Making nations, creating strangers [[electronic resource] ] : states and citizenship in Africa / / edited by Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett, Paul Nugent

• Pubblicazione: Leiden, : Brill, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Disciplina: 960
• Soggetto topico: Citizenship - Africa; Nation-state
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Politics and government 1960-; Africa Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DormanSara Rich HammettDaniel Patrick NugentPaul <1962->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Citizenship, nation and Africa -- pt. 2. Inclusion, exclusion and conflict -- pt. 3. Land and belonging -- pt. 4. Nations building boundaries -- pt. 5. Present, past and future of citizenship in Africa.
• Sommario/riassunto: Who belongs to the nation? How is citizenship defined? And why have such identities become so politically explosive in recent years? This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract recent political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa. Conflicts which have arisen over the resources of the post-colonial state are increasingly legitimated through recourse to claims of nationhood and citizenship. The contributors address the historical roots of national and ethnic identities, the material and symbolic resources which are contested within states, and the relative importance of elite manipulation and subaltern agency.
• Titolo autorizzato: Making nations, creating strangers
• ISBN: 1-281-92631-0; 9786611926311; 90-474-2007-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454086503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African social studies series ; ; v. 16.