Everyday state and democracy in Africa : ethnographic encounters / edited by Wale Adebanwi ; foreword by Jean and John L. Comaroff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adebanwi, Wale, editor.

Comaroff, Jean, writer of foreword.

Comaroff, John L., 1945- writer of foreword.

Series:

Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.

Cambridge Centre of African Studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Politics and government.

Africa.

Public administration--Social aspects--Africa.

Public administration.

Bureaucracy--Social aspects--Africa.

Bureaucracy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (451 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Through ethnographic case studies of Africans' quotidian encounters with state bureaucracy, infrastructure, discipline, citizenship, democracy, political economy, education, and health, this book demonstrates how the state not only enables but also constrains and complicates ordinary Africans' daily struggles to live and live well"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Jean and John L. Comaroff

Introduction: The Everyday State and Democracy in Africa / Wale Adebanwi

ID-Cards and Social Class: The Intensification of the Bifurcated State in South Sudan / Ferenc Dávid Markó

Paper Games: Consularity and Ersatz Lives in Urban Lagos / Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare

Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at a Refugee Camp in Kenya / Fred Nyongesa Ikanda

Inside the Anti-Politics Machine: Civil Society Mediation of Everyday Encounters with the State / E. Fouksman

Lateral Futurity: The Nigerian State as Infrastructural Enigma / Eric Trovalla and Ulrika Trovalla

Gazomania! Shortage and the State in Chad / Lori Leonard

Politics of Patience: Acceptance, Agency and Compliance in Rwanda / Rose Lovgren

The State as Golem: Police Violence in Democratic South Africa / Nicholas Rush Smith

Encountering the State in Times of Terror: The Case of the Civilian Joint Task Force / Daniel E. Agbiboa

Fishing Nets, Kabila's Eyes and Voter's Cards: Citizen-State Mediations in the DRC / Katrien Pype

Encountering Cameroon's Garrison State: Checkpoints, Expectations of Democracy, and the Anglophone Revolt / Rogers Orock

Disputing Democracy and Challenging the State in Mozambique / Justin Pearce

The Intimate State: Ethiopian Civics Teachers as the Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution / Jennifer Riggan

The State and 'Its responsibilities': School, Welfare State and Community Building in Lubumbashi (Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo) / Edoardo Quaretta

Fragile Relationships: Elusive encounters with public services in rural Burkina Faso / Helle Samuelsen

Afterword: Postcolonial Powerscapes / Victoria Bernal.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Adebanwi, Wale Everyday State and Democracy in Africa

ISBN:

9780821447796

OCLC:

1280407710