Twilight Institutions

Focusing on the condition of public authority in Africa, <i>Twilight Institutions</i> investigates how, when confronted with state failure, public institutions attempt to gain authority; operating in the twilight between state and society, between public and private. <br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Approaches public authority ‘from below’, exploring a variety of concrete encounters between forms of public authority and the more or less mundane practices of ordinary people</li> </ul>