Timothy Raeymaekers is Lecturer in Political Geography at Universität Zürich. He is co-editor of Conflict and Social Transformation in Eastern DR Congo (2004) and Violence on the Margins: State, Conflict, and Borderlands (2013), and has published numerous journal articles.

'… a welcome addition to our knowledge of contemporary political practices and a necessary corrective to assumptions about politics in general and African politics in particular.' Dr Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database (wings.buffalo.edu/ARD)

• Foreword; Introduction; 1. Congo's central margins; 2. The rise of indigenous capitalism; 3. Managing uncertainty; 4. The transformation of regulation; 5. Transformation without transition; Conclusion.

Timothy Raeymaekers is Lecturer in Political Geography at Universität Zürich. He is co-editor of Conflict and Social Transformation in Eastern DR Congo (2004) and Violence on the Margins: State, Conflict, and Borderlands (2013), and has published numerous journal articles.

'… a welcome addition to our knowledge of contemporary political practices and a necessary corrective to assumptions about politics in general and African politics in particular.' Dr Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database (wings.buffalo.edu/ARD)

• Foreword; Introduction; 1. Congo's central margins; 2. The rise of indigenous capitalism; 3. Managing uncertainty; 4. The transformation of regulation; 5. Transformation without transition; Conclusion.