Business of civil war : new forms of life in the debris of the Democratic Republic of Congo /
Within the context of the absence of effective state sovereignty and the presence of numerous armed struggles for power, Nande traders have managed to build and protect self-sustaining, prosperous, transnational economic enterprises in eastern Congo. This book discusses the commercial enterprises of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dakar :
CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa,
[2013]
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Colección: | Codesria book series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- "The failed state" : a hegemonic discourse?
- The emergence of the Nande : a socio-political history
- Theoretical issues in the Nande trading networks
- Strategies and structural frameworks that facilitated economic growth in the Nande Region
- Playing the ethnic card in the formation of a postcolonial African state
- The elite question
- Gold and guns : protecting capitalist investment during social fragmentation and violence
- Nande trust networks in new globalised relations : invention of post-postcolonial state?
- Conclusion.