Working the system: A political ethnography of the new Angola
- Submitting institution
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Brunel University London
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 019-187985-7000009
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1515/9781501709692
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- ISBN
- 9781501713705
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- it is the first published book-length ethnography on post-war Angola. Based on one year of fieldwork in the capital, Luanda, it offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in 21st-century dominant-party and neo-authoritarian regimes. Detailing the repertoires through which Angolans fashion their relationships with the system—an emic notion of their current political and socioeconomic environment— the book explores what it means and how it feels to live in a polity like Angola, thereby making important theoretical advances in African politics, urbanism, identity politics, and the co-production of hegemony.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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