Brandon Kendhammer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 638927 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brandon Kendhammer |
| NOMBRES | Brandon |
| APELLIDO | Kendhammer |
| FIRMA | KENDHAMMER B |
| AFILIACIONES | Ohio University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Managing dissent or creating it? Cameroonian Muslim youth, secularism, and securitization in a time of terror
The rise of Islamic extremist movements in the Lake Chad Basin has become one of the most important security issues in Africa. Research on these conflicts has focused primarily on the extremists themselves, and far less on the conflict’s wider effect on social relationships between Muslims and state authorities. Based on extensive fieldwork on Cameroonian university campuses, we argue that the Cameroonian “war on terror” has contributed to the on…
Nigeria and the Global Umma
Despite often being reduced to a peripheral role in wider scholarly and journalistic stories of global Islam, Nigeria has long been at the center of many of Islam’s most important international developments. From early ties built around long-distance trade and the emergence of a Sahelian Islamicate world to regional powers like Bornu and the Sokoto Caliphate and the crucial development of colonial indirect rule systems incorporating Muslim leader…
Islam and democracy
For most of the postcolonial era, Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa have been treated as peripheral players in broader scholarly and policy debates about Islam and democracy. Yet from Senegal to Nigeria to Sudan (and dozens of points in between), Muslim politicians, activists, and voters have long legacies of engaging with democratic institutions in furtherance of both their religious and political goals. The path to democracy in African countries wi…
Boko Haram
Perhaps the most important story in all of sub-Saharan African politics in the past two decades is how Nigeria, a country that ushered in the new millennium with broad popular optimism about its newly elected civilian, democratic government, would become by 2018 the site of more deaths from terrorism than any country in the world except Afghanistan and Iraq. Alex Thurston's Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement is as close to a …
Boko Haram
Response to Jeremy Menchik’s review of Muslims Talking Politics
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Jihād in West Africa During the Age of Revolutions By Paul E. Lovejoy
Over the course of a more than forty-year career, Paul Lovejoy has made foundational contributions to a half-dozen research areas in West African history, from the economics of commercial trade to the size, scope, and conceptualization of mass slavery in the Islamic caliphates of the region. This book represents something of a career-spanning synthesis of Lovejoy’s most influential work, as well as a challenging and original argument about the im…
All Shari’a is Local
Arguably, one of the most important developments across the Muslim world during the past 25 years is the growing evidence of popular support for both democratic government and a wide range of state-sponsored projects of Islamic revivalism, including the enshrinement and implementation of shari'a (Islamic law). But how do Muslims understand the relationship between the two in practice? Focused on the case of northern Nigeria, this article argues t…
Muslims Talking Politics
Three / Envisioning Sharia, Imagining the Past
Six / Framing Sharia and Democracy
What can the public conversation around sharia implementation tell us about the relationship between Islam and democracy in practice? This chapter focuses on how Muslim political and religious elites imagined sharia implementation as public policy and law in the context of the Fourth Republic’s democratic opening. Drawing on the “framing” approach to understanding political communication and messaging, the chapter argues that elite Muslim voices …
Seven / Muslims Talking Politics
One / Sharia Implementation and Democratic Discourse in Northern Nigeria
The global rise of “sharia politics” in new and uncertain Muslim-majority democracies poses a number of key questions for scholars of Islam and democracy. Among the most important is the question of whether growing popular demand for the preservation of Islamic law and values in the public sphere are compatible with what seems to be equally broad support for democratic government in these countries, many of which have long and unhappy authoritari…
Four / Democracy, Federalism, and the Sharia Question
This chapter focuses on the role of two key forces in shaping the revival of the sharia question in the Nigeria of the 1970s and 80s. The first was the massive social and economic transition resulting from the extraordinary growth of the country’s oil sector and, to a lesser extent, exposure to global Islamic trends. These transformations encouraged Muslim activists to draw on on the Caliphate legacy to demand that the state take an active role i…
Five / Sharia in a Time of Transition
This chapter documents the 1999 transition to an elected civilian government in Nigeria, as well as the surprising rise of mass popular demand for the (re-)implementation of sharia. It documents the politics behind the movement—including the surprising finding that it was led primarily by political elites with limited initial support from religious authorities—and well as the numerous legal and administrative challenges in creating a sharia syste…
Two / What We Talk about When We Talk about Islam and Democracy
Despite a longstanding tradition in sociology and political science research of treating Islam and democracy as separate and competing systems of thought to be reconciled, new empirical approaches increasingly suggest that most Muslims actually view them as potentially complementary worldviews with significant room for negotiation and overlap. This chapter argues that the primary source of tension between the two is not the attitudes and beliefs …
Eight / All Sharia Is Local
This chapter offers a set of conclusions, linking potentially waning support for democracy across northern Nigeria with the challenge posed by the “sharia paradox” in contemporary political Islam. Contemporary sharia movements exist fully within the realm of secular state authority, encouraging top-down implementations schemes that offer few opportunities for citizen engagement or feedback. Despite the broad popular sentiment in Nigeria and elsew…
Muslims Talking Politics
For generations Islamic and Western intellectuals and policymakers have debated Islam's compatibility with democratic government, usually with few solid conclusions. But where--Brandon Kendhammer asks in this book--have the voices of ordinary, working-class Muslims been in this conversation? Doesn't the fate of democracy rest in their hands? Visiting with community members in northern Nigeria, he tells the complex story of the stunning return of …
Nigeria's New Democratic Dawn
[W]hile the March election map shows how divided the country still is in many respects, the peaceful turnover is a chance to build a greater sense of national solidarity around democratic institutions
Getting Our Piece of the National Cake
Although consociational-style ethnic power-sharing arrangements are frequently adopted in postconflict African states, their track record is spotty at best. Using post-civil war Nigeria (one of Africa's most durable experiments with ethnic proportionality in government), I argue that the failure of formal ethnic power-sharing in Africa is due to its intersection with the largely informal power-sharing practices characteristic of neopatrimonial po…
Citizenship, Federalism and Powersharing
If, as a number of recent proponents have argued, ‘pluri-national’ federalism holds great promise as a means of democratization and conflict resolution in deeply divided societies, why has it so rarely been tried in sub-Saharan Africa, home to arguably the world's most ethnically diverse nations? Using Nigeria—Africa's largest and oldest federal system—as a case study, it is argued that the legacy of late colonial, indirect rule institutions on c…
Islam and the Language of Human Rights in Nigeria
How do Islamic political actors engage with international human rights discourse in new Muslim-majority democracies? While most scholarly research focuses on the role of transnational actors in shaping the local adoption of rights norms, this article focuses on how even incomplete democratization can empower religious actors to engage in meaningful local debates over how to define the relationship between religious values, democratic meanings, an…
The Sharia Controversy in Northern Nigeria and the Politics of Islamic Law in New and Uncertain Democracies
In recent years, scholars have struggled to explain high levels of support for both state-sponsored Islamic law (sharia) and democracy in many new Muslim-majority democracies. The origins of popular support for Islamic law in uncertain democratic environments can be considered using the case of Northern Nigeria, where twelve states implemented sharia through democratic institutions during the early 2000s. Sharia implementation movements gain popu…
Talking ethnic but hearing multi-ethnic
The effect of ethnicity on party politics in Nigeria (1999–present) has been paradoxical. Policies designed to end ethnic outbidding and the ethnicisation of party politics have resulted in higher levels of ethnic violence. Policies pursued by the Nigerian framers to ‘get the party system right’ and engender broad, ethnically diverse parties were also expected to reduce the incentives for elites to encourage ethnic violence. They have not. The Pe…
DuBois the pan-Africanist and the development of African nationalism
While W.E.B. DuBois's importance as a political activist and writer is well-documented, a ‘DuBoisian’ political theory has proved illusory. I argue that the key to change and continuity in DuBois's work is his pan-Africanism, which he used to develop a broad theory of anti-colonial nationalism. This reading of his legacy emphasizes DuBois's singular role in shaping anti-colonial discourse in the postwar era, especially in Africa, as well as in th…
The Sharia Controversy in Northern Nigeria and the Politics of Islamic Law in New and Uncertain Democracies
In recent years, scholars have struggled to explain high levels of support for both state-sponsored Islamic law (sharia) and democracy in many new Muslim-majority democracies. The origins of popular support for Islamic law in uncertain democratic environments can be considered using the case of Northern Nigeria, where twelve states implemented sharia through democratic institutions during the early 2000s. Sharia implementation movements gain popu…
Talking ethnic but hearing multi-ethnic
The effect of ethnicity on party politics in Nigeria (1999–present) has been paradoxical. Policies designed to end ethnic outbidding and the ethnicisation of party politics have resulted in higher levels of ethnic violence. Policies pursued by the Nigerian framers to ‘get the party system right’ and engender broad, ethnically diverse parties were also expected to reduce the incentives for elites to encourage ethnic violence. They have not. The Pe…
Getting Our Piece of the National Cake
Although consociational-style ethnic power-sharing arrangements are frequently adopted in postconflict African states, their track record is spotty at best. Using post-civil war Nigeria (one of Africa's most durable experiments with ethnic proportionality in government), I argue that the failure of formal ethnic power-sharing in Africa is due to its intersection with the largely informal power-sharing practices characteristic of neopatrimonial po…
