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Dieter Neubert
Hans-Joachim Lauth
Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach Editors
Local
Self-Governance
and Varieties
of Statehood
Tensions and Cooperation
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Dieter Neubert Hans-Joachim Lauth
Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach
Editors
Local Self-Governance
and Varieties of Statehood
Tensions and Cooperation
Editors
DieterNeubert Hans-JoachimLauth
FacultyofHumanitiesandSocialSciences InstituteofPoliticalScienceandSociology
UniversityofBayreuth UniversitätWürzburg
Bayreuth,Germany Würzburg,Germany
ChristophMohamad-Klotzbach
InstituteofPoliticalScienceandSociology
UniversitätWürzburg
Würzburg,Germany
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Contents
LocalSelf-governanceandVarietiesofStatehood:Reflectionson
TensionsandCooperation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
DieterNeubert,Hans-JoachimLauth,andChristophMohamad-Klotzbach
USDomesticMilitias’IntersectionswithGovernmentandAuthority:
HowaSociologyofIndividualismInformsTheirPraxis. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
AmyCooter
ParadoxesofLocalSelf-governance:LegitimationStrategiesofRural
CouncillorsUnderNationalandGlobalInfluencesinAfrica. . . . . . . . . 51
MatthewSabbi,AlexanderStroh,andDieterNeubert
EnactingtheHousingCrisesThroughSelf-organization?TheCissie
GoolOccupationofReclaimtheCityandItsAmbivalentRelationship
totheCapetonianMunicipality(SouthAfrica). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
AntjeDaniel
WhatIs“Local”andWhatIs“Self”inLocalSelf-HelpOrganisations,
andCantheyWorkEffectively?:ExperiencesfromtheGrassroots
LevelinBolivia. . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . 95
GabrieleBeckmann
PathalgadiMovement,Self-Governance,andtheQuestionof‘Weak
Statehood’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
AnupamaRoyandUjjwalKumarSingh
SamajasaFormofSelf-OrganisationamongVillageCommunities
intheChittagongHillTracts,Bangladesh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
BabluChakmaandEvaGerharz
JihadiGovernanceinNorthernMali:Socio-PoliticalOrders
inContest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
DidaBadiandGeorgKlute
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CyrenaicaContemporary:Politics,Identity,andJusticeinTimes
ofTransition. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . 177
ThomasHüskenandAmalS.Obeidi
LocalSelf-GovernanceandVarietiesofStatehood:SomeRemarks
fromanAncientHistorian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
RenePfeilschifter
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Dieter Neubert Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay-
reuth,Bayreuth,Germany
Hans-Joachim Lauth Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of
Würzburg,Würzburg,Germany
Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach Institute of Political Science and Sociology,
UniversityofWürzburg,Würzburg,Germany
Contributors
Dida Badi Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bayreuth,
Bayreuth,Germany
Gabriele Beckmann University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology
Hermannsburg,Hermannsburg,Germany
BabluChakma DepartmentofSocialandCulturalSciences,UniversityofApplied
SciencesFulda,Fulda,Germany
Institute of Development Research and Development Policy, Ruhr University
Bochum,Bochum,Germany
AmyCooter CenterforTerrorism,Extremism,andCounterterrorism,Middlebury
College,Monterey,CA,USA
AntjeDaniel DepartmentforDevelopmentStudies,UniversityofVienna,Vienna,
Austria
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viii EditorsandContributors
Eva Gerharz Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, University of Applied
SciencesFulda,Fulda,Germany
Thomas Hüsken Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay-
reuth,Bayreuth,Germany
Georg Klute Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bayreuth,
Bayreuth,Germany
Hans-Joachim Lauth Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of
Würzburg,Würzburg,Germany
Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach Institute of Political Science and Sociology,
UniversityofWürzburg,Würzburg,Germany
Dieter Neubert Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay-
reuth,Bayreuth,Germany
Amal S. Obeidi Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay-
reuth,Bayreuth,Germany
Rene Pfeilschifter Institute of History, University of Würzburg, Würzburg,
Germany
Anupama Roy Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi,India
Matthew Sabbi Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay-
reuth,Bayreuth,Germany
UjjwalKumarSingh DepartmentofPoliticalScience,UniversityofDelhi,Delhi,
India
Alexander Stroh Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay-
reuth,Bayreuth,Germany
Local Self-governance and Varieties
fl
of Statehood: Re ections on Tensions
and Cooperation
DieterNeubert,Hans-JoachimLauth,andChristophMohamad-Klotzbach
1 Introduction
Thewell-establisheddebateongovernanceoriginatedintheGlobalNorthorinthe
OECD world (Levi-Faur, 2012). It refers to cases with a focus on cooperation
between the state, other public institutions, and different private actors. It analyses
“theprovisionofcommongoods,ratherthan(...)particularegoisticself-interests”
(Thomschke & Mohamad-Klotzbach, 2021: 2). We extend this perspective with
regardtodifferenttopics.
Firstly,thechaptersinthisvolumerefer,withoneexception(theUnitedStates),
to countries outside the OECD world. In some cases, we find strong consolidated
statehood,whileinothersstatehoodisweak,ordoesnotreallyexistanymore,asin
Libya.Secondly,asshownbysomeofthechapters,localself-organisationandself-
governancemaybemarkedbyviolentconflictsthatquestionthestateoritsconsti-
tution. Thus, local self-organisation has the potential to challenge the state itself.
Thirdly, we question the assumption that governance in general, and local gover-
nanceinparticular,focusesmainlyoncommongoods.Ourexamplesshowthatthe
interests of particular groups cannot be ignored when analysing local self-
governance. This includes the inside view and internal governance of local self-
organisations. At least we need to recognise that different notions of the common
goodmayclash(also)atthelocallevel.Fourthly,westudygovernancenotfromthe
perspectiveofthestate,butfromthelocallevelwherelocalactionandstateinteract.
Fifth and finally, we challenge an implicit assumption of the governance debate.
D.Neubert(*)
FacultyofHumanitiesandSocialSciences,UniversityofBayreuth,Bayreuth,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
H.-J.Lauth·C.Mohamad-Klotzbach
InstituteofPoliticalScienceandSociology,UniversityofWürzburg,Würzburg,Germany
e-mail:[email protected];[email protected]
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