Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847010865 ISBN 13 : 9781847010865

Editeur : James Currey, 2014

Synopsis

The recent eruption of popular protests across North Africa and the Middle East has reopened academic debate on the meaning and strategies of resistance in the 21st century. This book argues that Western notions of state and civil society provide only a limited understanding of how power and resistance operate in the African context, where informality is central to the way both state officials and citizens exercise agency. With the principle of informality as a template, the chapters in this volume collectively examine the various modes - organised and unorganised, formal and informal, urban and rural, embodied and discursive, serious and ludic, online and offline, successful and failing - through which Africans contend with power. Resistance takes place against the backdrop of deep fractures in state sovereignty, the remnants of colonial rule and the constraints of a global, neoliberal economic system.Ebenezer Obadare is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas; Wendy Willems is Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ebenezer Obadare is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas; Wendy Willems is Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Revue de presse :

A theoretically and empirically rich book (which) serves to update a number of ideas about resistance in Africa. --Africa at LSE Blog

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: James Currey
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847010865
• ISBN 13: 9781847010865
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256