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Governance, Resistance and the Post-Colonial State: Management and State Building

Posted By: roxul
Date: 6 Mar 2022 09:45:57
Governance, Resistance and the Post-Colonial State: Management and State Building

Jonathan Murphy, "Governance, Resistance and the Post-Colonial State: Management and State Building "
English | ISBN: 1138681377 | 2017 | 250 pages | PDF | 1270 KB

The manifestation of the colonial nation-state as a legal-bureaucratic-police structure – an exploitation tool – undermined customary modes of governance in colonies. When post-World War II independence of colonies transferred ownership of the state structure to the colonized elite, electoral and civil society politics battled for capture of this post-colonial state. Meanwhile, the state was also forced to build its legitimacy in the face of customary governance practices seeking rehabilitation and decolonization in the midst of civil wars and strife. This "state-building social movement" was further complicated with the global spread of neoliberalism and neocolonialism, and herein lies the significant difference between the post-colonial nation-state and the Western nation-states.
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