ISBN:
9781787440517
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (386 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The political economy of everyday life in Africa
Parallel Title:
Print version Adebanwi, Wale The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa : Beyond the Margins
DDC:
960
Keywords:
Entwicklung
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Kolonialismus
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Politische Unruhen
;
Wirtschaftslage
;
Afrika
;
Economic development--Africa
;
Alltag
;
Lebensbedingungen
;
Einflussgröße
;
Interesse
;
Soziales Netzwerk
;
Beschäftigung
;
Arbeit
;
Arbeitsbedingungen
;
Kolonialismus
;
Auswirkung
;
Politik
;
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
;
Innenpolitik
;
Economic development ; Africa
;
Electronic books
;
Afrika
;
Afrika
;
Politische Ökonomie
;
Alltag
;
Afrika
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Abstract:
Frontcover -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations & Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword by James Ferguson -- Acknowledgements -- Approaching the Political Economy of Everyday Life: An Introduction -- PART I. MONEY MATTERS: CURRENCY & FISCAL LIFE STRUGGLES -- 1 Cattle, Currencies & the Politics of Commensuration on a Colonial Frontier -- 2 Currency & Conflict in Colonial Nigeria -- 3 Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) -- 4 The Macroeconomics of Marginal Gains Africa's Lessons to Social Theorists -- PART II. LABOUR, SOCIAL LIVES & PRECARITY -- 5 From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in African Histor -- 6 Navigating Formality in a Migrant Labour Force -- PART III. MARGINALITY, DISAFFECTION & BIO-ECONOMIC DISTRESS -- 7 Precarious Life: Violence & Poverty under Boko Haram & MEND -- 8 The Debt Imperium: Relations of Owing after Apartheid -- 9 Marginal Men & Urban Social Conflicts: Okada Riders in Lagos -- 10 Sopona, Social Relations & the Political Economy of Colonial Smallpox Control in Ekiti, Nigeria -- PART IV. HISTORICITY, TEMPORALITY, AGENCY & DEMOCRATIC LIFE -- 11 History as Value Added? Valuing the Past in Africa -- 12 Cultural Mediation, Colonialism & Politics: Colonial 'Truchement', Postcolonial Translator -- 13 'Kos'ona Miran?' Patronage, Prebendalism & Democratic Life in Contemporary Nigeria -- AFTERWORD. The Landscapes Beyond the Margins Agency, Optimization & the Power of the Empirical -- Index.
Abstract:
Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa.
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