Joe Trapido
Biographic Data
| ID | 629973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Trapido |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Trapido |
| SIGNATURE | TRAPIDO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Masterless Men: Riots, Patronage, and the Politics of the Surplus Population in Kinshasa
On the basis of fieldwork in Kinshasa, this essay makes a link between riots, the recent anthropology of "surplus populations," and\ndistributive politics in low-income countries, especially Africa. Tracing the history of a political demonstration turned riot, it shows\nhow distribution structures the interactions between rich and poor in the city. Situating the riot in a context in which subjects are\ndependent on the market for goods but are no…
Les Combattants —Ideologies of Exile, Return and Nationalism in the DRC
Focused on London, this article looks at the ideology and practice of Congolese nationalism in exile, and at the ideas of home, belonging and return connected with this. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) migrants came to Western Europe escaping violence and economic and political collapse but, for a long time, the imaginative concentration of the diaspora was not on politics, but on a consumer-based version of the good life. This article traces …
Potlatch and the articulation of modes of production: Revisiting French Marxist Anthropology and the history of central Africa
Kinshasa’s Theatre of Power
The DRC’s capital is set to become Africa’s largest city, but struggles to assert its authority over a profoundly fractured state as it expands in chaotic fashion. Dilapidated infrastructure and a disintegrating formal economy have not extinguished Kinshasa’s extraordinary cultural vitality, or its role as a centre of political opposition
Africa’s Leaky Giant
Recent analysis of Congo’s plight has foregrounded notions of local agency and impenetrable complexity, excluding structural analysis. In a landmark rebuttal, Joe Trapido argues that it is just as implausible to deny the agency of powerful outsiders as that of powerful Africans. Dynamics of a primitive accumulation that never results in sustained development, its gains still leaking overseas
Masterless Men: Riots, Patronage, and the Politics of the Surplus Population in Kinshasa
On the basis of fieldwork in Kinshasa, this essay makes a link between riots, the recent anthropology of "surplus populations," and\ndistributive politics in low-income countries, especially Africa. Tracing the history of a political demonstration turned riot, it shows\nhow distribution structures the interactions between rich and poor in the city. Situating the riot in a context in which subjects are\ndependent on the market for goods but are no…
Africa’s Leaky Giant
Recent analysis of Congo’s plight has foregrounded notions of local agency and impenetrable complexity, excluding structural analysis. In a landmark rebuttal, Joe Trapido argues that it is just as implausible to deny the agency of powerful outsiders as that of powerful Africans. Dynamics of a primitive accumulation that never results in sustained development, its gains still leaking overseas
Kinshasa’s Theatre of Power
The DRC’s capital is set to become Africa’s largest city, but struggles to assert its authority over a profoundly fractured state as it expands in chaotic fashion. Dilapidated infrastructure and a disintegrating formal economy have not extinguished Kinshasa’s extraordinary cultural vitality, or its role as a centre of political opposition
Les Combattants —Ideologies of Exile, Return and Nationalism in the DRC
Focused on London, this article looks at the ideology and practice of Congolese nationalism in exile, and at the ideas of home, belonging and return connected with this. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) migrants came to Western Europe escaping violence and economic and political collapse but, for a long time, the imaginative concentration of the diaspora was not on politics, but on a consumer-based version of the good life. This article traces …
Africa’s Leaky Giant
Recent analysis of Congo’s plight has foregrounded notions of local agency and impenetrable complexity, excluding structural analysis. In a landmark rebuttal, Joe Trapido argues that it is just as implausible to deny the agency of powerful outsiders as that of powerful Africans. Dynamics of a primitive accumulation that never results in sustained development, its gains still leaking overseas
Potlatch and the articulation of modes of production: Revisiting French Marxist Anthropology and the history of central Africa
Kinshasa’s Theatre of Power
The DRC’s capital is set to become Africa’s largest city, but struggles to assert its authority over a profoundly fractured state as it expands in chaotic fashion. Dilapidated infrastructure and a disintegrating formal economy have not extinguished Kinshasa’s extraordinary cultural vitality, or its role as a centre of political opposition
Les Combattants —Ideologies of Exile, Return and Nationalism in the DRC
Focused on London, this article looks at the ideology and practice of Congolese nationalism in exile, and at the ideas of home, belonging and return connected with this. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) migrants came to Western Europe escaping violence and economic and political collapse but, for a long time, the imaginative concentration of the diaspora was not on politics, but on a consumer-based version of the good life. This article traces …
Masterless Men: Riots, Patronage, and the Politics of the Surplus Population in Kinshasa
On the basis of fieldwork in Kinshasa, this essay makes a link between riots, the recent anthropology of "surplus populations," and\ndistributive politics in low-income countries, especially Africa. Tracing the history of a political demonstration turned riot, it shows\nhow distribution structures the interactions between rich and poor in the city. Situating the riot in a context in which subjects are\ndependent on the market for goods but are no…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)