The State in Africa
The State in Africa is one of the 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. Instead he 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 sorcery. The 'politics of the belly' atte…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-4437-0
- EAN: 9780745644370
- Produktnummer: 20553164
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 420 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.3 cm 688 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 688
Über den Autor
Jean-Francois Bayart, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris
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