TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schubert, Jon
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - Working the system: a political ethnography of the new Angola
PB  - Cornell University Press
CY  - Ithaca
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Angola
KW  - Politics and culture
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Postwar reconstruction
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Luanda
KW  - Politisches System
KW  - Innenpolitische Lage/Entwicklung
KW  - Autoritäre Herrschaft
KW  - Regierungspartei
KW  - Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola
KW  - Zivilgesellschaft
KW  - Lebensbedingungen
KW  - Alltag
KW  - Politische Partizipation
KW  - Sozioökonomische Entwicklung
KW  - Political systems
KW  - Domestic political situation and development
KW  - Authoritarian rule
KW  - Government parties
KW  - Civil society
KW  - Living conditions
KW  - Every day life
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Socio-economic development
KW  - History
KW  - 2002-
AB  - 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. 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. He 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 majority of the inhabitants of the capital, Luanda, struggle to make ends meet and live on under $ 2.00 per day. 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 regime's political and economic dominance by its citizens. In the first ethnography of Angola to be published since the end of that country?s twenty-seven years of intermittent violent internal conflict in 2002, Schubert traces how Angolans may question and resist the system within an atmosphere of apparent compliance. Working the System will appeal to anthropologists and political scientists, urban sociologists, and scholars of African studies.
SN  - 9781501713705
LA  - English
N1  - Jon Schubert
ID  - 879325879
ER  -