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To stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances, this book demonstrates that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Chabal, Patrick, 1951-2014, Engel, Ulf, Haan, Leo de
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Since 1960
HISTORY > General.
Economic history
Politics and government
Social conditions
Sociaal-economische situatie.
Politieke ontwikkeling.
Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
Africa > Social conditions > 1960-
Africa > Economic conditions > 1960-
Afrique > Politique et gouvernement > 1960-
Afrique > Conditions sociales > 1960-
Afrique > Conditions économiques > 1960-
Africa
Afrika.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, Leo de Haan
  • Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk, Jan-Bart Gewald
  • On the Powers and Limits of Literature / Alain Ricard
  • Land and the Politics of Belonging in Africa / Carola Lentz
  • Studies in African Livelihoods : Current Issues and Future Prospects / Leo de Haan
  • Politics, Popular Culture and Livelihood Strategies among Young Men in a Nairobi Slum / Bodil Folke Frederiksen
  • African Migrations : Continuities, Discontinuities and Recent Transformations / Oliver Bakewell, Hein de Haas
  • Migration as Reterritorialization : Migrant Movement, Sovereignty and Authority in Contemporary Southern Africa / Scarlett Cornelissen
  • Approaching African Tourism : Paradigms and Paradoxes / Walter van Beek.

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