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The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa : Beyond the Margins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (386 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781787440517
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 960
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontcover -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations &amp -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword by James Ferguson -- Acknowledgements -- Approaching the Political Economy of Everyday Life: An Introduction -- PART I. MONEY MATTERS: CURRENCY &amp -- FISCAL LIFE STRUGGLES -- 1 Cattle, Currencies &amp -- the Politics of Commensuration on a Colonial Frontier -- 2 Currency &amp -- Conflict in Colonial Nigeria -- 3 Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) -- 4 The Macroeconomics of Marginal Gains Africa's Lessons to Social Theorists -- PART II. LABOUR, SOCIAL LIVES &amp -- PRECARITY -- 5 From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in African Histor -- 6 Navigating Formality in a Migrant Labour Force -- PART III. MARGINALITY, DISAFFECTION &amp -- BIO-ECONOMIC DISTRESS -- 7 Precarious Life: Violence &amp -- Poverty under Boko Haram &amp -- MEND -- 8 The Debt Imperium: Relations of Owing after Apartheid -- 9 Marginal Men &amp -- Urban Social Conflicts: Okada Riders in Lagos -- 10 Sopona, Social Relations &amp -- the Political Economy of Colonial Smallpox Control in Ekiti, Nigeria -- PART IV. HISTORICITY, TEMPORALITY, AGENCY &amp -- DEMOCRATIC LIFE -- 11 History as Value Added? Valuing the Past in Africa -- 12 Cultural Mediation, Colonialism &amp -- Politics: Colonial 'Truchement', Postcolonial Translator -- 13 'Kos'ona Miran?' Patronage, Prebendalism &amp -- Democratic Life in Contemporary Nigeria -- AFTERWORD. The Landscapes Beyond the Margins Agency, Optimization &amp -- the Power of the Empirical -- Index.
Summary: Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa.
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Frontcover -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations &amp -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword by James Ferguson -- Acknowledgements -- Approaching the Political Economy of Everyday Life: An Introduction -- PART I. MONEY MATTERS: CURRENCY &amp -- FISCAL LIFE STRUGGLES -- 1 Cattle, Currencies &amp -- the Politics of Commensuration on a Colonial Frontier -- 2 Currency &amp -- Conflict in Colonial Nigeria -- 3 Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) -- 4 The Macroeconomics of Marginal Gains Africa's Lessons to Social Theorists -- PART II. LABOUR, SOCIAL LIVES &amp -- PRECARITY -- 5 From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in African Histor -- 6 Navigating Formality in a Migrant Labour Force -- PART III. MARGINALITY, DISAFFECTION &amp -- BIO-ECONOMIC DISTRESS -- 7 Precarious Life: Violence &amp -- Poverty under Boko Haram &amp -- MEND -- 8 The Debt Imperium: Relations of Owing after Apartheid -- 9 Marginal Men &amp -- Urban Social Conflicts: Okada Riders in Lagos -- 10 Sopona, Social Relations &amp -- the Political Economy of Colonial Smallpox Control in Ekiti, Nigeria -- PART IV. HISTORICITY, TEMPORALITY, AGENCY &amp -- DEMOCRATIC LIFE -- 11 History as Value Added? Valuing the Past in Africa -- 12 Cultural Mediation, Colonialism &amp -- Politics: Colonial 'Truchement', Postcolonial Translator -- 13 'Kos'ona Miran?' Patronage, Prebendalism &amp -- Democratic Life in Contemporary Nigeria -- AFTERWORD. The Landscapes Beyond the Margins Agency, Optimization &amp -- the Power of the Empirical -- Index.

Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa.

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