Patrick Chabal
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- PhD Political Science University of Oxford
- Bachelors History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Patrick Chabal was an Africanist of the late 20th and early 21st century. He had a long academic career. Patrick Chabal's latest position was Chair in African History & Politics at King's College London. He published numerous books, book chapters and articles about Africa. He was one of the founders of AEGIS and was a board member for many years.
Patrick Chabal's Published Works
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Published Works
- Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument (2000) (991)
- The quest for good government and development in Africa: is NEPAD the answer? (2002) (161)
- State in society: studying how states and societies transform and constitute one another. (2002) (152)
- A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa (2002) (132)
- Popular Struggles for Democracy in Africa (1988) (124)
- Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling (2009) (123)
- Political topographies of the African state: Territorial authority and institutional choice (2005) (114)
- Political legitimacy in middle Africa: father, family, food (2002) (114)
- A Few Considerations on Democracy in Africa (1998) (112)
- Political domination in Africa : reflections on the limits of power (1986) (101)
- Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and People's War (1983) (92)
- Congo-Paris: transnational traders on the margins of the law. (2001) (87)
- When things fell apart: state failure in late-century Africa (2009) (87)
- The African Crisis: context and interpretation (1996) (87)
- Chiefs know their boundaries: essays on property, power and the past in Asante, 1896-1996 (2002) (85)
- States and power in Africa: comparative lessons in authority and control. (2001) (83)
- Power in Africa (1992) (80)
- Power in Africa: An Essay in Political Interpretation (1993) (75)
- The mask of anarchy: the destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war. (2000) (61)
- Culture Troubles: Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning (2006) (59)
- The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa (1996) (59)
- Transforming Mozambique: the politics of privatization, 1975-2000 (2003) (57)
- Comparative politics: rationality, culture and structure. (1999) (57)
- The politics of patronage in Africa: parastatals, privatization and private enterprise. (2001) (56)
- Angola: The Weight Of History (1980) (55)
- Identity economics: social networks and the informal economy in Nigeria. (2010) (43)
- Paths of accommodation: Muslim societies and French colonial authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920 (2002) (42)
- Political Leadership in Africa (1983) (38)
- Guinea-Bissau: Politics, Economics and Society (1987) (37)
- Unity and Struggle (1981) (37)
- The Third Portuguese Empire, 1825-1975: A Study in Economic Imperialism (1986) (35)
- African modernities: entangled meanings in current debate. (2003) (34)
- Is Violence Inevitable in Africa: theories of conflict and approaches to conflict prevention (2005) (33)
- Mozambique and the great flood of 2000. (2002) (32)
- African democracy in the era of globalisation (2000) (27)
- Voices from the rocks: nature, culture and history in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe. (2000) (27)
- African economies and the politics of permanent crisis, 1979-1999. (2002) (24)
- Spirit possession: modernity and power in Africa. (2000) (23)
- Présentation de "Culture Troubles: Politics and the interpretation of meaning", Londres/Chicago , Hurst Publ./University of Chicago Press (2005) (21)
- Angola unravels: The rise and fall of the Lusaka peace process (2000) (21)
- Contemporary crisis of the nation state (1996) (19)
- The End of Conceit: Western Rationality after Postcolonialism (2012) (19)
- Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative essays on the politics of rights and culture, edited by Mahmood Mamdani. Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 2000. 170 pp. £12.95 paperback. ISBN 0‐86486‐429‐9. (2001) (18)
- NATIONAL LIBERATION IN PORTUGUESE GUINEA, 1956–1974 (1981) (17)
- Party, State, and Socialism in Guinea-Bissau (1983) (17)
