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The political economy of everyday life in Africa : beyond the margins / edited by Wale Adebanwi ; foreword by James Ferguson

Adebanwi, Wale, 1969- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Ferguson, James, 1959- [Verfass. eines Vorworts] ; Agbaje, Adigun, 1957- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Animasawun, Gbemisola [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Berry, Sara S. [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Bolt, Maxim, 1970- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Comaroff, Jean, 1946- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Comaroff, John L., 1945- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Cooper, Frederick, 1947- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Diagne, Souleymane Bachir, 1955- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Geschiere, Peter [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Guyer, Jane I., 1943- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Makhulu, Anne-Maria [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Monga, Célestin, 1960- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Oestermann, Tristan [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Pratten, David [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Renne, Elisha P., 1949- [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; Watts, Michael, 1951- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2017

xviii, 364 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten ; 24 cm

Englisch

Approaching the political economy of everyday life : an introduction / Wale Adebanwi

Cattle, currencies & the politics of commensuration on a colonial frontier / Jean & John L. Comaroff

Currency & conflict in colonial Nigeria / David Pratten

Coercion or trade? : Multiple self-realization during the rubber boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) / Peter Geschiere & Tristan Oestermann

The macroeconomics of marginal gains : Africa's lessons to social theorists / Célestin Monga

From enslavement to precarity? : The labour question in African history / Frederick Cooper

Navigating formality in a migrant labour force / Maxim Bolt

Precarious life : violence &poverty under Boko Haram & MEND / Michael J. Watts

The debt imperium : relations of owing after apartheid / Anne-Maria Makhulu

Marginal men & urban social conflicts : okada riders in Lagos / Gbemisola Animasawun

Sopona, social relations & the political economy of colonial smallpox control in Ekiti, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne

History as a value added? : Valuing the past in Africa / Sara Berry

Cultural mediation, colonialism & politics : colonial 'truchement', postcolonial translator / Souleymane Bachir Diagne

'Kos'ona Miran?' : patronage, prebendalism & democratic life in contemporary Nigeria / Adigun Agbaje

The landscape beyond the margins : agency, optimization & the power of the empirical / Jane I. Guyer

Register, Literaturangaben

Erscheint auch als: Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa / Wale Adebanwi (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa / Adebanwi, Wale (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-84701-165-7 ( : (hbk) (£50.00)); 978-1-84701-166-4 (Africa only paperback)

OCoLC: 1025313181     

OCoLC: 1021360627 (aus SWB)     

LB 40465  | MI 10020  | QG 700      Ähnliche Literatur

HC800

960

FIV Notation: RE: Afrika (insgesamt) ; SG02.07: Gesellschaft / Gesellschaftsentwicklung/Gesellschaftsstruktur / Lebensbedingungen/Lebensformen

Basisklassifikation: 83.30 (Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Wirtschaftsstruktur: Allgemeines) ; 89.40 (Innere Beziehungen des Staates: Allgemeines) ; 15.90 (Afrika: Allgemeines) <Geschichte>

*Afrika ; Politische Ökonomie ; Alltag      Zum Register

*Afrika ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung      Zum Register

GND-Schlagwörter: Afrika ; Alltag ; Lebensbedingungen ; Einflussgröße ; Interesse ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Beschäftigung ; Arbeit ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Kolonialismus ; Auswirkung ; Politik ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Innenpolitik

LOC-SH: Economic development -- Africa ; Africa -- Economic conditions ; Africa -- Politics and government

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 political economy 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 and apartheid pasts