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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Ebenezer Obadare (Customer) , Wendy Willems , Basile Ndijo , Bettina von Lieres (Contributor)Publisher: James Currey Imprint: James Currey Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781847010865ISBN 10: 1847010865 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 20 February 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword by Patrick Chabal - Patrick Chabal INTRODUCTION - African resistance in an age of fractured sovereignty PART ONE: POST-COLONIAL STATE FORMATION AND PARALLEL INFRASTRUCTURES - Ebenezer Obadare INTRODUCTION - African resistance in an age of fractured sovereignty PART ONE: POST-COLONIAL STATE FORMATION AND PARALLEL INFRASTRUCTURES - Wendy Willems Global technologies of domination and arts of resistance in Africa: from colonial encounters to the Arab Spring - Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Citizenship from below: the politics of citizen action and resistance in South Africa and Angola - PART TWO: EMBODIED MODES OF RESISTANCE AND THE POST-COLONIAL STATE - Bettina von Lieres The politics of confinement and mobility: informality, relocations and urban re-making from below - Ilda Lindell The politics of confinement and mobility: informality, relocations and urban re-making from below - Markus Ihalainen Overcoming socio-economic marginalisation: Young West African hustlers and the reinvention of global capitalism - Basile Ndijo Accepting authoritarianism? Everyday resistance as political consciousness in post-genocide Rwanda - PART THREE: POPULAR CULTURE AS DISCURSIVE FORMS OF RESISTANCE - Susan Thomson Participatory politics in South Africa: social commentary from above and resistance from below - Innocentia Jabulisil Mhlambi Laughing at the rainbow's cracks? Blackness, whiteness and the ambivalences of South African stand-up comedy - Grace A. Musila 'Beasts of no nation': Resistance and civic activism in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's music - PART FOUR: PUBLICS AS EVERYDAY SITES OF RESISTANCE - Jendele Hungbo The power of resonance: Music, local radio stations, and the sounds of cultural belonging in Mali - Dorothea E. Schulz Narrating the contested public sphere: Zapiro, Zuma and freedom of expression in South Africa - Daniel HammettReviewsIn the year of his death, Patrick Chabal . . . wrote the forward to this edited volume, which celebrates the everyday resilience, strength, and global consciousness of the continent's citizenry. His contribution is a testament to the work's scholarly importance as a beacon of interdisciplinary synergy that promotes ongoing dialogue and understanding by paving empirical pathways that lead to the facts about African resistances. JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY (A) thoughtful and important contribution to the ways in which we view and approach resistance across Africa. AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY A great book. AFRICA REVIEW OF BOOKS Makes innovative interventions in the debates around how we think about the agency and resilience of ordinary people. ... Reading this book (is) an unusually enjoyable experience. AFRICA An excellent collection, well-edited and, without exception, well-written. THE JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES A theoretically and empirically rich book (which) serves to update a number of ideas about resistance in Africa. AFRICA AT LSE BLOG An admirable collection of accounts of the history of conflict and suffering that have been an almost constant feature of life for the Valley's inhabitants as long as anyone can remember. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS A theoretically and empirically rich book (which) serves to update a number of ideas about resistance in Africa. AFRICA AT LSE BLOG Author InformationEbenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also a senior fellow at the New York University School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs, as well as a fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute of Theology. His books include Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria (2016), Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century (2014). DOROTHEA E. SCHULZ is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Münster; she previously taught at Indiana University and the University of Cologne. Her books include Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God (2012) and, co-edited with Patrick A. Desplat, Prayer in the City: The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life (2012). Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also a senior fellow at the New York University School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs, as well as a fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute of Theology. His books include Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria (2016), Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century (2014). SUSAN THOMSON is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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