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Title Everyday state and democracy in Africa : ethnographic encounters / edited by Wale Adebanwi ; foreword by Jean and John L. Comaroff.

Publication Info. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 427 pages) : illustrations.
Series Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / Jean and John Comaroff, Harvard University, USA -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Everyday State and Democracy in Africa / Wale Adebanwi -- ID-Cards and Social Class: The Intensification of the Bifurcated State in South Sudan / Ferenc Da̹vid Marko̹ -- Paper Games: Consularity and Ersatz Lives in Urban Lagos / Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare -- Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance in Kenya: Dagahaley Refugee Camp / Fred Ikanda -- Inside the Anti-Politics Machine: Civil Society Mediation of Everyday Encounters with the State / Elizabeth Fouksman -- Lateral Futurity: The Nigerian State as Infrastructural Enigma / Ulrika Trovalla and Eric Trovalla -- Gazomania! Shortage and the State in Chad / Lori Leonard -- Politics of Patience: Acceptance, Agency and Compliance in Rwanda / Rose L©ıvgren -- The Golem State: Police Violence Old and New in South Africa / Nicholas Rush Smith -- Encountering the State in Times of Terror: Subjects and Subjectivities in the Nigerian War Against Boko Haram / Daniel Agbiboa -- Fishing Nets, Kabila's Eyes and Voter's Cards: Citizen-State Mediations in the Congo (2002-2019) / Katrien Pype -- Encountering Cameroon's Garrison State: Checkpoints, Expectations of Democracy, and the Anglophone Revolt / Rogers Orock -- Disputing Democracy and Challenging the State in Mozambique / Justin Pearce -- The Intimate State: Ethiopian Civics Teachers as the Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution / Jennifer Riggan -- The State and 'Its responsibilities': School, Welfare State and Community Building in Lubumbashi (Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo) / Edoardo Quaretta -- Fragile Relationships: Elusive encounters with public services in rural Burkina Faso / Helle Samuelsen -- Afterword: Postcolonial Powerscapes / Victoria Bernal.
Summary "Through ethnographic case studies of Africans' quotidian encounters with state bureaucracy, infrastructure, discipline, citizenship, democracy, political economy, education, and health, this book demonstrates how the state not only enables but also constrains and complicates ordinary Africans' daily struggles to live and live well"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Public administration -- Social aspects -- Africa.
Bureaucracy -- Social aspects -- Africa.
Africa -- Politics and government.
Bureaucracy -- Social aspects
Politics and government
Public administration -- Social aspects
Africa
Added Author Adebanwi, Wale, editor.
Comaroff, Jean, writer of foreword.
Comaroff, John L., 1945- writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Everyday state and democracy in Africa Athens : Ohio University Press, 2022 9780821424902 (DLC) 2021050767
ISBN 9780821447796 electronic book
0821447793 electronic book
9780821424902 paperback
9780821424872 hardcover