De Certeau, Michel (1984): The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Fanon, Frantz (2008): Concerning Violence. Penguin, London.

Lund, Christian (2006): Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa, in: Development and Change, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 685–705.

Rieff, David (2002): A bed for the Night. Humanitarianism in Crisis. Vintage, London.

Strange, Susan (1996): The retreat of the state. The diffusion of power in the world economy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Svensson, Jacob (2006): The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid, in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, Vol. 13, No. 2. Stockholm, pp. 115–137.

Terry, Fiona (2002): Condemned to repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

Utas, Mats (ed., 2012): African Conflicts and Informal Power. Big Men and Networks. Zed Books, London.

Weber, Max (1980): Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Grundriss der verstehenden Soziologie. Mohr, Tübingen.