Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law (African Issues)
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0852552602 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Crossing boundaries, in more ways than one Bruce Whitehouse "Congo-Paris" is a fine example of the recent trend in anthropology away from the localized study of communities and towards analysis that transcends geographic boundaries. Not that this study is "multi-sited" (to use the dominant buzzword): MacGaffey and Bazenguissa conducted their fieldwork for the book entirely in Paris, interviewing dozens of subjects from . Local or Global? Maria Interesting book to understand today's global and transnational linkages. Very few books approch the African part in the globalization proccess like this book.
This study of transnational trade between Central Africa and Europe focuses on the lives of individual traders from Kinshasa and Brazzaville who operate across national frontiers and often outside state laws. Their trading activities are unmeasured, unrecorded, often outside or on the margins of the law, and are sustained by complex networks through which their commodities are circulated. Excluded from other social and economic opportunities, participation by traders in this international second economy challenges and resists the constraints on their lives in both Africa and Europe. Who are these traders? What strategies do they have, not only to survive but to shine? What kind of networks do they rely on? And what implications does their trade have for globalization? The authors consider these and other questions in this study. Published in association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana U Press
Reacute accent over the emy Bazenguissa-Ganga teaches at the Centre d'Etudes Africaines, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and is author of Les Voies du politique au Congo: Essai de sociologie historique.. Janet MacGaffey is Professor of Anthropology at Bucknell University, author of Entrepreneurs and P
Finally, it examines the relationship between seemingly insignificant trading activities and the evolution of globalization - as it applies to Africa based on a relatively new form of anthropological research - Patrick Chabal in INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS an impressive illustration of the vigour of coping in the most daunting conditions of economic and political collapse - Nigel Harris in DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW intriguing book AFRICAN BUSINESS The strength of the work is in ethnographic detail and argument. ASAAP . Congo-Paris is another book in the impressive African Issues series, and it combines the high standards and frank realities that have characterised the seriesa meticulous and illuminating empirical case-study, based on a thorough set of research methods. Second, it discusses in some detail the question of African identity as it evolves in the course of such a long bi-continental roving existence. Congo-Paris is unusual in at least three ways. First, it is concerned with