Business of civil war : new forms of life in the debris of the Democratic Republic of Congo /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kabamba, Patience, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dakar : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, [2013]
Series:Codesria book series.
Subjects:
Since 1960
Nande (Congolese (Democratic Republic) and Ugandan people) > Economic conditions.
Nande (Peuple d'Afrique) > Conditions économiques.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS.
Development / Economic Development.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Economic history
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Africa.
Congo (Democratic Republic) > History > 1997-
Congo (Democratic Republic) > Economic conditions > 1960-
Congo (République démocratique) > Histoire > 1997-
Congo (Democratic Republic)
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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