Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities - Couverture souple

Makhulu, Anne-Maria; Buggenhagen, Beth A.; Gikandi, Simon; Jackson, Stephen

 
9780520098749: Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520098749 ISBN 13 : 9780520098749
Editeur : University of California Press, 2010

Synopsis

The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the rhetoric of African crisis to theorize people's everyday practices under volatile conditions not of their own making. From Ghanaian hiplife music to the U.S. "diversity lottery" in Togo, from politicos in Côte d'Ivoire to squatters in South Africa, the essays in Hard Work, Hard Times uncover the imaginative ways in which African subjects make and remake themselves and their worlds, and thus make do, get by, get over, and sometimes thrive.

Contributors: Beth A. Buggenhagen, Stephen Jackson, Anne-Maria Makhulu, Mike McGovern, Charles Piot, Dorothea E. Schulz, and Jesse Weaver Shipley

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À propos de l?auteur

Anne-Maria Makhulu is assistant professor of anthropology and African and African American studies at Duke University. Beth A. Buggenhagen is assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University. Stephen Jackson is senior political affairs officer for the United Nations Africa I Division.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520098749
ISBN 13 
9780520098749
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
242
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