Challenging authorities : ethnographies of legitimacy and power in eastern and southern Africa / Arne S. Steinforth, Sabine Klocke-Daffa, editors.
Steinforth, Arne S., editor.; Klocke-Daffa, Sabine, 1956- editor.
2021
HN780.Z9 P6 2021
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Title Challenging authorities : ethnographies of legitimacy and power in eastern and southern Africa / Arne S. Steinforth, Sabine Klocke-Daffa, editors.
ISBN 9783030769246 (electronic bk.)
3030769240 (electronic bk.)
9783030769239
3030769232
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76924-6
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustration (chiefly color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-76924-6 doi
Call Number HN780.Z9 P6 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.9676
Summary When the notion of alternative facts and the alleged dawning of a postfactual world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, factknowledge accepted as truederives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category. Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array of insights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, and even outright competition between different postulated authorities. The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities and pluralities in modern societies. This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice, and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equal footing with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other global settings. Arne S. Steinforth is Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at York University, Toronto, Canada. Previously, he has been Senior Research Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the University of Munster, Germany. His research and prior publications focus on issues of mental disorder and society as well as power, politics, and cosmology in Southern Africa. Sabine Klocke-Daffa is Senior Researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tubingen, Germany. She has been Deputy Professor at various German universities and is a principal investigator of the Tubingen Collaborative Research Center "ResourceCultures", funded by the German Research Foundation. She has done intensive research in Southern Africa focusing on social, political, and religious issues
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1. Introduction: Investigating Authority and Its Legitimization in Contemporary Africa
Part 1. Power and the (Post)Colonial State. 2. Whose State? Whose Nation? Representations of the History of the Arab Slave Trade and Nation-Building in Tanzania
3. Between Ethnicity and Medicine: Reinventing Legitimacy in Chokwe and Sukuma Chieftaincies
Part 2. Contested Authorities and State Power
4. By What Authority? Cosmology, Legitimacy, and the Sources of Power in Malawi
5. Bittamo: The Duties of Authority in Kara, Southern Ethiopia
6. In Search of Democracy: gadaa as a Political Idea Or, the Legitimacy of Traditional Authority in Times of Turmoil and Unease
7. Contested Authorities, External Experts and the Quest for Social Justice: Negotiating Basic Income Grants in an African Setting.-8. Challenging Neotraditional Authority in Namibia
Part 3. Power and Authority over Space
9. Changes in Ethnicity and Land Rights among the!Xun of North-central Namibia
10. San Traditional Authorities, Communal Conservancies, Conflicts, and Leadership in Namibia
11. Sacred Spaces, Legal Claims: Competing Claims for Legitimate Knowledge and Authority over the Use of Land in Nharira Hills, Zimbabwe
Part 4. Conflict, (In)Justice, and Plural Legitimacies
12. Magic Momentum: Negotiating Authority in the Bongolava Region, Madagascar
13. Ungoverned Spaces and Informalisation of Violence: The Case of Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) in Baragoi
14. Who Calls the Tune? Submission, Evasion and Contesting Authorities in Ethiopian Refugee Camps
Part 5. Secret Authority and the State
15. Secrecy and Visibility: Challenging Verwoerdism in South Africas 20th Century
16. Legitimizing the Illegitimate: How Ethnologists Fashioned Namibia.

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