Informality has long been rethought as one of a number of sites of collective action. This rethinking both supplements, and is supplemented, by class analysis-- they are not mutually exclusive. What matters for class analysis-- as opposed to class analysis as prescription, which might have once seen them as sources and sites of inevitable or possible progressive -- is how they are organized into always been the site of ethnicity in part because it is linked to networks that function outside the modernistic sites of organization for formality-- such as unions- and often service the poor, but are built upon "local" sites of trust that can also be sites of both great wealth for some marginality and continued poverty for others in relation to networks that are both local and global and local. There are many examples of people organizing cross ethnic networks in informal settings, however, and it need not be the burial ground for a sense the national, if that it want is meant be a love of the nation, patriotism. It all depends.
Pablo
On 2012-12-31 7:24 AM, Toyin Falola wrote:
Pablo
On 2012-12-31 7:24 AM, Toyin Falola wrote:
--Dear all:My eyes caught a sentence in Mr. Adeshina Afolayan's intervention that,I think, is so profound that it merits serious consideration: it shakes the roots of elite theory of ethnicity, while also making nonsense of class analysis. How can this be? I think Professor Olukotun's influential column in Nigeria should be devoted to this. If it is true, it is also the location of untapped power, the very space to rupture the state. Or am I exaggerating the significance of Afolayan's thesis?
"The informal sector of the economy is the burial ground of patriotism in Nigeria."
Toyin FalolaDepartment of HistoryThe University of Texas at Austin104 Inner Campus DriveAustin, TX 78712-0220USA512 475 7224512 475 7222 (fax)
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