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020			_a9782869785649
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040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050		4	_aDT658.26 _b.K333 2013
100	1		_aKabamba, Patience, _d1965-
245	1	0	_aBusiness of civil war _h[electronic resource] : _bnew forms of life in the debris of the Democratic Republic of Congo / _cPatience Kabamba.
260			_aDakar, Senegal : _bCODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, _cc2013 _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject Muse, _g2013) _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (1 electronic text (xvi, 230 p.) :) _bill., maps, digital file.
490	1		_aCodesria book series
500			_aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-230).
505	0		_a1. Introduction -- 2. "The failed state" : a hegemonic discourse? -- 3. The emergence of the Nande : a socio-political history -- 4. Theoretical issues in the Nande trading networks -- 5. Strategies and structural frameworks that facilitated economic growth in the Nande Region -- 6. Playing the ethnic card in the formation of a postcolonial African state -- 7. The elite question -- 8. Gold and guns : protecting capitalist investment during social fragmentation and violence -- 9. Nande trust networks in new globalised relations : invention of post-postcolonial state? -- 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography.
520			_aWithin 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 the Nande trust networks and the subsequent transnational community they have produced, thereby challenging the assumption that a "weak state" or a "failed state" or even a "collapsed state" can be presumed to signal a "failed" society. It demonstrates the fact that several sovereignties and property right systems can coexist side by side, reinforcing each other - an idea which seems inconceivable for those with a normative view of governmental institutions and state sovereignty. Rethinking the question of African state formation, the study contributes to the formulation of a more rigorously transnational and local paradigms in the study of post-colonial African state formations. It constitutes an original contribution to critical theory of societal responses to processes of state implosion, and the anthropology of new social formations that emerge when states disintegrate, especially in war-torn Africa. The book also discusses issues related to the dynamics of conflict, new state formation, transnational trade network, ethnicity, and global political and economic governance. In the midst of abundant anti-ethnic literature on African studies, this study posits that there may be a renewed usefulness and necessity in theorizing the salience and continuing production of 'ethnic' differences in a manner that challenges the notion of ethnicity as merely a devious and divisive invention of colonialism that must simply be overcome.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
651		0	_aCongo (Democratic Republic) _xEconomic conditions _y1960-
651		0	_aCongo (Democratic Republic) _xHistory _y1997-
650		0	_aNande (Congolese (Democratic Republic) and Ugandan people) _xEconomic conditions.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9782869785526 _z2869785526
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9782869785649/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c33429 _d33429