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Autore |
Werbner Richard P |
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Reasonable radicals and citizenship in Botswana : the public anthropology of Kalanga elites / / Richard Werbner |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-07223-4 |
0-253-11024-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Collana |
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African systems of thought |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Kalanga (African people) - Botswana - Politics and government |
Elite (Social sciences) - Botswana |
Botswana Politics and government 1966- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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