African alternatives / / edited by Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, Leo de Haan.

• Superior document: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, v. 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Chabal, Patrick, 1951-2014; Engel, Ulf.; Haan, Leo de.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Materials /; Introduction /; Social And Historical Trajectories Of Agency In Africa /; On The Powers And Limits Of Literature /; Land And The Politics Of Belonging In Africa /; Studies In African Livelihoods: Current Issues And Future Prospects /; Politics, Popular Culture And Livelihood Strategies Among Young Men In A Nairobi Slum /; African Migrations: Continuities, Discontinuities And Recent Transformations /; Migration As Reterritorialization: Migrant Movement, Sovereignty And Authority In Contemporary Southern Africa /; Approaching African Tourism: Paradigms And Paradoxes /; List Of Contributors /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 128193626X; 9786611936266; 9047420934
• ISSN: 1574-6925
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, Leo de Haan.

This collection of articles aims to stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity and to go beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances by analyzing those initiatives that offer alternatives to the prevailing paradigms. It moves away from African ‘victimhood’ by stressing African ‘agency’ and by demonstrating that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced. This is further detailed in the context of the literary contest between local and global; of issues of land rights and property; of livelihoods and poverty; of the popular culture; of demystifying African migrations; the changing parameters of territoriality; and the dynamics of the tourist encounter.