The Politics of Spirit-Children: Post-Colonial Political Spaces in Guinea-Bissau
暫譯: 靈魂孩子的政治：幾內亞比索的後殖民政治空間

Favarato, Claudia

The Politics of Spirit-Children: Post-Colonial Political Spaces in Guinea-Bissau
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2026-05-15
  • 售價: $5,830
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,538
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 204
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3032212022
  • ISBN-13: 9783032212023

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This book examines the recurrent instability of Guinea-Bissau by shifting attention from party politics to the cultural frameworks that shape political ideas. It argues that locally embedded understandings--centered on the phenomenon of spirit-children (criança-irân)--inform how the country's political community is imagined, who counts as a political actor, and how exclusion is normalized within the political order. The book challenges liberal assumptions about personhood, rationality, and citizenship, and advances an analysis of ontological pluralism in political life. The book positions the Bissau-Guinean state as an artifice in which formal institutional canons intersect with customary norms to produce a hybrid political space characteristic of postcolonial governance. This institutional-ideational mismatch helps explain recurrent unrest and governance fragility in Guinea-Bissau and resonates with dynamics in other West African and postcolonial contexts where state formation, belief systems, and political authority remain unevenly aligned.

Combining comparative political theory with African philosophy of the human, the book offers a decentered, decolonial account of power that prioritizes non-conventional practices as political affairs. It contributes to debates in African politics, political anthropology, political philosophy, and postcolonial studies on state-society relations, institutional hybridity, and the ontology of personhood. This book will be of interest to scholars and students concerned with governance in fragile states, the limits of liberal institutionalism, political ideas, and the role of cosmology, belief, and customary authority in contemporary African political orders.

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本書探討幾內亞比索反覆不穩定的現象，將焦點從政黨政治轉向塑造政治思想的文化框架。書中主張，當地嵌入的理解——以靈魂孩子（criança-irân）現象為中心——影響著該國政治社群的想像、誰被視為政治行動者，以及如何在政治秩序中正常化排斥。此書挑戰了關於人格、理性和公民身份的自由主義假設，並推進了對政治生活中本體論多元性的分析。書中將幾內亞比索國家視為一種人為的產物，其中正式的制度規範與習俗規範交織，產生出後殖民治理特有的混合政治空間。這種制度與理念的不匹配有助於解釋幾內亞比索反覆的動亂和治理脆弱性，並與其他西非及後殖民背景中的動態相呼應，這些地方的國家形成、信仰體系和政治權威仍然不均衡對齊。

本書結合比較政治理論與非洲人類哲學，提供了一種去中心化、去殖民化的權力觀點，優先考慮非傳統實踐作為政治事務。它對非洲政治、政治人類學、政治哲學和後殖民研究中有關國家與社會關係、制度混合性及人格本體論的辯論作出貢獻。本書將吸引關注脆弱國家治理、自由主義制度主義的局限、政治思想，以及宇宙觀、信仰和習俗權威在當代非洲政治秩序中角色的學者和學生。

作者簡介

Claudia Favarato is a Postdoctoral Research fellow with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, based at the University of Bayreuth (Germany). She is also an Associate Researcher at the Harvard Association for Global Political Thought. She previously worked as a Visiting Researcher at SOAS University of London and as an Assistant Lecturer at Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Politicas (ISCSP) at the University of Lisbon, where she obtained her PhD in Political Science. Dr. Favarato's research specializes in comparative political theory and African philosophy. focusing on the digitalization of political ideas. She co-authors the upcoming book Digital Politics in African Perspective--Technological Transformations and Political Dynamics (Springer Nature, 2026).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

克勞迪亞·法瓦拉托（Claudia Favarato）是亞歷山大·馮·洪堡基金會的博士後研究員，駐於德國拜羅伊特大學（University of Bayreuth）。她同時也是哈佛全球政治思想協會（Harvard Association for Global Political Thought）的副研究員。她曾擔任倫敦大學亞非學院（SOAS University of London）的訪問研究員，以及里斯本大學社會科學與政治高等研究所（Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Politicas, ISCSP）的助理講師，並在該校獲得政治學博士學位。法瓦拉托博士的研究專注於比較政治理論和非洲哲學，特別是政治思想的數位化。她共同撰寫的即將出版的書籍《非洲視角下的數位政治——技術轉型與政治動態》（Digital Politics in African Perspective--Technological Transformations and Political Dynamics，Springer Nature，2026）。

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