Louisa Lombard
Auteur van State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic (African Arguments)
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At first, I was intrigued, and thought this might be a very informative book. However, it became increasingly obvious that the author was engaging in some serious mental acrobatics to explain the recurring conflicts in the CAR without mentioning — dare I say it! — imperialism.
According to the author the conflicts in the CAR are due to virtually every other reason except imperialism: the Weberian state-ideal, fuelled by foreign intervention; concessionary politics; the relations between people as reflected in the kind of state (or lack thereof) that exists; the desire for social status and personhood; etc.
These abstract issues, not U.S., French, and South African capital and control over the CAR’s extensive natural resources, including diamonds, uranium, oil, etc., is the ‘real’ cause of violence and instability in the CAR(!?).… (meer)