Roadblock politics in Central Africa (Record no. 11821)
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| Personal name | Schouten, Peer |
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| Title | Roadblock politics in Central Africa |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Sage, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Pages | Vol 37, Issue 5, 2019 ( 924-941 p.) |
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| Summary, etc | A frequent sight along many roads, roadblocks form a banal yet persistent element across the margins of contemporary global logistical landscapes. How, this article asks, can we come to terms with roadblocks as a logistical form of power? Based on an ongoing mapping of roadblocks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic, it sketches a political geography of “roadblock politics”: a spatial pattern of control concentrated around trade routes, where the capacity to disrupt logistical aspirations is translated into other forms of power, financial and political. While today’s roadblocks are tied up with the ongoing conflict in both countries, the article shows, roadblock politics has a much deeper history. Before colonization, African rulers manufactured powerful polities out of control over points of passage along long-distance trade routes crisscrossing the continent. The article traces how since precolonial times control over long-distance trade routes was turned into a source of political power, how these routes were forcefully appropriated through colonial occupation, how after the crumbling of the colonial order new connections were engineered between political power and the circulation of goods in Central Africa, and how control over these flows ultimately became a key stake in ongoing civil wars in the region. |
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| Subject | Democratic Republic of Congo, |
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| Subject | Central African Republic, |
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| Subject | long-distance trade, |
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| Subject | supply chains, |
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| Subject | roadblocks, |
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| Subject | logistics |
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| Host Biblionumber | 8875 |
| Host Itemnumber | 15874 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | London Pion Ltd. 2010 |
| Title | Environment and planning D: |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1472-3433 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775819830400 |
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