Working the System : : A Political Ethnography of the New Angola /

Working the System : : A Political Ethnography of the New Angola / / Jon Schubert.

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Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system-an emic notion of their current political and s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Schubert, Jon,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.) :; 1 b&w halftone, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Language, Names, and Money
  • Map of Angola
  • Map of Central Luanda
  • Introduction. Working the System in Boomtown Africa
  • Chapter 1. 2002, Year Zero
  • Chapter 2. Sambizanga
  • Chapter 3. Angolanidade
  • Chapter 4. Cunhas
  • Chapter 5. A Culture of Immediatism
  • Chapter 6. Against the System, within the System
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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