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Strength beyond Structure Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa

Bruijn, Mirjam de Gewald Jan-Bart Dijk, Rijk van
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789004156968
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Brill; Brill
Vekt
649 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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

Om bidragsyterne

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.

Strength beyond Structure Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa

Bruijn, Mirjam de Gewald Jan-Bart Dijk, Rijk van
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
Bruijn, Mirjam de Gewald Jan-Bart Dijk, Rijk van
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
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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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Drawing on a wide range of historical and anthropological case studies from various parts of Africa, this anthology provides an understanding of the importance of agency in processes of social transformation, especially in the context of crisis and structural constraint.
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Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa: An Introduction Rijk van Dijk, Mirjam de Bruijn & Jan-Bart Gewald Manchester as the Birth Place of Modern Agency Research: The Manchester School Explained from the Perspective of Evans-Pritchard’s Book The Nuer Wim van Binsbergen Dreams and Agency during Angola’s War of Independence Inge Brinkman Chief Hosea Kutako: A Herero Royal and Namibian Nationalist’s Life against Confinement 1870–1970 Jan-Bart Gewald Agency in Kapsiki Religion: A Comparative Approach Wouter van Beek Les Enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: La Transformation des Relations Domestiques dans les Ménages des Congolais de la Diaspora Julie Ndaya From Individual Act to Social Agency in San Trance Rituals Thomas Widlok The Dynamics of Families, their Work and Provisioning Strategies in the Changing Economies in the Urban Townships of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Otrude N. Moyo Images of Africa: Agency and Nature Conservation in South Africa Malcolm Draper, Marja Spierenburg & Harry Wels Solitary Births in Téra, Niger: A Local Quest for Safety Gertie Janssen Agency in and from the Margins: Street Children and Youth in N’djaména, Chad Mirjam de Bruijn Negotiating the Memory of Fulbe Hierarchy among Mobile Elite Women Lotte Pelckmans The Safe and Suffering Body in Transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; Towards an Anthropology of Vulnerable Agency 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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Drawing on a wide range of historical and anthropological case studies from various parts of Africa, this anthology provides an understanding of the importance of agency in processes of social transformation, especially in the context of crisis and structural constraint.
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Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa: An Introduction Rijk van Dijk, Mirjam de Bruijn & Jan-Bart Gewald Manchester as the Birth Place of Modern Agency Research: The Manchester School Explained from the Perspective of Evans-Pritchard’s Book The Nuer Wim van Binsbergen Dreams and Agency during Angola’s War of Independence Inge Brinkman Chief Hosea Kutako: A Herero Royal and Namibian Nationalist’s Life against Confinement 1870–1970 Jan-Bart Gewald Agency in Kapsiki Religion: A Comparative Approach Wouter van Beek Les Enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: La Transformation des Relations Domestiques dans les Ménages des Congolais de la Diaspora Julie Ndaya From Individual Act to Social Agency in San Trance Rituals Thomas Widlok The Dynamics of Families, their Work and Provisioning Strategies in the Changing Economies in the Urban Townships of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Otrude N. Moyo Images of Africa: Agency and Nature Conservation in South Africa Malcolm Draper, Marja Spierenburg & Harry Wels Solitary Births in Téra, Niger: A Local Quest for Safety Gertie Janssen Agency in and from the Margins: Street Children and Youth in N’djaména, Chad Mirjam de Bruijn Negotiating the Memory of Fulbe Hierarchy among Mobile Elite Women Lotte Pelckmans The Safe and Suffering Body in Transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; Towards an Anthropology of Vulnerable Agency Rijk van Dijk
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789004156968
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Brill; Brill
Vekt
649 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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

Om bidragsyterne

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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