Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon) by Joseph Tonda

Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon)

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Joseph Tonda with Chris Turner (Translator)

456 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The "Modern Sovereign," a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post-colonial era. It is an internalized power, ...

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