Rule and Rupture : State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship

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.

Rule and Rupture - State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. Combines the latest theory on property rights and citizenship with extensive fieldwork to provide a more complex, nuanced assessment of political states commonly viewed as  “weak,” “fragile,” and “failed”Contains ten case studies taken from post-colonial settings around the world, including Cambodia, Nepal, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, and BoliviaCharacterizes the results of societal ruptures into three types of outcomes for political power: reconstituted and consolidated, challenged, and fragmentedBrings together exciting insights from a global group of scholars in the fields of political science, development studies, and geography