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Africa Works : Disorder as Political Instrument by Jean-Pascal Daloz and Patrick Chabal (2011, Trade Paperback)

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Africa Works : Disorder As Political Instrument, Paperback by Chabal, Patrick; Daloz, Jean-Pascal, ISBN 0852558147, ISBN-13 9780852558140, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Are there social, political and cultural factors in Africa which aspire to the continuation of patrimony and conspire against economic development? This work addresses this and other questions in its examination of the political instrumentalization of disorder.

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PublisherBoydell & Brewer, The Limited

ISBN-100852558147

ISBN-139780852558140

eBay Product ID (ePID)1818573

Product Key Features

Book TitleAfrica Works : Disorder As Political Instrument

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCorruption & Misconduct, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, History & Theory, Economic Conditions, World / African, African

Publication Year2011

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Literary Collections, Business & Economics

AuthorJean-Pascal Daloz, Patrick Chabal

Book SeriesAfrican Issues Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN98-038855

Dewey Edition21

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 Decimal306.2/0967

Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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

SynopsisAre 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 NumberJQ1875.C5 1999