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100 1 _aBayart, Jean-François.
240 1 0 _aEtat en Afrique.
_lEnglish
245 1 4 _aState in Africa : the politics of the belly
_bthe politics of the belly /
_cJean-François Bayart.
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aMalden, MA :
_bPolity,
_c2009.
300 _axc, 370 pages
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe shadow theatre of ethnicity -- The unequal state: 'little men' and 'big men' -- The bourgeois illusion -- The opportunity state -- Conservative modernisation or social revolution? The extreme scenarios -- The reciprocal assimilation of elites: the hypothesis of an intermediate scenario -- The formation of a postcolonial historic bloc -- Entrepreneurs, factions and political networks -- The politics of the belly -- Conclusion: of terroirs and men.
506 _3Use copy
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520 _a"The State in Africa is one of the most important and compelling texts of comparative politics and historical sociology of the last twenty years. Bayart rejects the assumption of African 'otherness' based on stereotyped images of famine, corruption and civil war and invites the reader to see that African politics is like politics anywhere else in the world, not an exotic aberration. Africans themselves speak of a 'politics of the belly' - an expression that refers not only to the necessities of survival but also to a complex array of cultural representations, notably those of the 'invisible' world of witchcraft. The 'politics of the belly' attests to a distinctively African trajectory of power that we need to understand as part of a long-term historical development. While acknowledging the insights of Western social scientists from Weber to Foucault, Bayart never loses sight of the realities of African politics and social life and he is careful to allow African voices - from the 'small boy' in the street to the 'big men' in the presidential palaces - to speak for themselves."--Book cover.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_b[S.l.] :
_cHathiTrust Digital Library,
_d2010.
538 _aMaster and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
_uhttp://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
546 _aTranslated from the French.
583 1 _adigitized
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648 7 _aSince 1960
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650 7 _aEconomic history.
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650 7 _aPolitics and government.
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650 7 _aSocial conditions.
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650 0 7 _aPolitik.
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650 0 7 _aPolitisches System.
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651 0 _aAfrica
_xPolitics and government
_y1960-
651 0 _aAfrica
_xSocial conditions
_y1960-
651 0 _aAfrica
_xEconomic conditions
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651 7 _aAfrica.
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aBayart, Jean-Fran�cois.
_sEtat en Afrique. English.
_tState in Africa.
_b2nd ed.
_dCambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2009
_w(DLC) 2009282259
_w(OCoLC)263295089
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