Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten = 0,22 MB)
Series Statement:
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers No. 149
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Højbjerg, Christian Kordt The interaction of global and local models of governance
DDC:
300
Abstract:
This paper studies emerging power configurations in post-conflict and no-peace-no-war Upper Guinea Coast societies. These result from current interactions of global and local models of governance. With empirical data on shifting meanings of chieftaincy and control of land, changing tax regimes, and the rising importance of youth in domestic politics, shifts in authority and legitimacy of rule across time are contrasted with the effects of international interventions and global discourses on socio-political change. It becomes evident that some of these interventions accelerate, others accentuate or counteract, processes of change within local power configurations. Only by carefully considering the innate malleability of local concepts of authority, history, and tradition may contemporary processes of change be identified as either mere re-configurations or genuinely new configurations of power.
URN:
urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-56597
