This book examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. It uses extensive fieldwork to provide a nuanced assessment of political states commonly viewed as fragile or failed.

Notes on Contributors vii 1 Rule and Rupture: State Formation through the Production of Property and Citizenship 1 Christian Lund 2 Repatriation, Refoulement, Repair 31 Erin Collins 3 The Exemplary Citizen on the Exemplary Hill: The Production of Political Subjects in Contemporary Rural Rwanda 49 An Ansoms and Giuseppe D. Cioffo 4 Making Territory:War, Post-war and the Entangled Scales of Contested Forest Governance in Mid-Western Nepal 71 Sarah Byrne, Andrea J. Nightingale and Benedikt Korf 5 Violence Entrepreneurs, Law and Authority in Colombia 95 Jacobo Grajales 6 Occupied! Property, Citizenship and Peasant Movements in Rural Java 117 Christian Lund and Noer Fauzi Rachman 7 A State of Fragmentation: Enacting Sovereignty and Citizenship at the Edge of the Indonesian State 139 Michael Eilenberg 8 The Construction of the Self in Conflicts around Land in Contemporary Tarabuco (Bolivia) 163 Veronica Calvo 9 The Rupture of Territoriality and the Diminishing Relevance of Cross-cutting Ties in Somalia after 1990 181 Markus Virgil Hoehne 10 Legal Rule and Tribal Politics: The US Army and the Taliban in Afghanistan (2001 13) 213 Adam Baczko 11 Taxation, Stateness and Armed Groups: Public Authority and Resource Extraction in Eastern Congo 235 Kasper Hoffmann, Koen Vlassenroot and Gauthier Marchais Index 257