Challenging Authorities Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Eastern and Southern Africa
The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities an...
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Investigating Authority and Its Legitimization in Contemporary Africa
- Part 1. Power and the (Post)Colonial State. 2. Whose State? Whose Nation? Representations of the History of the Arab Slave Trade and Nation-Building in Tanzania
- 3. Between Ethnicity and Medicine: Reinventing Legitimacy in Chokwe and Sukuma Chieftaincies
- Part 2. Contested Authorities and State Power
- 4. By What Authority? Cosmology, Legitimacy, and the Sources of Power in Malawi
- 5. Bittamo: The Duties of Authority in Kara, Southern Ethiopia
- 6. In Search of Democracy: gadaa as a Political Idea – Or, the Legitimacy of Traditional Authority in Times of Turmoil and Unease
- 7. Contested Authorities, External Experts and the Quest for Social Justice: Negotiating Basic Income Grants in an African Setting.-8. Challenging Neotraditional Authority in Namibia
- Part 3. Power and Authority over Space
- 9. Changes in Ethnicity and Land Rights among the !Xun of North-central Namibia
- 10. San Traditional Authorities, Communal Conservancies, Conflicts, and Leadership in Namibia
- 11. Sacred Spaces, Legal Claims: Competing Claims for Legitimate Knowledge and Authority over the Use of Land in Nharira Hills, Zimbabwe
- Part 4. Conflict, (In)Justice, and Plural Legitimacies
- 12. Magic Momentum: Negotiating Authority in the Bongolava Region, Madagascar
- 13. Ungoverned Spaces and Informalisation of Violence: The Case of Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) in Baragoi
- 14. Who Calls the Tune? Submission, Evasion and Contesting Authorities in Ethiopian Refugee Camps
- Part 5. Secret Authority and the State
- 15. Secrecy and Visibility: Challenging Verwoerdism in South Africa’s 20th Century
- 16. Legitimizing the Illegitimate: How Ethnologists Fashioned Namibia