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SUMMARY:Uneven Development and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regional Ten
 sions Around New Growth Models
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Catherine Boone (LSE)\n\nThis talk draws upon Inequa
 lity and Political Cleavage in Africa (Cambridge\, 2024) to trace the ro
 ots of strong regionalism within African countries\, arguing that this a
 rises from both inequalities rooted in economic geography and the struct
 ure of political institutions. In many African countries\, we see forms 
 of regionalism and territorial politics that are observed in countries a
 round the world that are marked by strong regional inequalities. These g
 ive rise to policy divides that are typical of territorially divided cou
 ntries -- including divisions around redistributive policy\, sectoral po
 licy\, problems of national market integration\, and constitutional desi
 gn. This talk links these regional tensions to strains within African co
 untries around 21st century growth models based on new export sectors\, 
 extractives\, and infrastructure development. Examples are drawn from Ke
 nya\, Tanzania\, Ethiopia\, Côte d’Ivoire\, and South Africa\, among oth
 ers.\n \nCatherine Boone is Harold Laski Professor of Political Science 
 at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, and holds a Ph
 D in Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her r
 esearch focuses on questions of comparative political economy. In additi
 on to book featured in this talk\, she is author of Property and Politic
 al Order: Land Rights and the Structure of Conflict in Africa (2014)\; P
 olitical Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and In
 stitutional Choice (2003)\, Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Powe
 r in Senegal (1993)\, and book chapters and articles.  She convened the 
 LSE MSc program in Africa Development from 2014-2020.  She was elected t
 o the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020 and became a Fellow 
 of the British Academy in 2021. She has convened the LSE-UCL Land Politi
 cs Working Group since 2015. \n\n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:G33\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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