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Contributions to Political Science Dieter Neubert Hans-Joachim Lauth Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach Editors Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood Tensions and Cooperation Contributions to Political Science The series Contributions to Political Science contains publications in all areas of political science, such as public policy and administration, political economy, comparativepolitics,EuropeanpoliticsandEuropeanintegration,electoralsystems and voting behavior, international relations and others. Publications are primarily monographsandmultipleauthorworkscontainingnewresearchresults,butconfer- enceandcongressreportsarealsoconsidered.Theseriescoversboththeoreticaland empiricalaspectsandisaddressedtoresearchersandpolicymakers.Alltitlesinthis seriesarepeer-reviewed.ThisbookseriesisindexedinScopus. (cid:129) (cid:129) Dieter Neubert Hans-Joachim Lauth Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach Editors Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood Tensions and Cooperation Editors DieterNeubert Hans-JoachimLauth FacultyofHumanitiesandSocialSciences InstituteofPoliticalScienceandSociology UniversityofBayreuth UniversitätWürzburg Bayreuth,Germany Würzburg,Germany ChristophMohamad-Klotzbach InstituteofPoliticalScienceandSociology UniversitätWürzburg Würzburg,Germany ISSN2198-7289 ISSN2198-7297 (electronic) ContributionstoPoliticalScience ISBN978-3-031-14995-5 ISBN978-3-031-14996-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14996-2 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNatureSwitzerland AG2022 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsaresolelyandexclusivelylicensedbythePublisher,whether thewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseof illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Contents LocalSelf-governanceandVarietiesofStatehood:Reflectionson TensionsandCooperation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 DieterNeubert,Hans-JoachimLauth,andChristophMohamad-Klotzbach USDomesticMilitias’IntersectionswithGovernmentandAuthority: HowaSociologyofIndividualismInformsTheirPraxis. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 AmyCooter ParadoxesofLocalSelf-governance:LegitimationStrategiesofRural CouncillorsUnderNationalandGlobalInfluencesinAfrica. . . . . . . . . 51 MatthewSabbi,AlexanderStroh,andDieterNeubert EnactingtheHousingCrisesThroughSelf-organization?TheCissie GoolOccupationofReclaimtheCityandItsAmbivalentRelationship totheCapetonianMunicipality(SouthAfrica). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 AntjeDaniel WhatIs“Local”andWhatIs“Self”inLocalSelf-HelpOrganisations, andCantheyWorkEffectively?:ExperiencesfromtheGrassroots LevelinBolivia. . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . 95 GabrieleBeckmann PathalgadiMovement,Self-Governance,andtheQuestionof‘Weak Statehood’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 AnupamaRoyandUjjwalKumarSingh SamajasaFormofSelf-OrganisationamongVillageCommunities intheChittagongHillTracts,Bangladesh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 BabluChakmaandEvaGerharz JihadiGovernanceinNorthernMali:Socio-PoliticalOrders inContest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 DidaBadiandGeorgKlute v vi Contents CyrenaicaContemporary:Politics,Identity,andJusticeinTimes ofTransition. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . 177 ThomasHüskenandAmalS.Obeidi LocalSelf-GovernanceandVarietiesofStatehood:SomeRemarks fromanAncientHistorian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 RenePfeilschifter Editors and Contributors About the Editors Dieter Neubert Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay- reuth,Bayreuth,Germany Hans-Joachim Lauth Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg,Würzburg,Germany Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach Institute of Political Science and Sociology, UniversityofWürzburg,Würzburg,Germany Contributors Dida Badi Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth,Germany Gabriele Beckmann University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg,Hermannsburg,Germany BabluChakma DepartmentofSocialandCulturalSciences,UniversityofApplied SciencesFulda,Fulda,Germany Institute of Development Research and Development Policy, Ruhr University Bochum,Bochum,Germany AmyCooter CenterforTerrorism,Extremism,andCounterterrorism,Middlebury College,Monterey,CA,USA AntjeDaniel DepartmentforDevelopmentStudies,UniversityofVienna,Vienna, Austria vii viii EditorsandContributors Eva Gerharz Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, University of Applied SciencesFulda,Fulda,Germany Thomas Hüsken Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay- reuth,Bayreuth,Germany Georg Klute Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth,Germany Hans-Joachim Lauth Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg,Würzburg,Germany Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach Institute of Political Science and Sociology, UniversityofWürzburg,Würzburg,Germany Dieter Neubert Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay- reuth,Bayreuth,Germany Amal S. Obeidi Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay- reuth,Bayreuth,Germany Rene Pfeilschifter Institute of History, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Anupama Roy Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,India Matthew Sabbi Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay- reuth,Bayreuth,Germany UjjwalKumarSingh DepartmentofPoliticalScience,UniversityofDelhi,Delhi, India Alexander Stroh Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bay- reuth,Bayreuth,Germany Local Self-governance and Varieties fl of Statehood: Re ections on Tensions and Cooperation DieterNeubert,Hans-JoachimLauth,andChristophMohamad-Klotzbach 1 Introduction Thewell-establisheddebateongovernanceoriginatedintheGlobalNorthorinthe OECD world (Levi-Faur, 2012). It refers to cases with a focus on cooperation between the state, other public institutions, and different private actors. It analyses “theprovisionofcommongoods,ratherthan(...)particularegoisticself-interests” (Thomschke & Mohamad-Klotzbach, 2021: 2). We extend this perspective with regardtodifferenttopics. Firstly,thechaptersinthisvolumerefer,withoneexception(theUnitedStates), to countries outside the OECD world. In some cases, we find strong consolidated statehood,whileinothersstatehoodisweak,ordoesnotreallyexistanymore,asin Libya.Secondly,asshownbysomeofthechapters,localself-organisationandself- governancemaybemarkedbyviolentconflictsthatquestionthestateoritsconsti- tution. Thus, local self-organisation has the potential to challenge the state itself. Thirdly, we question the assumption that governance in general, and local gover- nanceinparticular,focusesmainlyoncommongoods.Ourexamplesshowthatthe interests of particular groups cannot be ignored when analysing local self- governance. This includes the inside view and internal governance of local self- organisations. At least we need to recognise that different notions of the common goodmayclash(also)atthelocallevel.Fourthly,westudygovernancenotfromthe perspectiveofthestate,butfromthelocallevelwherelocalactionandstateinteract. Fifth and finally, we challenge an implicit assumption of the governance debate. D.Neubert(*) FacultyofHumanitiesandSocialSciences,UniversityofBayreuth,Bayreuth,Germany e-mail:[email protected] H.-J.Lauth·C.Mohamad-Klotzbach InstituteofPoliticalScienceandSociology,UniversityofWürzburg,Würzburg,Germany e-mail:[email protected];[email protected] ©TheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2022 1 D.Neubertetal.(eds.),LocalSelf-GovernanceandVarietiesofStatehood, ContributionstoPoliticalScience,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14996-2_1