African Issues Ser.: Africa Works : Disorder as Political Instrument by Jean-Pas

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Country of Origin
United States
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No
Type
Paperback
Ex Libris
No
Personalized
No
Features
1st Edition
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed
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Vintage
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ISBN
9780852558140
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
ISBN-10
0852558147
ISBN-13
9780852558140
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1818573

Product Key Features

Book Title
Africa Works : Disorder As Political Instrument
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Corruption & Misconduct, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, History & Theory, Economic Conditions, World / African, African
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Literary Collections, Business & Economics
Author
Jean-Pascal Daloz, Patrick Chabal
Book Series
African Issues Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
98-038855
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
... provocative new book... - Martin Woollacott in THE GUARDIAN ...for those interested in international affairs, but lacking detailed knowledge of Africa, if you read only one book about Africa this year it should be this one. Two distinguished scholars of Africa have written a short, lucid and astringent corrective to the lazy complacency of much conventional wisdom about the plight of the continent. Indeed, if all the litany of disaster is true, it is astonishing that anything works in Africa at all. And yet it does. - Gwyn Prins in INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ...Despite its iconoclastic tenor, however, the book's value is paradoxically as a good summary of the present orthodoxy in the study of African politics - Jan Kees Van Donge in COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Dewey Decimal
306.2/0967
Table Of Content
Introduction: The Question of Analysis I THE INFORMALIZATION OF POLITICS - W(h)ither the State? The Illusions of Civil Society Recycled Elites II THE 'RE-TRADITIONALIZATION' OF SOCIETY Of Masks & Men: the Question of Identity The Taming of the Irrational: Witchcraft & Religion Crime & Enrichment: the Profits of Violence III THE PRODUCTIVITY OF ECONOMIC 'FAILURE' The Ab(use) of Corruption The Bounties of Dependence The (In)significance of Development IV A NEW PARADIGM The Political Instrumentalization of Disorder
Synopsis
Are there social, political and cultural factors in Africa which aspire to the continuation of patrimony and conspire against economic development? In association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana U Press
LC Classification Number
JQ1875.C5 1999

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