... with Hamas officials, the chapter outlines the organization's perception of itself as an anticolonial faction that has now infused the postcolonial state with the ethos of the anticolonial struggle and, in doing so, reconceptualized its role as a government as a means of protecting the anticolonial armed...

... practice Islamic law Postcolonial state New media Law and society Maryam Bi’s experience provides a fitting place to end because it not only shows how the possibilities for Islamic legal practice continued after Independence and Partition but also reveals the limits of legal pluralism. While for many...

...This chapter examines racial formation in the postcolonial state at independence. It begins with a brief discussion of the shift from indirect colonial rule to independence and the transformation of state racecraft. It then focuses on the negotiations of Nkrumah's government, run by his Convention...

...The introduction gives an overview of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State, arguing that for the past forty years, Percy Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics of the post-colonial state in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal...

...Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects key essays on the Caribbean by Percy Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone-Caribbean studies. For the past 30 years, Percy Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics...

... neighboring Chad and the incursions of Chadian bandits into Darfur. At the transnational level, it scrutinizes what many organizations have described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the crisis as a manifestation of the failure of a postcolonial state to imagine...

... or Sadat Anwar Bedouin exile heterogeneity margin monastic tradition Coptic writers ambivalence nationalism postcolonial state myths religion diegesis linguistic defamiliarization Lodge David mimesis Honeywell Arthur J plot s tradition homogeneity imagination modernity novelistic...

... in the Afghan War. The policy was also used to legitimate military rule, providing a justification for its continuation as demands for democratization grew. The Islamization strategy firmly entrenched the postcolonial state in Islamic ideology and allowed the military to ally itself with Islamist forces...

...This chapter presents a theoretical framework of Creole indigeneity, arguing that the concept is a way of recovering the excess or remainder of history and identity that shapes both social formations in the postcolonial state and Caribbean intellectual production. It lays the groundwork...

... as middlemen for the colonial authorities. With the emergence of the postcolonial state, the majority of the young, the poor, and women were once again marginalized and exploited by their own elites and a new predatory state. Allende Isabelle Bakhtin Mikhail on carnival Beloved Morrison Celan Paul elites...

.... The conclusion offers a brief overview of each of the subsequent chapters. anticolonialism Cold War American hypermasculinity and globalization capitalism and human rights in Aceh nationalism in Australia postcolonial states the state austerity policies European Union EU Aceh Monitoring Mission...

...This book explores the relationship between art and political power in society, taking as its starting point the experience of writers in contemporary Africa, where they are often seen as the enemy of the postcolonial state. This study, in turn, raises the wider issues of the relationship between...

... and eventually full independence. This concluding chapter takes readers up to the moment of independence in March 1956 and shows how the decolonization and postcolonial state-building process unfolded in the context of longstanding conflicts over sovereignty that had predated the war and contributed...

... United States agricultural commodities exports industrialization labor supply manufacturing anti imperialism Hall Stuart power state power and authority neocolonialism radical economics accommodation state capitalism tradition Nationalism Development Culture Postcolonial state...

...The postcolonial state, through its deployment of technologies of power, entraps the postcolonial popular through culturalist and historicist discourses of development that distort and naturalize categories of people, rendering invisible the diverse realities of community. Development...

... on that basis are further arguments about the importance of elite friendship for the constituting of openness and public trust in postcolonial states. An account is given of a public occasion, the funeral of a prominent cosmopolitan among Botswana’s national elite, Richard Mannathoko, to reveal the actual...

... commitment to the armed resistance. In doing so, Hamas oscillated between the images of the postcolonial state and an anticolonial movement. As the government in the Gaza Strip, it represented a civilian authority posturing like the future Palestinian state. However, by remaining committed to the armed...

... and representation. civil society communication policy Eastern European countries Fordist mode of regulation global governance globalization North–South relations postcolonial states Post Fordist Regulation public interest social justice telecommunications policy Third World Afghanistan Cold War...

... colonial rule postcolonial state The governor of Nigeria’s northern Zamfara State, Ahmed Sani, when newly in office in October 1999, generated major political controversy in Nigerian politics by signing two items of legislation into law: the first established new lower sharia courts...