Violent capitalism and hybird identity in the Easten Congo : power to the Margins / Timothy Raeymaekers, University of Zurich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raeymaekers, Timothy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence--Congo (Democratic Republic).

Political violence.

Borderlands--Congo (Democratic Republic).

Borderlands.

Capitalism--Congo (Democratic Republic).

Capitalism.

Congo (Democratic Republic)--Economic conditions.

Congo (Democratic Republic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 191 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Violent Capitalism & Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Collapse or Order?

Condition of War

Living in Uncertainty

Chapter Overview

1. Congo's Central Margins

Subjectivity of Border Action

Accumulation by Dispossession

Inverted Authority

Shifting African Frontier

2. Rise of Indigenous Capitalism

Max Weber and the Protestant Work Ethic

Colonial Frontier

Business Pioneers

Fiscal Disobedience

Bad Surroundings

3. Managing Uncertainty

In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz

Crisis Incorporated

Protection for Sale

Conclusion

4. Transformation of Regulation

Continuation of Violence by Other Means

De Facto Sovereignty

Governance Without Government?

Government in Times of "Crisis"

5. Transformation Without Transition

Mobutu's Ghost

Mediated Statehood

Democratisation of Violence

Sovereignty in the Margins

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-25593-X

1-316-23512-2

1-316-23701-X

1-316-25403-8

1-316-25025-3

1-107-44222-2

1-139-97686-9

1-316-25214-0

1-316-24836-4

1-316-24646-9