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Bridging Mobilities : ICTs Appropriation by Cameroonians in South Africa and the Netherlands /
This is a study on the creative appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by mobile Africans and the communities to which they belong, home and away. With a focus on Cameroonian migrants from Pinyin and Mankon who are currently living in Cape Town and the Netherlands, this b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bamenda, Cameroon ; Netherlands :
Langaa & African Studies Centre,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of photographs, maps and diagrams; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Setting the scene; Mobility; Transnationalism or ...?; Pinyin and Mankon as frontier people; 'Tuyau' and 'lines': Social and kinship networks; Society and technology; Habitual practice; Belonging and home; Research questions and outline of the book; 2. Methodological considerationsand data collection; Introduction; Methodological reflections; Methods; Life histories; Archival research; Conclusion; 3. Mobility and migration at the crossroads:Mobile communities; Introduction.
- Mobility trends in Cameroon from colonial timesto the current wave of migration to South AfricaMobile society; Migration to South Africa and The Netherlands; Migration governance or governance fragmentation?; Conclusion; 4. A new form of madness in the village: The arrival of information andcommunications technologies (ICTs); Introduction; Overview of current debates on ICTs; Phoning before the proliferation of mobile phones (1980s-1999); Conceptualizing ICTs in Pinyin and Mankon; The Internet and social media; Appropriation of ICTs before and afterthe revolution of communication technologies.
- Navigating the conundrums of the mobile phoneConclusion; 5. Networks and shifting relations: Social and kinship networks andthe formation of a network society; Introduction; Overview of network in the migration process; Network intrigues; Studying networks; Networking amongst mobile communities; Kinship relations and social networks; Networking through marriage; Gender social and kinship network relations; Negotiating ngunda: Social networks inasylum/refugee circles in Cape Town; Conclusion; 6. 'Going to the field': Pitching andmigrants' economic activities; Introduction; Informal economy.
- EncountersThe role of women in the informal economy; Pitching: An overview of economic activities in Cape Town; Mobility and social networking in the informal economy; The notion of success and material wealth; Commodification of relationship; Discussion and conclusion; 7. 'Your mami and papa for this country na meeting': PIFAM and MACUDA as agencyin a transnational world; Introduction; Overview and characteristics of PIFAM and MACUDA; Overview of trends; Associations as agents of development; Status and social hierarchies in elite formation; Social life of PIFAM and MACUDA.
- Inter-cultural communication and associational networkingExchange visits between associations; Transnational/trans-virtual associational networks; Conclusion; 8. A mobile community as a fortress: Reinforcing the notion of belongingthrough 'life crisis'; Introduction; Understanding rituals and ceremonies; Birth; Marriage; Death; ICTs as evidence of ritual autopsy; Rituals as communication and the embodiment of society; Conclusion; 9. 'I di beep na for beep, them di call': Straddling relationships between the home and host countryamongst kin and kith; Introduction.