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Title TheexpertgovernmentofdisasterinAfrica:disastersciencebetweenstatesand internationalorganisations
Full text http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00907369
Date 2013
Author(s) Nakanabo Diallo, Rozenn
Abstract At the top of the state in Mozambique, key actors are senior officials sponsored by donors, thus creating "islands of efficiency" where the administration is particularly efficient. Policymaking is thus characterized by a close interface between the state and donors, as shown in the paper through a sociology of senior officials in the tourism ministry. Aid is indeed notably made of "administrative enclaves", where senior officials respond to the state, but are at the same time paid by donors such as the World Bank, which sponsors these "islands of efficiency" by providing important means (including competitive wages) as well as imposing its own agenda in policymaking. The paper consists in a sociology of senior officials composing such an administrative enclave, namely the TFCA (Transfrontier Conservation Areas) Unit in the tourism ministry, as well as of some other Mozambican actors sponsored by other donors in the same ministry. The analysis of their professional careers and their worldviews is a first step towards the hypothesis of an international government of Africa, for the state and donors are worlds closely tied to one another.
Subject(s) [SHS:SCIPO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science; [SHS:SCIPO] Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique; [SHS:SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology; [SHS:SOCIO] Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie; Disaster; Public policy; Administration; International aid; Carreer; Mozambique; Africa
Coverage Lisbonne; Portugal
Language ENG
Type of publication conference, seminar, workshop communication
Source African dynamics in a multipolar World AEGIS-ECAS 2013, 5th European Conference on African Studies
Repository France - Hyper Article en Ligne (HAL), SHS
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