protest songs by Martin Doornbos and Peter Cooke
• 10. Nkoya royal chiefs and the Kazanga cultural association in Western Central Zambia today: Resilience, decline, or folklorisation? by Wim van Binsbergen
• 11. The Ankole kingship question: Stalemate and Implications by Martin Doornbos
• PART III - RELIGION AND STATE: AMBIGUOUS RELATIONSHIPS
• Part introduction
• 12. Fortunes and failures in state formation: Contrasting the jihads of Usman dan Fodio and Mohammed Abdulle Hassan by Martin Doornbos
• 13. Religious innovation and political conflict in Zambia: The Lumpa rising by Wim van Binsbergen
• 14. Church and state in Eastern Africa: Some unresolved questions Martin Doornbos
• 15. African Independent churches and the state in Botswana Wim van Binsbergen
• PART IV CONSTRUCTING NATIONAL POLITICS
• Introduction to Part IV
• 16. Form and ideology in first-generation constitutional preambles: Some francophone African examples Martin Doornbos, Wim van Binsbergen & Gerti Hesseling
• 17. Aspects of democracy and democratisation in Zambia and Botswana: Exploring African political culture at the grassroots Wim van Binsbergen
• 18. Enquiring into African statehood, conflict and legitimacy, with particular reference to Somalia and Uganda Martin Doornbos
• PART V CONCLUSION
• 19. Conclusion Wim van Binsbergen & Martin Doornbos
• Notes
• Cumulative bibliography
• Index