ISBN:
9781847010865
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (258 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Obadare, Ebenezer Civic agency in Africa
DDC:
258
Keywords:
Social conflict -- Africa -- History -- 21st century
;
Social classes -- Africa -- History -- 21st century
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Africa -- History -- 21st century
;
Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Nordafrika
;
Mittlerer Osten
;
Zivilcourage
;
Protest
;
Politische Kunst
Abstract:
Examines the variety of mostly unorganized and informal ways in which Africans exercise agency and resist state power in the 21st century, through citizen action and popular culture, and how the relationship between ruler and ruled is being reframed
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Overcoming Socio-Economic Marginalisation: Young West African Hustlers & the Reinvention of Global Capitalism6 Accepting Authoritarianism? Everyday Resistance as Political Consciousness in Post-Genocide Rwanda; Part III: Popular Culture as Discursive Forms of Resistance; 7 Participatory Politics in South Africa: Social Commentary from Above & Resistance from Below; 8 Laughing at the Rainbow's Cracks? Blackness, Whiteness & the Ambivalences of South African Stand-Up Comedy; 9 'Beasts of No Nation': Resistance & Civic Activism in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Music
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontcover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword by Patrick Chabal; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: African Resistance in an Age of Fractured Sovereignty; Part I: PostcolonIal State Formation & Parallel Infrastructures; 2 Global Technologies of Domination: From Colonial Encounters to the Arab Spring; 3 Citizenship from Below: The Politics of Citizen Action & Resistance in South Africa & Angola; Part II: Embodied Modes of Resistance & the PostcolonIal State; 4 The Politics of Confinement & Mobility: Informality, Relocations & Urban Re-making from Above & Below in Nairobi
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV: Publics as Everyday Sites of Resistance10 The Power of Resonance: Music, Local Radio Stations & the Sounds of Cultural Belonging in Mali; 11 Narrating the Contested Public Sphere: Zapiro, Zuma & Freedom of Expression in South Africa; Index; Backcover
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