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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501709692
035 _a(DE-B1597)496393
035 _a(OCoLC)971248566
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aDT1304
072 7 _aSOC002010
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082 0 4 _a967.3042
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSchubert, Jon
_eautore
245 1 0 _aWorking the System :
_bA Political Ethnography of the New Angola /
_cJon Schubert.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (270 p.) :
_b1 b&w halftone, 4 maps
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tA Note on Language, Names, and Money --
_tMap of Angola --
_tMap of Central Luanda --
_tIntroduction. Working the System in Boomtown Africa --
_tChapter 1. 2002, Year Zero --
_tChapter 2. Sambizanga --
_tChapter 3. Angolanidade --
_tChapter 4. Cunhas --
_tChapter 5. A Culture of Immediatism --
_tChapter 6. Against the System, within the System --
_tConclusion --
_tEpilogue --
_tGlossary and Abbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aWorking 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 socioeconomic environment—Jon Schubert explores what it means and how it feels to be part of the contemporary Angolan polity.Schubert finds that for many ordinary Angolans, the benefits of the post-conflict "New Angola," flush with oil wealth and in the midst of a construction boom, are few. The majority of the inhabitants of the capital, Luanda, struggle to make ends meet and live on under $2.00 per day. The "New Angola" as promoted by the ruling MPLA, Schubert contends, is an essentially urban, upwardly mobile, and aspirational project, premised on the acceptance of the regime’s political and economic dominance by its citizens. In the first ethnography of Angola to be published since the end of that country’s twenty-seven years of intermittent violent internal conflict in 2002, Schubert traces how Angolans may question and resist the system within an atmosphere of apparent compliance. Working the System will appeal to anthropologists and political scientists, urban sociologists, and scholars of African studies.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aEthnology
_zAngola.
650 0 _aPolitics and culture
_zAngola.
650 0 _aPostwar reconstruction
_xSocial aspects
_zAngola.
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences)
_zAngola.
650 4 _aAfrican Hist & Diaspora.
650 4 _aAnthropology.
650 4 _aLabor History.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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653 _aneo-authoritarian regimes, New Angola, contemporary Angolan polity, political transformation in Angola, the dynamics of a petro-state, political history of Angola.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501709692?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501709692
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