The political economy of everyday life in Africa : beyond the margins /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adebanwi, Wale (Editor ), Ferguson, James, 1959- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Suffolk : James Currey, 2017.
Temas:
Since 1960
Economic development > Africa.
Développement économique > Afrique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Economic development.
Economic history.
Politics and government.
Africa > Economic conditions > 1960-
Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
Afrique > Conditions économiques > 1960-
Afrique > Politique et gouvernement > 1960-
Africa.
Afrique > Conditions économiques.
Afrique > Politique et gouvernement.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Approaching the political economy of everyday life : an introduction / Wale Adebanwi
  • Part I: Money matters: currency & fiscal life struggles
  • 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
  • Part II: Labour, social lives & precarity
  • From enslavement to precarity? : The labour question in African history / Frederick Cooper
  • Navigating formality in a migrant labour force / Maxim Bolt
  • Part III: Marginality, disaffection & bio-economic distress
  • 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
  • Part IV: Historicity, temporality, agency & democratic life
  • 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

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