Introduction: The ideology of the illiberal modernisers in Africa

IF 1.3 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI:10.1080/21681392.2022.2151482
B. Dye
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The 21st century has seen a major political and developmental shift in Africa involving the rise of new authoritarian states and a return to infrastructure-led, economically interventionist state-building programmes. Many studies have examined the international political economy of this shift, from the commodity boom to the rise of China and the political power underpinning development-focused regimes at the national level. This special issue argues instead that this authoritarian state-building drive is also the product of ideas, beliefs, and principles. An ideology of development has led a group of ruling parties to pursue distinctive programmes of leap-frogging modernization. Authors in this special issue present a set of case studies ranging from old parties in government since independence, in Tanzania and Mozambique, to former insurgents in Rwanda and Ethiopia, and detail their ideologies. While acknowledging their considerable variation and uniqueness, we group the common features of these cases together, presenting the ‘illiberal modernisers’ ideological programme. Many of its elements look like resurgent 20th-century High Modernism, however, we demonstrate that there are profoundly new features combining postmodern aesthetics, elements of neoliberal orthodoxy, and new public management. Such ideological dimensions remain overlooked in the study of African politics, with materialist perspectives touting rational interests and strategy, largely dominating.
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引言:非洲非自由主义现代化者的意识形态
21世纪见证了非洲重大的政治和发展转变,包括新的威权国家的崛起,以及回归以基础设施为主导、经济干预主义的国家建设计划。许多研究考察了这种转变的国际政治经济,从大宗商品繁荣到中国的崛起,以及在国家层面上支撑以发展为重点的政权的政治力量。本期特刊认为,这种威权主义的国家建设动力也是思想、信仰和原则的产物。一种发展的意识形态引导着一群执政党追求独特的跨越式现代化方案。本期特刊的作者们介绍了一系列案例研究,从坦桑尼亚和莫桑比克独立以来的旧政党到卢旺达和埃塞俄比亚的前叛乱分子,并详细介绍了他们的意识形态。在承认其相当大的差异和独特性的同时,我们将这些案例的共同特征组合在一起,呈现出“非自由的现代主义者”的意识形态方案。它的许多元素看起来像复兴的20世纪高级现代主义,然而,我们证明了后现代美学、新自由主义正统元素和新公共管理的深刻新特征。在非洲政治的研究中,这种意识形态的维度仍然被忽视,唯物主义的观点鼓吹理性的利益和战略,在很大程度上占主导地位。
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Critical African Studies
Critical African Studies Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
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期刊介绍: Critical African Studies seeks to return Africanist scholarship to the heart of theoretical innovation within each of its constituent disciplines, including Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Law and Economics. We offer authors a more flexible publishing platform than other journals, allowing them greater space to develop empirical discussions alongside theoretical and conceptual engagements. We aim to publish scholarly articles that offer both innovative empirical contributions, grounded in original fieldwork, and also innovative theoretical engagements. This speaks to our broader intention to promote the deployment of thorough empirical work for the purposes of sophisticated theoretical innovation. We invite contributions that meet the aims of the journal, including special issue proposals that offer fresh empirical and theoretical insights into African Studies debates.
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