Revisitando a 1a Edição que Li de Jean-Francois Bayart. 1993. The State in Africa.

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Jean-Francois Bayart. 1993.

The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly.

New York: Longman.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Professor John Dunn Preface to the English edition

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: The Genesis of the State

1. The shadow Theatre of Ethnicity

2. The Unequal State: 'Little Men' and 'Big Men

3. The Bourgeois Illusion

4. The Opportunity State

PART TWO: Scenarios in the Pursuit of Hegemony

5. Conservative Modernisation or Social Revolution? The Extreme Scenarios

6. The Reciprocal Assimilation of Elites: The Hypothesis of an Intermediate Scenario

7. The Formation of a Postcolonial Historic Bloc

PART THREE: Political Action

8. Entrepreneurs, Factions and Political Networks

9. The Politics of the Belly

Conclusion: Of Terrors and Men

Notes

Index