Patrick Chabal
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|caption = Chabal at ECAS Leiden, 2007
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1951|4|29}}{{cite LAF|id=n 82111047}}
|birth_place = Taroudant, Morocco
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|field = History of Africa, Political science
|work_institutions = King's College London
|alma_mater = Harvard University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), Cambridge University (PhD)
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|known_for = Amílcar Cabral. Revolutionary leadership and people's war (Cambridge, 1983)
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Patrick Chabal (29 April 1951 – 16 January 2014) was an Africanist of the late 20th and early 21st century. He had a long academic career. Patrick Chabal's latest position was Chair in African History & Politics at King's College London. He published numerous books, book chapters and articles about Africa. He was one of the founders of AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies) and was a board member for many years.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2014/01/29/professor-patrick-chabal-a-tribute-to-the-unelected-dean-of-african-studies/ |title=Professor Patrick Chabal: A Tribute to the Unelected Dean of African Studies | Africa at LSE |publisher=Blogs.lse.ac.uk London School of |date= 29 January 2014|accessdate=2014-02-27}}{{cite web|url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem90186.html |title=Professor Patrick Chabal | SOAS, University of London |publisher=Soas.ac.uk |date=2014-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207072502/https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem90186.html |accessdate=2023-04-28|archive-date=7 February 2019 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/newsrecords/2013-14/chabal.aspx |title=King's College London - Professor Patrick Chabal |publisher=Kcl.ac.uk |date=2014-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083409/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/newsrecords/2013-14/chabal.aspx |accessdate=2023-04-28|archive-date=4 March 2016 }}
Major publications
- {{Cite book |title=Amílcar Cabral. Revolutionary leadership and people's war |first=Patrick |last=Chabal |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1983 |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521249447 |oclc=1158772727 |series=African Studies Volume 37 |issn=0065-406X}}
- with Jean-Pascal Daloz:
- {{Cite book |title=Africa works: disorder as political instrument |first1=Patrick |last1=Chabal |first2=Jean-Pascal |last2=Daloz |publisher=Currey |orig-date=1999 |date=2010 |edition=10th |location=Oxford |isbn=9780253212870 |oclc=643212358 |series=}}
- {{Cite book |title=Culture Troubles: politics and the interpretation of meaning |first1=Patrick |last1=Chabal |first2=Jean-Pascal |last2=Daloz |publisher=Hurst and University of Chicago Press |date=2006 |location=London and Chicago |isbn=9781850657804 |oclc=1405653718 |series=}}
- {{Cite book |title=African Alternatives |editor-first1=Patrick |editor-last1=Chabal |editor-first2=Ulf |editor-last2=Engel |editor-first3=Leo |editor-last3=de Haan |publisher=Brill |date=2007 |location=Leiden |isbn=9789004161139 |oclc= |series=}}
- {{Cite book |title=Africa: the politics of suffering and smiling |first=Patrick |last=Chabal |publisher=Zed Books |date=2009 |location=London |isbn= |oclc=941591685 |series=}}
- {{Cite book |title=The end of Conceit: Western Rationality after Postcolonialism |first=Patrick |last=Chabal |publisher=Zed Books |date=2012 |location=London |isbn=9781780323879 |oclc=809769256 |series=}}
Quote from ''Africa Works: disorder as political instrument'' (1999)
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|text=Our (admittedly far from cheering) conclusion is that there prevails in Africa a system of politics inimical to development as it is usually understood in the West. The dynamics of the political instrumentalization of disorder are such as to limit the scope for reform in at least two ways. The first is that, where disorder has become a resource, there is no incentive to work for a more institutionalized ordering of society. The second is that in the absence of any viable way of obtaining the means needed to sustain neo-patrimonialism, there is inevitably a tendency to link politics to realms of increased disorder, be it war or crime. There is therefore an inbuilt bias in favour of greater disorder and against the formation of the Western-style legal, administrative and institutional foundations required for development.
|author=Patrick Chabal and Jean-Pascal Daloz
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|source=Africa Works: disorder as political instrument (1999), Oxford: James Currey and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, page 162.
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External links
- [https://worldcat.org/search?q=au=%22Chabal%2C%20Patrick%22 Chabal's publications at Worldcat]
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Category:Academics of King's College London
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:People from Taroudannt
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