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Dealing with government in South Sudan : histories of chiefship, community & state /
"South Sudan became Africa's newest nation in 2011, following decades of armed conflict. Chiefs--or 'traditional authorities'--became a particular focus of attention during the international relief effort and post-war reconstruction and state-building. But 'traditional'...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk :
James Currey,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Eastern African studies (London, England)
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Part 1. From zariba to merkaz : the creation of the nodal state frontier, c. 1840-1920. Frontier societies and the political economy of knowledge in the nineteenth century
- Colonial frontiers and the emergence of government chiefs, c. 1900-1920
- Part 2. From makama to mejlis : the making of chiefship and the local state, 1920s-1950s. Constituting the urban frontier : chiefship and the colonial labour economy, 1920s-1940s
- Claiming rights and guarantees : chiefs' courts and state justice, c. 1900-1956
- Containing the frontier : the tensions of territorial chiefdoms, 1930s-1950s
- Uncertainty on the urban frontier : chiefs and the politics of Sudanese independence, 1946-1958
- Part 3. From malakiya to medina : the fluctuating expansion of the urban frontier, c. 1956-2010. Trading knowledge : chiefship, local elites and the urban frontier, c. 1956-2010
- Regulating depredation : chiefs and the military, 1963-2005
- Reprising 'tradition' : the mutual production of community and state in the twenty-first century
- Knowing the system : judicial pluralism and discursive legalism in the interim period, 2005-2010
- Conclusion.