State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities?
by Buur, Lars; Kyed, Helene Maria-
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Author Biography
Helene Maria Kyed is a PhD candidate at Roskilde University and the Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark, with an MA honors in Social Anthropology from Aarhus University. Her master’s thesis dealt with decentralization and local politics in Zimbabwe. At the moment, she is completing her PhD thesis on ‘State Formalization of Traditional Authority: State Formation, Decentralization and Changing Forms of Authority in Mozambique’, based on fourteen months of fieldwork in Manica Province. She has co-edited an anthology, State Recognition of Local Authorities and Public Participation: Experiences, Obstacles and Possibilities in Mozambique, to be published in 2007. She has published articles in Development and Change and the Journal of Southern African Studies, as well as peer-reviewed chapters in The Security-Development Nexus and Global Vigilantes on the topics of traditional authority and local forms of justice enforcement and policing.
Table of Contents
Preface | |
Introdution: Traditional Authority and Democratization in Africa | |
Traditional Authorities And Decentralized Governance | |
Bringing the Sultan Backnbsp;In: Elders as Peacemakers in Ethiopia's Somali Region | |
The Ambivalent Role of Chiefs: Rural Decentralization Initiatives in Malawi | |
Chiefs, Policing, and Vigilantes: ""Cleaning Up"" the Caprivi Borderland of Namibia | |
The Legible Space between State an | |
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