Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites

Name: Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites
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ISBN: 9780253110244

ISBN-10: 0253110246

ISBN-13: 9780253110244

Edition: 2004

Authors: Richard Werbner

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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 public services, advocated causes for the public good, founded organizations to build the public sphere and civil society, and forged partnerships and alliances with other ethnic groups in…

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List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/16/2004
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 272
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long
Language: English

Richard Werbneris Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of many books, includingReasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana.



Introduction: Reflections and Frontiers


Citizens Negotiating Power: Elites, Minorities, and Tribal Bureaucrats


Postcolonial Wisdom: The Post-Civil Service and the Public Good


The Minorities Debate


The Politics of Recognition and "Pressure Groups"


Cosmopolitan Ethnicity, Entrepreneurship and the Nation


Official Blundering and the Discredited Commission


Land, Clients, and Tribal Bureaucrats


The Rise of Public Man: Elders


Bringing Back the Dead


Public Officer, Public Officer Emeritus


The Making of a Reasonable Radical


Epilogue: Postcolonial Wisdom, Beyond Afro-pessimism