In part, papers presented at an international workshop held at the University of Milan-Bicocca in December 2005. Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-231).
Contents:
Tracing emergent powers in contemporary Africa / Alice Bellagamba and Georg Klute -- Violence and its mediations : civil society, community conflict, and the state in East Africa / John G. Galaty -- No representation without redistribution : Somaliland plural authorities, the search for a state, and the 2005 parliamentary elections / Luca Ciabarri -- New forms of political order in Northe Kivu (DRC) : the case of the governor Eugene Serufuli / Luca Jourdan -- The impossibility of civil organizations in post-war Chad / Mirjam de Bruijn -- On the virtue of margins : a story of conflict between government and Muslim leadership in post-1994 Gambia / Alice Bellagamba -- Border anomalies : the role of local actors in shaping spaces along the Senegal-Gambia and Ghana-Togo borders / Paul Nugent -- "He who sets the boundary" : chieftancy as a 'necessary" institution in modern Ghana / Pierluigi Valsecchi -- 'Traditional' leaders formalization in post-war Mozambique : exploring the ambiguous space between state and non-state domains / Helene Maria Kyed -- Rethinking chiefdoms / Peter Skalnik -- Beside the state / Stephen Ellis.
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