SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Trapido, Joe (2017) Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa. New York: Berghahn. (Dislocations)

Book Chapters

Inaka, Saint Jose and Trapido, Joe (2015) 'Congo-Gauteng; Congolese migration to South Africa.' In: Hart, Kieth and Sharp, John, (eds.), People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis: Perspectives from the Global South. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 151-172. (Human Economy)

Trapido, Joe (2013) 'Forms of fetishism in Kinshasa: historical insights and contemporary practices.' In: Espirito Santo, DIana, (ed.), Making Spirits: materiality and transcendance in contemporary religion. London: I.B. Tauris. (Library of modern religion)

Journal Article

Trapido, Joe (2021) '‘Masterless Men’; Riots, Patronage and the Politics of the Surplus Population in Kinshasa.' Current Anthropology, 62 (2). pp. 198-217.

Trapido, Joe and Mbu-Mputu, Norbert (2020) 'Les Combattants, Ideologies of exile, return and nationalism in the DRC.' Journal of Refugee Studies, 33 (4). pp. 727-746.

Trapido, Joe (2016) 'Potlatch and the articulation of modes of production: revisiting French Marxist Anthropology and the history of central Africa.' Dialectical Anthropology, 40 (3). pp. 199-220.

Trapido, Joe (2016) 'Kinshasa's Theatre of Power.' New Left Review, 98. pp. 57-80.

Trapido, Joe (2015) 'Africa's Leaky Giant.' New Left Review, 92. pp. 5-40.

Trapido, Joe (2011) 'The political economy of migration and reputation in Kinshasa.' Africa, 81 (2). pp. 204-225.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Trapido, Joe (2015) Elections, politics, and power in central and southern Africa. Focaalblog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Trapido, Joe (2017) 'Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa.' Focaalblog (Sep 5). Berghahn.

Trapido, Joe (2016) 'Music and Infertility in the Nervous State.' Somatosphere (Dec 18).

Trapido, Joe (2016) 'Potlatch articulation and violence in the Congo.' focaalblog (Jan 5).

Neveling, Patrick and Trapido, Joe (2015) 'Modes of production : Try Again, Fail Better?' FocaalBlog .

Trapido, Joe and Neveling, Patrick (2015) 'Modes of production: Try again, fail better?' focaalblog (Nov 10).

Trapido, Joe (2015) 'Music, ritual, and capitalism in west central African history.' focaalblog (Apr 15).