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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
Professor Mamdani's current work takes as its point of departure his 1996 book, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. He has 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, his research looks at the reform/reproduction of these through the definition of citizenship in the post-independence period. He frames these questions through empirical work in different African countries: e.g., South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria. His second interest is in the institutional reproduction of knowledge, particularly in what is called "African Studies."
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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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