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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792126503321

Titolo

Encountering the Nigerian State [[electronic resource] /] / edited by W. Adebanwi, E. Obadare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-91538-X

9786612915383

0-230-10963-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Africa Connects

Disciplina

966.905/4

Soggetti

Africa - Politics and government

Anthropology

Ethnology - Africa

Culture

Sociology

Political science

Africa - History

African Politics

African Culture

Political Science

African History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Thisvolume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa.It analyzes how various agents within the Nigerian society'encounter' the state - ranging from the most routine form of contact to thespectacular. While many recent collections have reheated the old paradigms - of the perils of federalism; corruption; ethnicity etc, our focus here is on encounter , that is, the nuance and complexity of how the state shapes society and vice-versa.Through this, wedepart from the standard state versus



society approach that proves so limiting in explaining the African political landscape.