Postcolonial African State in Transition - Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty

Through a detailed historical investigation of the Voltaic region, the book theorizes the state in transition as the constitutive condition of the African state, rendering centralization processes as always transient, uncertain, even dangerous endeavors.

List of contents

Political History as State Ideology / 2. The Trail of the Horse: Stateness, Statelessness and the Ethics of State Inhibition / 3. The Time/Space Dynamics of the Constitution of the Political / 4. Statization and Centralizing Processes in 18th Century Moogo / 5. Rituals as Political References / 6. The State in Transition: A Recapitulation

About the author

Amy Niang is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research is informed by a broad interest in the history of state formation and related processes. She also investigates substantive questions around theory-formation, representation and knowledge-making in/on the non-West particularly in reference to "Africa" as a moral, material, and political field of enquiry. Her work has been published in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Politics; Afrique Contemporaine; African Economic History, African Studies and in a number of edited books. She has held visiting positions at the Universities of Michigan, Princeton, Halle-Wittenberg, and the West African Research Centre in Senegal.

Summary

Through a detailed historical investigation of the Voltaic region, the book theorizes the state in transition as the constitutive condition of the African state, rendering centralization processes as always transient, uncertain, even dangerous endeavors.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Niang
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781786606525
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-652-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions; Kilombo: International Relatio; KILOMBO INTERNATIONAL RELATION; Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions; Kilombo: International Relatio
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, International Relations, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Politics and government, Political science and theory