ENCOUNTERING THE NIGERIAN STATE by Wale Adebanwi (Editor), Ebenezer Obadare (Editor) ( 9781349384037 )

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Title:

ENCOUNTERING THE NIGERIAN STATE

By:

Wale Adebanwi (Editor), Ebenezer Obadare (Editor)

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1349384038

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9781349384037

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Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

18 August, 2010

Edition:

1st ed. 2010

Series:

Africa Connects

Pages:

269

Synopsis:

Thisvolume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa.It analyzes how various agents within the Nigerian society'encounter' the state - ranging from the most routine form of contact to thespectacular. While many recent collections have reheated the old paradigms - of the perils of federalism; corruption; ethnicity etc, our focus here is on encounter , that is, the nuance and complexity of how the state shapes society and vice-versa.Through this, wedepart from the standard state versus society approach that proves so limiting in explaining the African political landscape.

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XIII, 269 p.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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