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Title:Making nations, creating strangers: states and citizenship in Africa
Editors:Dorman, SaraISNI
Hammett, DanielISNI
Year:2007
Issue:16
Pages:277
Language:English
Series:African Social Studies Series (ISSN 1568-1203)
City of publisher:Leiden
Publisher:Brill
ISBN:9789004157903
Geographic terms:Africa
Cameroon
Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire
Congo (Democratic Republic of)
South Africa
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
Subjects:citizenship
national identity
conference papers (form)
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Abstract:The papers in this collective volume were presented at a conference on States, borders and nations; negotiating citizenship in Africa, held at the University of Edinburgh in May 2004. The book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and the narrowing definitions of national belonging which refract political struggles in a number of African countries. It addresses 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. An introductory chapter on citizenship and its casualties in Africa by Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent is followed by four parts: 1. Inclusion, exclusion and conflict (papers by Ruth Marshall-Fratani on the Ivorian crisis and Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja on the politics of citizenship in the Democratic Republic of Congo); 2. Land and belonging (papers by Sam Hickey on citizenship and the marginality of the Mbororo Fulani in Cameroon, Blair Rutherford on citizenship and farm workers in the new politics of land in Zimbabwe, and Deborah James on property and citizenship in South African land reform); 3. Nations building boundaries (papers by Nico Fru Awasom on language and citizenship in anglophone Cameroon, Ned Bertz on race and nationalism in Tanzanian schools, and Brian Raftopoulos on nation, race and history in Zimbabwean politics); 4. Present, past and future of citizenship in Africa (papers by Neville Alexander on the state of nationbuilding in South Africa, Will Reno on African rebels and the citizenship question, and Crawford Young on dilemmas of nation, ethnicity and citizenship in Africa). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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