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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kabamba, Patience, 1965-
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2013
Colección:Codesria book series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. "The failed state" : a hegemonic discourse?
  • 3. The emergence of the Nande : a socio-political history
  • 4. Theoretical issues in the Nande trading networks
  • 5. Strategies and structural frameworks that facilitated economic growth in the Nande Region
  • 6. Playing the ethnic card in the formation of a postcolonial African state
  • 7. The elite question
  • 8. Gold and guns : protecting capitalist investment during social fragmentation and violence
  • 9. Nande trust networks in new globalised relations : invention of post-postcolonial state?
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Bibliography.