ISBN:
9781789204865
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
236 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
Mobilities; Immobilities; Social Positionality; Political Economyl Moral Economy; African Societies; Social Inequality
Abstract:
Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or ‘capitals’ – including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa -- Joël Noret -- Chapter 1. Inequality from up Close: Qur’anic Students in Northern Nigeria Working as Domestics -- Hannah Hoechner -- Chapter 2. 'Born Free to Aspire?' An Ethnographic Study of Rural Youths’ Aspirations in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Fawzia Mazanderani -- Chapter 3. Great Expectations and Uncertain Futures: Education and Social Im/mobility in Niamey, Niger -- Gabriella Körling -- Chapter 4. ‘Precarious Prosperity?’ Social Im/mobilities Among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala -- Laura Camfield and William Monteith -- Chapter 5. ‘Here Men Are Becoming Women and Women Men’: Gender, Class, and Space in Maputo, Mozambique -- Inge Tvedten, Arlindo Uate and Lizete Mangueleze -- Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Space -- Benjamin Rubbers -- Chapter 7. Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border -- Maxim Bolt -- Chapter 8. Domestic Dramas: Class, Taste and Home Decoration in Buea, Cameroon -- Ben Page -- Conclusion: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Positionality in Africa -- Joël Noret -- Appendix I: Sample characteristics -- Appendix II: Summary of entrepreneurs’ directions of social mobility -- Index --
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