For richer, for poorer: why ethnicity often trumps economic cleavages in Kenya
For richer, for poorer: why ethnicity often trumps economic cleavages in Kenya
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对于富人，对于穷人：为什么肯尼亚的种族歧视常常胜过经济分裂
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2017
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B. Bedasso
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B. Bedasso
摘要本文旨在研究为什么种族冲突一直是肯尼亚精英组织集体行动的最主要平台。作者制定了一个广泛的理论框架，围绕民族在谈判社会秩序的组织作用。经验表明，肯尼亚的种族歧视深深植根于群体不平等和历史不公正的感觉。此外，经济的历史结构使经济租金的分配偏向于特定群体的活动和资源。因此，该国的早期机构是这样设计的，即政治秩序的稳定将取决于精英利用族裔作为讨价还价筹码的能力。种族性在政治上仍然很突出，部分原因是经济租金不够个性化，无法持续支持跨种族的组织形式。
ABSTRACT This article aims to examine why ethnic allegiances have persisted as the most dominant platform used by the elites to organise collective action in Kenya. The author formulates a broad theoretical framework centred around the organisational role of ethnicity in negotiating social orders. Empirically, it is shown that ethnic allegiances in Kenya are deeply rooted in group inequalities and feelings of historical injustice. Moreover, the historical structure of the economy has skewed the distribution of economic rents toward group-specific activities and resources. Therefore, the early institutions of the country were designed in such a way that the stability of political order would depend on the elites’ ability to use ethnicity as a bargaining chip. Ethnicity continues to be politically salient partly because economic rents are not individualised enough to sustainably support trans-ethnic forms of organisation.