Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from an...

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Dominique Krüger Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach

Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South

Theoretical and Empirical Insights from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Dominique Krüger, Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach, Rene Pfeilschifter

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English

De Gruyter
31 December 2022

History: theory & methods; European history; African history; History: earliest times to present day

The nucleus of society is situated at the local level: in the village, the neighborhood, the city district. This is where a community first develops collective rules that are intended to ensure its continued existence. The contributors look at such configurations in geographical areas and time periods that lie outside of the modern Western world with its particular development of society and statehood: in Antiquity and in the Global South of the present. Here states tend to be weak, with obvious challenges and opportunities for local communities. How does governance in this context work?

Scholars from various disciplines (Classics, Theology, Political Science, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Human Geography, Sinology) analyze different kinds of local arrangements in case studies, and they do so with a comparative approach. The sixteen papers examine the scope and spatial contingency of forms of self-governance; its legitimization and the collective identity of the groups behind them; the relations to different levels of state governance as well as to other local groups. Overall, this volume makes an interdisciplinary contribution to a better understanding of fundamental elements of local governance and statehood.

Edited by: Dominique Krüger, Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach, Rene Pfeilschifter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm,
Weight: 932g
ISBN: 9783110796247
ISBN 10: 3110796244
Pages: 680
Publication Date: 31 December 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dominique Krüger, DAI, Berlin, Germany; Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach and Rene Pfeilschifter, University of Würzburg, Germany.