Potentiality in crisis
Making and living the potential in Angola’s boom and bust
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18959629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paolo Gaibazzi (0000-0002-3533-1825, University of Bayreuth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 234-251 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02757206.2022.2037584 |
| OpenAlex | W4213383486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 58 |
This article documents the social generation and experience of potentiality in the context of radical uncertainty. After a booming decade, the oil bust in mid-2014 wrought havoc on Angola’s economy. Immigrant traders and entrepreneurs from West Africa responded to the crisis by assessing their possible livelihoods in and away from Angola. They further couched their search for economic potential in a discourse on Angola’s own potential for recovery. By (de)potentializing economies and livelihoods, traders entrenched potentiality, rather than actuality, as a pervasive aspect of their sociality and their ethical orientations
Archaeology · Boom · Bust · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Immigration · Livelihood · Political economy · Political science · Sociality · Engineering · History · Law · Natural Resources and Economic Development
Three / The Form of Crisis and the Affect of Modernization
North to South Migration
Anti-Crisis
Culture and Public Action
Cruel Optimism
All Tomorrow's Cultures
Embracing Uncertainty
Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa
Magnificent and Beggar Land
The Anthropology of the Future
Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola
Contingent Lives
Vigilance
Mimesis of the State
Friction
Capitalist Divination
Aesthetic Dissent
L'Angola postcolonial
Garimpeiroworlds
Articulating Potentiality
Working the System
The political economy of banking in Angola
Speculation
The quest for luck
The petro-developmental state in Africa
Crisis
North-South Migration and the Corrupt Other
Du Palais aux banques
From Family Solidarity to Social Classes
Inside the Government, but Outside the Law
Democratisation' and the Consolidation of Political Authority in Post-War Angola
Politics of power and hierarchies of citizenship in Angola
A Generative Theory of Anticipation
Private condominiums in Luanda
Introduction
Austerity en route, from Lisbon to Luanda
Geology, Potentiality, Speculation
The transporter, the agitator, and the kamanguista
Hope dies last
What Does Catastrophe Reveal for Whom? The Anthropology of Crises and Disasters at the Onset of the Anthropocene
Toward a Bright Future
Symptoms of Another Life
West African strangers and the politics of inhumanity in Angola
Never too late for pleasure
Making Friends, Building Roads
A wedge of time
The Anthropology of Potentiality in Biomedicine
On Critical Times
Housing middle-classness
Oil, Power, and Poverty in Angola
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |