Rule and Rupture: State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship (Development and Change Special Issues) - Softcover

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Christian Lund is Professor in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of Law, Power and Politics in Niger: Land Struggles and the Rural Code (1998) and Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (2008). He is currently working on a book entitled Nine-Tenths of the Law: On Legitimation, Legalisation and Land Struggles in Indonesia.

Michael Eilenberg is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of At the Edges of States (2012), which deals with the dynamics of state formation and resource struggle in the Indonesian borderlands. His recent articles have appeared in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Journal of Borderland Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Modern Asian Studies.

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"Rule and Rupture begins with a striking and original point of departure: the realization that the disposition of property and of the rights of membership in the political community are what constitute public authority. The volume fully realizes its promise in the subtle analysis of both failure and success in case studies. Henceforth I will insist that students read Lund and Eilenberg's path-breaking book on state-formation in conjunction with the classical text of Max Weber."
―James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University

"Rule and Rupture provides a fresh and powerful empirical analytic of State formation. By focusing on the dialectics of recognition that create both authorities and rights holders, the volume shows us how society is constituted through multiple social contracts. The book offers a truly new and exciting approach to the material study of society and social change."
―Jesse Ribot, University of Illinois

Rule and Rupture - State Formation through the Production of Property and Citizenship examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. It 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." The contributors characterize the results of societal ruptures into three types of outcomes for political power: reconstituted and consolidated, challenged, and fragmented. They then delve into 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. Written by a global group of scholars from the fields of political science, development studies, anthropology and geography, this book brings together exciting new insights on the theory of state formation, vividly demonstrating how nations are locked in a cycle of creation, rupture, and reproduction.

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"Rule and Rupture begins with a striking and original point of departure: the realization that the disposition of property and of the rights of membership in the political community are what constitute public authority. The volume fully realizes its promise in the subtle analysis of both failure and success in case studies. Henceforth I will insist that students read Lund and Eilenberg's path-breaking book on state-formation in conjunction with the classical text of Max Weber."
—James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University

"Rule and Rupture provides a fresh and powerful empirical analytic of State formation. By focusing on the dialectics of recognition that create both authorities and rights holders, the volume shows us how society is constituted through multiple social contracts. The book offers a truly new and exciting approach to the material study of society and social change."
—Jesse Ribot, University of Illinois

Rule and Rupture - State Formation through the Production of Property and Citizenship examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. It 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." The contributors characterize the results of societal ruptures into three types of outcomes for political power: reconstituted and consolidated, challenged, and fragmented. They then delve into 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. Written by a global group of scholars from the fields of political science, development studies, anthropology and geography, this book brings together exciting new insights on the theory of state formation, vividly demonstrating how nations are locked in a cycle of creation, rupture, and reproduction.