Publications

Geographies of limited statehood

Release Date

2018-03

Language

  • English

Topics


Starting from the presupposition that areas of limited statehood (ALS) are not ungoverned, but ‘differently’ governed, this chapter proposes a spatial grammar that analyses authority and governance as a socio-spatial relationship. This spatial grammar distinguishes four types of dynamic socio-spatial relations—territory, place, scale, and network—and enables us to spatially analyse (a) how political authority is contested, claimed, upheld, and disrupted; (b) how political life is negotiated, regulated, and
practised; and (c) how these practices and their effects are spatially situated. We apply this spatial grammar to four case studies, each providing insight into one type of socio-spatial relations. These cases from Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), explain how the negotiation, contestation, and disruption of political authority is spatially situated and embedded in ALS. A spatial grammar focuses on the shifting, overlapping, and contradictory practices of claiming political and regulatory power.
Please find the book chapter here.
Please find the book here.

Cite as

@incollection{KorfRaeymaekersSchetter2018, author = "Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers and Conrad Schetter and Michael Watts", title = "Geographies of limited statehood", latexTitle = "Geographies of limited statehood", publisher = "Oxford Handbooks", booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of governance and limited statehood", institution = "Oxford Handbooks", type = "Book chapter", pages = "167-190", year = "2018", isbn = "9780198797203", address = "Oxford", }

Document-Type

Book chapter

Publisher

Oxford Handbooks

Place

Oxford

ISSN/ISBN

9780198797203

Is part of / In:

Title:
The Oxford Handbook of governance and limited statehood