Everyday State and Democracy in Africa

Contents

Foreword (JEAN AND JOHN L. COMAROFF)

Preface

Introduction. The Everyday State and Democracy in Africa (WALE ADEBANWI)

PART I: EXPERIENCING THE BUREAUCRATIC MACHINE

1. ID Cards and Social Class: The Intensification of the Bifurcated State in South Sudan (FERENC DAVID MARKO)

2. Paper Games: Consularity and Ersatz Lives in Urban Lagos (WALE ADEBANWI AND EBENEZER OBADARE)

3. Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at a Refugee Camp in Kenya (FRED NYONGESA IKANDA)

4. Inside the Anti-Politics Machine: Civil Society Mediation of Everyday Encounters with the State (E. FOUKSMAN)

PART II: (UN)MAKING LIVES: THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND SHORTAGES

5. Lateral Futurity: The Nigerian State as Infrastructural Enigma (ERIC TROVALLA AND ULRIKA TROVALLA)

6. Gazomania!: Shortage and the State in Chad (LORI LEONARD)

PART III: DISCIPLINARITY, SUBJECTIVITY, AND VIOLENCE

7. Politics of Patience: Acceptance, Agency, and Compliance in Rwanda (ROSE LOVGREN)

8. The State as Golem: Police Violence in Democratic South Africa (NICHOLAS RUSH SMITH)

9. Encountering the State in Times of Terror: The Case of the Civilian Joint Task Force (DANIEL E. AGBIBOA)

PART IV: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF DEMOCRACY

10. Fishing Nets, Kabila's Eyes, and Voter's Cards: Citizen-State Mediations in the DRC (KATRIEN PYPE)

11. Encountering Cameroon's Garrison State: Checkpoints, Expectations of Democracy, and the Anglophone Revolt (ROGERS OROCK)

12. Disputing Democracy and Challenging the State in Mozambique (JUSTIN PEARCE)

PART V: EVERYDAY POLITICS OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY: EDUCATION, WELFARE, AND HEALTH

13. The Intimate State: Ethiopian Civics Teachers as the Fault Line between Repression and Revolution (JENNIFER RIGGAN)

14. The State and "Its Responsibilities": School, Welfare State, and Community Building in Lubumbashi (Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo) (EDOARDO QUARETTA)

15. Fragile Relationships: Elusive Encounters with Public Services in Rural Burkina Faso (HELLE SAMUELSEN)

Afterword. Postcolonial Powerscapes (VICTORIA BERNAL)

Contributors

Index

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political economy; citizenship; civics; subjectivity; bureaucracy; disciplinarity; infrastructure; education; public health; welfare; documentality