Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa

Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa

The Centrality of the Margins

Nugent, Paul

Cambridge University Press

06/2019

636

Dura

Inglês

9781107020689

15 a 20 dias

1140

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1. Centering the margins: states, borderlands and communities; Part I. From Frontiers to Boundaries: 2. Configurations of power in comparative perspective: commerce, people and belief to c.1880; 3. Port cities, frontiers and boundaries: spatial lineages of the colonial state; Part II. States and Taxes, Land and Mobility: 4. Constructing the compound, keeping the gate: a fiscal anatomy of colonial state-making, c.1900-40; 5. Being seen like a state: frontier logics, colonial administration and traditional authority in the borderlands; 6. Border regulation and state-making at the margins: taxation, migration and contraband during the interwar years; 7. Land, belief and belonging in the borderlands; Part III. Decolonization and Boundary Closure, 1939-69: 8. Bringing the space back in: decolonization, development and territoriality c.1939-60; 9. The vanishing horizon of Senegambian unity: statist visions and border dynamics; 10. Forging the nation, contesting the border: identity politics and border dynamics in the Trans-Volta; Part IV. States, Social Contracts and Respacing From Below, 1970-2010; 11. Barnacle states and boundary lines: states, trade and urbanism in the Senegambia; 12. The remaking of Ghana and Togo at their common border: Alhaji Kalabule meets Nana Benz; 13. Boundaries, communities and 're-membering': festivals and the negotiation of difference; Conclusion. Boundaries and state-making: comparisons through time and space.
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