The death of political possibility? Reading State and society in Nigeria 40 years on

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Review of African Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/03056244.2022.2033521

P. Roelofs

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In this 2019 reboot of his collection of essays from the 1970s, Gavin Williams traces the lingering the impact of colonialism and international capital on Nigeria’s political economy, the shaky development of an indigenous industrial class and the changing role of the state in national development. However, reading the book, it is not clear what such an analysis is for. Is it intended as a diagnosis? An indictment? Williams leftist commitments are clear, but amid the painstaking analysis one can ask: what is the point of studying politics? In this review article the author unpicks Williams’ at times contradictory answers to this question and argues that the book demonstrates the relevance of mid twentieth-century Nigerian politics to readers today. She poses the question of how we can navigate the possibility and risks of newly volatile twenty-first-century politics, unchained as it is from the liberal orthodoxy of the past 40 years.

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政治可能性的死亡?阅读40年来尼日利亚的国家与社会

加文·威廉姆斯(Gavin Williams)于2019年重新出版了他的20世纪70年代散文集，在这本书中，他追溯了殖民主义和国际资本对尼日利亚政治经济的持续影响、本土工业阶级的不稳定发展以及国家在国家发展中角色的变化。然而，阅读这本书，并不清楚这样的分析是为了什么。这是一种诊断吗?一种控诉?威廉姆斯的左派承诺是明确的，但在艰苦的分析中，人们可能会问:学习政治的意义是什么?在这篇评论文章中，作者拆解了威廉姆斯对这个问题有时相互矛盾的回答，并认为这本书向今天的读者展示了20世纪中期尼日利亚政治的相关性。她提出了一个问题，即我们如何驾驭新动荡的21世纪政治的可能性和风险，因为它已经从过去40年的自由主义正统中解脱出来。

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Review of African Political Economy Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends and issues in Africa. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa. It has sustained a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa.