Ways of Seeing: Beyond the New Nativism. Introduction

African Studies Review

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 1-14

  Mbembe, Achille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 84941101061     PISSN: 00020206     EISSN: 15552462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0002020600029784     Document Type: Article

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2. See Adrian Smith and Adam Swain, “Regulating and Institutionalising Capitalism,” in John Pickles and Adrian Smith, eds., Theorising Transition: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations (New York: Routledge, 1998), 25-53.
3. See Achille Mbembe, “African Modes of Self-Writing” and responses in Public Culture, forthcoming.
4. See the critique by Fabien Eboussi-Boulaga in La arise du Muntu: Authenticity africaine etphilosophie (Paris: Presence africaine, 1977).
5. An example of new historicism is Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (London: James Currey, 1996); see also Mamdani When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
6. This is so despite the optimistic views of Robert Bates et al., Africa and the Disciplines: The Contribution of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
7. See Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996); Neil Brenner, “Beyond State-Centrism? Space, Territoriality, and Geographical Scale in Globalization Studies,” Theory and Society 28 (199): 39-78; Saskia Sassen, “Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization,” Public Culture 12, no. 1 (2000): 215-32.
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9. On this revived interest in spatialization, see Achille Mbembe, “At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa,” in Crawford Young and Mark Beissinger, eds., Beyond State Crisis ? Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press and The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001); see also the studies (in progress) by Sarah Nuttall, Abdumaliq Simone, and Frangoise Verges, “Diasporic Economies and Cultural Corridors in the Southern African Indian Ocean” and Luc Sindjoun, “Les migrations dans le Golfe de Guinee: Entre desetatisation, re-etatisation et transformations de la citoyennete.”
10. See Achille Mbembe, “On Private Indirect Government,” in On the Poslcolony (Berkeley: University of California Press), 66-101.
11. For similar processes in the nineteenth century, see John Lonsdale, “The European Scramble and Conquest in African History,” in The Cambridge History of Africa, vol. 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985). For an analysis of recent shifts, see Beatrice Hibou, ed., La privatisation des Etats (Paris: Karthala, 1999).
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32. On this point, see Mbembe, On the Postcolony, 235-43.