ISBN:
978-1-78920-189-5 (hbk)
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 218 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Integration and Conflict Studies volume 19
Keywords:
Guinea Demokratie
;
Politik
;
Gesellschaft
;
Elite, traditionelle
;
Führer, politischer
Abstract:
In Guinea, situated in the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics, through history and contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generation-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides. Simultaneously, administrative reform and national unrest lead to the creative re-combination of sources of authority and practices of legitimate rule. Past periods of decolonization, socialism and authoritarian regime are reflected in contemporary struggles to make sense of participatory democracy and the future of the embattled Guinean national state.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. Identity at the margins: a place in Guinea -- A journey to the margins? -- Maintaining marginality: ethnic and national elements of identification -- Reaching for the margins: negotiating state power -- Mixing and mingling: new politics, old structures? -- Bargaining with an ailing state -- Citizenship at the margins: performing the future state -- Conclusion. Liberties at the margins: playing the game.
Note:
"Published in Association with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale"-- Page ii.Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 197-211
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