Filling in the Blanks: The Potency of Fragmented Imageries of the State
Filling in the Blanks: The Potency of Fragmented Imageries of the State
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填补空白：国家碎片形象的力量
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2007
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M. Nielsen
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M. Nielsen
最近对国家的新世袭主义方法将撒哈拉以南的国家视为一种门面，以不同程度的有效性掩盖了客户关系和亲属和朋友利益的作用。本文分析了莫桑比克马普托城市周边地区的思想是如何被复制的，认为在与功能失调的国家机器的相遇和对普通人的主观理解之间不存在预先给定的因果关系。我们不能先验地确定，不连贯和部分的国家实践必然导致个人认为国家缺乏合法的道德价值。相反，当地的个人使用与国家有关的想法来定义应享权利，并为评估国家定义的方案或国际捐助者驱动的倡议制定标准。因此，国家的观念可以成为社会行动的基础;即使国家功能失调的现实被广泛接受，“普通人”仍然继续投入到这些观念中。
Recent neo-patrimonial approaches to the state see the sub-Saharan state as a façade that serves – with different degrees of effectiveness – to disguise the play of clientalistic relations and the interests of kin and kith. Drawing on an analysis of how ideas are reproduced in peri-urban areas of Maputo, Mozambique, this article argues that no pre-given causality exists between encounters with a dysfunctional state apparatus and subjectively held understandings of ordinary people. We cannot a priori determine that incoherent and partial state practices necessarily lead individuals to perceive the state as devoid of legitimate moral value. On the contrary, locally situated individuals use ideas associated with the state to define entitlements and create standards for evaluating state-defined programmes or international donor-driven initiatives. Ideas of the state can thus be a basis for social action; even when the reality of state dysfunction is widely accepted, ‘ordinary people’ continue to invest themselves in these ideas.