On the Subject of Citizenship

Introduction: On the Subject of Citizenship-Theorizing Postcolonial Predicaments with Mahmood Mamdani Suren Pillay

1. Decolonizing the World: On Mamdani's Thought (Kuan-Hsing Chen)

2. Of Citizen(s) and Subject(s): Mamdani on Research, Methods, and Commitments in Postcolonial Africa (Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui)

3. Thinking with Citizen and Subject (Talal Asad)

4. Beyond the Custom/Market Dichotomy: Women's Rights to Land and the Challenge of the Commons (Nivedita Menon)

5. Empire in the Era of DIY Colonialism: Barbarism or Slavery in the (Post)Colonial Context? (Abdelwahab El-Affendi)

6. The Contemporary Challenge of Citizenship in Ethiopia and the Role of Empire in the Making of Subject Populations (Namhla Thando Matshanda)

7. Political Identity and Postcolonial Democracy (Karuna Mantena)

8. Colonial Legacies of Ethnicized Violence, Gendered Subjectivity, and Feminist Emancipatory Politics (Lyn Ossome)

9. The Bifurcated Society: Citizen and Subject in Contemporary South Africa (Steven Friedman)

10. Predicaments of the Colonized: Being Coloured, Indian, and Free after Apartheid (Suren Pillay)

11. The Legacy of Bandung (Partha Chatterjee)

12. Looking Back, Looking Forward (Mahmood Mamdani)

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