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Intro
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Local Self-governance and Varieties of Statehood: Reflections on Tensions and Cooperation
1 Introduction
2 The Governance Debate and Varieties of Statehood
3 A Variety of Local Actors and Varieties of Statehood
4 The Local Setting and the State: An Approximation
5 The Modes of Interaction of the Local Actors or Modes of Local Governance
6 Notions of Order
7 Conclusions
References
US Domestic Militias ́Intersections with Government and Authority: How a Sociology of Individualism Informs Their Praxis
1 Introduction
2 Methods
3 Who Are Militia Members?
4 Militia Ideology
4.1 Race and Nation
4.2 Personal Responsibility and Self-governance
5 Relationship to the Government
5.1 Local Level
5.2 Federal Level
5.3 State Level
6 Exacerbating Factors
6.1 Major Party Affiliation
6.2 Gender
6.3 Unit Type
7 Whatś Next?
References
Paradoxes of Local Self-governance: Legitimation Strategies of Rural Councillors Under National and Global Influences in Africa
1 Introduction: Pitfalls of Local Self-organization and Self-governance
2 Decentralization and Support for Self-help Organizations: The Debate
3 Devolution and Self-governance in Rural Ghana: An Actor-Centred Approach
4 Crafting Interfaces Between the Administration, Farmers, and External Entities
4.1 Interfacing the Administration, Self-help Organizations, and Local Farmers
4.2 Interfacing Farmer Groups with External Actors
5 A Brokerś Logic? Implicit Economic Reasoning in Councillors ́Patronage Commitments
6 Conclusion
References
Enacting the Housing Crises Through Self-organization? The Cissie Gool Occupation of Reclaim the City and Its Ambivalent Relat...
1 Introduction
2 Self-organization from the Perspective of Social Movement Theory
3 Reclaim the City: Housing Crisis as Reason for Self-organization
4 Self-organization in an Illegal Occupation: The Cissie Gool House
4.1 Space of Self-organization for Citizens Facing Housing Crisis
4.2 Areas and Forms of Self-organization between Daily Life and Political Activism
Structure and Political Activism
Social Order for the Daily Life in the Occupation
Security and Access to the Occupation
5 The Cissie Gool House and Its Relationship to the Municipality
6 Conclusion
References
What Is "Local" and What Is "Self" in Local Self-Help Organisations, and Can they Work Effectively?: Experiences from the ...
1 Local Self-Organisation between the State and Development Cooperation
2 Local SHOs as Open Systems
3 Permanently Failing or Uniquely Successful: Three Case Studies of Local Self-Organisation
3.1 MINGA: A Success Story?
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Local Self-governance and Varieties of Statehood: Reflections on Tensions and Cooperation
1 Introduction
2 The Governance Debate and Varieties of Statehood
3 A Variety of Local Actors and Varieties of Statehood
4 The Local Setting and the State: An Approximation
5 The Modes of Interaction of the Local Actors or Modes of Local Governance
6 Notions of Order
7 Conclusions
References
US Domestic Militias ́Intersections with Government and Authority: How a Sociology of Individualism Informs Their Praxis
1 Introduction
2 Methods
3 Who Are Militia Members?
4 Militia Ideology
4.1 Race and Nation
4.2 Personal Responsibility and Self-governance
5 Relationship to the Government
5.1 Local Level
5.2 Federal Level
5.3 State Level
6 Exacerbating Factors
6.1 Major Party Affiliation
6.2 Gender
6.3 Unit Type
7 Whatś Next?
References
Paradoxes of Local Self-governance: Legitimation Strategies of Rural Councillors Under National and Global Influences in Africa
1 Introduction: Pitfalls of Local Self-organization and Self-governance
2 Decentralization and Support for Self-help Organizations: The Debate
3 Devolution and Self-governance in Rural Ghana: An Actor-Centred Approach
4 Crafting Interfaces Between the Administration, Farmers, and External Entities
4.1 Interfacing the Administration, Self-help Organizations, and Local Farmers
4.2 Interfacing Farmer Groups with External Actors
5 A Brokerś Logic? Implicit Economic Reasoning in Councillors ́Patronage Commitments
6 Conclusion
References
Enacting the Housing Crises Through Self-organization? The Cissie Gool Occupation of Reclaim the City and Its Ambivalent Relat...
1 Introduction
2 Self-organization from the Perspective of Social Movement Theory
3 Reclaim the City: Housing Crisis as Reason for Self-organization
4 Self-organization in an Illegal Occupation: The Cissie Gool House
4.1 Space of Self-organization for Citizens Facing Housing Crisis
4.2 Areas and Forms of Self-organization between Daily Life and Political Activism
Structure and Political Activism
Social Order for the Daily Life in the Occupation
Security and Access to the Occupation
5 The Cissie Gool House and Its Relationship to the Municipality
6 Conclusion
References
What Is "Local" and What Is "Self" in Local Self-Help Organisations, and Can they Work Effectively?: Experiences from the ...
1 Local Self-Organisation between the State and Development Cooperation
2 Local SHOs as Open Systems
3 Permanently Failing or Uniquely Successful: Three Case Studies of Local Self-Organisation
3.1 MINGA: A Success Story?