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African Cities
Competing Claims on Urban Spaces
Häftad, 2009
1358 kr
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Contemporary Africa is undergoing a period of unprecedented urban expansion, which is throwing up new challenges in the provision of essential services and contentious questions about ownership of urban spaces. This volume explores the interconnections between these processes, whilst avoiding the …
Respacing Africa
Av Ulf Engel
Häftad, 2009
1358 kr
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Space has been reintroduced as an analytical category to the humanities and social sciences in the early 1990s. African Studies is one of the fields of knowledge production where the so-called spatial turn has proved to be extremely fruitful. The continent provides ample evidence for complex …
Mediations of Violence in Africa
Fashioning new futures from contested pasts
Häftad, 2010
1358 kr
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This book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as well as men and women trying to …
Researching Violence in Africa
Ethical and Methodological Challenges
Häftad, 2011
1358 kr
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Researching violence and conflict can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including security risks to researchers and informants, restricted or lack of access to informants and field sites, and poor reliability of official data. Traditional methodological approaches may need to be adapted, and …
African Engagements
Africa Negotiating an Emerging Multipolar World
Häftad, 2011
1329 kr
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With the end of the Cold War, the world seemed to move from a bipolar to a unipolar system, with the neoliberal West globally imposing its laws. However, it has been acknowledged that other actors, such as China, India and Brazil, have become increasingly influential, helping to lead to a new …
Long Journeys. African Migrants on the Road
Häftad, 2013
1285 kr
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Trapped inside lorries or huddled aboard unseaworthy boats, irregular African migrants make for troubling headlines in western media, fueling fever pitch fears of an impending "African exodus" to Europe. Despite the increasing, albeit sensational, attention irregular migration attracts on both …
Corruption as an Empty Signifier
Politics and Political Order in Africa
Häftad, 2013
1397 kr
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Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation. Conventionally, both …
Child Fostering in West Africa
New Perspectives on Theory and Practices
Häftad, 2013
1397 kr
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Child fostering is an age-old and also modern phenomenon whose importance stretches much further than the boundaries of so-called ‘traditional’ African societies. As a mobile and creative kinship practice, child fostering is of growing importance in the global world as it goes along with other …
African Dynamics in a Multipolar World
Av Ulf Engel
Häftad, 2013
1265 kr
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Fifty years after the foundation of the OAU and the consolidation of most African states and institutions, the international panorama and Africa’s position in it have changed considerably. The world's geopolitical and economic configuration has evolved, with new actors appearing in a new period of …
Travelling Models in African Conflict Management
Translating Technologies of Social Ordering
Häftad, 2014
1371 kr
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Travelling Models offers a theoretical concept for comparative research on conflict management in Africa in processes of globalization: how is change in one place related to developments in other places? Why are certain issues that are important in one place taken up in other places, while others …
States at Work
Dynamics of African Bureaucracies
Häftad, 2014
1341 kr
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States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for theorizing, the authors deal with topics including: bureaucratic cultures and …
Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa
Historical Legacies and Contemporary Hybridities
Av Afe Adogame
Häftad, 2014
1341 kr
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Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa provides scholarly, interdisciplinary analysis of the historical and contemporary relationships, links and networks between Scotland, Africa and the African diaspora. The book interrogates these links from a variety of perspectives – historical, political, …
Collective Mobilisations in Africa / Mobilisations collectives en Afrique
Enough is Enough! / Ça suffit!
