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Title: | Special issue: territorialising identity, authority and conflict in Africa |
Editor: | Sjögren, Anders |
Year: | 2015 |
Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies (ISSN 1469-9397) |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 405-518 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Abingdon |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis |
Geographic terms: | Africa Congo (Democratic Republic of) Namibia Nigeria South Sudan Uganda |
Subjects: | territorial claims boundaries identity authority conflict land tenure |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjca20/33/2 |
Abstract: | This special issue of the 'Journal of Contemporary African Studies' addresses the dynamics of territory, identity and authority. Contributions: Land tenure regimes and state structure in rural Africa: implications for forms of resistance to large-scale land acquisitions by outsiders (Catherine Boone); Armed mobilisation and the nexus of territory, identity, and authority: the contested territorial aspirations of the Banyamulenge in eastern DR Congo (Judith Verweijen, Koen Vlassenroot); Conservation on contested lands: the case of Namibia's communal conservancies (Eduard Gargallo); Religion, ethnicity and citizenship: demands for territorial self-determination in southern Kaduna, Nigeria (Henrik Angerbrandt); Making borders and identities in South Sudan (Ole Frahm); Battles over boundaries: the politics of territory, identity and authority in three Ugandan regions (Anders Sjögren). [ASC Leiden abstract] |