Imagining the Post-Apartheid State : : An Ethnographic Account of Namibia / / John T. Friedman.

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• VerfasserIn: Friedman, John T.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 Imagining States -- Chapter 2 State Imaginings -- PART I GOVERN-MENTALITY IN KAOKOLAND -- Chapter 3 ‘How Do You Feeling about Freedom’ -- Chapter 4 The Art of Being Governed -- PART II COURTS, LAWS AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE -- Chapter 5 In the Matter of The State v. Custom -- Chapter 6 Judicial Statements -- Chapter 7 Legal States of Imagination and their Effect -- PART III CHIEFSHIP AND THE POST-APARTHEID STATE -- Chapter 8 Making Politics, Making History -- Chapter 9 ‘Tradition’, Authority and the State in Northern Kaokoland -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 10 Towards an Ethnography of the (Namibian) State -- Notes -- References -- Index