Introduction: Recognizing Identities, Imagining Alternatives = 1
Harri Englund
Beyond Liberalism? = 4
Difference-blind Rights and The Communitarian Critique = 6
Liberal Revisions of Citizenship = 8
The Aesthetics of Recognition = 9
The Spectre of Discrete Identities = 11
Towards An Alternative Aesthetic of Recognition = 13
Understanding African Specificity = 15
Democracy and The Legacies of Colonialism = 19
The Way(s) Forward = 23
Part I The Rhetoric of Rights
Reconciling `the Rhetoric of Rights' With Competing Notions of Personhood and Agency in Botswana = 33
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
On The Rhetoric of Rights = 33
Lessons from Africa on The Reality of Rights = 35
A Closer Look at Citizenship and Belonging in Botswana = 41
Changing Attitudes Towards Foreigners in Botswana = 47
Implications for Democracy in Africa = 53
The Rhetoric of Human Rights in Malawi: Individualization and Judicialization = 64
Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo
The Rhetoric = 65
Human Rights and The Political Economy = 68
Human Rights and The Legal Expansion of Political Space = 74
Neoliberal Jurisprudence: The Judicialization and Individualization of Social Struggles = 75
Individualization of Rights and The Cauterization of Communitarian Struggles = 76
Judicialization and The Realities of Social Struggles = 77
Conclusion = 79
Democratization and The Rhetoric of Rights: Contradictions and Debate in Post-apartheid South Africa = 84
Krista Johnson
Sean Jacobs
The New Politics of Rights and South Africa's Transition to Democracy = 86
The Sahrc Inquiry Into Racism in The Media = 90
Liberalism Versus Nationalism = 94
Conclusion = 98
Taking Rights Talk Seriously: Reflections on Ugandan Political Discourse = 103
Ulrik Halsteen
The Constitutional Debates: Context and Background = 104
Museveni's Argument = 107
The Exigency of Securing Peace = 109
An Inalienable Right = 111
Ugandan Versus Western (imperialist) Thinking = 113
Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty = 117
Three Main Discourses on Rights = 119
Conclusion = 121
Part Ii Disadvantage, Misrecognition, Subjection
Deaf Culture: Problems of Recognition in Contemporary Kenyan Politics = 127
Marianne Søgaard Andersen
The Political Quest for Unity and Equality = 127
Perceiving Deafness = 128
The Ideology of Unification in The Context of Formal Education = 130
Remaking The Incompetent = 133
Deafness As a Socio-cultural Phenomenon = 134
The Political Story = 137
The Politicization of Deafness = 138
Paradoxes of Equality = 140
Conclusion = 143
Neoliberal Ideologies, Identity and Gender: Managing Diversity in Mauritius = 148
Sheila Bunwaree
Mauritius: Accommodation and Exclusion = 150
Inventing a Nation = 154
The Best Loser System: a Gender-blind Democracy = 156
Ethnic Struggles and The Invisibility of Women = 157
Export Processing Zones and The Feminization of Poverty = 159
Politics of Employment and The Male Bias = 161
Joblessness and Testimonies from Women = 162
Conclusion = 165
`it Will Rain until We Are in Power!' Floods, Elections and Memory in Mozambique = 169
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Elections, Voters' `rights' and The Rhetoric of Regionalism and Autochthony = 170
A Fractured National Unity: Political Demonization and a Tense Past = 173
Elections, Politics and Rights As Seen from Honde = 176
Come Elections, Come Rain, Come Dhlakama = 178
Tension, Ambivalence and Memory = 182
Part Iii Elites and Communities
Ethnic Identification in Voluntary Associations: The Politics of Development and Culture in Burkina Faso = 195
Sten Hagberg
Civil Society and Ethnicity = 196
Voluntary Associations in Burkina Faso = 200
`the Ethnic Question' = 203
The Case of The Association De Developpement Tiefo Amoro = 207
The Legitimizing Process = 211
Perilous Dualisms: Language, Religion and Identity in Polyethnic Eritrea = 219
Redie Bereketeab
Eritrean State Formation in History = 220
Essentialism Versus Constructionism = 224
The Religion---language---identity Nexus = 226
Beyond Dualisms = 229
Conclusion = 232
Ecology, Belonging and Xenophobia: The 1994 Forest Law in Cameroon and The Issue of `community' = 237
Peter Geschiere
The 1994 Forest Law: `participation' As a Precondition for `sustainable Exploitation' = 240
The Elusive Community = 243
The Community As Stakeholder: Belonging and Exclusion = 245
External Elites and Belonging to The Village Community = 246
Confronting Interfering Elites = 251
Conclusion = 253
Epilogue: The New Dialogue With Post-liberalism = 261
Richard Werbner
Equal Dignity, Difference and The Turn in Africanist Debate = 263
Permeable Ethnicities and Elites = 266
The Global and The Post-colonial = 268
