Regimes of Responsibility in Africa

Benjamin Rubbers is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Liège, Belgium. He is also the author of three monographs and numerous journal articles and book chapters on the Congolese Copperbelt, which he has frequently visited on fieldtrips since 1999.

“Regimes of Responsibility contributes to a growing number of histories in anthropology, political science, religious studies, economics, and history. This volume is unique in that it spans sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on neoliberal periodization and the way its effects are understood by local communities, with ‘responsibility’ as its discursive frame.” • African Studies Review

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities and ConflictsBenjamin Rubbers and Alessandro JedlowskiChapter 1. Historical Regimes of Responsibility in ‘The Politics of the Belly’Jean-François BayartChapter 2. The Use(fulness) of Discourses of 'Responsibility' on the DRC's ‘Sovereign Frontier’Stylianos MoshonasChapter 3. High Officials’ Responsibility and State Accountability in the Age of Neoliberal Discharge: Views from MozambiqueRozenn Nakanabo DialloChapter 4. Reproduction, Responsibility and Citizenship in Côte d’IvoireArmando Cutolo and Giulia AlmagioniChapter 5. Human Care or Human Capital: Corporate Responsibility and HIV Management at South Africa’s MinesDinah RajakChapter 6. For What Are Persons With Disabilities Responsible? The Study of Public, Social and Family Responsibilities in the Context of Locomotor Disability (Cape Flats, South Africa)Marie SchnitzlerChapter 7. Diverting Makila Mabe: Understanding Responsibility in Kinshasa’s Pentecostal WorldsKatrien PypeChapter 8. The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast CameroonPeter GeschiereChapter 9. The ‘Return of Culture’: Spiritual Threats, Asylum Policies and the Responsibility of Anthropological KnowledgeRoberto BeneduceIndex