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Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South
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The nucleus of society is situated at the local level: in the village, the neighborhood, the city district. This is where a community first develops collective rules that are intended to ensure its continued existence. The contributors look at such configurations in geographical areas and time periods that lie outside of the modern Western world with its particular development of society and statehood: in Antiquity and in the Global South of the present. Here states tend to be weak, with obvious challenges and opportunities for local communities. How does governance in this context work? Scholars from various disciplines (Classics, Theology, Political Science, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Human Geography, Sinology) analyze different kinds of local arrangements in case studies, and they do so with a comparative approach. The sixteen papers examine the scope and spatial contingency of forms of self-governance its legitimization and the collective identity of the groups behind them the relations to different levels of state governance as well as to other local groups. Overall, this volume makes an interdisciplinary contribution to a better understanding of fundamental elements of local governance and statehood.
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Keywords
- African history
- Ancient history: to c 500 CE
- Archaeology
- Archaeology by period / region
- Civil society
- Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
- Classical history / classical civilisation
- Classical texts
- Collective Identity
- European History
- global history
- History
- History: earliest times to present day
- History: theory & methods
- Humanities
- limited statehood
- Literature & literary studies
- Regional & national history
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region
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