ISBN:
9781789201901
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
230 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Integration and Conflict Studies 19
Keywords:
Identity Politics, Political Reform, Guinea, Guinea Conakry, West Africa
Abstract:
In Guinea, situated against the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics through contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generations-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 colonization, 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:
List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Names and Spelling -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: Identity at the Margins: A Place in Guinea -- Chapter 1. A Journey to the Margins? -- Chapter 2. Maintaining Marginality: Ethnic and National Elements of Identification -- Chapter 3. Reaching for the Margins: Negotiating State Power -- Chapter 4. Mixing and Mingling: New Politics, Old Structures? -- Chapter 5. Bargaining with an Ailing State -- Chapter 6. Citizenship at the Margins: Performing the Future State -- Conclusion: Liberties at the Margins: Playing the Game -- References -- Index --
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