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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書目詳細資料
主要作者: Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2018.
叢編:Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77c7w
書本目錄:
  • 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.