Title: REINVENTING ORDER IN CONGO: HOW PEOPLE RESPOND TO STATE FAILURE IN KINSHASA; ED. BY THEODORE TREFON
Description: Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africas second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector jobs, hustle for a modest living; the famous bargaining system ordinary Kinois have developed; and how they access food, water supplies, health and.
Subjects: Politics and government, Social conditions, Economic conditions, Order, Social structure, Kinshasa (congo), Congo (democratic republic), politics and government, Congo (democratic republic), social conditions, Congo (democratic republic), economic conditions, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography