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14 produkter
Situating Globality
African Agency in the Appropriation of Global Culture
Av Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk
Häftad, 2004
869 kr
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Situating Globality challenges the dominant view that globalization is a primary threat to African societies and economies. It explores how these societies are appropriating elements of the emerging global culture, arguing the significance of this appropriation in local struggles, the expression of …
Vanguard or Vandals
Youth, Politics and Conflict in Africa
Av Jon Abbink, Ineke van Kessel
Häftad, 2005
869 kr
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This book contains a range of original studies on one of the major challenges in Africa today: the controversial role of youth in politics, conflict and rebellious movements. The issue is not only the drafting of child soldiers into insurgent armies or predatory militias, as in Somalia, Sierra …
Crisis and Creativity
Exploring the Wealth of the African Neighbourhood
Häftad, 2006
888 kr
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At times of economic and political crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, urban dwellers display a large degree of creativity in their survival strategies by developing social networks and constructing imaginative and original practices and ideas. This volume views the urban neighbourhood from two different …
Strength beyond Structure
Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa
Av Mirjam de Bruijn, Jan-Bart Gewald m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
998 kr
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This book explores the notion of agency in a range of empirical situations in Africa. Agency directs our quest for an understanding of the dynamics and social transformations of African situations to the domains of creativity, inventiveness and reflexivity. It emphasizes the possibilities …
Movers and Shakers
Social Movements in Africa
Av Stephen Ellis, Ineke van Kessel
Häftad, 2009
1022 kr
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Mobilization against apartheid, the campaign against blood diamonds, the women's movement in Liberia where Africa's first female head of state was elected in 2005: these are all examples of socially based movements that have had a major effect on Africa's recent history. Yet the most influential …
Markets of Well-being
Navigating Health and Healing in Africa
Av Marleen Dekker, Rijk van Dijk
Häftad, 2010
1045 kr
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Health and healing are distinctive domains as far as the pursuit of people’s well-being is concerned. In Africa, both fields have increasingly become subject to monetization and commodification, in short, the market. Based on extensive fieldwork in nine African countries by scholars with diverse …
Land, Law and Politics in Africa
Mediating Conflict and Reshaping the State
Av Jon Abbink, Mirjam de Bruijn
Häftad, 2011
1022 kr
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This volume presents a wide selection of studies on the issues of law, land dispute and conflict (mediation) in Africa, reconsidering the role of state agents and other actors in these matters. The focus is on analyzing how citizens, state institutions and concerned (inter)national actors aim to …
Transforming Innovations in Africa
Explorative Studies on Appropriation in African Societies
Av Jan-Bart Gewald, André Leliveld m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1062 kr
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Africa abounds with examples of material and immaterial innovations that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere yet came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly transformed in Africa. The authors in this volume explore how external innovations (products, technologies, services, …
Digging Deeper: Inside Africa’s Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Dynamics
Häftad, 2014
1292 kr
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This volume attempts to dig deeper into what is currently happening in Africa’s agricultural and rural sector and to convince policymakers and others that it is important to look at the current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with value chain improvements …
African Roads to Prosperity
People en Route to Socio-Cultural and Economic Transformations
Häftad, 2015
1304 kr
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This book brings together in a comparative analysis the results of studies of the various cultural, social, economic and historical aspects that are formative in African societies’ experiences of how people negotiated the spaces and times of being in transit on the road to prosperity. The book …
Entrepreneurship in Africa
Häftad, 2017
1170 kr
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Historically, entrepreneurs have always played a central role in the development of nation states. Aside from rentier states, which depend extensively on the availability of mineral resource rents, most economically prosperous nations in the world have strong, innovative and competitive business …
Nature Conservation in Southern Africa
Morality and Marginality: Towards Sentient Conservation?
Häftad, 2018
1162 kr
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Nature conservation in southern Africa has always been characterised by an interplay between Capital, specific understandings of Morality, and forms of Militarism, that are all dependent upon the shared subservience and marginalization of animals and certain groups of people in society. Although …
Individual in African History
The Importance of Biography in African Historical Studies
Häftad, 2020
1233 kr
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This volume investigates the development of biographical study in African history and historiography. Consisting of 10 case studies, it is preceded by an introductory prologue, which deals with the relationship between historiography and different forms of biographical study in the context of …
Gaping Holes
Towards Multispecies Histories and Ethnographies of Mining in Southern Africa
Häftad, 2026
1089 kr
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For much of the 20th Century, industrial mining in southern Africa stood at the very forefront of modernity, where it promised progress and economic development. Yet in the present, southern Africa is bedevilled by the toxic legacy of economic collapse, societal upheaval and environmental ruin. …
