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Power, peace, and space in Africa: Revisiting territorial power sharing / Franzisca Zanker in African Affairs, Vol. 114/454 (2015)
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Titre : Power, peace, and space in Africa: Revisiting territorial power sharing Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Franzisca Zanker, Auteur ; Claudia Simons, Auteur Année de publication : 2015 Article en page(s) : 72-91 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Power-sharing agreements have become a blueprint for efforts to end violent conflicts in many parts of the world, particularly in Africa. Such agreements, however, rarely include territorial power sharing – at least, not according to the formal, rather unhelpful narrow definition that includes federalism and decentralization. This article argues that the concept of territorial power sharing needs to be broadened in order to account for the manifold informal or indirect manifestations of such arrangements. Drawing on extensive fieldwork data from the DRC, Liberia, and Kenya, the article analyses the history of spatiality and power in Africa in order to explain why formal mechanisms of territorial power sharing are rare and why more subtle types of informal territorial power sharing are much more common. Based on this analysis, we conclude that territorial power sharing is present in many African states, but that typically it is overlooked because of its informal nature.
in African Affairs > Vol. 114/454 (2015) . - 72-91[article] Power, peace, and space in Africa: Revisiting territorial power sharing [texte imprimé] / Franzisca Zanker, Auteur ; Claudia Simons, Auteur . - 2015 . - 72-91.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in African Affairs > Vol. 114/454 (2015) . - 72-91
Résumé : Power-sharing agreements have become a blueprint for efforts to end violent conflicts in many parts of the world, particularly in Africa. Such agreements, however, rarely include territorial power sharing – at least, not according to the formal, rather unhelpful narrow definition that includes federalism and decentralization. This article argues that the concept of territorial power sharing needs to be broadened in order to account for the manifold informal or indirect manifestations of such arrangements. Drawing on extensive fieldwork data from the DRC, Liberia, and Kenya, the article analyses the history of spatiality and power in Africa in order to explain why formal mechanisms of territorial power sharing are rare and why more subtle types of informal territorial power sharing are much more common. Based on this analysis, we conclude that territorial power sharing is present in many African states, but that typically it is overlooked because of its informal nature.