1995
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-7-3-593
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Frenzy, Violence, and Ethical Renewal in Kinshasa

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“…At the same time, the economy and the social life of the existing Zairean urban space (and the city of Kikwit is an obvious example here; see Mpuru, 1993) is marked by an accelerating ruralization and increasingly depends on the economic activities of the former periphery. This process of villagization of the city (see also Devisch, 1995) goes hand in hand with growing social barriers and an increasing polarization and segregation of the urban space, between, on the one hand, the commercial and`European' centre of cities such as Kinshasa and Kikwit, urbanized by the Belgians before independence, and now taken over by those who have access to diamond dollars, and, on the other hand, the endless`peripheral cities', la cite (La Fontaine, 1970;Nzuzi, 1992) where an increasing number of city-dwellers Ð the vast majority of Zaireans who do not have access to diamond dollars and no longer participate in a failing system of commodity market exchange Ð try to survive.…”
Section: Diamonds Dollars and The Inversion Of Territorializationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At the same time, the economy and the social life of the existing Zairean urban space (and the city of Kikwit is an obvious example here; see Mpuru, 1993) is marked by an accelerating ruralization and increasingly depends on the economic activities of the former periphery. This process of villagization of the city (see also Devisch, 1995) goes hand in hand with growing social barriers and an increasing polarization and segregation of the urban space, between, on the one hand, the commercial and`European' centre of cities such as Kinshasa and Kikwit, urbanized by the Belgians before independence, and now taken over by those who have access to diamond dollars, and, on the other hand, the endless`peripheral cities', la cite (La Fontaine, 1970;Nzuzi, 1992) where an increasing number of city-dwellers Ð the vast majority of Zaireans who do not have access to diamond dollars and no longer participate in a failing system of commodity market exchange Ð try to survive.…”
Section: Diamonds Dollars and The Inversion Of Territorializationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In situations of economic collapse, 'petty' trading is one of the key professions, and it requires the command of urban vernaculars more so than either French or English, or 'indigenous' African languages. More importantly, English is closely tied to western models of modernization, Christian conversion and modernist social and capitalist development which since the late 1980s has come to represent a 'deadend for most suburban dwellers' (Devisch 1995(Devisch , 1999. <LINK "mak-r27"> While the endangerment of 'indigenous' languages may be read as potentially catastrophic by some linguists, from an Africanist perspective, the spread of the urban vernaculars reflects the extent to which African speakers are creatively adapting to new urban contexts.…”
Section: Lexicography In Applied Linguistics In Africamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Esta responsabilidad genera nuevas modalidades de colaboración pero también intensi ca la competencia (Bangura 1994;Schiibeler 1996). En algunas instancias, las comunidades se han polarizado en función de una estrati cación social que en el pasado era más abierta (El-Kenz, 1996;Devisch 1995;Diouf, Fotê y Mbembe 1999).…”
Section: Lidiando Con Las Limitacionesunclassified