Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa
This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, transnational capital. Instead of focusing on technological zones and the new social assemblages at the actual sites of construction or mineral extraction, the authors use extractive industry projects as a topical lens to investigate contemporary processes of state-making at the statecorporation nexus.
Throughout the book, the authors seek to understand how public political actors and private actors of liberal capitalism negotiate and redefine notions and practices of sovereignty by setting legal, regulatory and fiscal standards. Rather than looking at resource governance from a normative perspective, the authors look at how these negotiations are shaped by and reshape the selfconception of various national and transnational actors, and how these jointly redefine the role of the state in managing these processes for the greater good. Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa will be useful for researchers, upper-level students and policy-makers who are interested in new articulations of state-making and politics in Africa.
Jon Schubert is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Anthropology Department at Brunel University London, UK, and the author of Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola.
Ulf Engel is Professor of Politics in Africa at Leipzig University, Germany, Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Elsio Macamo is Professor of African Studies, Director of the Centre for African Studies and Head of the Social Sciences Department at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
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Edited by Jon Schubert, Ulf Engel and Elsio Macamo
Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa
Beyond the Resource Curse
Edited by
Jon Schubert, Ulf Engel and Elsio Macamo
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Names: Schubert, Jon, 1982- editor. | Engel, Ulf, editor. | Macamo, Elsio Salvado, editor.
Title: Extractive industries and changing state dynamics in Africa : beyond the resource curse / edited by Jon Schubert, Ulf Engel, and Elsio Macamo.
Description: First Edition. | New York : Routledge, [2018] | Series: Routledge studies in African development | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018006662 (print) | LCCN 2018010288 (ebook) | ISBN 9781351200639 (eBook) | ISBN 9780815391845 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Mineral industries--Africa. | Local government--Africa. | Industrial policy--Africa.
Classification: LCC HD9506.A2 (ebook) | LCC HD9506.A2 E978 2018 (print) | DDC 338.2096--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018006662
ISBN: 978-0-8153-9184-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-20063-9 (ebk)
Editors
Ulf Engel is Professor of Politics in Africa at Leipzig University. He is also Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University and a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University. His research is on the African peace and security architecture as well as processes of violent respatialisation on that continent. His most recent publication, co-edited with Heidrun Zinecker, Frank Mattheis, Antje Dietze and Thomas Pltze, is The New Politics of Regionalism: Perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific (Routledge 2016).
Elsio Macamo is Professor of African Studies at the University of Basel. He is also the Director of the Centre for African Studies and Head of the Social Sciences Department at the University of Basel. His research interests cover methodological issues in Area Studies as well as development, politics, knowledge and risk. His most recent publication is The Taming of Fate (CODESRIA 2016).
Jon Schubert is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Anthropology Department at Brunel University London, and the author of Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola (Cornell University Press 2017). Following research on authoritarianism and political legitimacy, bureaucracy, class formation and legacies of violence in Angola and Mozambique, he is currently researching the afterlives of oil-backed infrastructures in the port city of Lobito, Angola (20182021). He holds a Ph.D. in African Studies from the University of Edinburgh (2014) and has previously taught and carried out research at the universities of Leipzig, Halle-Wittenberg and Geneva.
