Intimate Encounters with the State in Post-War Luanda, Angola
通过一个家庭从旧城被强制迁至郊区的经历，揭示城市居民如何在与国家权威的系列遭遇中体验政党国家的控制，并剖析国家在看似全能又难以捉摸、公开暴力又微妙霸权中制造同意的精细机制。
Since the end of the war in 2002, Luanda has become an iconic site of urban transformation in the context of a particularly entrenched oligarchic regime. In practice however, urban dwellers are often confronted with a ‘deregulated system’ that fails to advance a coherent developmental agenda. The paper narrates the trajectory of a family forcibly removed from the old city to the periphery. It shows how city-dwellers experience the control of the party-state through a series of encounters with authority across the city. Questioning the intentionality of a state that appears at the same time omnipotent and elusive, openly violent and subtly hegemonic, the paper reveals the fine mechanisms through which consent is fabricated in the intimacy of the family.