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State and local community in Africa

Brussels: Cahiers du CEDAF [ Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation sur l‘Afrique Noire ]

van Binsbergen, W.M.J., F. Reijntjens & G.S.C.M. Hesseling (eds), 1986

 

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State and local community in Africa, Brussels: Cahiers du CEDAF [ Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation sur l‘Afrique Noire ] , edited by van Binsbergen, W.M.J., F. Reijntjens & G.S.C.M. Hesseling (eds), 1986

This book, based on a conference of Dutch and Belgian researchers on the African state held in Antwerp, Belgium, 20-21 December 1984, was published in the Cahiers du CEDAF/ASDOC, 1986. Clickable links below (chapters 2 and 16 only) give access to those of the book's constituent texts that are included in the Shikanda portal

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS/TABLE DES MATIERES

Notes on contributors/Les auteurs p. v

Preface p. vii

Avant-propos p. ix

PART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

PREMIERE PARTIE: PERSPECTIVES ANTHROPOL06IQUES ET HISTORIQUES

1. The establishment of the colonial economy in Guinea Bissau: The colonial state, trade and agriculture, 1815-1926 - a historical outline

by H. Schoenmakers p. 3

2.    The post-colonial state, 'state penetration and the Nkoya experience in Central Western Zambia

by W. van Binsbergen p. 31

3.    L'Etat ce n'est pas nous! Cultural proletarization in Cameroon by W. van Beek

p. 65

4.    Nanumba chieftaincy facing the Ghanaian state and Konkomba 'tribesmen': An interpretation of the Nanumba-Konkomba war of 1981 by P. Skalnfk

p. 89

PART II: INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES

DEUXIEME PARTIE: PERSPECTIVES INSTITUTIONNELLES ET JURIDIQUES

5.    La reforme fonciere au Senegal: consensus entre paysans et pouvoirs publics?

par G. Hesseling p. 113

6.    La revolution agraire et le pouvoir communal en Algerie par G. de Villers

p. 139

7.    The administration of the commune in Algeria: An instrument for state penetration at the local level

by D. Beke p. 157

 

8.    The Tanzanian Village Council: Agency of rural development or merely a device of state penetration into the periphery?

by H.K. Asmerom p. 177

PART III: PERSPECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILIZATION TROISIEME PARTIE: PERSPECTIVES CENTREES SUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT ET LA MOBILISATION POLITIQUE

9.    A mechanism of state penetration: An evaluation of the O.R.S. development project in rural Mali

by W. Cornel is p. 201

10.    Food security, local administration and peripheral development in Northern Zambia

by J. Pettier p. 215

11.    Health care as politics? 'Missed chances' in rural Cameroon by S. van der Geest

p. 241

12.    The state and the Defence Committees in the Ghanaian revolution, 1981-1984

by P. Konings p. 261

13.    Reflexions sur 1' Etat et la societe" civile au Zaire by J.-C1. Willame

p. 287

PART IV: TOWARDS A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE QUATRIEME PARTIE: VERS UNE PERSPECTIVE THEORIQUE

14.    Hegemonic regimes and popular protest - Bayart, Gramsci and the state in Cameroon

by P. Geschiere p. 309

15.    Incorporation and cultural 'receptivity' to change by M. Doornbos

p. 349

16.    Aspects of modern state penetration in Africa

../index.htmby W. van Binsbergen, F. Reyntjens and G. Hesseling  p. 369

 

 

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