- War and the politics of identity in Ethiopia: the making of enemies and allies in the Horn of Africa (2010) (17)
- Political Domination In Africa: Introduction: Thinking about politics in Africa (1986) (17)
- Beyond States and Empires: Chiefdoms and Informal Politics (2017) (17)
- The Social and Political Thought of Amílcar Cabral: a Reassessment (1981) (17)
- The socialist ideal in Africa (1990) (16)
- People's War, State Formation and Revolution in Africa: a comparative analysis of Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Angola (1983) (16)
- Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (2013) (16)
- Africa's new peace and security architecture: promoting norms, institutionalizing solutions. (2010) (15)
- Of Criminals and Clients: African Culture and Afro-Pessimism in a Globalized World (2000) (14)
- Cape Verde: Politics, Economics and Society (1989) (13)
- Angola and Mozambique: The Weight of History (2022) (12)
- The State of Governance in Africa (2009) (12)
- The Last Empire: thirty years of Portuguese decolonisation (2005) (10)
- The poor are not us: poverty and pastoralism. (2000) (10)
- Burundi: ethnocide as discourse and practice (1995) (10)
- Emergencies and Nationalist Wars in Portuguese Africa (1993) (10)
- Encyclopaedia of African History (2004) (9)
- Living with Ambiguity: Integrating an African Elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930-61 (2009) (8)
- AFRICA IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION (2001) (8)
- The Politics of Dependence (2018) (8)
- Area studies and comparative politics: Africa in context (2005) (8)
- Politics and Government in African States, 1960-1985 (1986) (7)
- Self and community in a changing world (2011) (7)
- Southern Africa: civil society, politics and donor strategies (2009) (7)
- Aspects of Angolan literature: Luandino Vieira and Agostinho Neto (1995) (7)
- Political Domination In Africa: Revolutionary democracy in Africa: the case of Guinea-Bissau (1986) (6)
- Globalization and identity: dialectics of now and closure. (2000) (6)
- On Reason and Afro-Pessimism (2008) (6)
- Review Article: Is there a French way of Explaining African Politics? (2000) (5)
- Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique (2009) (5)
- Theories of Africans: francophone literature and anthropology in Africa (1992) (4)
- Africa 2000: Forty Years of African Studies in Prague (2001) (4)
- Imagined modernities: community, nation and state in postcolonial Africa (2014) (4)
- Historical Dictionary of the Republics of Guinea-Bissau and Cape-Verde (1981) (4)
- Apocalypse Now? A postcolonial journey into Africa. (1997) (4)
- Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-Colonial Angola (2007) (4)
- Unity and Struggle . By Amilcar Cabral. Translated by Michael Wolfers. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1980. Pp. xxxvi + 298. £2.25 (paperback). (1981) (3)
- The empire of things: regimes of value and material culture (2002) (3)
- Angola from Afro-Stalinism to petro-diamond capitalism. (2001) (3)
- Democracy and Daily Life in Black Africa (1994) (3)
- Africanists on Africa: current issues (2010) (3)
- Some Reflections on the Post-Colonial State in Portuguese-Speaking Africa (1992) (3)
- Community and the State in Lusophone Africa: papers read at the conference on New Research on Lusophone Africa held at King's College London 16-17 May 2002 (2003) (3)
- Mia Couto or the Art of Story Telling (2003) (2)
- WHERE NEXT FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE IN AFRICA? DEBATING PATRICK CHABAL'S AFRICA: THE POLITICS OF SUFFERING AND SMILING (2009) (2)
- Thinking about Politics in Africa (1986) (2)
- The Transition to Multi-Party Politics in Lusophone Africa: Problems and Prospects (1996) (2)
- Small is not always beautiful: the story of Equatorial Guinea (1990) (2)
- The Prospects for Democracy in Lusophone Africa (1996) (2)
- The Curse of War in Angola and Mozambique: Lusophone African Decolonization in Historical Perspective (1996) (2)
- Africa within the world: beyond dispossession and dependence (1994) (2)
- Potential of Cultural Heritage Sites for Introduction of Global Citizenship Education in Kazakhstan (2019) (2)
- Agency in Africa: the domestication of the modern mind (2012) (2)
- Party Politics behind Guinea-Bissau Coup (1980) (2)
- Portugal: the revolution in perspective (1988) (1)
- Who Speaks for Africa (2011) (1)
