Author: Joint Center for African Studies. Conference
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ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Stanford-Berkeley Joint Center for African Studies Annual Conference
Author: Joint Center for African Studies. Conference
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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African Studies Program Events
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Globalizing Cultural Studies
Author: Cameron McCarthy
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820486826
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The contributors to Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy take as their central topic the problematic status of «the global» within cultural studies in the areas of theory, method, and policy, and particularly in relation to the intersections of language, power, and identity in twenty-first century, post-9/11 culture(s). Writing against the Anglo-centric ethnographic gaze that has saturated various cultural studies projects to date, contributors offer new interdisciplinary, autobiographical, ethnographic, textual, postcolonial, poststructural, and political economic approaches to the practice of cultural studies. This edited volume foregrounds twenty-five groundbreaking essays (plus a provocative foreword and an insightful afterword) in which the authors show how globalization is articulated in the micro and macro dimensions of contemporary life, pointing to the need for cultural studies to be more systematically engaged with the multiplicity and difference that globalization has proffered.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820486826
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The contributors to Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy take as their central topic the problematic status of «the global» within cultural studies in the areas of theory, method, and policy, and particularly in relation to the intersections of language, power, and identity in twenty-first century, post-9/11 culture(s). Writing against the Anglo-centric ethnographic gaze that has saturated various cultural studies projects to date, contributors offer new interdisciplinary, autobiographical, ethnographic, textual, postcolonial, poststructural, and political economic approaches to the practice of cultural studies. This edited volume foregrounds twenty-five groundbreaking essays (plus a provocative foreword and an insightful afterword) in which the authors show how globalization is articulated in the micro and macro dimensions of contemporary life, pointing to the need for cultural studies to be more systematically engaged with the multiplicity and difference that globalization has proffered.
African Voices
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A newsletter on democracy and governance in Africa.
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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A newsletter on democracy and governance in Africa.
The Early Morning Phonecall
Author: Anna Lindley
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 184545832X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. Despite considerable research on the impact of migration and remittances in countries of origin - increasingly viewed as a source of development capital - still little is known about refugees' remittances to conflict-affected countries because such funds are most often seen as a source of conflict finance. This book explores the dynamics, infrastructure, and far-reaching effects of remittances from the perspectives of people in the Somali regions and the diaspora. With conflict driving mass displacement, Somali society has become progressively transnational, its vigorous remittance economy reaching from the heart of the global North into wrecked cities, refugee camps, and remote rural areas. By 'following the money' the author opens a window on the everyday lives of people caught up in processes of conflict, migration, and development. The book demonstrates how, in the interstices of state disruption and globalisation, and in the shadow of violence and political uncertainty, life in the Somali regions goes on, subject to complex transnational forms of social, economic, and political innovation and change.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 184545832X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. Despite considerable research on the impact of migration and remittances in countries of origin - increasingly viewed as a source of development capital - still little is known about refugees' remittances to conflict-affected countries because such funds are most often seen as a source of conflict finance. This book explores the dynamics, infrastructure, and far-reaching effects of remittances from the perspectives of people in the Somali regions and the diaspora. With conflict driving mass displacement, Somali society has become progressively transnational, its vigorous remittance economy reaching from the heart of the global North into wrecked cities, refugee camps, and remote rural areas. By 'following the money' the author opens a window on the everyday lives of people caught up in processes of conflict, migration, and development. The book demonstrates how, in the interstices of state disruption and globalisation, and in the shadow of violence and political uncertainty, life in the Somali regions goes on, subject to complex transnational forms of social, economic, and political innovation and change.
Précis from the Twelfth Conference on African Linguistics, Stanford, April 10-12, 1981
Author: William Ronald Leben
Publisher:
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Publisher:
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Pillars of the Nation
Author: Kristen E. Cheney
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226102491
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
How can children simultaneously be the most important and least powerful people in a nation? In her innovative ethnography of Ugandan children—the pillars of tomorrow’s Uganda, according to the national youth anthem—Kristen E. Cheney answers this question by exploring the daily contradictions children face as they try to find their places amid the country’s rapidly changing social conditions. Drawing on the detailed life histories of several children, Cheney shows that children and childhood are being redefined by the desires of a young country struggling to position itself in the international community. She moves between urban schools, music festivals, and war zones to reveal how Ugandans are constructing childhood as an empowering identity for the development of the nation. Moreover, through her analysis of children’s rights ideology, national government strategy, and children’s everyday concerns, Cheney also shows how these young citizens are vitally linked to the global political economy as they navigate the pitfalls and possibilities for a brighter tomorrow.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226102491
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
How can children simultaneously be the most important and least powerful people in a nation? In her innovative ethnography of Ugandan children—the pillars of tomorrow’s Uganda, according to the national youth anthem—Kristen E. Cheney answers this question by exploring the daily contradictions children face as they try to find their places amid the country’s rapidly changing social conditions. Drawing on the detailed life histories of several children, Cheney shows that children and childhood are being redefined by the desires of a young country struggling to position itself in the international community. She moves between urban schools, music festivals, and war zones to reveal how Ugandans are constructing childhood as an empowering identity for the development of the nation. Moreover, through her analysis of children’s rights ideology, national government strategy, and children’s everyday concerns, Cheney also shows how these young citizens are vitally linked to the global political economy as they navigate the pitfalls and possibilities for a brighter tomorrow.
Readings in Gender in Africa
Author: Andrea Cornwall
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253345172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This is a comprehensive overview on the existing literature on gender in Africa. It covers areas such as Western perceptions, colonial morality, religion and politics.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253345172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This is a comprehensive overview on the existing literature on gender in Africa. It covers areas such as Western perceptions, colonial morality, religion and politics.
African Studies Association Annual Meeting. [Program]
Author: African Studies Association. Annual Meeting
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Gender and Juvenile Justice
Author: Abosede Ajibike George
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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