Citizen and subject : contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism /
In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and eth...
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| Materyal Türü: | Licensed eBooks |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2018.
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| Seri Bilgileri: | Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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| Online Erişim: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77c7w |
İçindekiler:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Thinking through Africa's Impasse
- The structure of power
- Decentralized Despotism
- Indirect Rule: the Politics of Decentralized Despotism
- Customary law: the Theory of Decentralized Despotism
- The Native Authority and the Free Peasantry
- The anatomy of resistance
- The Other Face of Tribalism: Peasant Movements in Equatorial Africa
- The Rural in the Urban: Migrant Workers in South Africa
- Conclusion: Linking the Urban and the Rural
- Notes
- Index.