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Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood

Tensions and Cooperation

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Editors:
  1. Dieter Neubert

    1. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

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  2. Hans-Joachim Lauth

    1. Institute of Political Science and Sociology, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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  3. Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach

    1. Institute of Political Science and Sociology, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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  • Offers a broader, interdisciplinary perspective on governance beyond the OECD world
  • Reassesses traditional concepts of governance in multi-actor settings
  • Deepens readers’ understanding of weak and fragile states

Part of the book series: Contributions to Political Science (CPS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Local Self-governance and Varieties of Statehood: Reflections on Tensions and Cooperation

    • Dieter Neubert, Hans-Joachim Lauth, Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach
    Pages 1-29

  3. US Domestic Militias’ Intersections with Government and Authority: How a Sociology of Individualism Informs Their Praxis

    • Amy Cooter
    Pages 31-49

  4. Paradoxes of Local Self-governance: Legitimation Strategies of Rural Councillors Under National and Global Influences in Africa

    • Matthew Sabbi, Alexander Stroh, Dieter Neubert
    Pages 51-74

  5. Enacting the Housing Crises Through Self-organization? The Cissie Gool Occupation of Reclaim the City and Its Ambivalent Relationship to the Capetonian Municipality (South Africa)

    • Antje Daniel
    Pages 75-93

  6. What Is “Local” and What Is “Self” in Local Self-Help Organisations, and Can they Work Effectively?: Experiences from the Grassroots Level in Bolivia

    • Gabriele Beckmann
    Pages 95-115

  7. Pathalgadi Movement, Self-Governance, and the Question of ‘Weak Statehood’

    • Anupama Roy, Ujjwal Kumar Singh
    Pages 117-137

  8. Samaj as a Form of Self-Organisation among Village Communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

    • Bablu Chakma, Eva Gerharz
    Pages 139-156

  9. Jihadi Governance in Northern Mali: Socio-Political Orders in Contest

    • Dida Badi, Georg Klute
    Pages 157-175

  10. Cyrenaica Contemporary: Politics, Identity, and Justice in Times of Transition

    • Thomas Hüsken, Amal S. Obeidi
    Pages 177-192

  11. Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood: Some Remarks from an Ancient Historian

    • Rene Pfeilschifter
    Pages 193-198
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About this book

The debate on governance originates in the OECD world. At the latest since the postcolonial debate, we know that we need to “test” our assumptions under radically different conditions. This book offers an extended perspective of local self-governance by examining cases from South Asia, Africa, and Latin America, together with a study of militias in the USA. The chapters present a wide variety of local actors who pursue different notions of order legitimized by local traditions based on hierarchy or deeply rooted communalism, Islamic theology, or grassroots democracy. Some local actors claim a state-like authority and challenge the territorial state. In such cases, there is no longer “a shadow hierarchy” but opposition to the state. Different violent actors fight for supremacy, and the state is just one actor among others. The empirical studies presented in this book show how different kinds of local self-governance are combined with varieties of statehood, and thus contribute to an understanding of the notion of governance in a fundamental sense that goes beyond the special case of the OECD world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Dieter Neubert

  • Institute of Political Science and Sociology, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Hans-Joachim Lauth, Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach

About the editors

Dr. Dieter Neubert is a retired Professor of Development Sociology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Dr. Hans-Joachim Lauth holds the Chair of Comparative Politics and German Government at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg, Germany.

Dr. Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach is a research associate at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg, Germany.


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