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portada The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
244
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781786606525
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The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions)

Amy Niang (Author) · Rowman & Littlefield International · Hardcover

The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions) - Amy Niang

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Synopsis "The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions)"

The Postcolonial African State in Transition offers a new perspective on a set of fundamental, albeit old questions with salient contemporary resonance: what is the nature of the postcolonial state? How did it come about? And more crucially, the book poses an often neglected question: what was the postcolonial African state internally built against? Through a detailed historical investigation of the Voltaic region, the book theorizes the state in transition as the constitutive condition of the African state, rendering centralization processes as always transient, uncertain, even dangerous endeavors. In Africa and elsewhere in the colonial and postcolonial world, the centralized sovereign state has become something of a meta-model that bears the imprint of necessity and determinism. This book argues that there is nothing natural, linear, conventional or intrinsically consensual about the centralized state form. In fact, the African state emerged, and was erected against, and at the expense of a variety of authority structures and forms of self-governance. The state has sustained itself through destructive practices, internal colonization, and in fact the production and alienation of a range of internal others.

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