Critical perspectives on African politics : liberal interventions, state-building and civil society / edited by Clive Gabay and Carl Death.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabay, Clive, editor.

Death, Carl, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies on African politics and international relations ; 5.

Routledge studies on African politics and international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation-building--Africa--Congresses.

Nation-building.

Democratization--Africa--Congresses.

Democratization.

Civil society--Africa--Congresses.

Civil society.

Politics and government.

Africa--Politics and government--Congresses.

Africa.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 185 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction: Critical perspectives on liberal interventions and governmentality in Africa / Clive Gabay and Carl Death

Engineering civil society in Africa / David Williams and Tom Young

Governing rural poverty and development in postcolonial Zimbabwe : insights from Foucault's governmentality approach / Kudzai Matereke

Legitimacy and governmentality in Tanzania : environmental mainstreaming in the developing world / Carl Death

Business and the uses of "civil society" : governing Congolese mining areas / Jana Hönke

Connecting state, citizen and society : the externalised context of community groups in Zambia / Karen Treasure

Informality and the spaces of civil society in post-apartheid Johannesburg / Alex Wafer

Citizenship, contested belonging and "civil society" as vernacular architecture / Morten Bøås

Escaping statebuilding : resistance and civil society in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Marta Iñiguez de Heredia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415818249

9780415818247

131577500X

9781315775005

OCLC:

872704917

Publisher Number:

99961456852