- Making sense of democracy in Africa: how it all began and where it is going (2013) (1)
- 'Portuguese' Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries (review) (2003) (1)
- Coup for Continuity (1981) (1)
- Privatization of the state (2000) (1)
- Copping out with Coppola (1984) (1)
- Violence, Politics and Rationality in Contemporary Africa (2002) (1)
- THE PRICE OF MONEY FRANCE AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICA (1991) (1)
- Jan Abbink & Mirjam de Bruijn (eds.), Land, Law and Politics in Africa: mediating conflict and reshaping the state (2011) (1)
- Africans, Africanists and the African Crisis (1991) (1)
- Review article: revolutionaries in Portuguese Africa (1988) (1)
- Culture in chaos: an anthropology of the social condition in war (2008) (1)
- How can Africa develop ? Reflections on theories , concepts , policies and realities (1)
- A history of modern Africa: 1800 to the present. (2010) (1)
- The Bottom Billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it? (review) (2008) (1)
- Political Transitions and Civil Society in Africa (2009) (1)
- The Crisis of Legitimacy and Representation (1992) (1)
- Richard Andrew Lobban, Jnr, and Peter Karibe Mendy, Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, third edition. African Historical Dictionaries 22, Lanham, Md, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1997, 432 pp., $79.00, ISBN 0 8108 3226 7. (1998) (1)
- The Sudan: contested national identities. (2000) (1)
- Power in Africa Reconsidered 1 (2017) (1)
- Historical Dictionary of Mozambique . By Mario Azevedo. (African Historical Dictionaries, 47). Metuchen NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, 1991. Pp. xxix+250. £35 (ISBN 0-81082-413-2). (1994) (0)
- The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa (1997) (0)
- Identity and democracy in a global world (2001) (0)
- Making Nations, Creating Strangers: states and citizenship in Africa (review) (2008) (0)
- The Reproduction of Power (1992) (0)
- The Crisis of Nationality and Sovereignty (1992) (0)
- The fortunate isles: a study in African transformation (1990) (0)
- Peter Duignan and Robert H. Jackson (eds.), Politics and Government in African States, 1960–1985. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1986, 442 pp., £25, ISBN 0 7099 1475 X. (1988) (0)
- Africa: unity, sovereignty and sorrow (2010) (0)
- Empire in Africa: Angola and its neighbors (review) (2007) (0)
- Democracy, accountability and representation. (2001) (0)
- Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa (review) (2010) (0)
- Violence, political culture and development in Africa (2007) (0)
- The Dialectics of the Hegemonic Drive (1992) (0)
- Africa: altered states, ordinary miracles (2009) (0)
- Angola/Portugal: ambiguous colonial identities. Historicity of representations of the self and others (2009) (0)
- Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa: risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. (2011) (0)
- MOZAMBIQUE: PROSPECTS FOR STABILITY (2001) (0)
- J. Gus Liebenow, African Politics: crises and challenges . Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1986, 305 pp., £32.50 hardback, ISBN 0 253 30275 7; £12.50 paperback, ISBN 0 253 20388 0. (1988) (0)
- A history of Mozambique (1995) (0)
- Rewriting Africa: Towards a Renaissance or Collapse (2001) (0)
- Negrology: Why Africa is dying (2004) (0)
- The PAIGC: dilemmas of continuity (1980) (0)
- Evidence-Based Policies (2008) (0)
- Political Transitions in Lusophone Africa (1997) (0)
- Out of the big night - Essay on the African colonized (2011) (0)
- Terence Ranger and Olufemi Vaughan (eds.), Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth-century Africa: essays in honour of A. H. M. Kirk-Greene . London: Macmillan, 1993, 297 pp., £47.50, 0 333 55078 1. (1994) (0)
- Olatunde Odetola, Military Regimes and Development: a comparative analysis in African societies . London: Allen and Unwin, 1982, 200 pp., £3.95 paperback. (1984) (0)
- The Dynamics of Political Africanisation (1992) (0)
- The sociology of elite distinction: from theoretical to comparative perspectives (2010) (0)
- PORTUGUESE DECOLONIZATION The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa: Metropolitan Revolution and the Dissolution of Empire. By Norrie MacQueen. London: Longman, 1997. Pp. xvii+266. £14.99, paperback (ISBN 0 582 25993 2). (1998) (0)
- Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett and Paul Nugent (eds), Making Nations, Creating Strangers: states and citizenship in Africa . Leiden: Brill (pb £55.00 – 978 9 00415 790 3). 2007, 277 pp. (2008) (0)
- China and Africa Property Rights Inequality and Climate Change (2007) (0)
- Africa: Modernity without Development? (2000) (0)
- The Crisis of Violence and Survival (1992) (0)
- Peter Anyang' Nyong'o (ed.), Popular Struggles for Democracy in Africa . New Jersey & London: United Nations University & Zed Books, 1987, 288 pp., ISBN 0 86. 32736 9 hardback, 0 862 32737 7 paperback. (1989) (0)
- Comrades, clients and cousins: colonialism, socialism and democratization in Sao Tome and Principe. (2000) (0)
- Guinea-Bissau: Micro-State to 'Narco State' (2016) (0)
- Marxism in Africa: Amílcar Cabral, Agostinho Neto, and Ahmed Sékou Touré (1986) (0)
- Portugal and Africa. (2000) (0)
- A Tale of Two Tyrants (1994) (0)
- Liberalism, democracy and development. (2003) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- How can Africa develop? Reflections on theories, concepts and realities (2011) (0)
- The Eurocentric conception of world politics: western international theory, 1760-2010 (2012) (0)
- Book Reviews (2005) (0)
- War and peace in Mozambique. (1999) (0)
- Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it? New York: Oxford University Press (hb £16.99 – 978 0 19531 145 7). 2007, 195 pp. (2008) (0)
- Civil society: history and possibilities. (2002) (0)
- Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara: a biographical dictionary (1992) (0)
- Essays on African history: from the slave trade to neocolonialism and Democratic theory and practice in Africa (1989) (0)
- Bringing Culture Back In (2015) (0)
- Inventing Africa: history, archaeology and ideas (2011) (0)
- Contemporary West African states (1991) (0)
- The Political and Cultural Context of Agostinho Neto's Poetry (1989) (0)
- Ogun, the African Prometheus: reflections on some recent historiography of Lusophone Africa (1986) (0)
- The End of Empire in Lusophone Africa: Portugal and the anticolonial wars, 1960-1974 (1995) (0)
- Symbolic Confrontations: Muslims imagining the state in Africa by DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN London: Hurst & Co., 2003. Pp. 243, £40.00; £16.50 (pbk.). (2004) (0)
- The Crisis of Accumulation and Inequality (1992) (0)
- The search for Africa: a history in the making and The black's man burden: Africa and the curse of the nation-state (1994) (0)
- Revolutionary Nationalism? Lusophone African Decolonisation in Historical Perspective (1995) (0)
- Rosemary E. Galli and Jocelyn Jones, Guinea-Bissau: politics, economics and society . London: Frances Pinter, 1987, 217 pp., ISBN 0 86187 601 6 hardback, 086187 602 4 paperback, £22.50 hardback, £6.95 paperback. (1988) (0)
- Magic and warfare: appearance and reality in contemporary African conflict and beyond. (2010) (0)
- Africa to the rescue of the West (2004) (0)
- South Africa in Transition (1997) (0)
- Emergencies and Disorder in European Empires after 1945 (1994) (0)
- The African Exception (2005) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1989) (0)
- Some Reflections on the State in Post-colonial Portuguese-speaking Africa (1993) (0)
- Areas of urban sociability in Africa (2010) (0)
- Just give money to the poor: the development revolution from the global South. (2011) (0)
- The Political Community (1992) (0)
- Postcolonialism: Political imagination in contemporary Africa (2001) (0)
- Democracy and development in Africa (1997) (0)
- Witchcraft, intimacy and trust: Africa in comparison by Peter Geschiere (2014) (0)
- John Cartwright, Political Leadership in Africa . London and New York: Croom Helm and St Martin's Press, 1983, 310 pp., £14.95. (1984) (0)
- Is Africa developing : the need for a paradigm shift (0)
- The myth of the powerless state. (2000) (0)
- Jonathan Hislop (ed.), "African Democracy in the Era of Globalisation" (Book Review) (2000) (0)
- The Crisis of Good Government and Political Morality (1992) (0)
- Turning points in African democracy (2010) (0)
- STUDYING RELIGION IN AFRICA (1983) (0)
- State, Power and New Political Actors in Postcolonial Africa (2004) (0)
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