Regimes of Responsibility in Africa : : Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts /

Regimes of Responsibility in Africa : : Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts / / ed. by Alessandro Jedlowski, Benjamin Rubbers.

Regimes of Responsibility in Africa ­analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection develops a stronger grasp of the specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Almagioni, Giulia,
Bayart, Jean-François,
Beneduce, Roberto,
Cutolo, Armando,
Diallo, Rozenn Nakanabo,
Geschiere, Peter,
Jedlowski, Alessandro,
Moshonas, Stylianos,
Pype, Katrien,
Rajak, Dinah,
Rubbers, Benjamin,
Schnitzler, Marie,
HerausgeberIn:
Jedlowski, Alessandro,
Rubbers, Benjamin,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Towards a New Theoretical Approach
  • Chapter 1 Historical Regimes of Responsibility in ‘the Politics of the Belly’
  • Chapter 2 The Use(fulness) of Discourses of ‘Responsibility’ on the DRC’s ‘Sovereign Frontier’
  • Chapter 3 High Officials’ Responsibility and State Accountability in the Age of Neoliberal Discharge: Views from Mozambique
  • Chapter 4 Reproduction, Responsibility and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire
  • Chapter 5 Human Care or Human Capital? Corporate Responsibility and HIV Management at South Africa’s Mines
  • Chapter 6 What Are People with Disabilities Responsible For? The Study of Political, Social and Family Responsibilities in the Context of Locomotor Disability (Cape Flats, South Africa)
  • Chapter 7 Diverting Makila Mabe: Understanding Responsibility in Kinshasa’s Pentecostal Worlds
  • Chapter 8 The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast Cameroon
  • Chapter 9 The ‘Return of Culture’: Spiritual Threats, Asylum Policies and the Responsibility of Anthropological Knowledge
  • Index

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