Changing stateness in Africa: Ghana, Ethiopia and Mozambique compared

非洲国家状态的变化：加纳、埃塞俄比亚和莫桑比克的比较

• 批准号: 180057982
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Ulf Engel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Global and European Studies Institute
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/180057982?language=en
• 关键词: Changing; stateness; Africa; Ghana; Ethiopia

This project wants to contribute to the debate on the nature and practice of the state in Africa by focusing on, firstly, the subjective experience of and expectations towards changing stateness in selected African countries and, secondly, on the circulating models of stateness that are attractive to African elites. We assume that the functions states have to perform as well as expectations of people on what states should do are changing as a result of uneven processes of unequal globalization. Firstly, we are interested in how, under these circumstances, state institutions master the adaptation and cultural coding of creativity when they translate external concepts of 'state' into local ones. Secondly, we investigate how core actors in these processes of adaptation and cultural coding (i.e. discourse entrepreneurs) imagine and practice changing stateness in Africa. Thirdly, we are analysing how the state has mastered the challenges of the 1960s (national integration) and the 1990s (re-democratisation and accelerated process of globalization) and how this is narrated today. And finally we want to understand how these processes produce new forms of national order and transnational entanglements. The project is designed as a comparative study on Cameroon (phase I and II), Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique (phases II and III, resp.). The project is inspired by the spatial turn and focuses from an actor centred perspective on transnational entanglements; it is historicizing and employs the methodology of transferts culturel-studies.

该项目希望通过以下方式促进关于非洲国家性质和实践的辩论：首先，关注某些非洲国家改变国家地位的主观经验和期望;其次，关注对非洲精英有吸引力的国家地位的流通模式。我们认为，由于不平等的全球化进程不平衡，国家必须履行的职能以及人们对国家应该做什么的期望正在发生变化。首先，我们感兴趣的是，在这种情况下，国家机构如何掌握适应和文化编码的创造力时，他们翻译的“国家”的外部概念到本地的。其次，我们调查如何在这些适应和文化编码的过程中的核心演员（即话语企业家）想象和实践在非洲改变状态。第三，我们正在分析国家如何应对20世纪60年代（民族融合）和90年代（重新民主化和加速全球化进程）的挑战，以及今天如何叙述这一点。最后，我们想了解这些过程如何产生新形式的国家秩序和跨国纠缠。该项目旨在对喀麦隆（第一和第二阶段）、埃塞俄比亚、加纳和莫桑比克（分别为第二和第三阶段）进行比较研究。该项目受到空间转向的启发，并从以行为者为中心的角度关注跨国纠缠;它是历史化的，并采用了转移文化研究的方法。