Congo-Paris transnational traders on the margins of the law Janet MacGaffey, Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga

  • International African Institute in association wit
  • Year of publishing: 2000
  • Place of publishing: London
  • ISBN: 0253337704
  • Language: English
  • Edition: African issues

Tato kniha zkoumá zahraniční obchod mezi zeměmi střední Afriky a Evropy a zaměřuje se na životy jednotlivých obchodníků z Kinshasy a Brazaville, kteří obchodují přes hranice těchto států a ocitají se často mimo zákon. Janet MacGaffey a Remy Bazenguissa-Ganga při své práci přesahující hranice tradiční antropologie zkoumají způsoby, jakými byla druhá největší africká ekonomika rozšířena nadnárodním a globálním směrem na okraji práva. Kdo jsou vlastně tito obchodníci? Jaké mají strategie, aby nejen přežili, nýbrž i prosperovali? Na jakých sítích jsou závislí? Jaké důsledky má jejich obchod na studium globalizace? Osobní sítě etnik, příbuzenství, náboženství a přátelství vytvořily pod vlivem obchodníků vlastní svět. Konžští obchodníci jsou známí od Johannesburgu po Káhiru, a od Dakaru po Nairobi, rovněž tak i v Paříži. Tato kniha odhaluje, že z mobilních telefonů a tryskových letadel netěží pouze nadnárodní společnosti.

Congo-Paris investigates the transnational trade between Central Africa and Europe by focusing on the lives of individual traders from Kinshasa and Brazzaville who operate across national frontiers and often outside the law. Challenging the boundaries of traditional anthropology, Janet MacGaffey and Remy Bazenguissa-Ganga follow complex international networks to examine the ways in which the African second economy has been extended transnationally and globally on the margins of the law. Who are these traders? What strategies do they have, not only to survive but to shine? What kinds of networks do they rely on? What implications does their trade have for the study of globalization? The personal networks of ethnicity, kinship, religion, and friendship constructed by the traders fashion a world of their own. From Johannesburg to Cairo and from Dakar to Nairobi as well as in Paris, the Congolese traders are renowned and envied. This lively book shows that it is not just the multinationals who benefit from jets and mobile phones.

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