Chiefs, power, and social change Chiefship and modern politics in Botswana, 1880s-1990s Vaughan, Olufemi

Africa World Press
Year of publishing: 2003
Place of publishing: Trenton
ISBN: 1592210945
Language: English
Series: first

Tato kniha poukazuje na instituci náčelníka jako na opěrný bod v diskusích o kontinuitě a sociální změně v koloniální a postkoloniální Botsvaně. Autor tuto instituci analyzuje v širokém sociopolitickém kontextu a poukazuje na to, že tato dávná instituce umožňuje formulovat místní hodnoty a aspirace v rychle se měnící Botsvaně 20.století. Autor přehledně popisuje, že instituce náčelníka slouží jako účinný prostředek k analýze spletité lokální politiky jak v období koloniální nadvlády, tak v postkoloniálním období. Poukazuje také na to, že se tato instituce zachovala jako platforma pro rekonstrukci tradiční hierarchie moci v rámci sociální stratifikace, komunálních identit a územních vztahů v Botsvaně 20.století.

This book identifies the institution of chiefship as the focal point of the critical discourse on continuity and social change in colonial and postcolonial Botswana. Analyzed within an expansive social and political context, the institution of chiefship represents a critical domain for the articulation of local values and aspirations in a rapidly changing, twentieth-century Botswana.Vaughan clearly illustrates how chiefship serves an effective medium for the analyses of complex expressions of local politics during colonial rule and the developmental policies of modernizing elites in the postcolonial era; and how it has sustained itself as a platform for the re-construction of traditional hierarchies of power amidst the social stratification, communal identities, and spatial relations of Botswana in the twentieth century.

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