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Gulbrandsen, Ørnulf [Author] ; Kapferer, Bruce [Contributor]

The State and the Social

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The State and the Social : State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    CONTENTS
    MAPS
    ILLUSTRATIONS
    FOREWORD
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    INTRODUCTION
    Chapter 1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF TSWANA MERAFE AND THE ARRIVAL OF CHRISTIANITY AND COLONIALISM
    Chapter 2 TSWANA CONSOLIDATION WITHIN THE COLONIAL STATE Development of a Postcolonial State Embryo
    Chapter 3 CATTLE, DIAMONDS AND THE ‘GRAND COALITION’
    Chapter 4 THE STATE AND INDIGENOUS AUTHORITY STRUCTURES Ambiguities of Co-optation and Confrontation
    Chapter 5 TSWANA DOMINATION, MINORITY PROTESTS AND THE DISCOURSE OF DEVELOPMENT
    Chapter 6 ANTIPOLITICS AND QUESTIONS OF DEMOCRACY AND DOMINATION
    Chapter 7 GOVERNMENTALIZATION OF THE STATE On State Interventions in the Population
    Chapter 8 ESCALATING INEQUALITY Popular Reactions to Political Leaders
    CONCLUSION
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    INDEX
  • Contributor: Gulbrandsen, Ørnulf [VerfasserIn]; Kapferer, Bruce [MitwirkendeR]
  • imprint: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2012]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (364 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780857452986
  • ISBN: 9780857452986
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: LB 52575 : Botswana
  • Keywords: Chiefdoms Botswana History ; Power (Social sciences) Botswana History ; Autorität ; Staat ; Kolonialismus ; Nationenbildung ; Politische Elite ; Kolonialverwaltung ; Ethnizität ; Machtstruktur ; Traditionale Kultur ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: Botswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa—as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the “failure” of other states on the continent is often attributed to the prevalence of indigenous political ideas and structures, the author argues that Botswana’s apparent success is not the result of Western ideas and practices of government having replaced indigenous ideas and structures. Rather, the postcolonial state of Botswana is best understood as a unique, complex formation, one that arose dialectically through the meeting of European ideas and practices with the symbolism and hierarchies of authority, rooted in the cosmologies of indigenous polities, and both have become integral to the formation of a strong state with a stable government. Yet there are destabilizing potentialities in progress due to emerging class conflict between all the poor sections of the population and the privileged modern elites born of the expansion of a beef and diamond-driven political economy, in addition to conflicts between dominant Tswana and vast other ethnic groups. These transformations of the modern state are viewed from the long-term perspectives of precolonial and colonial genealogies and the rise of structures of domination, propelled by changing global forces
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