Making nations, creating strangers : : states and citizenship in Africa / / edited by Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett, Paul Nugent.

• Superior document: African social studies series, v. 16
• TeilnehmendeR: Dorman, Sara Rich.; Hammett, Daniel Patrick.; Nugent, Paul, 1962-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: African social studies series ; v. 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Who belongs to the nation? How is citizenship defined? And why have such identities become so politically explosive in recent years? This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract recent political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa. Conflicts which have arisen over the resources of the post-colonial state are increasingly legitimated through recourse to claims of nationhood and citizenship. The contributors address the historical roots of national and ethnic identities, the material and symbolic resources which are contested within states, and the relative importance of elite manipulation and subaltern agency.

Table of Contents

pt. 1. Citizenship, nation and Africa -- pt. 2. Inclusion, exclusion and conflict -- pt. 3. Land and belonging -- pt. 4. Nations building boundaries -- pt. 5. Present, past and future of citizenship in Africa.