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Reinventing Order in the Congo - How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa (Hardcover, New)
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Reinventing Order in the Congo - How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa (Hardcover, New)
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The populations of many Third World mega-cities have far
outstripped any apparent economic basis for their size and
survival. In this volume Congolese and Western social scientists
cover most aspects of urban life in Kinshasa--how ordinary people
hustle for a modest living; the famous "bargaining" system ordinary
Kinois have developed; and how they access food, water supplies,
health and education. The NGOization of service provision is
analyzed, as is the quite rare incidence of urban riots. Equally
interesting are the studies of popular discourses (including street
rumor, witchcraft, and attitudes to big men, like musicians and
preachers). The studies are full of the most startling facts and
the wonderfully evocative phrases coined by ordinary Kinois as they
confront the huge obstacle course that is urban life. Concrete,
readable, intensely interesting, and always illuminating, this book
is a model of how to do urban sociology in the developing world
today.
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