Revolution in international public health?

"In times of globalization, the study of "the local" has gained relevance. Once a seemingly unproblematic concept of the unit within which everyday life is set, the local can no longer be taken for granted. It has to be analyzed as a result of historical change. African studies have long focused on local communities and their respective peculiarities and traditions, sometimes reifying their very character. In recent years, African history and anthropology deconstructed many old core concepts: ethnicity, community, and the state."

"Constructions of Belonging applies these new approaches to the study of local communities in the Igbo-speaking areas of Southeastern Nigeria from the late nineteenth century to the present. Combining regional history with local case studies, the book analyzes interactions between localities and the modern state."--Jacket.