Constructions of Belonging: Igbo Communities and the Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781580461672)

Constructions of Belonging provides a history of local communities living in Southeastern Nigeria since the late nineteenth century, examining the processes that have defined, changed, and re-produced these communities. Harneit-Sievers explores both the meanings and the uses that the community members have given to their particular areas, while also looking at the processes that have shaped local communities, and have made them work and continue to be relevant, in a world dominated by the modern territorial state and by worldwide flows of people, goods, and ideas. Axel Harneit-Sievers is a Research Fellow at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, and Director of the Nigeria Office of the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Lagos.

Author: Axel Harneit-Sievers
ISBN-10: 1580461670
ISBN-13: 9781580461672
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2006
Pages: 399
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.32w x 1.19d