African alternatives / / 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 stre...

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Superior document:African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, v. 2
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (191 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials / Leo De Haan , Ulf Engel and Patrick Chabal
  • Introduction / Patrick Chabal , Ulf Engel and Leo De Haan
  • Social And Historical Trajectories Of Agency In Africa / Mirjam De Bruijn , Rijk Van Dijk and Jan-Bart Gewald
  • On The Powers And Limits Of Literature / Alain Ricard
  • Land And The Politics Of Belonging In Africa / Carola Lentz
  • Studies In African Livelihoods: Current Issues And Future Prospects / Leo De Haan
  • Politics, Popular Culture And Livelihood Strategies Among Young Men In A Nairobi Slum / Bodil Folke Frederiksen
  • African Migrations: Continuities, Discontinuities And Recent Transformations / Oliver Bakewell and Hein De Haas
  • Migration As Reterritorialization: Migrant Movement, Sovereignty And Authority In Contemporary Southern Africa / Scarlett Cornelissen
  • Approaching African Tourism: Paradigms And Paradoxes / Walter Van Beek
  • List Of Contributors / Leo De Haan , Ulf Engel and Patrick Chabal
  • Index / Leo De Haan , Ulf Engel and Patrick Chabal.