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African alternatives / edited by Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, Leo de Haan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 2.Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2007Description: 1 online resource (185 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789047420934
  • 9047420934
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: African alternatives.DDC classification:
  • 960.32 23
LOC classification:
  • DT30.5 .A35585 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, Leo de Haan -- Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk, Jan-Bart Gewald -- On the Powers and Limits of Literature / Alain Ricard -- Land and the Politics of Belonging in Africa / Carola Lentz -- Studies in African Livelihoods : Current Issues and Future Prospects / Leo de Haan -- Politics, Popular Culture and Livelihood Strategies among Young Men in a Nairobi Slum / Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- African Migrations : Continuities, Discontinuities and Recent Transformations / Oliver Bakewell, Hein de Haas -- Migration as Reterritorialization : Migrant Movement, Sovereignty and Authority in Contemporary Southern Africa / Scarlett Cornelissen -- Approaching African Tourism : Paradigms and Paradoxes / Walter van Beek.
Summary: To stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances, this book demonstrates that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

To stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances, this book demonstrates that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced.

Print version record.

Introduction / Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, Leo de Haan -- Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk, Jan-Bart Gewald -- On the Powers and Limits of Literature / Alain Ricard -- Land and the Politics of Belonging in Africa / Carola Lentz -- Studies in African Livelihoods : Current Issues and Future Prospects / Leo de Haan -- Politics, Popular Culture and Livelihood Strategies among Young Men in a Nairobi Slum / Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- African Migrations : Continuities, Discontinuities and Recent Transformations / Oliver Bakewell, Hein de Haas -- Migration as Reterritorialization : Migrant Movement, Sovereignty and Authority in Contemporary Southern Africa / Scarlett Cornelissen -- Approaching African Tourism : Paradigms and Paradoxes / Walter van Beek.

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