Ethnographies Of Uncertainty In Africa

Author : E. Cooper,D. Pratten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137350831

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Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa by E. Cooper,D. Pratten Pdf

This collection explores the productive potential of uncertainty for people living in Africa as well as for scholars of Africa. Eight ethnographic case studies from across the continent examine how uncertainty is used to negotiate insecurity, create and conduct relationships, and act as a source for imagining the future.

Author : Håkon Fyhn,Harald Aspen,Anne Kathrine Larsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498584081

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Edges of Global Transformation by Håkon Fyhn,Harald Aspen,Anne Kathrine Larsen Pdf

Through nine ethnographic case-studies, Edges of Global Transformation explores situations where global transformations associated with neoliberalism meet local realities. The “edge” of transformation is characterized by uncertainty, as old patterns are consumed and new formed. The nine case studies from Africa, Europe and the Middle East shed light on how uncertainty plays an inevitable and essential role in the grey zone between macro-transformations and local responses. Despite the tremendous difference in precariousness between these cases, each contributor explores ways in which transformations are conceived and acted upon within the space of possibility that is opened and apprehended locally. The role of uncertainty as an active force is explored throughout the book. While in some cases, uncertainty has a clear restricting effect; other cases illustrate its potential as a productive force. As a contribution to understanding the dynamic of the local realities of global change, the book will be valuable reading for anyone interested in globalization and the neoliberal world order.

Author : Arne S. Steinforth,Sabine Klocke-Daffa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030769246

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Challenging Authorities by Arne S. Steinforth,Sabine Klocke-Daffa Pdf

When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact—knowledge accepted as true—derives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category. Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array of insights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, and even outright competition between different postulated authorities. The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities and pluralities in ‘modern’ societies. This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice, and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equal footing with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other global settings.

Author : Nauja Kleist,Dorte Thorsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317335481

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Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration by Nauja Kleist,Dorte Thorsen Pdf

This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the social imaginaries and aspirations which underpin migration in situations of uncertainty, deepening inequality, and delimited access to global circuits of legal mobility. The volume takes departure in a mobility paradox that characterizes contemporary migration. Whereas people all over the world are exposed to widening sets of meaning of the good life elsewhere, an increasing number of people in the Global South have little or no access to authorized modes of international migration. This book examines how African migrants respond to this situation. Focusing on hope, it explores migrants’ temporal and spatial horizons of expectation and possibility and how these horizons link to mobility practices. Such analysis is pertinent as precarious life conditions and increasingly restrictive regimes of mobility characterize the lives of many Africans, while migration continues to constitute important livelihood strategies and to be seen as pathways of improvement. Whereas involuntary immobility is one consequence, another is the emergence and consolidation of new destinations emerging in the Global South. The volume examines this development through empirically grounded and theoretically rich case studies in migrants’ countries of origin, zones of transit, and in new and established destinations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Latin America and China. It thereby offers an original perspective on linkages between migration, hope, and immobility, ranging from migration aspirations to return.

Author : Kinikanwo Aznunda Anele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113024827

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Ethnography of Sub-Saharan Africa by Kinikanwo Aznunda Anele Pdf

Author : Cyril Daryll Forde
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 6326 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1315304627

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Ethnographic Survey of Africa by Cyril Daryll Forde Pdf

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collectedinformation on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well as ethnographic research which, in 1945, had only just begun.

Author : Joël Noret
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789204865

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Social Im/mobilities in Africa by Joël Noret Pdf

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’.

Author : Sandra Calkins
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785330162

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Who Knows Tomorrow? by Sandra Calkins Pdf

Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.

Author : Sherine Hafez,Susan Slyomovics
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253007612

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Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa by Sherine Hafez,Susan Slyomovics Pdf

This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth and quality of their ethnographic writing and for their interventions in current theory.

Author : Megan Ryburn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520970793

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Uncertain Citizenship by Megan Ryburn Pdf

Uncertain Citizenship explores how Bolivian migrants to Chile experience citizenship in their daily lives. Intraregional migration is on the rise in Latin America and challenges how citizenship in the region is understood and experienced. As Megan Ryburn powerfully argues, many individuals occupy a state of uncertain citizenship as they navigate movement and migration across borders. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic research, this book contributes to debates on the meaning and practice of citizenship in Latin America and for migrants throughout the world.

Author : Roy Richard Grinker,Stephen C. Lubkemann,Christopher B. Steiner,Euclides Gonçalves
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119251484

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A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa by Roy Richard Grinker,Stephen C. Lubkemann,Christopher B. Steiner,Euclides Gonçalves Pdf

An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that have emerged as the central questions of the discipline’s future. Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa provides a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.

Author : Andrea Mariko Grant,Yolana Pringle
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780821447284

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Anxiety in and about Africa by Andrea Mariko Grant,Yolana Pringle Pdf

How does anxiety impact narratives about African history, culture, and society? This volume demonstrates the richness of anxiety as an analytical lens within African studies. Contributors call attention to ways of thinking about African spaces—physical, visceral, somatic, and imagined—as well as about time and temporality. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the volume also brings histories of anxiety in colonial settings into conversation with work on the so-called negative emotions in disciplines beyond history. While anxiety has long been acknowledged for its ability to unsettle colonial narratives, to reveal the vulnerability of the colonial enterprise, this volume shows it can equally complicate contemporary narratives, such as those of sustainable development, migration, sexuality, and democracy. These essays therefore highlight the need to take emotions seriously as contemporary realities with particular histories that must be carefully mapped out.

Author : Monica Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 081538713X

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African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century by Monica Wilson Pdf

Routledge is delighted to be re-issuing 79 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1988 in association with the International African Institute. Unavailable outside a few key libraries, many of these republished volumes were at the cutting edge of a fieldwork and ethnographic revolution in African anthropology in the decades after 1930. It involved the production of a wide body of fieldwork-based ethnographic documentation about the cultures of the different societies in Africa. Secondly, it saw a methodological turn to intense, localized investigations of cultural tradition and social change in a rapidly modernizing context. These investigations involved a more sustained and systematic, more professional and 'scientific' form of immersion and participant observation, than anything that had gone before. The sites of engagement were urban as well as rural; the pioneering researchers were female as well as male. No longer was the journal essay the repository of the latest research in the discipline, but rich ethnographies running into hundreds of pages. The volumes are supplemented with maps, which will be available to view on https://www.routledge.com/ or available as pdfs from the publishers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004471641

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African Futures by Anonim Pdf

The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.

Author : Frances Vavrus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350164512

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Schooling as Uncertainty by Frances Vavrus Pdf

In today's uncertain world, few beliefs remain as firmly entrenched as the optimistic view that more schooling will lead to a better life. Though this may be true in the aggregate, how do we explain the circumstances when schooling fails to produce certainty or even does us harm? Schooling as Uncertainty addresses this question by combining ethnography and memoir as it guides readers on a 30-year journey through fieldwork and familyhood in Tanzania and academic life in the USA. Using reflexive, longitudinal ethnographic research, the book examines how African youth, particularly young women, employ schooling in an attempt to counter the uncertainties of marriage, child rearing, employment, and HIV/AIDS. Adopting a narrative approach, Vavrus tells the story of how her life became entangled with a community on Mount Kilimanjaro and how she and they sought greater security through schooling and, to varying degrees, succeeded.