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Con più di due terzi del bilancio dello Stato finanziato dall’esterno il Mozambico si considera sovrano per “leggerezza linguistica”. Il paese risulta infatti più un artefatto dell’ “industria dello sviluppo” che un territorio dotato di sovranità. L’incontro mette ad oggetto le modalità attraverso le quali la cooperazione...
Centro studi Erickson
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Afrikastudien (Macamo)
This book is about how extreme situations appearing to have a destructive potential can actually be used to produce meaningful individual and social lives. It is about the “taming of fate”. This notion means and accounts for the ability of individuals and communities to rebuild their lives against all odds. The book is based on case-studies that draw from theoretical insights derived...
CODESRIA
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Afrikastudien (Macamo)
This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, transnational capital. Instead of focusing on technological zones and the new social assemblages at the actual sites of construction or mineral extraction, the authors use extractive industry projects as a...
Routledge
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Fachbereich Urban Studies, Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Precarious Urbanisms (Schubert), Fakultär assoziierte Institutionen / Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel
Unraveling Ties is a unique addition to current debates in sociology—a compilation of essays mapping the creation of community life in a modern world that often appears alienating, cold, and even threatening. Topics range from family life and friendship to the integral role of the deviant in society. The result is a thoughtful, meticulously researched volume that will be useful to...
Campus
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Afrikastudien (Macamo)
The contributors look at how Africans negotiated the terms of modernity during the colonial period and are dealing with it in the post-colonial period. They argue that the African experience of modernity is unique and relevant for wider social theory, offering valuable analytical insights. The cases presented cover labor, land rights, religious conversion, internal migration, emigration and the...
Codesria Books
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Afrikastudien (Macamo)
Through a range of varied articles this book explores the changing nature of risk in contemporary African societies. It provides a valuable addition to current debate on the concept of risk which has traditionally been skewed in favour of European historical experience. The articles illustrate that technological hazards, pollution and climate change as well as the introduction of new forms of...
LIT Verlag
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Afrikastudien (Macamo)
Research on cities worldwide still takes its cue from cities in Europe and the United States, which are seen as the standard model. However, cities in the global South are undergoing a much more rapid transformation including multiple interlinked transitions, with Africa featuring the highest urbanization rates world-wide. Scholars therefore call for a new approach to urban studies which examines...
LIT Verlag
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Medizinethnologie (Obrist ), Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) / Medical Anthropology (Obrist)
The time to come – as well as the exploration thereof – remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike. The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and women's future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very consciously, they study young graduates having obtained a university degree and provide a vivid picture of their strategies to...
transcript Verlag
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Afrikastudien (Macamo)
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