Adebanwi, Wale
Encountering the Nigerian State
1. Introduction: Excess and Abjection in the Study of the African State
Ebenezer Obadare, Wale Adebanwi
2. Deconstructing “Oluwole”: Political Economy at the Margins of the State
Olawale Ismail
3. The Spatial Economy of Abjection: The Evacuation of Maroko Slum in Nigeria
Sheriff Folarin
4. “Rotten English”: Excremental Politics and Literary Witnessing
Sarah L. Lincoln
5. The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Mobilization in Nigeria
Bukola Akintola
6. Vocalizing Rage: Deconstructing the Language of Antistate Forces
Azeez Olusola Olaniyan
7. The Subaltern Encounters the State: OPC-State Relations 1999–2003
Omobolaji Olarinmoye
8. The State as Undertaker: Power and Insurgent Media in Nigeria
Ayo Olukotun
9. From Corporatist Power to Abjection: Labor and State Control in Nigeria
Emmanuel Remi Aiyede
10. When the State Kills: Political Assassinations in Abacha’s Nigeria
Isaac Olawale Albert
11. The Sharia Challenge: Revisiting the Travails of the Secular State
Rotimi Suberu
12. Koma: A Glimpse of Life at the Edges of the State
Muhammad Kabir Isa
Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, African Politics, Anthropology, African Culture, Sociology, general, Political Science, African History
- Editor
- Adebanwi, Wale
- Obadare, Ebenezer
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Africa Connects
- Page amount
- 282 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230109636
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-38403-7