Introduction

Dorronsoro, Gilles; Grojean, Olivier

doi:10.1093/oso/9780190845780.003.0001

“…12 'Customary capital' can be understood as a subspecies of what Gilles Dorronsoro and Olivier Grojean call 'identity capital' and more specifically of 'ethnic capital'. 13 Hence ethnic and customary capital, are cognate forms of symbolic capital. However, whereas ethnic capital has the properties of a collective capital insofar as it signals a ranking in access to different resources, status, opportunities and rights of different identity categories, and hence, forms of inclusion and exclusion, 14 customary capital denotes a rarified form of ethnic capital, which enable those who posses it to rule.…”

Section: Customary Capital In Social Fieldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Courses au pouvoir: the struggle over customary capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Hoffmann

¹

,

Vlassenroot²,

Mudinga

³

2020

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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This article analyses the production and reproduction of traditional chieftaincy in war-torn eastern DR Congo, through the case of a succession dispute in Kalima (South Kivu). Kalima has gone through two decades of political instability and violent conflict involving a plethora of local, national and regional actors. During this period of uncertainty and upheaval, the institution of traditional chieftaincy has remained politically salient. We argue, that this salience is conditioned by a widespread belief in the authenticity and sacredness of the institution of traditional chieftaincy and by the ethno-territorial imaginary of the Congolese political order. Both of these are historically produced through rituals, ceremonies and narratives of origin. They imbue the institution of traditional chieftaincy with charisma and enable customary chiefs to accumulate resources and exercise authority in a wide range of domains of public life in rural eastern Congo. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu, we call this ability to rule through the notion of 'custom', customary capital. However, we also show that 'customary capital' does not automatically accrue to chiefs as a variety of internal and external actors vie for customary capital. As such it fluctuates over time as different actors move in and out of the capacity to legitimately wield customary capital.

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“…While cognition is concerned with rational processes, affect determines underlying emotional processes that essentially direct cognition. An extension to CAT is Mindset Agency Theory (MAT), which is capable of modelling agency personality issues that might result in such disorders as the "narcissism of minor differences," and that can impact collective action [186].…”

Section: Modelling Regional Organisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union

Rautakivi¹,

Yolles²

2023

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Regional organisations (ROs) are important in that they can enable states in their regions to pros-per and develop for improvement. Interest here lies in the European Union (EU) and the Associa-tion of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Their political development involves complex process-es for collective actions involving ingroup member RO states. To explore development, we firstly examine the rise of both the EU and ASEAN. The literature gives some attention to the behaviour-alist political approach to explain developmental differences using social organisation theory, often in terms of the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft paradigm of Tönnies. However, here we adopt a social psychology approach that distinguishes between operative structure (which directly determines behaviour), and substructure (housing normative personality deemed to be responsible for behav-ioural imperatives). This enables a relationship to be made between the Tönnies paradigm and the Collectivism-Individualism paradigm of Triandis. The theoretical approach adopted involves a complex adaptive systems model deriving from metacybernetics, and this also delivers Mindset Agency Theory as a qualitative methodology. Consistent with the general view, it is shown that the EU is more or less a coherent rational organisation, while ASEAN is more idealistic delivering pragmatic paradox. In particular, ASEAN is frequently descried as an organisation with contra-dictions, and for this reason its pathologies are explored in some detail

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“…While cognition is concerned with rational processes, affect determines underlying emotional processes that essentially direct cognition. An extension to CAT is Mindset Agency Theory (MAT), which is capable of modelling agency personality issues that might result in such disorders as the "narcissism of minor differences," and that can impact collective action [185].…”

Section: Modelling Regional Organisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union.

Rautakivi¹,

Yolles²

2023

Preprint

0

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Regional organisations (ROs) are important in that they can enable states in their regions to pros-per and develop for improvement. Interest here lies in the European Union (EU) and the Associa-tion of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Their political development involves complex process-es for collective actions involving ingroup member RO states. To explore development, we firstly examine the rise of both the EU and ASEAN. The literature gives some attention to the behaviour-alist political approach to explain developmental differences using social organisation theory, often in terms of the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft paradigm of Tönnies. However, here we adopt a social psychology approach that distinguishes between operative structure (which directly determines behaviour), and substructure (housing normative personality deemed to be responsible for behav-ioural imperatives). This enables a relationship to be made between the Tönnies paradigm and the Collectivism-Individualism paradigm of Triandis. The theoretical approach adopted involves a complex adaptive systems model deriving from metacybernetics, and this also delivers Mindset Agency Theory as a qualitative methodology. Consistent with the general view, it is shown that the EU is more or less a coherent rational organisation, while ASEAN is more idealistic delivering pragmatic paradox. In particular, ASEAN is frequently descried as an organisation with contra-dictions, and for this reason its pathologies are explored in some detail

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Courses au pouvoir: the struggle over customary capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Courses au pouvoir: the struggle over customary capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union

Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union.

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