| Description |
1 online resource (451 p.) |
| Series |
Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series |
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Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Experiencing the Bureaucratic Machine -- 1: ID Cards and Social Class -- 2: Paper Games -- 3: Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at a Refugee Camp in Kenya -- 4: Inside the Anti-Politics Machine -- PART TWO: (Un)Making Lives -- 5: Lateral Futurity -- 6: Gazomania! -- PART THREE: Disciplinarity, Subjectivity, and Violence -- 7: Politics of Patience -- 8:The State as Golem -- 9: Encountering the State in Times of Terror -- PART FOUR: The Social Life of Democracy -- 10: Fishing Nets, Kabila's Eyes, and Voter's Cards |
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11: Encountering Cameroon's Garrison State -- 12: Disputing Democracy and Challenging the State in Mozambique -- PART FIVE:Everyday Politics of Rights and Responsibility -- 13: The Intimate State -- 14: The State and "Its Responsibilities" -- 15: Fragile Relationships -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Politics and government
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780821447796 |
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0821447793 |
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