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Strength beyond Structure

Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Av Mirjam de Bruijn, Jan-Bart Gewald, Rijk van Dijk, Mirjam de Bruijn, Mirjam Bruijn, Mirjam De Bruijn, Rijk Van Dijk

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This book explores the notion of agency in a range of empirical situations in Africa. Agency directs our quest for an understanding of the dynamics and social transformations of African situations to the domains of creativity, inventiveness and reflexivity. It emphasizes the possibilities individuals and social groups perceive when faced with the constraints that tend to mark African social life. The case studies provide an alternative view of people and society in Africa by looking at the ways social strength is created in the hope of overcoming many of the structural limitations encountered in daily life. 'Strength beyond Structure' challenges the optimism that is engrained in the development rhetoric about Africa by making agency the subject of empirical scrutiny.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-07-10
Mått155 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt649 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfrican Dynamics
Antal sidor350
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004156968

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Mirjam de Bruijn, Ph.D. (1995) Utrecht University, is an Anthropologist at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. Her work on nomadism, children and youth, mobility, (in)security, poverty, and social and economic in- and exclusion has an interdisciplinary character. She has done extensive fieldwork in Chad and Mali. Rijk van Dijk, Ph.D. (1992) Utrecht University, is an anthropologist at the African Studies Centre where he researches the rise of new religious movements in Africa, particularly Pentecostalism, in relation to globalization, transnational connections and youth. He has published widely on the emergence of Pentecostal movements in Malawi, Ghana and, more recently, Botswana.Jan-Bart Gewald, Ph.D. (1996) University of Leiden, is a historian at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He has published extensively on aspects of African history and is currently focusing on the history of the relationship between people and technology in Africa.

Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa: An IntroductionRijk van Dijk, Mirjam de Bruijn & Jan-Bart GewaldManchester as the Birth Place of Modern Agency Research: The Manchester School Explained from the Perspective of Evans-Pritchard’s Book The NuerWim van BinsbergenDreams and Agency during Angola’s War of IndependenceInge BrinkmanChief Hosea Kutako: A Herero Royal and Namibian Nationalist’s Life against Confinement 1870–1970Jan-Bart GewaldAgency in Kapsiki Religion: A Comparative ApproachWouter van BeekLes Enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: La Transformation des Relations Domestiques dans les Ménages des Congolais de la DiasporaJulie NdayaFrom Individual Act to Social Agency in San Trance RitualsThomas WidlokThe Dynamics of Families, their Work and Provisioning Strategies in the Changing Economies in the Urban Townships of Bulawayo, ZimbabweOtrude N. MoyoImages of Africa: Agency and Nature Conservation in South AfricaMalcolm Draper, Marja Spierenburg & Harry WelsSolitary Births in Téra, Niger: A Local Quest for SafetyGertie JanssenAgency in and from the Margins: Street Children and Youth in N’djaména, ChadMirjam de BruijnNegotiating the Memory of Fulbe Hierarchy among Mobile Elite WomenLotte PelckmansThe Safe and Suffering Body in Transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; Towards an Anthropology of Vulnerable AgencyRijk van Dijk