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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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'The construction of subjects in the colonial political economy of the Spanish Guinea'
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61. Autochtony, citizenship and exclusion - struggles over resources and belonging
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| Paper ID | 651 |
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Campos, Alicia
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| Abstract | The categorization of people in “tribes” and other clusters in order to recognize different rights to them was main instrument of the colonial government throughout Africa. The distinction between citizens and subjects (Mamdani) was, however, the result of long and differentiated historical trajectories. This paper inquires into the historical process that engendered the category of “indígena” in the Spanish Guinea, and maintains that the radical separation between colonists and colonizers came about only gradually, as the small African peasants fully participated in the colonial economy of cocoa and became serious competitors to the settled planters. |
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