{"product_id":"9780821424902-everyday-state-democracy-in","title":"Everyday State and Democracy in Africa","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEthnographic Encounters. Through ethnographic case studies of Africans’ quotidian encounters with state bureaucracy, infrastructure, discipline, citizenship, democracy, political economy, education, and health, this book demonstrates how the state not only enables but also constrains and complicates ordinary Africans’ daily struggles to live and live well. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBottom-up case studies, drawn from the perspective of ordinary Africans’ experiences with state bureaucracies, structures, and services, reveal how citizens and states define each other.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume examines contemporary citizens’ everyday encounters with the state and democratic processes in Africa. The contributions reveal the intricate and complex ways in which quotidian activities and experiences—from getting an identification card (genuine or fake) to sourcing black-market commodities to dealing with unreliable waste collection—both (re)produce and (re)constitute the state and democracy. This approach from below lends gravity to the mundane and recognizes the value of conceiving state governance not in terms of its stated promises and aspirations but rather in accordance with how people experience it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth new and established scholars based in Africa, Europe, and North America cover a wide range of examples from across the continent, including\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebureaucratic machinery in South Sudan, Nigeria, and Kenya\u003cbr\u003einfrastructure and shortages in Chad and Nigeria\u003cbr\u003edisciplinarity, subjectivity, and violence in Rwanda, South Africa, and Nigeria\u003cbr\u003ethe social life of democracy in the Congo, Cameroon, and Mozambique\u003cbr\u003eeducation, welfare, and health in Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burkina Faso\u003cbr\u003eEveryday State and Democracy in Africa demonstrates that ordinary citizens’ encounters with state agencies and institutions define the meanings, discourses, practices, and significance of democratic life, as well its distressing realities.\u003cbr\u003eContributors:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Agbiboa\u003cbr\u003eVictoria Bernal\u003cbr\u003eJean Comaroff\u003cbr\u003eJohn L. Comaroff\u003cbr\u003eE. Fouksman\u003cbr\u003eFred Ikanda\u003cbr\u003eLori Leonard\u003cbr\u003eRose Løvgren\u003cbr\u003eFerenc Dávid Markó\u003cbr\u003eEbenezer Obadare\u003cbr\u003eRogers Orock\u003cbr\u003eJustin Pearce\u003cbr\u003eKatrien Pype\u003cbr\u003eEdoardo Quaretta\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Riggan\u003cbr\u003eHelle Samuelsen\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Rush Smith\u003cbr\u003eEric Trovalla\u003cbr\u003eUlrika Trovalla\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40906712776801,"sku":"9780821424902","price":36.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/b1c5e88edd5c7314dae7f96b03160f9a.png?v=1694014465","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780821424902-everyday-state-democracy-in","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}