03903nam 2200541 450 991081825030332120230605052309.09780821447796(electronic bk.)9780821424902(MiAaPQ)EBC7017233(Au-PeEL)EBL7017233(CKB)23842956500041(OCoLC)1280407710(MdBmJHUP)musev2_112283(EXLCZ)992384295650004120230124d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEveryday state and democracy in Africa ethnographic encounters /edited by Wale Adebanwi ; foreword by Jean and John L. Comaroff1st ed.Athens, Ohio :Ohio University Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (451 pages)Cambridge Centre of African Studies seriesIncludes index.Print version: Adebanwi, Wale Everyday State and Democracy in Africa Athens, OH : Ohio University Press,c2022 9780821424902 Foreword / Jean and John L. Comaroff -- Introduction: The Everyday State and Democracy in Africa / Wale Adebanwi -- ID-Cards and Social Class: The Intensification of the Bifurcated State in South Sudan / Ferenc Dávid Markó -- Paper Games: Consularity and Ersatz Lives in Urban Lagos / Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare -- Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at a Refugee Camp in Kenya / Fred Nyongesa Ikanda -- Inside the Anti-Politics Machine: Civil Society Mediation of Everyday Encounters with the State / E. Fouksman -- Lateral Futurity: The Nigerian State as Infrastructural Enigma / Eric Trovalla and Ulrika Trovalla -- Gazomania! Shortage and the State in Chad / Lori Leonard -- Politics of Patience: Acceptance, Agency and Compliance in Rwanda / Rose Lovgren -- The State as Golem: Police Violence in Democratic South Africa / Nicholas Rush Smith -- Encountering the State in Times of Terror: The Case of the Civilian Joint Task Force / Daniel E. Agbiboa -- Fishing Nets, Kabila's Eyes and Voter's Cards: Citizen-State Mediations in the DRC / Katrien Pype -- Encountering Cameroon's Garrison State: Checkpoints, Expectations of Democracy, and the Anglophone Revolt / Rogers Orock -- Disputing Democracy and Challenging the State in Mozambique / Justin Pearce -- The Intimate State: Ethiopian Civics Teachers as the Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution / Jennifer Riggan -- The State and 'Its responsibilities': School, Welfare State and Community Building in Lubumbashi (Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo) / Edoardo Quaretta -- Fragile Relationships: Elusive encounters with public services in rural Burkina Faso / Helle Samuelsen -- Afterword: Postcolonial Powerscapes / Victoria Bernal."Through ethnographic case studies of Africans' quotidian encounters with state bureaucracy, infrastructure, discipline, citizenship, democracy, political economy, education, and health, this book demonstrates how the state not only enables but also constrains and complicates ordinary Africans' daily struggles to live and live well"--Provided by publisher.Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.Public administrationSocial aspectsAfricaBureaucracySocial aspectsAfricaAfricaPolitics and governmentElectronic books. Public administrationSocial aspectsBureaucracySocial aspects320.96Adebanwi WaleComaroff JeanComaroff John L.1945-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910818250303321Everyday state and democracy in Africa3969766UNINA