The recent eruption of popular protests across North Africa and the Middle East has reopened academic debate on the meaning and strategies of resistance in the 21st century. This book argues that Western notions of state and civil society provide only a limited understanding of how power and resistance operate in the African context, where informality is central to the way both state officials and citizens exercise agency. With the principle of informality as a template, the chapters in this volume collectively examine the various modes - organised and unorganised, formal and informal, urban…mehr
The recent eruption of popular protests across North Africa and the Middle East has reopened academic debate on the meaning and strategies of resistance in the 21st century. This book argues that Western notions of state and civil society provide only a limited understanding of how power and resistance operate in the African context, where informality is central to the way both state officials and citizens exercise agency. With the principle of informality as a template, the chapters in this volume collectively examine the various modes - organised and unorganised, formal and informal, urban and rural, embodied and discursive, serious and ludic, online and offline, successful and failing - through which Africans contend with power. Resistance takes place against the backdrop of deep fractures in state sovereignty, the remnants of colonial rule and the constraints of a global, neoliberal economic system.
Foreword 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 Hammett
Foreword 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 Hammett
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