DuBois the pan-Africanist and the development of African nationalism
While W.E.B. DuBois's importance as a political activist and writer is well-documented, a ‘DuBoisian’ political theory has proved illusory. I argue that the key to change and continuity in DuBois's work is his pan-Africanism, which he used to develop a broad theory of anti-colonial nationalism. This reading of his legacy emphasizes DuBois's singular role in shaping anti-colonial discourse in the postwar era, especially in Africa, as well as in th…
Citizenship, Federalism and Powersharing
If, as a number of recent proponents have argued, ‘pluri-national’ federalism holds great promise as a means of democratization and conflict resolution in deeply divided societies, why has it so rarely been tried in sub-Saharan Africa, home to arguably the world's most ethnically diverse nations? Using Nigeria—Africa's largest and oldest federal system—as a case study, it is argued that the legacy of late colonial, indirect rule institutions on c…
Managing dissent or creating it? Cameroonian Muslim youth, secularism, and securitization in a time of terror
The rise of Islamic extremist movements in the Lake Chad Basin has become one of the most important security issues in Africa. Research on these conflicts has focused primarily on the extremists themselves, and far less on the conflict’s wider effect on social relationships between Muslims and state authorities. Based on extensive fieldwork on Cameroonian university campuses, we argue that the Cameroonian “war on terror” has contributed to the on…
DuBois the pan-Africanist and the development of African nationalism
While W.E.B. DuBois's importance as a political activist and writer is well-documented, a ‘DuBoisian’ political theory has proved illusory. I argue that the key to change and continuity in DuBois's work is his pan-Africanism, which he used to develop a broad theory of anti-colonial nationalism. This reading of his legacy emphasizes DuBois's singular role in shaping anti-colonial discourse in the postwar era, especially in Africa, as well as in th…
Talking ethnic but hearing multi-ethnic
The effect of ethnicity on party politics in Nigeria (1999–present) has been paradoxical. Policies designed to end ethnic outbidding and the ethnicisation of party politics have resulted in higher levels of ethnic violence. Policies pursued by the Nigerian framers to ‘get the party system right’ and engender broad, ethnically diverse parties were also expected to reduce the incentives for elites to encourage ethnic violence. They have not. The Pe…
Islam and the Language of Human Rights in Nigeria
How do Islamic political actors engage with international human rights discourse in new Muslim-majority democracies? While most scholarly research focuses on the role of transnational actors in shaping the local adoption of rights norms, this article focuses on how even incomplete democratization can empower religious actors to engage in meaningful local debates over how to define the relationship between religious values, democratic meanings, an…
The Sharia Controversy in Northern Nigeria and the Politics of Islamic Law in New and Uncertain Democracies
In recent years, scholars have struggled to explain high levels of support for both state-sponsored Islamic law (sharia) and democracy in many new Muslim-majority democracies. The origins of popular support for Islamic law in uncertain democratic environments can be considered using the case of Northern Nigeria, where twelve states implemented sharia through democratic institutions during the early 2000s. Sharia implementation movements gain popu…
Citizenship, Federalism and Powersharing
If, as a number of recent proponents have argued, ‘pluri-national’ federalism holds great promise as a means of democratization and conflict resolution in deeply divided societies, why has it so rarely been tried in sub-Saharan Africa, home to arguably the world's most ethnically diverse nations? Using Nigeria—Africa's largest and oldest federal system—as a case study, it is argued that the legacy of late colonial, indirect rule institutions on c…
Nigeria's New Democratic Dawn
[W]hile the March election map shows how divided the country still is in many respects, the peaceful turnover is a chance to build a greater sense of national solidarity around democratic institutions
Getting Our Piece of the National Cake
Although consociational-style ethnic power-sharing arrangements are frequently adopted in postconflict African states, their track record is spotty at best. Using post-civil war Nigeria (one of Africa's most durable experiments with ethnic proportionality in government), I argue that the failure of formal ethnic power-sharing in Africa is due to its intersection with the largely informal power-sharing practices characteristic of neopatrimonial po…
Muslims Talking Politics
Three / Envisioning Sharia, Imagining the Past
Six / Framing Sharia and Democracy
What can the public conversation around sharia implementation tell us about the relationship between Islam and democracy in practice? This chapter focuses on how Muslim political and religious elites imagined sharia implementation as public policy and law in the context of the Fourth Republic’s democratic opening. Drawing on the “framing” approach to understanding political communication and messaging, the chapter argues that elite Muslim voices …
Seven / Muslims Talking Politics
One / Sharia Implementation and Democratic Discourse in Northern Nigeria
The global rise of “sharia politics” in new and uncertain Muslim-majority democracies poses a number of key questions for scholars of Islam and democracy. Among the most important is the question of whether growing popular demand for the preservation of Islamic law and values in the public sphere are compatible with what seems to be equally broad support for democratic government in these countries, many of which have long and unhappy authoritari…
