Africa works : disorder as political instrument
by
Chabal, Patrick, 1951-2014.
Title
:
Africa works : disorder as political instrument
Author
:
Chabal, Patrick, 1951-2014.
ISBN
:
9780253335258
9780253212870
9780852558195
9780852558140
Personal Author
:
Chabal, Patrick, 1951-2014.
Publication Information
:
[London] : International African Institute in association with James Currey, Oxford ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1999.
Physical Description
:
xxi, 170 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
:
African issues
African issues (International African Institute)
Contents
:
Introduction: The Question of Analysis -- I. The Informalization of Politics. 1. W(h)ither the State? 2. The Illusions of Civil Society. 3. Recycled Elites -- II. The 'Re-traditionalization' of Society. 4. Of Masks & Men: the Question of Identity. 5. The Taming of the Irrational: Witchcraft & Religion. 6. Crime & Enrichment: the Profits of Violence -- III. The Productivity of Economic 'Failure'. 7. The Ab(use) of Corruption. 8. The Bounties of Dependence. 9. The (In)significance of Development -- IV. A New Paradigm. 10. The Political Instrumentalization of Disorder.
Subject Term
:
Elite (Social sciences) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Civil society -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Political corruption -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Geographic Term
:
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions -- 1960-
Added Author
:
Daloz, Jean-Pascal.
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