Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo
Power to the Margins

This book analyses the radical political transformation of eastern Congo through the lens of cross-border risk management.

Timothy Raeymaekers (Author)

9781107082076, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 December 2014

204 pages, 3 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.47 kg

'In Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo, Timothy Raeymaekers provides a compelling and nuanced account of the dynamic border region shared by the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, which has not been ruled effectively by any de jure sovereign state authority in decades.' Vanessa van den Boogaard, African Studies Quarterly

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.

Foreword
Introduction
1. Congo's central margins
2. The rise of indigenous capitalism
3. Managing uncertainty
4. The transformation of regulation
5. Transformation without transition
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Economic history [KCZ], Political structure & processes [JPH], Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC]