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Chains of Dependency: Changing Importation Practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo

UNSPECIFIED. (2024) Chains of Dependency: Changing Importation Practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In: UNSPECIFIED, (ed.) After Globalization: The Future of World Society. Zürich, pp. 243-268.

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Abstract

The reliance on imported products has rendered many sub-Saharan African countries like the DRC vulnerable to global disruptions such as supply chain bottlenecks that have been engendered and made visible by COVID-19 pandemic dislocations. New questions continue to emerge with regards to the dynamics of transnational dimensions of trade, as a result of deepening Sino-African relations. Transnational trade is partly dependent on the geographic mobility of the individuals who travel abroad to select goods to be packed into cargo containers or suitcases to be transported to the DRC. With the COVID-19 pandemic producing global disruptions in supply chains of all manner, countries such as the DRC—where it is individual traders themselves who manage import logistics—are confronting pointed challenges with regards to the way in which geographic immobility has stymied the flow of goods into the country. Through which means do goods continue to flow into the DRC? Who now stands to benefit from import to Congo? Through an examination of the gendered geographies of supply chains—as they relate to transnational trade—as well as local social networks, this chapter’s empirical findings bring together the dialectical oscillations of global and local, and formal and informal into an analytical theoretical framework.
Item Type:Book Section
Book Section Subtype:Book Chapter
Publisher:LIT
ISBN:978-3-643-80409-9
Series Name:World Society Studies
Issue Number:2024
Language:English
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