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Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism.
Franz Ansprenger,Mahmood Mamdani +1 more
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This article is published in International Journal of African Historical Studies.The article was published on 1997-12-01. It has received 3235 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Subject (philosophy) & Colonialism.read more
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A Theory of Access.
Jesse C. Ribot,Nancy Lee Peluso +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define access as the ability to derive benefits from things, broadening from property's clas- sical definition as "the right to benefit from things" and examine a broad set of factors that differentiate access from property.
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Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality
James Ferguson,Akhil Gupta +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify two principles that are key to state spatialization: vertically (thestate is "above" society) and encompassm ent (state "encompasses" its localities).
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Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development
TL;DR: The authors found no evidence that tropics, germs, and crops affect country incomes directly other than through institutions, nor do they find any effect of policies on development once they control for institutions.
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Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
TL;DR: The Politics of Nature and the Making of Environmental Subjects as discussed by the authors is a series of articles about the creation of forests and the role of government in the creation and management of forests. But it is not a comprehensive survey of the field.