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Making Nations, Creating Strangers : States and Citizenship in Africa.
Title:
Making Nations, Creating Strangers : States and Citizenship in Africa.
Author:
Dorman, Sara.
ISBN:
9789047420071
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (294 pages)
Series:
African Social Studies Series ; v.16

African Social Studies Series
Contents:
Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- PART ONE CITIZENSHIP, NATION AND AFRICA -- Introduction: Citizenship and its Casualties in Africa (Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett and Paul Nugent) -- PART TWO INCLUSION, EXCLUSION AND CONFLICT -- The War of "Who is Who": Autochthony, Nationalism and Citizenship in the Ivorian Crisis (Ruth Marshall-Fratani) -- The Politics of Citizenship in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja) -- PART THREE LAND AND BELONGING -- Caught at the Crossroads: Citizenship, Marginality and the Mbororo Fulani in Northwest Cameroon (Sam Hickey) -- Shifting Grounds in Zimbabwe: Citizenship and Farm Workers in the New Politics of Land (Blair Rutherford) -- Property and Citizenship in South African Land Reform (Deborah James) -- PART FOUR NATIONS BUILDING BOUNDARIES -- Language and Citizenship in Anglophone Cameroon (Nico Fru Awasom) -- Educating the Nation: Race and Nationalism in Tanzanian Schools (Ned Bertz) -- Nation, Race and History in Zimbabwean Politics (Brian Raftopoulos) -- PART FIVE PRESENT, PAST AND FUTURE OF CITIZENSHIP IN AFRICA -- Ten Years After Apartheid: The State of Nation-Building in South Africa (Neville Alexander) -- African Rebels and the Citizenship Question (Will Reno) -- Nation, Ethnicity, and Citizenship: Dilemmas of Democracy and Civil Order in Africa (Crawford Young) -- Index.
Abstract:
This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa, where conflicts are legitimated through claims of exclusionary nationhood and redefinitions of citizenship.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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