1st Edition

The Economy of Resourcefulness in Kinshasa Informality, Small-Scale Trade, and Social Networks

288 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

288 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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How, in a context of prolonged economic and political crisis, do city dwellers reinvent the means of their survival in Kinshasa? This book answers that question. Through fine-grained ethnography, it shows how micro-social arrangements enable small-scale traders to provision the city and ordinary citizens to keep living, immersing the reader in the many forms of “resourcefulness” that organize... Read more

Foreword

AbdouMaliq Simone

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: ACROSS THE CITY AND ITS HISTORY

1. Kinshasa in Context

2. Markets and Governance

PART TWO: TRADING NETWORKS AND ACTORS

3. Supply Chains, Marketing Channels and Distribution Networks

4. Credit, Patronage and Trading Networks

PART THREE: SOCIABILITY AND SOCIAL REGULATION

5. Trade and Sociability