Rule and Rupture: State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship (Development and Change Special Issues)

Rule and Rupture - State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. Combines the latest theory on property rights and citizenship with extensive fieldwork to provide a more complex, nuanced assessment of political states commonly viewed as "weak," "fragile," and "failed" Contains ten case studies taken from post-colonial settings around the world, including Cambodia, Nepal, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, and Bolivia Characterizes the results of societal ruptures into three types of outcomes for political power: reconstituted and consolidated, challenged, and fragmented Brings together exciting insights from a global group of scholars in the fields of political science, development studies, and geography Rule And Rupture : State Formation Through The Production Of Property And Citizenship / Christian Lund -- Repatriation, Refoulement, Repair / Erin Collins -- The Exemplary Citizen On The Exemplary Hill : The Production Of Political Subjects In Contemporary Rural Rwanda / An Ansoms And Giuseppe D. Cioffo -- Making Territory : War, Post-war And The Entangled Scales Of Contested Forest Governance In Mid-western Nepal / Sarah Byrne, Andrea J. Nightingale And Benedikt Korf -- Violence Entrepreneurs, Law And Authority In Colombia / Jacobo Grajales -- Occupied! Property, Citizenship And Peasant Movements In Rural Java / Christian Lund And Noer Fauzi Rachman -- A State Of Fragmentation : Enacting Sovereignty And Citizenship At The Edge Of The Indonesian State / Michael Eilenberg -- The Construction Of The 'self' In Conflicts Around Land In Contemporary Tarabuco (bolivia) / Ver�onica Calvo -- The Rupture Of Territoriality And The Diminishing Relevance Of Cross-cutting Ties In Somalia After 1990 / Markus Virgil Hoehne -- Legal Rule And Tribal Politics : The Us Army And The Taliban In Afghanistan (2001-13) / Adam Baczko -- Taxation, Stateness And Armed Groups : Public Authority And Resource Extraction In Eastern Congo / Kasper Hoffmann, Koen Vlassenroot And Gauthier Marchais. Edited By Christian Lund And Michael Eilenberg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Content: Rule and rupture : state formation through the production of property and citizenship / Christian Lund -- Repatriation, refoulement, repair / Erin Collins -- The exemplary citizen on the exemplary hill : the production of political subjects in contemporary rural Rwanda / An Ansoms and Giuseppe D. Cioffo -- Making territory : war, post-war and the entangled scales of contested forest governance in mid-western Nepal / Sarah Byrne, Andrea J. Nightingale and Benedikt Korf -- Violence entrepreneurs, law and authority in Colombia / Jacobo Grajales -- Occupied! property, citizenship and peasant movements in rural Java / Christian Lund and Noer Fauzi Rachman -- A state of fragmentation : enacting sovereignty and citizenship at the edge of the Indonesian state / Michael Eilenberg -- The construction of the 'self' in conflicts around land in contemporary Tarabuco (Bolivia) / Veronica Calvo -- The rupture of territoriality and the diminishing relevance of cross-cutting ties in Somalia after 1990 / Markus Virgil Hoehne -- Legal rule and tribal politics : the US Army and the Taliban in Afghanistan (2001-13) / Adam Baczko -- Taxation, stateness and armed groups : public authority and resource extraction in Eastern Congo / Kasper Hoffmann, Koen Vlassenroot and Gauthier Marchais. This book examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. It uses extensive fieldwork to provide a nuanced assessment of political states commonly viewed as fragile or failed.