Four / Democracy, Federalism, and the Sharia Question
This chapter focuses on the role of two key forces in shaping the revival of the sharia question in the Nigeria of the 1970s and 80s. The first was the massive social and economic transition resulting from the extraordinary growth of the country’s oil sector and, to a lesser extent, exposure to global Islamic trends. These transformations encouraged Muslim activists to draw on on the Caliphate legacy to demand that the state take an active role i…
Five / Sharia in a Time of Transition
This chapter documents the 1999 transition to an elected civilian government in Nigeria, as well as the surprising rise of mass popular demand for the (re-)implementation of sharia. It documents the politics behind the movement—including the surprising finding that it was led primarily by political elites with limited initial support from religious authorities—and well as the numerous legal and administrative challenges in creating a sharia syste…
Two / What We Talk about When We Talk about Islam and Democracy
Despite a longstanding tradition in sociology and political science research of treating Islam and democracy as separate and competing systems of thought to be reconciled, new empirical approaches increasingly suggest that most Muslims actually view them as potentially complementary worldviews with significant room for negotiation and overlap. This chapter argues that the primary source of tension between the two is not the attitudes and beliefs …
Eight / All Sharia Is Local
This chapter offers a set of conclusions, linking potentially waning support for democracy across northern Nigeria with the challenge posed by the “sharia paradox” in contemporary political Islam. Contemporary sharia movements exist fully within the realm of secular state authority, encouraging top-down implementations schemes that offer few opportunities for citizen engagement or feedback. Despite the broad popular sentiment in Nigeria and elsew…
Muslims Talking Politics
For generations Islamic and Western intellectuals and policymakers have debated Islam's compatibility with democratic government, usually with few solid conclusions. But where--Brandon Kendhammer asks in this book--have the voices of ordinary, working-class Muslims been in this conversation? Doesn't the fate of democracy rest in their hands? Visiting with community members in northern Nigeria, he tells the complex story of the stunning return of …
Jihād in West Africa During the Age of Revolutions By Paul E. Lovejoy
Over the course of a more than forty-year career, Paul Lovejoy has made foundational contributions to a half-dozen research areas in West African history, from the economics of commercial trade to the size, scope, and conceptualization of mass slavery in the Islamic caliphates of the region. This book represents something of a career-spanning synthesis of Lovejoy’s most influential work, as well as a challenging and original argument about the im…
All Shari’a is Local
Arguably, one of the most important developments across the Muslim world during the past 25 years is the growing evidence of popular support for both democratic government and a wide range of state-sponsored projects of Islamic revivalism, including the enshrinement and implementation of shari'a (Islamic law). But how do Muslims understand the relationship between the two in practice? Focused on the case of northern Nigeria, this article argues t…
Boko Haram
Response to Jeremy Menchik’s review of Muslims Talking Politics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Islam and democracy
For most of the postcolonial era, Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa have been treated as peripheral players in broader scholarly and policy debates about Islam and democracy. Yet from Senegal to Nigeria to Sudan (and dozens of points in between), Muslim politicians, activists, and voters have long legacies of engaging with democratic institutions in furtherance of both their religious and political goals. The path to democracy in African countries wi…
Boko Haram
Perhaps the most important story in all of sub-Saharan African politics in the past two decades is how Nigeria, a country that ushered in the new millennium with broad popular optimism about its newly elected civilian, democratic government, would become by 2018 the site of more deaths from terrorism than any country in the world except Afghanistan and Iraq. Alex Thurston's Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement is as close to a …
Nigeria and the Global Umma
Despite often being reduced to a peripheral role in wider scholarly and journalistic stories of global Islam, Nigeria has long been at the center of many of Islam’s most important international developments. From early ties built around long-distance trade and the emergence of a Sahelian Islamicate world to regional powers like Bornu and the Sokoto Caliphate and the crucial development of colonial indirect rule systems incorporating Muslim leader…
Managing dissent or creating it? Cameroonian Muslim youth, secularism, and securitization in a time of terror
The rise of Islamic extremist movements in the Lake Chad Basin has become one of the most important security issues in Africa. Research on these conflicts has focused primarily on the extremists themselves, and far less on the conflict’s wider effect on social relationships between Muslims and state authorities. Based on extensive fieldwork on Cameroonian university campuses, we argue that the Cameroonian “war on terror” has contributed to the on…
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