Cultures obligatoires, monétarisation et mobilisations sociopolitiques dans le monde rural à la fin de la colonisation

Piton, Florent

doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.18349

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“…Despite ongoing historically minded work on diverse themes across the region (e.g. Burihabwa and Curtis 2019; Piton 2016; Mathys 2017; de Haas 2019; Castryck 2020), history and contemporary analyses have seen only limited exchange wherever presentism stands in the way.…”

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Histories of authority in the African Great Lakes: trajectories and transactions

Desrosiers¹,

Russell²

2020

Africa

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This article reflects on how scholars have engaged with the past and with notions of authority in the African Great Lakes. A dominant ‘presentist’ perspective on the region mobilizes historical knowledge in an uncritical fashion, reducing authority to a set of historical clichés and building on a familiar focus on crises and the state. Bridging history and political science, we propose two concepts to analyse histories of political authority to unsettle presentist biases: trajectories and transactions. To illustrate the contribution these alternative lenses make, we present two historical vignettes. First, we revisit the 1973 coup in Rwanda as an ambiguous trajectory of authority-making and unmaking. Then, we consider languages of praise and petitioning in Burundi in the 1960s, to show how authority is lived, manifested and challenged through local transactional relations.

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Histories of authority in the African Great Lakes: trajectories and transactions

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2020

Africa

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Cultures obligatoires, monétarisation et mobilisations sociopolitiques dans le monde rural à la fin de la colonisation

Abstract: Cultures obligatoires, monétarisation et mobilisations sociopolitiques dans le monde rural à la fin de la colonisation L'arrachage des caféiers du Mulera au Rwanda en octobre 1958

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