Beyond Sovereign Reason: Issues and Contestations in Contemporary African Identity

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Authors
Publication date 01-2020
Journal Journal of Common Market Studies
Volume | Issue number 58 | 1
Pages (from-to) 189-205
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract Issues of collective identity discourses and integration in Africa often face competing national and primordial identities. We explore multilayered integrative mechanisms that have become constitutive of collective African identity. We examine the nature of this identity taking a modern constructivist view of Africa's encounter with Europe. But we also address basic anthropological concerns, focusing on present and future prospects and seeking to understand how this identity is shaped by international politics or synchronized with local political units.
Document type Article
Note In special issue: Collective Identities and the Integration of Core State Powers.
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12979 (Final published version)
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