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Mirjam de Bruijn, Jan-Bart Gewald, Rijk van Dijk - Strength beyond Structure, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Del 6 i serien African Dynamics

Strength beyond Structure

Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa

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

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Beskrivning
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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-07-10
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 649 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: African Dynamics
  • Antal sidor: 350
  • Förlag: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004156968
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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.

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