Fiscal Disobedience An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa

Name: Fiscal Disobedience An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa
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ISBN: 9780691118703

ISBN-10: 0691118701

ISBN-13: 9780691118703

Edition: 2005

Authors: Janet Roitman

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Fiscal Disobediencerepresents 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…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments xiii



Introduction: An Anthropology of Regulation and Fiscal Relations



Incivisme Fiscal



Tax-Price as a Technique of Government



Unsanctioned Wealth, or the Productivity of Debt



Fixing the Moving Targets of Regulation



The Unstable Terms of Regulatory Practice



The Pluralization of Regulatory Authority