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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gregory Mann (Columbia University, New York)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Volume: 129 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.410kg ISBN: 9781107602526ISBN 10: 1107602521 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 29 December 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Knowing the post-colony; 2. A new republic; 3. 'French' Muslims in Sudan; 4. West Africans as foreigners in postimperial France; 5. Governing famine; 6. Human rights and Saharan prisons.ReviewsAdvance praise: 'Gregory Mann gives us a thought-provoking, nuanced, deeply researched exposition of what sovereignty does and does not mean in the context of the decolonization of French West Africa and the inability of African states to meet the hopes of most of their citizens. He explores Africans' immersion in different forms of connection across space, conflicting claims of African states and the French government to regulate cross-border migration within Africa, controversies over the rights of former citizens from Africa to work and live in France, and the effects of NGO interventions on how Africa is governed.' Frederick Cooper, author of Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 Advance praise: 'While the rise of NGOs has too often been treated as a simple product of 'neoliberalism', Gregory Mann here argues that, at least in the Sahel, it was international interventions during an earlier period of supposedly strong state sovereignty that laid the foundations for 'nongovernmentality'. An original and important contribution.' James Ferguson, Stanford University, California Advance praise: 'Driving across the Sahel, but refusing stereotypes, Gregory Mann discovered that it was anticolonialists who opened borders to nongovernmental organizations, which 'reprogrammed' their hosts but in a complex pattern of coexistence. A new sort of politics was created, with the rise of neoliberalism ... Cutting across space and time in an original way, the book magnificently complicates so many familiar stories that it makes crucial reading for anyone interested in the makings of our times.' Samuel Moyn, Harvard University, Massachusetts Author InformationGregory Mann is Associate Professor in the History Department at Columbia University, specializing in the history of Francophone West Africa. Mann's articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Journal of African History, and Politique Africaine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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