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This chapter explores the black market in Harare as an acoustic site, a sonic archive of socio-economic and cultural resistance and refusal. I frame it as a micropolitical terrain where listening becomes a tool for survival and negotiation. Through the lens of James C. Scott’s Weapons of the Weak and Achille Mbembe’s idea of political improvisation, I analyze the market's rhythms and utterances as insurgent sonic strategies. The flea market, too, emerges as an acoustic site where history, polyphony, and struggle converge in daily acts of negotiation.

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The Black Market Sound: Sampling a Micropolitical Terrain of Listening, Resistance, and Refusal

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    2026年

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  • Masimba Hwati

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This chapter explores the black market in Harare as an acoustic site, a sonic archive of socio-economic and cultural resistance and refusal. I frame it as a micropolitical terrain where listening becomes a tool for survival and negotiation. Through the lens of James C. Scott’s Weapons of the Weak and Achille Mbembe’s idea of political improvisation, I analyze the market's rhythms and utterances as insurgent sonic strategies. The flea market, too, emerges as an acoustic site where history, polyphony, and struggle converge in daily acts of negotiation.