ISBN:
9781108494014
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9781108713818
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 299 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Schouten, Peer, 1983- Roadblock politics
DDC:
303.6/20967
Keywords:
Political violence
;
Roadblocks (Military science)
;
Africa, Central Politics and government
Abstract:
There are so many roadblocks in Central Africa that it is hard to find a road that does not have one. Based on research in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR), Peer Schouten maps more than a thousand of these roadblocks to show how communities, rebels and state security forces forge resistance and power out of control over these narrow points of passage. Schouten reveals the connections between these roadblocks in Central Africa and global supply chains, tracking the flow of multinational corporations and UN agencies alike through them, to show how they encapsulate a form of power, which thrives under conditions of supply chain capitalism. In doing so, he develops a new lens through which to understand what drives state formation and conflict in the region, offering a radical alternative to explanations that foreground control over minerals, territory or population as key drivers of Central Africa's violent history.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Sovereignty on a shoestring
Description / Table of Contents:
La route, ça coûte: roadblock geographies
Description / Table of Contents:
CAR: war of roads
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 274-293, Register
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Hongo polities (1830-1890)
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Infrastructural empire and anti-colonial resistance (1890-1960)
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Ruination and the revenge of distance (1960-2000)
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The supply chain frontier
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Non-conventional logistics
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Transparency goes to war
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