Mobility and Institutions of Intermediary Rule in Southern Africa

南部非洲中间统治的流动性和机构

• 批准号: 462455650
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Katharina Inhetveen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Sozialwissenschaften
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/462455650?language=en
• 关键词: Mobility; Institutions; Intermediary; Rule; Southern

The research project investigates the interrelation between institutions of rule and cross-border mobility. What effects do forms of mobility both new and old have on the ways in which power translates into rule? Which processes operative in the de-institutionalization of rule are associated with the cross-border mobility of diverse actors? How in their turn do institutions of rule influence mobility patterns and the immobilization of rulers and subjects? The research project focuses, first, on mobility in the Global South, particularly in Southern Africa, and second, on intermediary institutions of rule, especially chieftaincy. We argue that on the one hand, cross-border mobility may function as a breeding ground for the rise of intermediary forms of rule, while on the other hand, mobility represents a permanent challenge to the institutionalization of power. To achieve a better understanding of the interrelation between cross-border mobility and the institutionalization or de-institutionalization of intermediary rule, the project examines the institutional dynamics connected with the mobility displayed by chiefs and their subjects, and traces its conditions, trajectories and implications in the institutional field of rule.

该研究项目调查了规则制度和跨境流动之间的相互关系。新旧两种流动形式对权力转化为统治的方式有什么影响？哪些在规则非机构化过程中起作用的进程与不同行为者的跨界流动有关？规则机构如何反过来影响流动模式以及尺子和臣民的固定？该研究项目首先侧重于全球南部的流动性，特别是南部非洲的流动性，其次侧重于统治的中介机构，特别是酋长制度。我们认为，一方面，跨境流动可能成为中间统治形式崛起的温床，另一方面，流动对权力制度化是一个永久性的挑战。为了更好地了解跨界流动与中介规则制度化或非制度化之间的相互关系，该项目审查了与酋长及其臣民表现出的流动性有关的体制动态，并追溯了其在体制规则领域的条件、轨迹和影响。