Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood

Chapter 1 Local Self-governance and Varieties of Statehood: Reflections on Tensions and Cooperation

Chapter 2 US Domestic Militias’ Intersections with Government and Authority: How a Sociology of Individualism Informs Their Praxis

Chapter 3 Paradoxes of Local Self-governance: Legitimation Strategies of Rural Councillors Under National and Global Influences in Africa

Chapter 4 Enacting the Housing Crises Through Self-organization? The Cissie Gool Occupation of Reclaim the City and Its Ambivalent Relationship to the Capetonian Municipality (South Africa)

Chapter 5 What Is “Local” and What Is “Self” in Local Self-Help Organisations, and Can they Work Effectively?: Experiences from the Grassroots Level in Bolivia

Chapter 6 Pathalgadi Movement, Self-Governance, and the Question of ‘Weak Statehood’

Chapter 7 Samaj as a Form of Self-Organisation among Village Communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

Chapter 8 Jihadi Governance in Northern Mali: Socio-Political Orders in Contest

Chapter 9 Cyrenaica Contemporary: Politics, Identity, and Justice in Times of Transition

Chapter 10 Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood: Some Remarks from an Ancient Historian