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Working the System will appeal to anthropologists and political scientists, urban sociologists, and scholars of African studies.
Jon Schubert is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Geneva.
"Working the System offers a rich and penetrating analysis of contemporary Angola. Steeped in the workings of Luanda’s everyday life, Jon Schubert unpacks the complex, dialogic relations between state and society and thus the co-production of hegemony in what he, echoing his informants, calls 'the system.’ This is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of a petro-state and the cultural repertoires that people develop around them."
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, author of Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea:
"Working the System is extremely well written and reveals a lifetime of engagement with Angolan society as well as a sophisticated sensibility that is fully attuned to some of the most pressing debates in the social sciences. Rarely have I read a book in which understanding and empathy are so fully matched by lucidity and detachment."
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