Cosmopolitans and Relatedness = 270
Index = 275
Harri Englund
Beyond Liberalism? = 4
Difference-blind Rights and The Communitarian Critique = 6
Liberal Revisions of Citizenship = 8
The Aesthetics of Recognition = 9
The Spectre of Discrete Identities = 11
Towards An Alternative Aesthetic of Recognition = 13
Understanding African Specificity = 15
Democracy and The Legacies of Colonialism = 19
The Way(s) Forward = 23
Part I The Rhetoric of Rights
Reconciling `the Rhetoric of Rights' With Competing Notions of Personhood and Agency in Botswana = 33
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
On The Rhetoric of Rights = 33
Lessons from Africa on The Reality of Rights = 35
A Closer Look at Citizenship and Belonging in Botswana = 41
Changing Attitudes Towards Foreigners in Botswana = 47
Implications for Democracy in Africa = 53
The Rhetoric of Human Rights in Malawi: Individualization and Judicialization = 64
Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo
The Rhetoric = 65
Human Rights and The Political Economy = 68
Human Rights and The Legal Expansion of Political Space = 74
Neoliberal Jurisprudence: The Judicialization and Individualization of Social Struggles = 75
Individualization of Rights and The Cauterization of Communitarian Struggles = 76
Judicialization and The Realities of Social Struggles = 77
Conclusion = 79
Democratization and The Rhetoric of Rights: Contradictions and Debate in Post-apartheid South Africa = 84
Krista Johnson
Sean Jacobs
The New Politics of Rights and South Africa's Transition to Democracy = 86
The Sahrc Inquiry Into Racism in The Media = 90
Liberalism Versus Nationalism = 94
Conclusion = 98
Taking Rights Talk Seriously: Reflections on Ugandan Political Discourse = 103
Ulrik Halsteen
The Constitutional Debates: Context and Background = 104
Museveni's Argument = 107
The Exigency of Securing Peace = 109
An Inalienable Right = 111
Ugandan Versus Western (imperialist) Thinking = 113
Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty = 117
Three Main Discourses on Rights = 119
Conclusion = 121
Part Ii Disadvantage, Misrecognition, Subjection
Deaf Culture: Problems of Recognition in Contemporary Kenyan Politics = 127
Marianne Søgaard Andersen
The Political Quest for Unity and Equality = 127
Perceiving Deafness = 128
The Ideology of Unification in The Context of Formal Education = 130
Remaking The Incompetent = 133
Deafness As a Socio-cultural Phenomenon = 134
The Political Story = 137
The Politicization of Deafness = 138
Paradoxes of Equality = 140
Conclusion = 143
Neoliberal Ideologies, Identity and Gender: Managing Diversity in Mauritius = 148
Sheila Bunwaree
Mauritius: Accommodation and Exclusion = 150
Inventing a Nation = 154
The Best Loser System: a Gender-blind Democracy = 156
Ethnic Struggles and The Invisibility of Women = 157
Export Processing Zones and The Feminization of Poverty = 159
Politics of Employment and The Male Bias = 161
Joblessness and Testimonies from Women = 162
Conclusion = 165
`it Will Rain until We Are in Power!' Floods, Elections and Memory in Mozambique = 169
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Elections, Voters' `rights' and The Rhetoric of Regionalism and Autochthony = 170
A Fractured National Unity: Political Demonization and a Tense Past = 173
Elections, Politics and Rights As Seen from Honde = 176
Come Elections, Come Rain, Come Dhlakama = 178
Tension, Ambivalence and Memory = 182
Part Iii Elites and Communities
Ethnic Identification in Voluntary Associations: The Politics of Development and Culture in Burkina Faso = 195
Sten Hagberg
Civil Society and Ethnicity = 196
Voluntary Associations in Burkina Faso = 200
`the Ethnic Question' = 203
The Case of The Association De Developpement Tiefo Amoro = 207
The Legitimizing Process = 211
Perilous Dualisms: Language, Religion and Identity in Polyethnic Eritrea = 219
Redie Bereketeab
Eritrean State Formation in History = 220
Essentialism Versus Constructionism = 224
The Religion---language---identity Nexus = 226
Beyond Dualisms = 229
Conclusion = 232
Ecology, Belonging and Xenophobia: The 1994 Forest Law in Cameroon and The Issue of `community' = 237
Peter Geschiere
The 1994 Forest Law: `participation' As a Precondition for `sustainable Exploitation' = 240
The Elusive Community = 243
The Community As Stakeholder: Belonging and Exclusion = 245
External Elites and Belonging to The Village Community = 246
Confronting Interfering Elites = 251
Conclusion = 253
Epilogue: The New Dialogue With Post-liberalism = 261
Richard Werbner
Equal Dignity, Difference and The Turn in Africanist Debate = 263
Permeable Ethnicities and Elites = 266
The Global and The Post-colonial = 268
Cosmopolitans and Relatedness = 270
Index = 275