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

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. It 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. The contributors characterize the results of societal ruptures into three types of outcomes for political power: reconstituted and consolidated, challenged, and fragmented. They then delve into ten case studies taken from post–colonial settings around the world, including Cambodia, Nepal, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, and Bolivia. Written by a global group of scholars from the fields of political science, development studies, and geography, this book brings together exciting new insights on the theory of state formation, vividly demonstrating how nations are locked in a cycle of creation, rupture, and reproduction.

Notes on Contributors
1. Rule and Rupture: State Formation through the Production of Property and Citizenship (Christian Lund)
2. Repatriation, Refoulement, Repair (Erin Collins)
3. The Exemplary Citizen on the Exemplary Hill: The Production of Political Subjects in Contemporary Rural Rwanda (An Ansoms and Giuseppe D. Cioffo)
4. Making Territory: War, Post–war and the Entangled Scales of Contested Forest Governance in Mid–Western Nepal (Sarah Byrne, Andrea J. Nightingale and Benedikt Korf)
5. Violence Entrepreneurs, Law and Authority in Colombia (Jacobo Grajales)
6. Occupied! Property, Citizenship and Peasant Movements in Rural Java (Christian Lund and Noer Fauzi Rachman)
7. A State of Fragmentation: Enacting Sovereignty and Citizenship at the Edge of the Indonesian State (Michael Eilenberg)
8. The Construction of the Self in Conflicts around Land in Contemporary Tarabuco (Bolivia) (Verónica Calvo)
9. The Rupture of Territoriality and the Diminishing Relevance of Cross–cutting Ties in Somalia after 1990 (Markus Virgil Hoehne)
10. Legal Rule and Tribal Politics: The US Army and the Taliban in Afghanistan (2001 13) (Adam Baczko)
11. Taxation, Stateness and Armed Groups: Public Authority and Resource Extraction in Eastern Congo (Kasper Hoffmann, Koen Vlassenroot and Gauthier Marchais)
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Christian Lund is Professor in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of Law, Power and Politics in Niger: Land Struggles and the Rural Code (1998) and Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (2008). He is currently working on a book entitled Nine–Tenths of the Law: On Legitimation, Legalisation and Land Struggles in Indonesia.

Michael Eilenberg is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of At the Edges of States (2012, 2014), which deals with the dynamics of state formation and resource struggle in the Indonesian borderlands. His recent articles have appeared in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Journal of Borderland Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Modern Asian Studies.