George Clement Bond, Nigel C. Gibson

Contested Terrains And Constructed Categories (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Africa In Focus

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together intellectuals from backgrounds, generations and continents to deepen the theoretical and intellectual integrity of African studies. It draws ethnographic materials from regions such as South Africa and Ghana, to demonstrate the application of theory to concrete situations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429969898
• Artikelnr.: 54129139

Autorenporträt

Bond, George Clement Gibson, Nigel C.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 Challenging Modes of Thinking: Making Maps and Mapping History
1 "So Geographers in Africa Maps with Savage Pictures Fill Their Gaps"
2 The Challenges of Writing African Economic History
Part 2 Contested Categories: Economy, Politics, and Society
3 Structural Adjustment
4 Poverty Profile in Sub
Saharan Africa
5 Civil Society, Pluralism, Goldilocks, and Other Fairy Tales in Africa
6 Beyond the State and Civil Society
7 Silencing Power
8 Negotiating Identity in Post
Settlement South Africa
9 Negotiable Property
Part 3 Violence of the Word/Violence Against the Body
10 Mapping Africa's Presences
11 Contesting Terrains Over a Massacre
12 Negotiating Postwar Identities
13 Sex and the Politics of Space in Colonial Zimbabwe
14 Girls, Sex, and the Dangers of Urban Schooling in Coastal Madagascar
15 The Moving Frontier of AIDS in Uganda
16 Contested Claims and Individual Bodies

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Preface -- Introduction -- Challenging Modes of Thinking: Making Maps and Mapping History -- "So Geographers in Africa Maps with Savage Pictures Fill Their Gaps" -- The Challenges of Writing African Economic History -- Contested Categories: Economy, Politics, and Society -- Structural Adjustment -- Poverty Profile in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Civil Society, Pluralism, Goldilocks, and Other Fairy Tales in Africa -- Beyond the State and Civil Society -- Silencing Power -- Negotiating Identity in Post-Settlement South Africa -- Negotiable Property -- Violence of the Word/Violence Against the Body -- Mapping Africa's Presences -- Contesting Terrains Over a Massacre -- Negotiating Postwar Identities -- Sex and the Politics of Space in Colonial Zimbabwe -- Girls, Sex, and the Dangers of Urban Schooling in Coastal Madagascar -- The Moving Frontier of AIDS in Uganda -- Contested Claims and Individual Bodies