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Title: | 'Wasta!': the long-term implications of education expansion and economic liberalisation on politics in Sudan |
Author: | Mann, Laura |
Year: | 2014 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244) |
Volume: | 41 |
Issue: | 142 |
Pages: | 561-578 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | patronage liberalism higher education State-society relationship Islamic movements social change |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.952276 |
Abstract: | By tracking the changing nature of 'wasta', or personal intermediation, in the Khartoum labour market, this article examines the impact of Islamist policies on state-society relations in Khartoum, Sudan. It argues that economic liberalisation and higher education expansion weakened sectarian control over the economy, replacing the former institutionalised system of privilege with a much more decentralised, private and transnational structure. The conclusion asks whether these policies have laid the groundwork for long-term political transformation. While education expansion and liberalisation should theoretically allow a regime to broaden patronage networks, they may also reduce the capacity of both the regime and the private sector to exercise power and establish predictability outwards. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |