Rule and Rupture

<p><i>Rule and Rupture – State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship</i> examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources.</p> <ul> <li>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”</li> <li>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 Bolivia</li> <li>Characterizes the results of societal ruptures into three types of outcomes for political power: reconstituted and consolidated, challenged, and fragmented</li> <li>Brings together exciting insights from a global group of scholars in the fields of political science, development studies, and geography</li> </ul>