State failure in sub-Saharan Africa : the crisis of post-colonial order /

How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Colección:International library of African studies ; v. 55.
Temas:
1900-1999
Decolonization > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Failed states > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > 20th century.
Décolonisation > Afrique subsaharienne.
États défaillants > Afrique subsaharienne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Decolonization
Failed states
Politics and government
Africa, Sub-Saharan > History.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Politics and government.
Afrique subsaharienne > Histoire.
Afrique subsaharienne > Politique et gouvernement.
Sub-Saharan Africa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Genealogies of state failure
  • A new world in the mourning
  • Bringing history back in
  • Analytically inducting state failure(s) in Africa
  • Part 1. The failings of the failed state 'thesis'
  • Introduction
  • An elusive concept
  • Failure and collapse: siblings or synonyms
  • What's in a name?
  • Square pegs into round holes
  • Whither the failed state?
  • Conclusion
  • Part 2. The state and its failure in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Introduction
  • The weak basis of quasi-statehood
  • Cold War adventurism and its end
  • Sins of omission and commission
  • The violent creation of (a new) order
  • Conclusion
  • Part 3. Burundi: the freezing of a failed kingdom
  • Introduction
  • Tales of the Barundi and their kingdom
  • The scramble for the 'sick man' of Africa
  • Belgian Gerrymandering and the fight for the Burundi state
  • The anti-revolutionist state
  • The shadow of genocide
  • A new Burundi or the shadow recast
  • Conclusion
  • Part 4. Uganda: a foundational failure and post-colonial revival
  • Introduction
  • From Buganda to Uganda
  • Colonial contradiction and the (non- )making of Uganda
  • The unravelling of the post-colony
  • The post-colony brutalised
  • 'It was better under Amin'
  • 'Fundamental change' or 'no change'
  • Conclusion
  • Concluding reflections
  • Myths of state failure
  • Histories of state failure
  • New beginnings and alternative futures.

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