Ethnicity and the Colonial State

Keese, Alexander

doi:10.1163/9789004307353

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“…45 Others cautioned that the secession campaign by the HSGF might cause "tribal war." 46 Public calls were made to increase police presence in the Volta Region. 47 Endorsed by such calls, the Ghanaian security agencies launched a crackdown and fugitive hunt for Kudzordzi as well as members and suspected sympathisers of the HSGF.…”

Section: Securitising "Western Togoland" Secessionismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, it makes no sense whatsoever to speak of trusteeship if a state can consent to being a ward and, at the same time, possess the authority to terminate that status at its own choosing." 46 Grasping the international system from the perspective of the English School, Bain essentially concludes that the application of a trusteeship principle may only find a place in a universitas of states, that is, states united around a common purpose, in pursuit of a recognised material objective, or in furtherance of a particular enduring interest. Yet given that some states rather resemble 'a state of nature,' Bain doubts their worth as arrangements of security.…”

Section: Reactivating the Trusteeship Council?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their choice of words was telling about their implicit understanding of theoricity and consequently their answer to the question in the title of the forum. While Thierry Balzacq and Stefano Guzzini, both representatives of the context-centred perlocutionary strand, largely avoided the combined term 'securitisation theory' and speak simply of 'securitisation' or 'the concept of securitisation,' 45 Waever, after begging the question "what is politics, theory, sociology and philosophy," 46 simply continues to refer to securitisation as 'the theory.' Yet, whether and to what extent securitisation constitutes a theory was not explored in depth by Waever and though he admitted that "the specific meta-theoretical explications were not available at the time, but probably present implicitly," Waever concludes confidently:…”

Section: The Audience' S Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Securitising Decolonisation

Heise

2024

Postcolonial Studies

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With the right to petition the United Nations, the Ewe and Togoland unification movement enjoyed a privilege unmatched by other dependent peoples. Using language conveying insecurity, the movement seized the international spotlight, ensuring that the topic of unification dominated the UN Trusteeship System for over a decade. Yet, its vociferous securitisations fell silent due to colonial distortion, leaving unification unfulfilled, thus allowing the seeds of secessionist conflict to grow. At the intersection of postcolonial theory and security studies, Julius Heise presents a theory-driven history of Togoland's path to independence, offering a crucial lesson for international statebuilding efforts.

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Section: Securitising "Western Togoland" Secessionismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Reactivating the Trusteeship Council?mentioning

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Section: The Audience' S Agencymentioning

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Securitising Decolonisation

Heise

2024

Postcolonial Studies

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“…Iliffe 1979), or whether European colonisation was only one disruptive period within a much longer history of changing ethnic group formations and mutable political alliances (e.g. Kesse 2016; Spear 2003). These historical and anthropological questions on the dialectical interplay of ethnicity as lived and imposed, contingently constructed and forcefully invented, are more comprehensively explored elsewhere (e.g.…”

Section: Ethnicity In Kenya: Belonging As Colonialitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Enduring Colonial Grammars of Self: Infrastructure, Coloniality, Ethnicity

Lesutis

2023

Antipode

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Building on critical geographical scholarship on racialism and coloniality reiterated through infrastructure systems, this article explores how inherently colonial constructs of ethnicity‐as‐identity—as sub‐genres of humanity and further biopolitical differentiation of Blackness—are reworked through contemporary mega‐infrastructures. Focusing on the development of Lamu Port in Kenya, it analyses how infrastructures entrench pre‐existing symbolic and material divisions between ostensibly different ethnic groups and how they perceive themselves within Kenya's body politic. Doing this, the article demonstrates how mega‐infrastructures actively reproduce the sub‐genres of humanity that were set in motion during the colonial period as categories inscribing the racialised, constitutive otherness to Whiteness. The coloniality of power, therefore, endures, reverberating through infrastructures into materialities of the present and the everyday of peoples who continue to rely on colonial grammars of sub‐humanisation to maintain a sense of self in the world of not their own making.

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“…Over the next few years, Senegalese essentially prevented any Malian (or other western African) descent inhabitants from acquiring citizenship (Rodet & County, 2018, p. 481). At the same time, the country underwent a "Wolofisation" process based on the non-exclusory practices toward other historical ethnicities of Senegal and their access to the political and economic arena (Keese, 2019). From these two developments, the intention to ensure the well-being of "those that belong" before "those that do not" is clear.…”

Section: Senegalmentioning

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Nomos, Hostis, and War: State-Building Process and Armed Forces in Africa

Doboš

Mičko

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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State-building process in Africa appears in different conditions to those experienced on other continents. It is primarily characterized by the presence of fixed borders. The article repurposes evolutionary and identitarian theories on the development of political communities for the African realities. It highlights the necessity to develop policies creating territorial division between the population of the state and the external environment and utilizing armed forces for the protection of the state against such an environment for the state-building process to succeed. In cases of Eritrea, Senegal, and Burkina Faso, three hypotheses are being tested with an outcome that state-building process connected to the creation of Nomos does not have to be violent but requires a connection of the armed forces to the society. Once the division between the Nomos and the hostis develops inside of the state, such entities are not able to develop power projection capabilities inside their borders.

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Ethnicity and the Colonial State

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Securitising Decolonisation

Enduring Colonial Grammars of Self: Infrastructure, Coloniality, Ethnicity

Nomos, Hostis, and War: State-Building Process and Armed Forces in Africa

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