Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-107-44222-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 339 g

This book discusses the radical transformation of eastern Congo's political order in the context of apparent armed destruction and state weakness. Looking beyond the dominant paradigms, the author critically assesses the premises of this region's presumed collapse into chaos. He traces violent rule patterns back to a tumultuous history of extra-economic accumulation, armed rebellion and de facto public authority in the margins of regional power plays. Rather than curing the world's ills, the originality of this book lies in its neat focus on cultural and economic uncertainty. It answers the question of what institutional changes are the result of strategies of daily risk management in an environment characterised by violent competition over the right to govern.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raeymaekers, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Introduction; 1. Congo's central margins; 2. The rise of indigenous capitalism; 3. Managing uncertainty; 4. The transformation of regulation; 5. Transformation without transition; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Raeymaekers, Timothy
Timothy Raeymaekers is Lecturer in Political Geography at Universität Zürich. He is co-editor of Conflict and Social Transformation in Eastern DR Congo (2004) and Violence on the Margins: State, Conflict, and Borderlands (2013), and has published numerous journal articles.