Regimes of Responsibility in Africa

Benjamin Rubbers obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is now full professor in social anthropology at the University of Liege, Belgium. He is also the author of three monographs and more than twenty journal articles and book chapters on the Congolese copperbelt, where he does frequent fieldtrips since 1999.Alessandro Jedlowski is post-doctoral fellow in anthropology of media at the Free University of Brussels Belgium. His has been conducting fieldwork on sub-Saharan African media industries and South-South cultural interactions since 2009. He is the author of several essays and book chapters on these topics, and is the co-editor of Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America: Economic Networks and Cultural Interactions (Zed Books, 2017) and Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa (Michigan State University Press, 2018).

“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-Francois 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 Cote 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