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Violent capitalism and political power on the Congo-Uganda border
\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Natural Border
The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers. Timothy Raeymaekers shows how in the context of global supply chains and repressive border regimes, agrarian production and reproduction are based on fundamental racial hierarchies.
Taking the example of the tomato—a typical 'Made in Italy' commodity—Raeymaekers asks how political boundaries are drawn around the land and the labor needed for its production, what technologies of exclusion and inclusion enable capitalist operations to take place in the Mediterranean agrarian frontier, and which practices structure the allocation, use and commodification of land and labor across the tomato chain. While the mobile infrastructures that mobilize, channel, commodify and segregate labor play a central role in the 'naturalization' of racial segregation, they are also terrains of contestation and power—and thus, as The Natural Border demonstrates, reflect the tense socio-ecological transformation the Mediterranean border space is going through today.
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The natural border : bounding migrant farmwork in the Black Mediterranean
\"The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farmworkers. In the context of global supply chains and repressive border regimes, the book foregrounds the fundamental racial hierarchies upon which agrarian production and reproduction are based\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Violence on the margins : states, conflict, and borderlands
This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.
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State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises: governance without government?
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of long periods of violent strife and state failure. Their aim is to move beyond the purely empirical and to theorize and situate such phenomena of non-state governance in the broader context of political and social change that is currently reshaping Africa.
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Kivu’s Intractable Security Conundrum
According to Andreas Mehler and Dennis Tull, over the past fifteen years power-sharing agreements between insurgents have emerged as the West's preferred instrument of peace making in Africa. In the administrative realm, for example, virtually no progress was made in consolidating institutional checks on the executive power, which resulted in growing levels of political repression.3 National and local government structures continued to bathe in corruption, particularly in the mining sector where valuable concessions were traded with little benefit to the Congolese state.4 Another serious problem was the new Congolese army (FARDC), which was regularly accused by the Human Rights section of the UN force (MONUC) of being a massive human rights abuser.5 Instead of providing security, its undisciplined, corrupt, and illtrained soldiers continued to terrorize and extort the local population in a systematic and organized way.
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