Middle Class in Mozambique - The State and the Politics of Transformation in Southern Africa

Offers an examination of an African middle class, demonstrating how it is both bound to the state and alienated from it.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Origins; 3. Asendance; 4. Collapse; 5. Democracy; 6. Decay; 7. 2016, concluding thoughts; Bibliography; Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jason Sumich is a Senior Research Fellow for the Institute of African Affairs at the German Institute of Global Area Studies (GIGA, Hamburg). He is a political anthropologist who works on issues of class formation, the state, hegemony, citizenship and the politics of enclaving in southern Africa, primarily Mozambique. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2006) and a M.A. from the University of Cape Town (2001). His current research explores new forms of urban governance and control as a member of the project, 'Enclaving: Patterns of Global Futures in Three African Cities' funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jason Sumich, Jason (Universitetet I Bergen Sumich
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781108472883
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47288-3
• Seiten: 190
• Serien: The International African Library; The International African Library
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Mozambique, Politics & government, Politics and government, Social classes