Amy Niang

Gebundenes Buch

Postcolonial African State in Transition

Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty

Beschreibung

Through a detailed historical investigation of the Voltaic region, the book theorizes the state in transition as the constitutive condition of the African state, rendering centralization processes as always transient, uncertain, even dangerous endeavors.

Autor

Amy Niang is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research is informed by a broad interest in the history of state formation and related processes. She also investigates substantive questions around theory-formation, representation and knowledge-making in/on the non-West particularly in reference to "Africa" as a moral, material, and political field of enquiry. Her work has been published in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Politics; Afrique Contemporaine; African Economic History, African Studies and in a number of edited books. She has held visiting positions at the Universities of Michigan, Princeton, Halle-Wittenberg, and the West African Research Centre in Senegal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781786606525
• ISBN-10: 1786606526
• Artikelnr.: 52642362