In Search of a Nation Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania
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Biografisk notat
Gregory H. Maddox is a professor of history at Texas Southern University and author of Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History and co-editor of In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania and Custodians of the Land: Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania.In Search of a Nation Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania
All essays leave us with a stimulating way of thinking about nationalism that avoids polarizing representations and binary conceptions of social reality, but highlights on the contrary complex procedures of negotiations of identity and political authority. -
- Marie-Aoud Fouere, ANALYSES ET COMPTES RENDUS
...A celebration of nationalism and the nation state is not to be found here, as one might have expected a generation ago. Rather, there is a sense of discomfort that Tanzanian nationalism failed to create the unity and freedom promised at independence. The title of the book might be paraphrased as a search for a usable past ... in the ongoing search for a usable past, the contributions here reveal the limitations of state hegemony and the richness of local bases of knowledge in giving meaning to the past.
- Thaddeus Sunseri, AFRICAN HISTORY
All essays leave us with a stimulating way of thinking about nationalism that avoids polarizing representations and binary conceptions of social reality, but highlights on the contrary complex procedures of negotiations of identity and political authority. -
- Marie-Aoud Fouere, ANALYSES ET COMPTES RENDUS
...A celebration of nationalism and the nation state is not to be found here, as one might have expected a generation ago. Rather, there is a sense of discomfort that Tanzanian nationalism failed to create the unity and freedom promised at independence. The title of the book might be paraphrased as a search for a usable past ... in the ongoing search for a usable past, the contributions here reveal the limitations of state hegemony and the richness of local bases of knowledge in giving meaning to the past.
- Thaddeus Sunseri, AFRICAN HISTORY