Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 222 pages)
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maps
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350222229
Uniform Title:
Ordre et désordre à Kinshasa
Content:
Reinventing order /Theodore Trefon --Kinshasa bargain /Anastase Nzeza Bilakila -- Tap is on strike : water distribution and supply strategies /Angéline Maractho Mudzo Mwacan and Theodore Trefon --Food security in kinshasa : coping with adversity /Eric Tollens --Miracle of life in Kinshasa : new approaches to public health /Peter Persyn and Fabienne Ladrière --Diploma paradox : University of Kinshasa between crisis and salvation /Télésphore Tsakala Munikengi and Willy Bono-Pasi Moke Sangol --Acting on behalf (and in spite) of the state : NGO's and civil society associations in Kinshasa /Marco Giovannoni [and others] --Hidden families, single mothers and cibalabala : economic regress and changing household composition in Kinshasa /Tom De Herdt --When Kinois take to the streets /Gauthier de Villers and Jean Omasombo Tshonda --On being shege in Kinshasa : children, the occult and the street /Filip De Boeck --Elusive lupemba : rumours about fame and (mis)fortune in Kinshasa /Bob W. White.
Content:
Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africas second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector jobs, hustle for a modest living; the famous bargaining system ordinary Kinois have developed; and how they access food, water supplies, health and
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-204) and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Text in English; chapter abstracts in French
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ordre et désordre à Kinshasa. English Reinventing order in Congo London ; New York : Zed Books ; Kampala, Uganda : Fountain Publishers, ©2004
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350222229
