Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo - Power to the Margins

"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 originalityof 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 togovern"--

List of contents

Foreword; Introduction; 1. Congo's central margins; 2. The rise of indigenous capitalism; 3. Managing uncertainty; 4. The transformation of regulation; 5. Transformation without transition; Conclusion.

About the author

Timothy Raeymaekers is Lecturer in Political Geography at Universität Zürich. He is co-editor of Conflict and Social Transformation in Eastern DR Congo (2004) and Violence on the Margins: State, Conflict, and Borderlands (2013), and has published numerous journal articles.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Raeymaekers, Timothy (Universitat Zurich) Raeymaekers, Raeymaekers Timothy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107082076
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08207-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Uganda, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Economic history, Political structure & processes, Politics and government, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire)