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Mahmood Mamdani
Herbert Lehman Professor
Columbia University
Anthropology, School of International and Public Affairs, Political Science |
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Biography
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Mahmood Mamdani, Ph.D., Harvard University
My current work takes as its point of departure my 1996 book, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. I have two major interests. The first is in the reproduction of political identities. Starting with a historical exploration of political identities enforced by the colonial state, my research looks at the reform/reproduction of these through the definition of citizenship in the post-independence period. I frame these questionsthrough empirical work in different African countries: e.g., South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria. My second interest is in the institutional reproduction of knowledge, particularly in what is called ‘African Studies.’ This is a more recent preoccupation, on which I have yet to publish anything beyond newspaper articles.
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Representative Publications:
| 1972. | The Myth of Population Control: Family, Class, and Caste in an Indian Village,Monthly Review Press, New York. |
| 1976. | Politics and Class Formation in Uganda, Monthly Review Press, New York. |
| 1987. | “Extreme but not Exceptional: Towards an Analysis of the Agrarian Question in Uganda,” Journal of Peasant Studies, 14, 2, London. |
| 1996. | Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, Princeton: Princeton University Press. |
| 1996. | “From Conquest to Consent as the Basis of State Formation: Reflections on Rwanda,” New Left Review, no. 216, London. |
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