| Titre | Une réinvention de la différence élitaire : un Rotary Club dans le Kenya de Mwai Kibaki | |
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| Auteur | Dominique Connan | |
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Revue | Critique internationale |
| Numéro | no 73, octobre-décembre 2016 La fabrique de l'hérédité en politique | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Varia |
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| Page | 133-155 | |
| Résumé anglais |
A Reinvention of Elitist Difference: A Rotary Club in Mwai Kibaki's Kenya An ethnographic survey carried out between 2008 and 2011 within Nairobi's Langata Rotary Club allows one to describe the professional sociability of Kenyan elites who appropriate globalized representations of economic and social success. Organized around weekly meetings and charitable events, the Rotarians' exclusive social life casts light on the manner in which individual aspirations for economic success, social recognition and self-esteem become mixed with promoting the mantras of “good governance” and liberalization for Kenya. The Rotarians have a paradoxical relationship to the state that consists in avoiding political competition and its excesses while simultaneously imitating the state's practices of legitimation: bureaucracy, taxation and, by way of philanthropy, public service. The survey thus offers a detailed portrait of the manner in which the “games of symbolic import-export” used by this segment of the ruling classes to legitimate itself play out in the everyday context of these private circles of elite sociability. ■ Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=CRII_073_0133 |
