Working the System Schubert Jon Research Fellow University of Leipzig Pevná vazba
Working the System Schubert Jon Research Fellow University of Leipzig Pevná vazba Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and…
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Working the System Schubert Jon Research Fellow University of Leipzig Pevná vazba
Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. The majority of the inhabitants of the capital, Luanda, struggle to make ends meet and live on under $2.00 per day. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system--an emic notion of their current political and socioeconomic environment--Jon Schubert explores what it means and how it feels to be part of the contemporary Angolan polity.Schubert finds that for many ordinary Angolans, the benefits of the post-conflict New Angola, flush with oil wealth and in the midst of a construction boom, are few.
The New Angola as promoted by the ruling MPLA, Schubert contends, is an essentially urban, upwardly mobile, and aspirational project, premised on the acceptance of the