Av Kadya Tall
Häftad, 2015
1436 kr
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This book uses empirical research to bring together a broad range of protest contexts in twelve chapters. From the formation of Maroon societies in the early colonial period, to female mobilisation in authoritarian contexts, via urban youth culture, women or mineworkers in trade unionism, as well …
Framing African Development
Challenging Concepts
Häftad, 2015
1316 kr
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This book discusses and challenges concepts that are widely used in research and policy related to development issues in Africa. The main rationale for such an undertaking is that the concepts that are used to understand and define the world in general and Africa in particular are not merely …
Making of the African Road
Av Kurt Beck
Häftad, 2017
1227 kr
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The Making of the African Road offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus …
Transfers of Belonging
Child Fostering in West Africa in the 20th Century
Häftad, 2018
1201 kr
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In Transfers of Belonging, Erdmute Alber traces the history of child fostering in northern Benin from the pre-colonial past to the present by pointing out the embeddedness of child foster practices and norms in a wider political process of change. Child fostering was, for a long time, not just one …
Spatial Practices
Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa
Av Ulf Engel
Häftad, 2018
1239 kr
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The edited collection Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa presents research findings from the German Research Council’s Priority Programme 1448 “Adaptation and Change in Africa” (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are important new spatial practices that have …
Mozambique on the Move
Challenges and Reflections
Häftad, 2018
1304 kr
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Being a first of its kind, this volume comprises a multi-disciplinary exploration of Mozambique’s contemporary and historical dynamics, bringing together scholars from across the globe. Focusing on the country’s vibrant cultural, political, economic and social world – including the transition from …
Afrasian Transformations
Transregional Perspectives on Development Cooperation, Social Mobility, and Cultural Change
Häftad, 2020
1329 kr
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African-Asian interactions contribute to the emergence of a decentred, multi-polar world in which different actors need to redefine themselves and their relations to each other. Afrasian Transformations explores these changes to map out several arenas where these transformations have already …
Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises
A Global Studies Perspective on Brazil-Mozambique Development Discourse
Häftad, 2020
1329 kr
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New Books Network: Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical PromisesWhat history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro grew up with the image that to be developed was to be as European as …
Researching the Inner Life of the African Peace and Security Architecture
APSA Inside-Out
Häftad, 2021
1227 kr
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This edited volume offers new insights into the inner life of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and introduces scholars of African security dynamics to innovative epistemological, conceptual and methodological approaches. Based on intellectual openness and an interest in …
African Futures
Häftad, 2022
1149 kr
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The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not …
Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity
Cultural and Biological Approaches to Uncover African Diversity
Häftad, 2021
1183 kr
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This book explores important chapters of past and recent African history from a multidisciplinary perspective. It covers an extensive time range from the evolution of early humans to the complex cultural and genetic diversity of modern-day populations in Africa. Through a comprehensive list of …
Paradise Lost
Race and Racism in Post-apartheid South Africa
Häftad, 2022
1171 kr
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Paradise Lost. Race and Racism in Post-apartheid South Africa is about the continuing salience of race and persistence of racism in post-apartheid South Africa. The chapters in the volume illustrate the multiple ways in which race and racism are manifested and propose various strategies to confront …
Oil-Age Africa
Critical Reflections on Oil Politics, Resource Economies and Extractive Communities
Häftad, 2022
1126 kr
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Following a wave of oil discoveries in Africa, Oil-Age Africa offers new perspectives and critical reflections on the prevalent academic discourses on oil in Africa. This collection brings together researchers from the social sciences to challenge simplified readings of the complex realities of oil …
Rebellious Riots
Entangled Geographies of Contention in Africa
Av Sam Kniknie
Häftad, 2023
1137 kr
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Is violent conflict in Africa urbanizing? How do urban protests and civil war intersect? How do narratives, mechanisms and identities of contention move between urban and rural arenas? These questions constitute the basis of investigation and analysis of this unique cross-disciplinary volume. …
Recherches sur la vie intérieure de l’Architecture Africaine de Paix et de Sécurité (APSA)
Häftad, 2023
1137 kr
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Ce volume édité offre des nouvelles perspectives sur la vie intérieure de l'Architecture africaine de paix et de sécurité (APSA) et présente aux spécialistes dand la domaine paix et securité africaine des approches épistémologiques, conceptuelles et méthodologiques innovantes. Basé sur une …
Disability and Aid
An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee Camp
Häftad, 2023
1110 kr
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*The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation*Winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2024!Public Anthropologist Award 2024At a time when rights are increasingly placed on the humanitarian agenda, this book provides a unique …
History through Narratives of Education in Africa
Social Histories in Times of Colonization and Post Independence (1920s - 1970s)
Häftad, 2024
1143 kr
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Who were the actors involved in colonial and post-independence education in Africa? This book on the history of education in Africa gives a special attention to narratives of marginalized voices. With this original approach and cases from ten countries involving four colonial powers it constitutes …
Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya
Av Gerda Kuiper
Häftad, 2024
1123 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the century-long socio-ecological transformation of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Major globalised processes of agricultural intensification, biodiversity conservation efforts, and natural-resource extraction have simultaneously …
