Fiscal disobedience an anthropology of economic regulation in Central Africa
Fiscal disobedience: an anthropology of economic regulation in Central Africa

Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. Focusing on economic practices in the Chad Basin of Africa, Janet Roitman combines thorough ethnographic fieldwork with sophisticated analysis of...

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1. Verfasser: Roitman, Janet (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ ; Oxford Princeton University Press [2018]
Schriftenreihe:In-Formation series
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1990-2002
Tax evasion > Cameroon
Taxation > Cameroon
Wealth > Social aspects > Cameroon
Wealth > Social aspects > Chad Basin Region
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Steuerhinterziehung
Ökonomische Anthropologie
Soziale Wirklichkeit
Volksvermögen
Wirtschaftsdelikt
Tschadbecken
Zentralafrika
Kamerun
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
DE-1046
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Zusammenfassung:Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. Focusing on economic practices in the Chad Basin of Africa, Janet Roitman combines thorough ethnographic fieldwork with sophisticated analysis of key ideas of political economy to examine the contentious nature of fiscal relationships between the state and its citizens. She argues that citizenship is being redefined through a renegotiation of the rights and obligations inherent in such economic relationships. The book centers on a civil disobedience movement that arose in Cameroon beginning in 1990 ostensibly to counter state fiscal authority--a movement dubbed Opération Villes Mortes by the opposition and incivisme fiscal by the government (which for its part was eager to suggest that participants were less than legitimate citizens, failing in their civic duties). Contrary to standard approaches, Roitman examines this conflict as a "productive moment" that, rather than involving the outright rejection of regulatory authority, questioned the intelligibility of its exercise. Although both militarized commercial networks (associated with such activities trading in contraband goods including drugs, ivory, and guns) and highly organized gang-based banditry do challenge state authority, they do not necessarily undermine state power. Contrary to depictions of the African state as "weak" or "failed," this book demonstrates how the state in Africa manages to reconstitute its authority through networks that have emerged in the interstices of the state system. It also shows how those networks partake of the same epistemological grounding as does the state. Indeed, both state and nonstate practices of governing refer to a common "ethic of illegality," which explains how illegal activities are understood as licit or reasonable conduct
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ISBN:9780691187044
DOI:10.1515/9780691187044

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