Challenging Authorities
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Challenging Authorities
Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Eastern and Southern Africa
Klocke-Daffa, Sabine; Steinforth, Arne S.
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
09/2022
459
Mole
Inglês
9783030769260
15 a 20 dias
627
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1. Introduction: Investigating Authority and Its Legitimization in Contemporary Africa.- Part 1. Power and the (Post)Colonial State. 2. Whose State? Whose Nation? Representations of the History of the Arab Slave Trade and Nation-Building in Tanzania.- 3. Between Ethnicity and Medicine: Reinventing Legitimacy in Chokwe and Sukuma Chieftaincies.- Part 2. Contested Authorities and State Power.- 4. By What Authority? Cosmology, Legitimacy, and the Sources of Power in Malawi.- 5. Bittamo: The Duties of Authority in Kara, Southern Ethiopia.- 6. In Search of Democracy: gadaa as a Political Idea - Or, the Legitimacy of Traditional Authority in Times of Turmoil and Unease.- 7. Contested Authorities, External Experts and the Quest for Social Justice: Negotiating Basic Income Grants in an African Setting.-8. Challenging Neotraditional Authority in Namibia.- Part 3. Power and Authority over Space.- 9. Changes in Ethnicity and Land Rights among the !Xun of North-central Namibia.- 10. San Traditional Authorities, Communal Conservancies, Conflicts, and Leadership in Namibia.- 11. Sacred Spaces, Legal Claims: Competing Claims for Legitimate Knowledge and Authority over the Use of Land in Nharira Hills, Zimbabwe.- Part 4. Conflict, (In)Justice, and Plural Legitimacies.- 12. Magic Momentum: Negotiating Authority in the Bongolava Region, Madagascar.- 13. Ungoverned Spaces and Informalisation of Violence: The Case of Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) in Baragoi.- 14. Who Calls the Tune? Submission, Evasion and Contesting Authorities in Ethiopian Refugee Camps.- Part 5. Secret Authority and the State.- 15. Secrecy and Visibility: Challenging Verwoerdism in South Africa's 20th Century.- 16. Legitimizing the Illegitimate: How Ethnologists Fashioned Namibia.
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Africa;neo-traditional authorities;hidden dimensions of political authority;political authority;socio-cosmological sources of power;vigilantism;secret society in Apartheid South Africa;Apartheid;post-colonialism;ethnography;political ethnography;African politics
1. Introduction: Investigating Authority and Its Legitimization in Contemporary Africa.- Part 1. Power and the (Post)Colonial State. 2. Whose State? Whose Nation? Representations of the History of the Arab Slave Trade and Nation-Building in Tanzania.- 3. Between Ethnicity and Medicine: Reinventing Legitimacy in Chokwe and Sukuma Chieftaincies.- Part 2. Contested Authorities and State Power.- 4. By What Authority? Cosmology, Legitimacy, and the Sources of Power in Malawi.- 5. Bittamo: The Duties of Authority in Kara, Southern Ethiopia.- 6. In Search of Democracy: gadaa as a Political Idea - Or, the Legitimacy of Traditional Authority in Times of Turmoil and Unease.- 7. Contested Authorities, External Experts and the Quest for Social Justice: Negotiating Basic Income Grants in an African Setting.-8. Challenging Neotraditional Authority in Namibia.- Part 3. Power and Authority over Space.- 9. Changes in Ethnicity and Land Rights among the !Xun of North-central Namibia.- 10. San Traditional Authorities, Communal Conservancies, Conflicts, and Leadership in Namibia.- 11. Sacred Spaces, Legal Claims: Competing Claims for Legitimate Knowledge and Authority over the Use of Land in Nharira Hills, Zimbabwe.- Part 4. Conflict, (In)Justice, and Plural Legitimacies.- 12. Magic Momentum: Negotiating Authority in the Bongolava Region, Madagascar.- 13. Ungoverned Spaces and Informalisation of Violence: The Case of Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) in Baragoi.- 14. Who Calls the Tune? Submission, Evasion and Contesting Authorities in Ethiopian Refugee Camps.- Part 5. Secret Authority and the State.- 15. Secrecy and Visibility: Challenging Verwoerdism in South Africa's 20th Century.- 16. Legitimizing the Illegitimate: How Ethnologists Fashioned Namibia.
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