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Hollstegge, Julian ; Doevenspeck, Martin:
‘Sovereignty Entrepreneurs’ and the Production of State Power in Two Central African Borderlands.
In: Geopolitics.
Vol. 22
(2017)
Issue 4
.
- pp. 815-836.
ISSN 1557-3028
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2017.1359160
Abstract in another language
This article advances a subaltern geopolitics of sovereignty production at the borders of the DR Congo – the supposedly most fragile – and South Sudan – the youngest state in Africa. Moving beyond critiques of representing postcolonial statehood and sovereignty in terms of ‘lack’ and ‘failure’, we localise and ground analysis by drawing on Butler’s figure of the ‘petty sovereign’‘ to analyse the agency of border officials at the DR Congo/Rwanda and the South Sudan/Uganda border who we refer to as ‘sovereignty entrepreneurs’: officials who, tasked with managing and controlling the border, in constant face-to-face negotiations and closely linked to resource competition prescribe, set and decide on the terms and conditions of border crossing. It is argued that in the context of the DR Congo and South Sudan, where the states’ claims to territorial sovereignty face similar internal and external challenges, the border work of sovereignty entrepreneurs, characterised by the ability to tax, threaten and discipline with impunity, represents a form of sovereign power that renders the state’s capacity to act excessively visible at its borders.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Professor Political Geography Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Professor Political Geography > Professor Political Geography - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Doevenspeck Profile Fields > Advanced Fields > African Studies Graduate Schools > BIGSAS Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences Profile Fields Profile Fields > Advanced Fields Graduate Schools |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science 900 History and geography > 910 Geography, travel |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2017 06:31 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2017 10:02 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/39148 |