Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana : The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites
Richard. Werbner
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt | Bloomington, IN : : Indiana University Press, , 2004.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (268 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - cover; TOC; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reflections and Frontiers; 1. Postcolonial Wisdom: The Post-Civil Service and the Public Good; 2. The Minorities Debate; 3. The Politics of Recognition and "Pressure Groups"; 4. Cosmopolitan Ethnicity, Entrepreneurship, and the Nation; 5. Official Blundering and the Discredited Commission; 6. Land, Clients, and Tribal Bureaucrats; 7. Bringing Back the Dead; 8. Public Officer, Public Officer Emeritus; 9. The Making of a Reasonable Radical; Epilogue: Postcolonial Wisdom, Beyond Afro-pessimism; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index. - Are self-interested elites the curse of liberal democracy in Africa? Is there hope against the politics of the belly, kleptocracies, vampire states, failed states, and Afro-pessimism? In Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana, Richard Werbner examines a rare breed of powerful political elites who are not tyrants, torturers, or thieves. Werbner's focus is on the Kalanga, a minority ethnic group that has served Botswana in business and government since independence. Kalanga elites have expanded
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Emner | Botswana - Politics and government
Elite (Social sciences) - Botswana Kalanga (African people) - Politics and government - Botswana Kalanga (African people) - Botswana - Politics and government. Vis mer... History & Archaeology
Regions & Countries - Africa afrikastudier antropologi demokrati eliter etniske grupperpolitikk minoriteter |
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ISBN | 025321677X. - 0253344026
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