Working the System : A Political Ethnography of the New Angola /

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Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the ...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schubert, Jon, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Power (Social sciences)
Politics and culture.
Ethnology.
HISTORY > Africa > South > General.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Reconstruction d'apres-guerre > Aspect social > Angola.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > Angola.
Politique et culture > Angola.
Ethnologie > Angola.
Postwar reconstruction > Social aspects > Angola.
Power (Social sciences) > Angola.
Politics and culture > Angola.
Ethnology > Angola.
Angola.
Angola > Histoire > 2002-
Angola > History > 2002-
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : working the system in boomtown Africa
  • 2002, year zero : the foundations of the new Angola
  • Sambizanga : the affects of place and memory
  • Angolanidade : mediating urbanity through race and class
  • Cunhas : situational kinship and everyday authority
  • A culture of immediatism : co-optation and complicity
  • Against the system, within the system : the parameters of the political.

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