The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Wale Adebanwi, Adigun Agbaje, Anne-Maria MakhuluTheme:Cultural Region/AfricanPublish date:2020-01-17Pages:384
Languages:EnglishPublisher:James CurreyISBN-13:9781847012449ISBN-10:1847012442UPC:9781847012449Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Africa, World, AnthropologyBook Topic:African, Cultural & SocialSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.19Product ID:SC35WEZ25D
Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa.
What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the politicaleconomy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial andapartheid pasts.
What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the politicaleconomy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial andapartheid pasts.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:James CurreyISBN-13:9781847012449ISBN-10:1847012442UPC:9781847012449Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Africa, World, AnthropologyBook Topic:African, Cultural & SocialSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.19Product ID:SC35WEZ25D
Pratten, David: - David Pratten is Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa and Director of the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Since 2010 David has been Co-Editor of AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institut. His publications include Nigeria: The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria (2007), which won the Amaury Talbot Prize awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute.Animasawun, Gbemisola: - Gbemisola Animasawun is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the Center for Peace & Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. His essays have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, edited books, policy briefs, working papers and op-eds that have earned him national and international research grants and honour.Adebanwi, Wale: - WALE ADEBANWI is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016) and editor of The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa (2017).
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