Patience Kabamba
Biographic Data
| ID | 108617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patience Kabamba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patience |
| FAMILY NAME | Kabamba |
| SIGNATURE | KABAMBA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In and out of the state
Anthropology has often renewed itself by studying collective self-organization beyond the reach of the state. The idea that power usually flows top-down from a state monopoly is increasingly questioned in an era of networks fuelled by interactive decision-making processes that include non-state actors. Power theoretically understood as potentia - the elementary power through which human beings deploy their productive capacities and creative possi…
Business of Civil War. New Forms of Life in the Debris of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Within the context of the absence of effective state sovereignty and the presence of numerous armed struggles for power, Nande traders have managed to build and protect self-sustaining, prosperous, transnational economic enterprises in eastern Congo. This book discusses the commercial enterprises of the Nande trust networks and the subsequent transnational community they have produced, thereby challenging the assumption that a 'weak state' or a '…
A tale of two cities
The recent wars in the DRC are partly caused and prolonged by the existence of lootable resources and have precipitated one of the most severe humanitarian catastrophes of our era in terms of loss of lives and human misery. Nonetheless, certain groups have taken advantage of both the absence of the state and the presence of minerals to modernise and institute new forms of order and development. This contribution provides an anthropological interp…
External Economic Exploitation in the DRC
In his conclusion to his seminal book,Politics in the Congo(1965), Crawford Young wrote the following:Belgium ... constructed in Africa a colonial state which stood out by the thoroughness of its organization, the formidable accretion of power through an interlocking alliance of state, church, and capital, and the ambition of its economic and social objectives. The very strength of the system as a colonial structure, and its steadfast refusal to …
Heart of Darkness
This article provides a critical overview of dominant images of Africa in general and of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in particular, in Western media as well as some scholarly literature. I then go on to show that these images are products of a very specific conception of the state and sovereignty. The study is primarily concerned with the nature of the African postcolonial state: is it failed or not? Is it absent or not? What role …
Alternative ethnique à l'État postcolonial
La crise de l’État moderne en Afrique prouve que cette formation historique ne constitue pas la forme achevée du nationalisme africain contemporain. L’État moderne est né d’un contexte occidental historique. Il revient aux Africains eux-mêmes de penser leur propres structures étatiques avec des éléments endogènes de conceptualisation. La structure ethnique en est un. Comment peut-on l’intégrer de manière politiquement et économiquement viable en …
Heart of Darkness
This article provides a critical overview of dominant images of Africa in general and of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in particular, in Western media as well as some scholarly literature. I then go on to show that these images are products of a very specific conception of the state and sovereignty. The study is primarily concerned with the nature of the African postcolonial state: is it failed or not? Is it absent or not? What role …
In and out of the state
Anthropology has often renewed itself by studying collective self-organization beyond the reach of the state. The idea that power usually flows top-down from a state monopoly is increasingly questioned in an era of networks fuelled by interactive decision-making processes that include non-state actors. Power theoretically understood as potentia - the elementary power through which human beings deploy their productive capacities and creative possi…
External Economic Exploitation in the DRC
In his conclusion to his seminal book,Politics in the Congo(1965), Crawford Young wrote the following:Belgium ... constructed in Africa a colonial state which stood out by the thoroughness of its organization, the formidable accretion of power through an interlocking alliance of state, church, and capital, and the ambition of its economic and social objectives. The very strength of the system as a colonial structure, and its steadfast refusal to …
Alternative ethnique à l'État postcolonial
La crise de l’État moderne en Afrique prouve que cette formation historique ne constitue pas la forme achevée du nationalisme africain contemporain. L’État moderne est né d’un contexte occidental historique. Il revient aux Africains eux-mêmes de penser leur propres structures étatiques avec des éléments endogènes de conceptualisation. La structure ethnique en est un. Comment peut-on l’intégrer de manière politiquement et économiquement viable en …
Heart of Darkness
This article provides a critical overview of dominant images of Africa in general and of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in particular, in Western media as well as some scholarly literature. I then go on to show that these images are products of a very specific conception of the state and sovereignty. The study is primarily concerned with the nature of the African postcolonial state: is it failed or not? Is it absent or not? What role …
A tale of two cities
The recent wars in the DRC are partly caused and prolonged by the existence of lootable resources and have precipitated one of the most severe humanitarian catastrophes of our era in terms of loss of lives and human misery. Nonetheless, certain groups have taken advantage of both the absence of the state and the presence of minerals to modernise and institute new forms of order and development. This contribution provides an anthropological interp…
External Economic Exploitation in the DRC
In his conclusion to his seminal book,Politics in the Congo(1965), Crawford Young wrote the following:Belgium ... constructed in Africa a colonial state which stood out by the thoroughness of its organization, the formidable accretion of power through an interlocking alliance of state, church, and capital, and the ambition of its economic and social objectives. The very strength of the system as a colonial structure, and its steadfast refusal to …
Business of Civil War. New Forms of Life in the Debris of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Within the context of the absence of effective state sovereignty and the presence of numerous armed struggles for power, Nande traders have managed to build and protect self-sustaining, prosperous, transnational economic enterprises in eastern Congo. This book discusses the commercial enterprises of the Nande trust networks and the subsequent transnational community they have produced, thereby challenging the assumption that a 'weak state' or a '…
In and out of the state
Anthropology has often renewed itself by studying collective self-organization beyond the reach of the state. The idea that power usually flows top-down from a state monopoly is increasingly questioned in an era of networks fuelled by interactive decision-making processes that include non-state actors. Power theoretically understood as potentia - the elementary power through which human beings deploy their productive capacities and creative possi…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · State (computer science (3 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (2 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (2 works)