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Harry G. West

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22

Publications

2.7K

Citations

15

H-Index

1993

Active since

Affiliations

SOAS University of London(Current)

University of London

University of Exeter

Universidad de Londres

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harry G. West is an author at SOAS University of London specializing in colonialism, anthropology, and social sciences.

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ColonialismAnthropologySocial SciencesLanguageCultural HistoryAfrican PoliticsFood SystemsHealthEducationModernity

Publications per year

1993–2024

22

Publications

22

Seeing Like a StateHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Harry G. West · PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review · 1998 · 1.8K citations

Policy Studies, Public Policy, Cognitive Science +14

BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: 'TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY' AND DEMOCRATIC DECENTRALIZATION IN POST-WAR MOZAMBIQUE

Harry G. West, Scott Kloeck-Jenson · African Affairs · 1999 · 151 citations

Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of War of Frelimo's "Female Detachment"

Harry G. West · Anthropological Quarterly · 2000 · 94 citations

Literary Theory, Colonialism, Cultural Studies +17

Sorcery of Construction and Socialist Modernization: Ways of Understanding Power in Postcolonial Mozambique

Harry G. West · American Ethnologist · 2001 · 84 citations

Frelimo Socialism, Colonialism, South African History +16

‘This neighbor is not my uncle!’: changing relations of power and authority on the Mueda Plateau

Harry G. West · Journal of Southern African Studies · 1998 · 71 citations

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