Codesria. Very Good. Date: 2013. Paperback. A separate sheet of paper filled with reviewer's notes is laid in, a few other notes and other marks are lightly pencilled on a few text pages. Binding is tight, pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. . Trade PB. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 250 pages. K1 . 2013. Codesria ISBN 2869785526 9782869785526 [US]

ISBN10: 2869785526, ISBN13: 9782869785526, [publisher: CODESRIA] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Within 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, ...
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