Civil society and the political imagination in Africa: critical perspectives

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Title:	Civil society and the political imagination in Africa: critical perspectives
Editors:	Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Jean
Chapter(s):	Present
Year:	1999
Pages:	318
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Chicago, IL
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
ISBN:	0226114147; 0226114139
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	1996 political systems conference papers (form)
Abstract:	The essays collected in this volume on civil society in Africa were presented at a conference convened in May 1996 by the Committee on African and African-American Studies at the University of Chicago. Contributions: Introduction (John L. and Jean Comaroff) - Practicing citizenship in imperial Paris (Gary Wilder) - Developing Bushmen: building civil(ized) society in the Kalahari and beyond (Elizabeth Garland) - Civil society and its presuppositions: lessons from Uganda (Mikael Karlström) - Colonial constructions: historicizing debates on civil society in Africa (William Cunningham Bissell) - Staging 'politisi': the dialogics of publicity and secrecy in Sierra Leone (Mariane Ferme) - Civil lives: leadership and accomplishment in Botswana (Deborah Durham) - Debating Muslims, disputed practices: struggles for the realization of an alternative moral order in Niger (Adeline Masquelier) - Curl up and dye: civil society and the fashion-minded citizen (Amy Stambach) - IBB = 419: Nigerian democracy and the politics of illusion (Andrew Apter).