| Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities Contributor(s): Makhulu, Anne-Maria (Editor), Buggenhagen, Beth A. (Editor), Jackson, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520098749 ISBN-13: 9780520098749 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2010 Annotation: The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the rhetoric of African crisis to theorize people's everyday practices under volatile conditions not of their own making. >From Ghanaian hiplife music to the U.S. "diversity lottery" in Togo, from politicos in Cote d'Ivoire to squatters in South Africa, the essays in Hard Work, Hard Times uncover the imaginative ways in which African subjects make and remake themselves and their worlds, and thus make do, get by, get over, and sometimes thrive. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Africa - General |
| Dewey: 306.209 |
| LCCN: 2010031699 |
| Series: Global, Area, and International Archive |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the rhetoric of African crisis to theorize people's everyday practices under volatile conditions not of their own making. From Ghanaian hiplife music to the U.S. diversity lottery in Togo, from politicos in Côte d'Ivoire to squatters in South Africa, the essays in Hard Work, Hard Times uncover the imaginative ways in which African subjects make and remake themselves and their worlds, and thus make do, get by, get over, and sometimes thrive. Contributors: Beth A. Buggenhagen, Stephen Jackson, Anne-Maria Makhulu, Mike McGovern, Charles Piot, Dorothea E. Schulz, and Jesse Weaver Shipley |