Hard Work, Hard Times

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Global Volatility and African Subjectivities

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Global, Area, and International Archive

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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

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Anne-Maria Makhulu is assistant professor of anthropology and African and African American studies at Duke University. Beth A. Buggenhagen is assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University. Stephen Jackson is senior political affairs officer for the United Nations Africa I Division.

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November 1st, 2010

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Professional & Vocational

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Edited by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Edited by Beth A. Buggenhagen
Edited by Stephen Jackson
Foreword by Simon Gikandi

Pages

240

Series

Global, Area, and International Archive

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780520098749

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3622588

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