Producing African Futures

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047413790

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Producing African Futures by Anonim Pdf

The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal production of personhood, the crises of youth and the moral panic in which so many of the wider reforms are registered in experience. With contributions on marriage payments, Muslim saints, popular theatre, homosexuality, ritual haunts, domestic reproduction, masculine fantasy, poetic justice, spirit possession and corruption.

Author : Brad Weiss
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004138605

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Producing African Futures by Brad Weiss Pdf

The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal production of personhood, the crises of youth and the moral panic in which so many of the wider reforms are registered in experience. With contributions on marriage payments, Muslim saints, popular theatre, homosexuality, ritual haunts, domestic reproduction, masculine fantasy, poetic justice, spirit possession and corruption.

Author : Brian Goldstone,Juan Obarrio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226402413

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African Futures by Brian Goldstone,Juan Obarrio Pdf

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola—but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? The experts in this book address Africa’s future as it is embedded within various social and cultural forms emerging on the continent today: the reconfiguration of the urban, the efflorescence of signs and wonders and gospels of prosperity, the assorted techniques of legality and illegality, lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyptic visions, a yearning for exile, and many other phenomena. Bringing together social, political, religious, and economic viewpoints, the book reveals not one but multiple prospects for the future of Africa. In doing so, it offers a pathbreaking model of pluralistic and open-ended thinking and a powerful tool for addressing the vexing uncertainties that underlie so many futures around the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Carola Lentz,Isidore Lobnibe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780253060181

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Imagining Futures by Carola Lentz,Isidore Lobnibe Pdf

What keeps a family together? In Imagining Futures, authors Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe offer a unique look at one extended African family, currently comprising over five hundred members in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. Members of this extended family, like many others in the region, find themselves living increasingly farther apart and working in diverse occupations ranging from religious clergy and civil service to farming. What keeps them together as a family? In their groundbreaking work, Lentz and Lobnibe argue that shared memories, rather than only material interests, bind a family together. Imagining Futures explores the changing practices of remembering in an African family and offers a unique contribution to the growing field of memory studies, beyond the usual focus of Europe and America. Lentz and Lobnibe explore how, in an increasingly globalized, postcolonial world, memories themselves are not static accounts of past events but are actually malleable and shaped by both current concerns and imagined futures.

Author : Francis Omaswa,Nigel Crisp
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191008412

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African Health Leaders by Francis Omaswa,Nigel Crisp Pdf

Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by foreigners. African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future redresses the balance. Written by Africans, who have themselves led improvements in their own countries, the book discusses the creativity, innovation and leadership that has been involved tackling everything from HIV/AIDs, to maternal, and child mortality and neglected tropical diseases. It celebrates their achievements and shows how, over three generations, African health leaders are creating a distinctively African vision of health and health systems. The book reveals how African Health Leaders are claiming the future - in Africa, but also by sharing their insights and knowledge globally and contributing fully to improving health throughout the world. It illustrates how African leadership can enable foreign agencies and individuals working in Africa to avoid all those misunderstandings and misinterpretations of culture and context which lead to wasted efforts and frustrated hopes. African Health Leaders challenges Africans to do more for themselves; build on success; tackle weak governance, corrupt systems and low expectations and claim the future. It sets out what Africa needs from the rest of the world in the spirit of global solidarity - not primarily in aid, but through investment, collaboration, partnership and co-development. It concludes with a vision for improvement based on three foundations: an understanding that 'health is made at home'; the determination to offer access to health services for everyone; and an insistence on the pursuit of quality.

Author : Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429716126

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Alternative Futures For Africa by Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

This comprehensive, critical examination of Africa’s future–written by a diverse group of Africans and Africanists–raises many questions and challenges concerning the development and unity of the African continent. Eclectic in range and method, but cohesive in concern, the book identifies and analyzes alternative probabilities in the political, economic, and social spheres and on the national, regional, and international levels. Many of the contributors point toward an unpromising future for Africa unless its development strategy is changed and its inheritance of dependence on the world system overcome.

Author : Sangu Delle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Businesspeople
ISBN : 1911115898

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Making Futures by Sangu Delle Pdf

Author : Adeoti, Gbemisola
Publisher : CODESRIA
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9782869786332

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African Literature and the Future by Adeoti, Gbemisola Pdf

Many African countries achieved independence from their colonisers over five decades ago, but the people and the continent largely remain mere spectators in the arena of their own dance. The post-independence states are supposed to be sovereign, but the levers of economic and political powers still reside in the donor states. Not in many fora is the complex reality that defines Africa more trenchantly articulated than in imaginative literature produced about and on the continent. This is the crux of the essays collected in African Literature and the Future. The book reflects on Africa's past and present, addressing anxieties about the future through the epistemological lens of literature. The contributors peep ahead from a backward glance. They dissect the trend and tenor of politics and their impact on the socio-cultural and economic development of the continent as portrayed in imaginative writings over the years. One salient feature of African literature is the close affinity between art and politics in its polemics. This is well established in all the six essays in the book as the authors stress the interconnections between literature and society in their textual analyses. On the whole, there is an overwhelming feeling of angst and pessimism, but the authors perceive a glimmer of hope despite daunting odds, under different conditions. Thus, they depict the plausible fate of Africa in the twenty-first century, as informed by its ancient and recent past, gleaned from primary texts.

Author : Touria Khannous
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739170427

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African Pasts, Presents, and Futures by Touria Khannous Pdf

African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of African women authors, who position themselves within the contexts of Islam, feminism, nationalism, modernity, and global and postcolonial politics, thus engaging in the construction of socio-political platforms for reform in their home countries. The book explores different aspects of women’s agency at the political, cultural, social, religious and aesthetic level, and highlights their civil society activism and push for legal reform. It also traces their opinions on a range of social and political questions and underscores fundamental shifts in their positions and concerns through the different generations.

Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552502044

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Our Continent, Our Future by P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo Pdf

Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.

Author : University of Edinburgh. Centre of African Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082304184

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African Futures by University of Edinburgh. Centre of African Studies Pdf

Author : Alioune Sall
Publisher : Unisa Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1868882764

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Africa 2025 by Alioune Sall Pdf

'Africa 2025' does not claim to know the answers to the questions it poses. The objective is to explore possible futures for sub-Saharan Africa - an exploration which involved more than 1000 Africans from 46 countries and all walks of life.

Author : Adam Ashforth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0226029735

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Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa by Adam Ashforth Pdf

Large numbers of people in Soweto & other parts of South Africa live in fear of witchcraft, presenting complex & unique problems for the government. Adam Ashforth explores the challenge of occult violence & the spiritual insecurity that it engenders to democratic rule in South Africa.

Author : Ian Scoones,Andy Stirling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000163407

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The Politics of Uncertainty by Ian Scoones,Andy Stirling Pdf

Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security and spirituality and religion. The book argues that uncertainties must be understood as complex constructions of knowledge, materiality, experience, embodiment and practice. Examining in particular how uncertainties are experienced in contexts of marginalisation and precarity, this book shows how sustainability and development are not just technical issues, but depend deeply on political values and choices. What burgeoning uncertainties require lies less in escalating efforts at control, but more in a new – more collective, mutualistic and convivial – politics of responsibility and care. If hopes of much-needed progressive transformation are to be realised, then currently blinkered understandings of uncertainty need to be met with renewed democratic struggle. Written in an accessible style and illustrated by multiple case studies from across the world, this book will appeal to a wide cross-disciplinary audience in fields ranging from economics to law to science studies to sociology to anthropology and geography, as well as professionals working in risk management, disaster risk reduction, emergencies and wider public policy fields.