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Larmer, Miles
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Kennes, Erik
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-07-21T08:33:20Z |
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dc.date.available |
2015-07-21T08:33:20Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014-05 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article, in analysing the Katangese secession of 1960-63, argues that it should be primarily understood not simply as the result of external machinations but, at least as importantly, as the initiative of indigenous Katangese political leaders. It charts the development of the Katangese national project amongst self-consciously ‘indigenous’ Katangese leaders, who responded to what they saw as an imposed and illegitimate Congolese nation-state by constructing a national imagery rooted in a mythico-historical reconstruction of a usable Katangese past. The article explains how this was utilised by the Katangese state during the secession to perform an ‘authentic’ Katangese national identity. In so doing, the article situates the Katangese draws attention to the parallels between the Katangese nation-state project and attempts by post-colonial states to perform nationhood elsewhere in Africa. |
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dc.description.embargo |
2016-10-31 |
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dc.description.librarian |
hb2015 |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fich20 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Miles Larmer & Erik Kennes (2014) Rethinking the Katangese Secession, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 42:4, 741-761, DOI : 10.1080/03086534.2014.894716 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0308-6534 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1743-9329 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1080/03086534.2014.894716 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/49135 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Routledge |
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dc.rights |
© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 741-761, 2014. doi :10.1080/03086534.2014.894716. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/fich20 |
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dc.subject |
Katangese secession |
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dc.subject |
Katangese political leaders |
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dc.subject |
External machinations |
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dc.subject |
Katangese national identity |
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dc.title |
Rethinking the Katangese secession |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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