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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Adebanwi, Wale. Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa : Beyond the Margins. Oxford : Boydell & Brewer, ©2017 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wale Adebanwi |
ISBN: | 9781787440517 1787440516 |
OCLC Number: | 1000451837 |
Description: | 1 online resource (386 pages) |
Contents: | Frontcover -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations & Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword by James Ferguson -- Acknowledgements -- Approaching the Political Economy of Everyday Life: An Introduction -- PART I. MONEY MATTERS: CURRENCY & FISCAL LIFE STRUGGLES -- 1 Cattle, Currencies & the Politics of Commensuration on a Colonial Frontier -- 2 Currency & Conflict in Colonial Nigeria -- 3 Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) -- 4 The Macroeconomics of Marginal Gains Africa's Lessons to Social Theorists -- PART II. LABOUR, SOCIAL LIVES & PRECARITY -- 5 From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in African Histor -- 6 Navigating Formality in a Migrant Labour Force -- PART III. MARGINALITY, DISAFFECTION & BIO-ECONOMIC DISTRESS -- 7 Precarious Life: Violence & Poverty under Boko Haram & MEND -- 8 The Debt Imperium: Relations of Owing after Apartheid -- 9 Marginal Men & Urban Social Conflicts: Okada Riders in Lagos -- 10 Sopona, Social Relations & the Political Economy of Colonial Smallpox Control in Ekiti, Nigeria -- PART IV. HISTORICITY, TEMPORALITY, AGENCY & DEMOCRATIC LIFE -- 11 History as Value Added? Valuing the Past in Africa -- 12 Cultural Mediation, Colonialism & Politics: Colonial 'Truchement', Postcolonial Translator -- 13 'Kos'ona Miran?' Patronage, Prebendalism & Democratic Life in Contemporary Nigeria -- AFTERWORD. The Landscapes Beyond the Margins Agency, Optimization & the Power of the Empirical -- Index. |
Abstract:
Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa.
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