Dr. Dieter Neubert is a retired Professor of Development Sociology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Dr. Hans-Joachim Lauth holds the Chair of Comparative Politics and German Government at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg, Germany.

Dr. Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach is a research associate at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg, Germany.

Local Self-Governance and varieties of statehood: Reflections on tensions and cooperation.- U.S. Domestic Militias' Intersections with Government and Authority: How a sociology of individualism informs their praxis.- Paradoxes of local self-governance: Legitimation strategies of rural councillors under national and global influences in Africa.- Enacting the housing crises through self-organization? The Cissie Gool occupation of Reclaim the City and its ambivalent relationship to the Capetonian municipality (South Africa).- What is "local" and what is "self" in local self-help organisations, and can they work effectively? Experiences from the grass-roots level in Bolivia.- Pathalgadi Movement, Self-governance, and the Question of 'Weak State-hood'.- Samaj as a Form of Self-Organisation among Village Communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.- Jihadi governance in northern Mali: Socio-political orders in contest.- Cyrenaica Contemporary: Politics, Identity, and Justice in Times of Transition.- Local Self-governance and Varieties of Statehood: Some Remarks from an Ancient Historian.