State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa

A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities?
2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-60033-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Governance, Security and Development

Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buur, L.

Kyed, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; L.Buur  & H.M.Kyed Introdution: Traditional Authority and Democratization in Africa; H.M.Kyed  & L.Buur PART I: TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES AND DECENTRALIZED GOVERNANCE Bringing the Sultan Back In: Elders as Peacemakers in Ethiopia's Somali Region; T.Hagmann The Ambivalent Role of Chiefs: Rural Decentralization Initiatives in Malawi; A.L.Chiweza Chiefs, Policing, and Vigilantes: "Cleaning Up" the Caprivi Borderland of Namibia; W.Zeller The Legible Space between State and Community: State Recognition of Traditional Authority in Mozambique; L.Buur  & H.M.Kyed PART II: TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES AND STATE AND PARTY POLITICS Traditional Chieftaincy, Party Politics and Political Violence in Burkina Faso; S.Hagberg From Pastoral to State Politics: Traditional Authorities in Northern Somalia; M.Höhne Traditional Authority: Accountability and Governance in Zimbabwe; E.Mapedza "Now We Are a Town": Chiefs, Investors and the State in Zambia's Western Province; W.Zeller

Über Autor(innen)

LARS BUUR (PhD) is a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and a Research Associate of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg, South Africa, with long-term field research experience in South Africa and Mozambique. His current research focuses on traditional leaders and the politics of decentralization and governance in Mozambique. His major publications to date are (as co-editor) (2004); the anthologies (2007); and (2007). He has published several articles in , (Royal Danish Ethnographic Society), , , and , as well as numerous peer-reviewed book articles on human rights, truth and reconciliation, vigilantism, traditional authority and sovereignty.
 
HELENE MARIA KYED is a PhD candidate at Roskilde University and the Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark, with an MA honors in Social Anthropology from Aarhus University. Her master's thesis dealt with decentralization and local politics in Zimbabwe. At the moment, she is completing her PhDthesis on , based on fourteen months of fieldwork in Manica Province. She has co-edited an anthology, , to be published in 2007. She has published articles in and the , as well as peer-reviewed chapters in and on the topics of traditional authority and local forms of justice enforcement and policing.