Refracted governmentality: space, politics and social structure in contemporary Luanda

摘要: Refracted governmentality: space, politics and social structure in contemporary Luanda Antonio Andrade Tomas My thesis argues that political authority produces very particular regimes of informality. The description the city I undertake is concerned with explaining process transformation. was mostly built during colonialism to spatially accommodate extant race class divisions. million or more Angolans who occupied those differentiated spaces aftermath independence challenged colonial distribution space. explain recent transformation has undergone by focusing less on theory practice urban planning, inscription influence patronage onto Political power, then, been a force spatial Luanda. These developments have taken place against backdrop politico-economic structure, which two consequences explore remainder dissertation. first one concerns disjuncture formal terms relationship between state society. As second largest oil producing countries Sub-Saharan Africa after Nigeria, Angolan government not dependent population for extraction tax resources. Consequently, only unaccountable civil society, but being out joints large swaths forces most reproduce themselves beyond any intervention state. consequence can be seen informal links rulers ruled are sustained other institutions intermediation, such as ruling party, even importantly family. In post-socialist neo-liberal Angola, family no longer domain private relationships. Family come signify intermediation For affluent Angolans, ties elite allow them share national poor unit production means ends met.