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" The political economy of everyday life in Africa : "
edited by Wale Adebanwi ; foreword by James Ferguson.
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856395
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The political economy of everyday life in Africa : : beyond the margins /\ edited by Wale Adebanwi ; foreword by James Ferguson.
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Suffolk :: James Currey,, 2017.
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1 online resource (xviii, 364 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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1787440516
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1847011659
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1847011667
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9781847011657
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9781847011664
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Approaching the political economy of everyday life : an introduction / Wale Adebanwi -- Part I: Money matters: currency & fiscal life struggles -- Cattle, currencies & the politics of commensuration on a colonial frontier / Jean & John L. Comaroff -- Currency & conflict in colonial Nigeria / David Pratten -- Coercion or trade? : Multiple self-realization during the rubber boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) / Peter Geschiere & Tristan Oestermann -- The macroeconomics of marginal gains : Africa's lessons to social theorists / Célestin Monga -- Part II: Labour, social lives & precarity -- From enslavement to precarity? : The labour question in African history / Frederick Cooper -- Navigating formality in a migrant labour force / Maxim Bolt -- Part III: Marginality, disaffection & bio-economic distress -- Precarious life : violence & poverty under Boko Haram & MEND / Michael J. Watts -- The debt imperium : relations of owing after apartheid / Anne-Maria Makhulu -- Marginal men & urban social conflicts : okada riders in Lagos / Gbemisola Animasawun -- Sopona, social relations & the political economy of colonial smallpox control in Ekiti, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- Part IV: Historicity, temporality, agency & democratic life -- History as a value added? : valuing the past in Africa / Sara Berry -- Cultural mediation, colonialism & politics : colonial 'truchement', postcolonial translator / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- 'Kos'ona Miran?' : patronage, prebendalism & democratic life in contemporary Nigeria / Adigun Agbaje -- The landscape beyond the margins : agency, optimization & the power of the empirical / Jane I. Guyer
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What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the political economy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial and apartheid pasts.
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Economic development-- Africa.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- General.
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Développement économique-- Afrique.
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Economic development.
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Economic history.
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Politics and government.
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Africa, Economic conditions, 1960-
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Africa, Politics and government, 1960-
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Africa.
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Afrique, Conditions économiques.
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Afrique, Politique et gouvernement.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.96
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HC800.P645 2017eb
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Ockssb/8
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Oc.kssb/8
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Adebanwi, Wale
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Ferguson, James,1959-
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