The politics of industrial policy: ruling elites and their alliances

Whitfield, Lindsay; Buur, Lars

doi:10.1080/01436597.2014.868991

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“…In the next section, we draw inspiration from this work and more recent work by Whitfield and Buur (2014) on the politics of industrial policy in Africa, to explore the political and fiscal pressures forcing the GoR to embark on political transformation. We first highlight the history of the ruling elite, both its internal discipline and its sense of vulnerability.…”

Section: State Power and Economic Development: Motivation Mattersmentioning

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Understanding the Political Motivations That Shape Rwanda's Emergent Developmental State

Mann

Berry²

2015

New Political Economy

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Twenty years after its horrific genocide, Rwanda has become a model for economic development. At the same time, its government has been criticized for its authoritarian tactics and use of violence. Missing from the often-polarized debate are the connections between these two perspectives. Synthesizing existing literature on Rwanda in light of a combined year of fieldwork, we argue that the GoR is using the developmental infrastructure to deepen state power and expand political control. We first identify the historical pressures that have motivated the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) to re-imagine the political landscape. Sectarian unrest, political rivalry, wider regional insecurity, and aid withdrawal have all pressured the RPF to identify growth as strategic. However, the country's political transformation extends beyond a prioritisation of growth and encompasses the reordering of the social and physical layout of the territory, the articulation of new ideologies and mindsets, and the provision of social services and surveillance infrastructure. Growth and social control go hand in hand. As such, the paper's main contribution is to bring together the two sides of the Rwandan debate and place the country in a broader sociological literature about the parallel development of capitalist relations and transformations in state power. Acknowledgements:The authors are grateful to

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Understanding the Political Motivations That Shape Rwanda's Emergent Developmental State

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Berry²

2015

New Political Economy

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“…Most explicitly, Kothari (2014) shows how the visualizations of self and state created possibilities of empire in ways analogous to how development relations are depicted as a shared struggle for good commodity provision and consumption. Whitfield and Buur (2014) demonstrate how ruling elites and domestic productive capitalist relations seen in Mozambique and Ghana have historical precedents in the sugar plantations and small-holder cocoa farms, and that these continue to present challenges for contemporary development. Alliances between new aid actors (China, India and Brazil) and the Zambian state are formed upon the fraught history of the country's domination by its traditional donors and lenders as shown by Kragelund (2014).…”

Section: New Actors and Alliances Within The Study Of International Dmentioning

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Toward New Knowledges in Development: New Actors and Alliances

Richey

2014

Forum for Development Studies

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“…For our understanding of ‘ruling elites’ we draw on Whitfield et al. (: 24; see also Behuria et al., ; Whitfield and Buur, ), who define this term as ‘the group of people who wield power as a result of their position in government, where they occupy offices in which authoritative decisions are made’. We suggest that this definition is suitable for the sorts of investments we are focusing on, as it allows us to pursue the complexities that the term ‘ruling elites’ denotes in the Mozambican context.…”

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‘No Smoke without Fire’: Citizenship and Securing Economic Enclaves in Mozambique

Buur¹,

Sumich

2019

Development and Change

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This article explores the complicated interrelationship between economic enclaves, their associated security practices and the formation of national citizens in Mozambique. From the colonial era of company rule to the large‐scale foreign direct investments of the present day, investors have feared the destructive fires of rampant ‘mobs’, unruly workers and the potentially rebellious populace more generally. Signs of smoke point to trouble for investors, who can draw on complex security arrangements, including corporate social responsibility programmes, unions, private security companies, community leaders, state police and specialized state and rapid response units with the latest communications and transport technologies, to try to protect their investments from labour unrest and political demands. Through a variety of ethnographic materials on mega‐investments in the sugar industry over the last two decades, the article explores the centrality of complex security arrangements to strategies of governance that use such arrangements in an attempt to produce disciplined national subjects.

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The politics of industrial policy: ruling elites and their alliances

Cited by 62 publications

References 19 publications

Understanding the Political Motivations That Shape Rwanda's Emergent Developmental State

Understanding the Political Motivations That Shape Rwanda's Emergent Developmental State

Toward New Knowledges in Development: New Actors and Alliances

‘No Smoke without Fire’: Citizenship and Securing Economic Enclaves in Mozambique

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