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Autore: | Werbner Richard |
Titolo: | Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana [[electronic resource] ] : The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.96883 |
968.83/004963975 | |
Soggetto topico: | Kalanga (African people) - Botswana - Politics and government |
Kalanga (African people) - Politics and government - Botswana | |
Elite (Social sciences) - Botswana | |
Regions & Countries - Africa | |
History & Archaeology | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana |
ISBN: | 1-282-07223-4 |
0-253-11024-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910783409003321 |
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