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Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South - Theoretical and Empirical Insights from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (Hardcover)
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Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South - Theoretical and Empirical Insights from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (Hardcover)
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The nucleus of society is situated at the local level: in the
village, the neighborhood, the city district. This is where a
community first develops collective rules that are intended to
ensure its continued existence. The contributors look at such
configurations in geographical areas and time periods that lie
outside of the modern Western world with its particular development
of society and statehood: in Antiquity and in the Global South of
the present. Here states tend to be weak, with obvious challenges
and opportunities for local communities. How does governance in
this context work? Scholars from various disciplines (Classics,
Theology, Political Science, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Human
Geography, Sinology) analyze different kinds of local arrangements
in case studies, and they do so with a comparative approach. The
sixteen papers examine the scope and spatial contingency of forms
of self-governance; its legitimization and the collective identity
of the groups behind them; the relations to different levels of
state governance as well as to other local groups. Overall, this
volume makes an interdisciplinary contribution to a better
understanding of fundamental elements of local governance and
statehood.
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