Social Im/mobilities in Africa : : Ethnographic Approaches /

Social Im/mobilities in Africa : : Ethnographic Approaches / / ed. by Joël Noret.

Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of interse...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Bolt, Maxim,
Camfield, Laura,
Hoechner, Hannah,
Körling, Gabriella,
Mangueleze, Lizete,
Mazanderani, Fawzia,
Monteith, William,
Noret, Joël,
Page, Ben,
Rubbers, Benjamin,
Tvedten, Inge,
Uate, Arlindo,
HerausgeberIn:
Noret, Joël,
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 (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa
  • Chapter 1 Inequality from Up Close: Qur’anic Students in Northern Nigeria Working as Domestics
  • Chapter 2 ‘Born Free to Aspire’? An Ethnographic Study of Rural Youths’ Aspirations in Post-Apartheid South Africa
  • Chapter 3 Great Expectations and Uncertain Futures: Education and Social Im/mobility in Niamey, Niger
  • Chapter 4 ‘Precarious Prosperity’? Social Im/mobilities among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala
  • Chapter 5 ‘Here Men Are Becoming Women and Women Men’ Gender, Class and Space in Maputo, Mozambique
  • Chapter 6 The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Space
  • Chapter 7 Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border
  • Chapter 8 Domestic Dramas: Class, Taste and Home Decoration in Buea, Cameroon
  • Conclusion: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Positionality in Africa
  • Appendices to Chapter 4
  • Appendix 1 Sample Characteristics
  • Appendix 2 Summary of Entrepreneurs’ Directions of Social Mobility
  • Index

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