عنوان

The Rational Rebel:

شماره

LA107566

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Rational Rebel:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

How Rational, How Rebellious? Some African Examples

نام نخستين پديدآور

Rob Buijtenhuijs

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

My aim in this article is to evaluate some general statements on civil violence, and more particularly on the purposefulness of collective action and on the alleged rationality that moves social actors launching rebellion. With the use of African examples, examples that are too seldom taken into account in theoretical explanations of violent conflict, it is shown that rationality in collective action can certainly not be dismissed out of hand, but that some caveats have to be entered into the argument: some African rebels, although acting rationaly, base themselves on completely erroneous information, while in other cases social actors consciously opt for life or a career as a rebel, but out of motives that anything but "revolutionary". My aim in this article is to evaluate some general statements on civil violence, and more particularly on the purposefulness of collective action and on the alleged rationality that moves social actors launching rebellion. With the use of African examples, examples that are too seldom taken into account in theoretical explanations of violent conflict, it is shown that rationality in collective action can certainly not be dismissed out of hand, but that some caveats have to be entered into the argument: some African rebels, although acting rationaly, base themselves on completely erroneous information, while in other cases social actors consciously opt for life or a career as a rebel, but out of motives that anything but "revolutionary".

تاريخ نشر

1996

توصيف ظاهري

3-25

عنوان

Afrika Focus

شماره جلد

12/1-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2031-356X

اصطلاح موضوعی

Africa South of the Sahara

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Civil violence

اصطلاح موضوعی

General

اصطلاح موضوعی

Rational choice theory

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social Sciences

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Rob Buijtenhuijs

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/2031356X-0120103002

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y