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...L. M. Thompson The New Nigerian Elite . By Smythe Hugh H. Smythe Mabel M. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1960 . Pp. xiii , 196 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 490 The South Atlantic Quarterly history of Africa, which will be eagerly...

...Hugh H. Smythe; Mabel M. Smythe Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Black Africa s New Power Elite Hugh H. and Mabel M. Smythe The increasing attention paid in the United States to Africa has understandably focused on political developments as the continent has been swept...

...D. J. M. Muffett, O. B. E. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 The Failure of Elite-Mass Communication: Some Problems Confronting the Military Regimes and Civil Services of Nigeria D. J. M. Muffett, O. B. E. Meanwhile, in the North, the local petty contractors and party func­...

...Joel Smith Community Influentials: The Elites of Atlanta . By Jennings M. Kent . New York : The Free Press of Glencoe , 1964 . Pages xii , 212 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 134 The South Atlantic Quarterly inal, the heart of his idea has appeared in several...

...Huascar Salazar Lohman Recently, the policies promoted by the government of the Movement to Socialism Party ( Movimiento al Socialismo ; MAS) have shown themselves to be increasingly and explicitly tied to the interests of old and new dominant elites. In contrast to the neoliberal era, when...

...Forrest Hylton Focusing on late nineteenth-century insurgent movements for self-government, sovereignty, and political representation in Bolivia in 1899, this essay explores issues of regional antagonism, elite fragmentation, and incipient class divisions within Indian peasant communities. I...

..., pitting the vested interests of transnational political elites against the interests of local men and women in living a safe, everyday life. This essay first provides a brief history of two major military bases in the provincial city of Pyeongtaek. Then it examines how the antibase movement by local...

... therapy,” the manipulative and managerial approach to politics in the ruling elites, and the highly specific and heterogeneous constitution of the emergent subject of struggle. It also gives further insight into the global meaning of the Russian protests as the result of an “overdetermination...

... the race icon achieves its discursive power for both the social elites who often construct such iconography and for the masses who are wrongly presumed simply to consume it, the article investigates the rhetoric, aesthetics, and ideology of claiming iconic status based on access to and transference...

... decade, the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) had been involved in a striking level of intra-elite political competition for national power with the Kemalist establishment, which consisted of the high ranks of the military bureaucracy (the army), the civil bureaucracy (jurisdiction...

... and colonization led by the overseas metropolis and then later by the administration of the Criollo -elite constructed state. Therefore, this process can also be described as criollization . The transition to colonial-modernity—the current rapid expansion of the state-business-media-Christianity front—intrudes...

... ambitions in the university field at the expense of an established academic elite. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 Alfred Espinas animals biology Third Republic References Beaunis Henri . 1887 . Impressions de campagne, 1870–1871 . Paris : Alcan . Bernard Claude...

...Joy James Examining the parameters of Africana thought with references to the 2008 presidential campaigns that led to the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States, this essay explores the relationship of black elite leadership and black mass disenfranchisement...

... in the developing world. By comparing Bukele’s move with El Salvador’s push to dollarize in 2001, this essay traces a comparable strategy of El Salvador’s economic and political elites where the swap of currencies becomes a vehicle for massive accumulation at the top, while popular classes suffer. Consequently...

... “elite educated opinion” in a way that some can no longer tolerate? In “Crude Wars,” Timothy Brennan and Keya Ganguly write, “It has become fashionable for cultural critics to reject supposedly outmoded theories of political economy, to disdain the simple exposure of hidden agendas, to scoff at the likes...

...,” as in the case of Darfur. Hassan argues in favor of looking at the origins of these conflicts as manifestations of unequal development and historic injustices perpetrated against the margins by the ruling class of Arabized elites. In the process, Hassan reveals the vigorous engagement of Sudanese at all levels...

... polarization between public and private urban space. Reflected in the gated communities, green zones, fortified aid compounds, shopping malls, and tourist enclaves of the global city, bunkers offer sites of elite refuge, private consumption, and a secure base from which power, in an uncertain and divided world...

.... Witnessing a Lao administrator s grief at the death of his first child made it impossible to view him simply as a member of the rising elite who combined the desire to modernize his country with a continuing belief in the power of animistic spirits. Scenery, both physical and human, abounds in Laos. Most...

... in the University of London, where, with Dr. Roland Oliver, he is preparing a two-volume 4 490 The South Atlantic Quarterly history of Africa, which will be eagerly awaited by students of African history. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES L. M. THOMPSON The New Nigerian Elite. By Hugh H. Smythe and Mabel M...

... of citizens appear to be quite simply wrong, when some kind of elite judgment and arrange­ ment is to be preferred to what participatory democracy may decree. Logically a perfect equality is anarchy, with all its attendant social consequences. The lynch mob is a particularly pure example of egalitarian...