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Mahmood Mamdani is the director of the Institute of Social Research at Makerere University, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University, and author of Saviors and Survivors and Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. Stephen Walt’s essay has the ...
Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974 and specializes in the study of African history and politics. His works explore the intersection between politics and culture, a comparative study of colonialism since 1452, the history of civil war and genocide in Africa, the ...
In Define and Rule, Mahmood Mamdani considers the empire of so-called ‘indirect rule’ and argues that, far from being a weak state, as has long been assumed, indirect rule embodied a distinctly modern political rationality.This book is a much-needed historiographic and contemporary-political intervention. It is vintage Mamdani: erudite, pathbreaking, and a profound challenge to ...
About Mahmood Mamdani. Mahmood Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda. A political scientist and anthropologist, he is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His previous books include Citizen and Subject and When Victims… More about Mahmood Mamdani
The target of the late-nineteenth-century European Scramble was equatorial Africa. Prior to that, the European colonial presence in Africa was mainly to the north (Algeria) and the south (South Africa). Otherwise, it was restricted to a few coastal enclaves. It is not in the early colonies, but in equatorial Africa that the African form of the ...
22 de abr. de 2023 · Mamdani’s most influential work, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, appeared in 1996. Citizen and Subject argued that African post-colonial political communities have to be understood as the product of colonial rule, with the relationship between urban elites and subaltern rural communities at the core.
Mahmood Mamdani, 13 September 2012 A new form of colonialism was born in the second half of the 19th century, largely in response to the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Of its many theorists by far the most influential was Henry Maine, a brilliant historian of jurisprudence, barrister, journalist, colonial civil servant and eventually master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
