States at work : : dynamics of African bureaucracies / / edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.

• Superior document: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, volume 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Bierschenk, Thomas.; Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2014.
• Año de Publicación: 2014
• Lenguaje: English
• Colección: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 12.
• Descripción Física: 1 online resource (454 p.)
• Notas: Includes index.

States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focusing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for theorizing, the authors deal with topics including: bureaucratic cultures and p...