African politics : critical and primary sources /
edited by Kevin Dunn.
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
- pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / The pre-colonial legacy -- The internal African frontier: the making of African political culture / The colonial legacy -- The invention of tradition in colonial Africa / Colonialism and the two publics in Africa: a theoretical statement / On the size and shape of African states / Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- Ethnicity -- Explaining ethnic political participation / The political salience of cultural difference: why Chewas and Tumbukas are allies in Zambia and adversaries in Malawi / Social class -- The nature of class domination in Africa / Class formation in the swollen African state / Gender -- Introduction to African feminism / Religion -- Africa and Christianity on the threshold of the third millennium: the religious dimension / Men and devils / Nationalism and Pan-Africanism -- The rise of African nationalism: the case of east and central Africa / I am an African / Introduction / The post-colonial state -- Provisional notes on the postcolony / The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state / Patronage, clientalism and neopatrimonialism -- Clientelism and prebendal politics / It's our time to "chop": do elections in Africa feed neo-patrimonialism rather than counteract it? / Rethinking patrimonialism and neopatrimonialism in Africa / Society -- Beyond the state: civil society and associational life in Africa / Civil society and public sphere: the new stakeholders / Célestin Monga -- Political regimes: authoritarianism to democracy -- Personal rule: theory and practice in Africa / Explaining democratic transitions / Representations of power / The distinctive political logic of weak states / Museveni's Uganda in comparative context / Introduction / Historical factors -- Underdevelopment and dependence in Black Africa: origins and contemporary forms / Structural factors -- Resource wealth and political regimes in Africa / Societal factors -- The state and economic stagnation in tropical Africa / Aid, adjustment and international financial institutions -- The structural adjustment of politics in Africa / Aid and sovereignty: quasi-states and the international financial institutions / Debt and aid: righting the incentives / Renaissance and renewal? -- How to rebuild Africa / New African initiative / Introduction / Evolving warfare / War and the state in Africa / African guerrilla politics: raging against the machine? / How "new" are "new wars?" Global economic change and the study of civil war / Bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts / Introduction / Understanding Africa's place in world politics / Why Africa's weak states persist: the empirical and the juridical in statehood / Globalizing Africa? Observations from an inconvenient continent / Kevin Dunn -- Igor Kopytoff -- Terrence Ranger -- Peter Ekeh -- Elliott Green -- Nelson Kasfir -- Daniel Posner -- Richard L. Sklar -- Larry Diamond -- Gwendolyn Mikell -- Kwame Bediako -- Stephen Ellis -- Robert Rotberg -- Thabo Mbeki -- Kevin Dunn -- Achille Mbembe -- Frederick Cooper -- Richard Joseph -- Staffan Lindberg -- Anne Pitcher, Mary Moran, and Michael Johnston -- Michael Bratton -- Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg -- Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle -- Michael Schatzberg -- William Reno -- Aili Mari Tripp -- Kevin Dunn -- Samir Amin -- Nathan Jensen and Leonard Wantchekon -- Richard Sandbrook -- Jeffrey Herbst -- David Williams -- David Leonard and Scott Straus -- Stephen Ellis -- Henning Melber -- Kevin Dunn -- William Reno -- Jeffrey Herbst -- Morten Bøås and Kevin Dunn -- Mats Berdal -- Mats Utas -- Kevin Dunn -- Ian Taylor and Paul Williams -- Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg -- James Ferguson. Volume 1 -- Part I: Pre-colonial and colonial legacies -- Part II: Identity and politics -- Volume 2 -- Part III: The practice of power -- Volume 3 -- Part IV: The political economy of stagnation and development -- Volume 4 -- Part V: Conflict and security -- Part VI: African international relations --