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The many faces of political Islam in Sudan: Muslim women's activism for and against the state

Doctoral Thesis | Nov 2011

This thesis investigates the politics of competing Islamic gender ideologies in Sudan. Based on fieldwork conducted in greater Khartoum from ...

Sudan

Exogenous state-building: The contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan

Book Chapter | Jan 2011

In the contemporary writing on state-building in post-conflict situations, remarkably little attention is paid to what it takes to build a state. ...

Afghanistan

Taming the war machine: Police, pacification and power i Rio de Janeiro

Master's Thesis | Jan 2016

In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio’s poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic ...

Brazil

The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state

DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1991

This working paper is an analytical review of four recent studies on "women and the state" or the gendered state. Three of these books include ...

Women, Gender relations, State, Africa, Asia, Europe

The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States

Book | Jan 2018

The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing ...

The Aid Agencies and the Fragile States Agenda

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006

In recent years, a consensus appears to have emerged that a variety of problems can be understood in terms of state failure. This paper reviews ...

Fragile states, Peace building, Aid policy

Oil States in the New Middle East. Uprisings and stability

Edited Book | Sep 2016

Oil has been central to regime survival for oil states across the Arabian Peninsula and has been at the heart of their attempts to defuse the ...

Kuwait

Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola

CMI Brief | Oct 2016

Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing ...

women, violence, poverty, Angola, Luanda

Introduction: Performing the State

Journal Article | Jul 2016

Seeking to expand the domain of the political beyond normative understandings of the state, the articles in this special edition examine the ...

Performance, governance, religion, militia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Southeast Asia

Development planning and the importance of Democratic Institutions in Botswana

CMI Report | Jan 1993

This study takes an extended look at Botswana, a country which is found to depart from the common pattern of African states and therefore may ...

Democracy, Development planning, Economic policy, Botswana

Colonial legacy, state building and the salience of ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal Article | Apr 2019

African colonial history suggests that British colonial rule may have undermined state centralisation due to legacies of ethnic segregation ...

Colonial legacy, development, ethnicity, state capacity, Sub-Saharan Africa

An Anthropology of the State?

Event | 13 Dec 2007

A Conversation with Knut Nustad and Finn Stepputat, two acclaimed scholars in the field of political anthropology,

Environment, society and the state in southwestern Eritrea

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000

This paper examines the relationships between environment, society and the state in the Gash-Setit region, western Eritrea. Through an examination ...

Africa: Eritrea

The uneven playing field and the 2016 elections in Uganda

CMI Brief | Apr 2016

It is easy to document that the 2016 elections in Uganda were unfair. To combat the uneven playing field one needs to systematically assess ...

election, Uganda

Concepts of the State in Contemporary State- and Peacebuilding

Event | 19 Jun 2008

Astri Suhrke, Bruce Kapferer, Stein Sundstøl Eriksen and Ole Jacob Sending discuss discuss conceptions of the state in contemporary efforts of statebuilding.

Constitutionalism in an Insurgent State: Rethinking Legal Empowerment of the Poor in a Divided Bolivia

Book Chapter | Nov 2008

With the world record in coup d'états[i] and a modern history of revolution and repeated uprisings it can also too easy to dismiss ...

Hybrid paths to resistance in the Muslim world: Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Mali

Project | May 2017 - Dec 2019

HYRES studies the interaction between Islamist groups and the state in Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Mali, and asks: Why do some Islamist groups ...

Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Mali

Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development and New Duty-Bearers

Edited Book | Dec 2007

This edited volume brings together scholars and practitioners to address the question as to whether, in our globalised world, the protection ...

Human rights, Developing countries

Considering the State: Perspectives on South Sudan's subdivision and federalism debate

Report in External Series | Aug 2016

In October 2015, the president of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, decreed a change in the country’s administrative structure ...

decentralisation, federalism, South Sudan

Land Rights, Environmental Protection and Inclusive Development within India's Federal System

Project | Jan 2013 - Jun 2017

The main goal of the research project is to understand the consequences of the legal regime India has adopted to protect its indigenous peoples ...

India