This chapter analyses the system of revenue-sharing between official and unofficial authorities on the Congo-Uganda border. Trying to move beyond reductionist conceptualisations of such practices as either mere corruption or anti-state resistance, it disentangles the struggle over cross-border economic gains across a range of spatial scales. Such gains are never un-regulated, nor occur outside the law. Rather, the transformation of regulations on the border is driven by a particular set of market relations that gradually absorb the state into its nodes of interaction. The result of these shifting power relations at the African border is not a complete withdrawal of state institutions from the economic domain, but rather a differentiated engagement of economic actors with various scales of authority that remain nonetheless intricately entwined.

Raeymaekers T. (2012). African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier. Chichester : Wiley Blackwell [10.1002/9781118255223.ch18].

African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier

Raeymaekers T.
2012

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This chapter analyses the system of revenue-sharing between official and unofficial authorities on the Congo-Uganda border. Trying to move beyond reductionist conceptualisations of such practices as either mere corruption or anti-state resistance, it disentangles the struggle over cross-border economic gains across a range of spatial scales. Such gains are never un-regulated, nor occur outside the law. Rather, the transformation of regulations on the border is driven by a particular set of market relations that gradually absorb the state into its nodes of interaction. The result of these shifting power relations at the African border is not a complete withdrawal of state institutions from the economic domain, but rather a differentiated engagement of economic actors with various scales of authority that remain nonetheless intricately entwined.
2012
A Companion to Border Studies
318
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Raeymaekers T. (2012). African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier. Chichester : Wiley Blackwell [10.1002/9781118255223.ch18].
Raeymaekers T.
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