By Wale Adebanwi, Ebenezer Obadare
ISBN-10: 0230622348
ISBN-13: 9780230622340
This volume advances extant reflections at the nation constituted because the Ur-Power in society, relatively in Africa. It analyzes how quite a few brokers in the Nigerian society 'encounter' the country - starting from the main regimen type of touch to the spectacular. whereas many contemporary collections have reheated the previous paradigms - of the perils of federalism; corruption; ethnicity and so on, our concentration this is on 'encounter', that's, the nuance and complexity of ways the kingdom shapes society and vice-versa. Through this, we depart from the normal country as opposed to society process that proves so restricting in explaining the African political panorama.
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Excess and Abjection 15 around spatial hierarchies (for more on this problematic, see the collection of essays in Locatelli and Nugent, 2009 and Murray and Myers, 2007, respectively). This is a product of the specific colonial experiences of the different African cities. The white/colonizers did not only seize the whole colonial space as one of the most critical indices of hegemonic (European) power, but, also, and this is crucial, organized the colonial space as a reflection of the racial hierarchies that they had constructed and as the material evidence of domination and difference.
While power is proliferating and proliferated in the postcolony, we are concerned with the ways in which ordinary people and social institutions come across, come upon, or bump into that idea that “legitimates subjection” and masks itself as the centrally constituted and constituting power, which— despite its contradictions, incoherence, weaknesses, and the assaults on it by local and international forces—circumscribes and resists the circulation of power and goodness in the African context. We are concerned with that power that, contra Rose, attempts to statisize government— the form of power that Foucault (1983: 224) describes as one to which “all other forms of power relation” refer and relate—in its encounters with persons and groups within a specific territory.
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