Hard Work, Hard Times Global Volatility and African Subjectivities - Global, Area, and International Archive

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

ISBN:	9780520098749
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	01 Nov 2010
DEWEY:	306.2096
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	224
Weight:	406g
Height:	154mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	15mm

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