Reshaping the state in its margins: The state, the market and the subaltern on a Central African frontier

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 334-350

  Raeymaekers, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Africa; borderlands; Democratic Republic of Congo; informal economy; sovereignty; state building; subalternity; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866180824     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X12449248     Document Type: Article

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