The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa write by Mirjam de Bruijn. This book was released on 2012-12-05. The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rapid increase in adoption of modern 'connective' technologies like the mobile phone has reshaped the social landscape of Africa. This book examines the myriad possibilities that the post-global moment offers African societies to develop and to relate, offering profound new insights into the processes of globalization.
Nomadic Connectivity
Nomadic Connectivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nomadic Connectivity write by Inge Butter. This book was released on 2023-08-07. Nomadic Connectivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A focus on the everyday has produced this ethnography, which hopes to give a nuanced voice to an extended family of semi-sedentary nomads, living at the centre of a country and region known for its political turmoil, ecological insecurities, and socio-economic hardship. The everyday of the Chadian Walad Djifir is one in which sedentarity and mobility are approached as two entwined parts of a whole, and where economic and geographical boundaries do not necessarily form constrictions. The ferīkh (nomadic camp) is where all of the Walad Djifir’s networks meet, and often also begin— a physical place embodying various networks and connections, which span time and geographical space. This analytical and methodological approach gives insight in how regional trends can be understood in light of the Walad Djifir’s daily lives. Over time, the Walad Djifir have developed ways of coping and dealing with insecurities, interacting with infrastructural, technological, and socio-political developments in specific ways. In exploring how such insecurities and crises become anchored into the everyday, the ferīkh provides answers. It is precisely the mundane elements of daily life which anchor disruption.
Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture
Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture write by Grace A Musila. This book was released on 2022-05-15. Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in this handbook index the genres, methods, mediums, questions and encounters that preoccupy producers, consumers and scholars of African popular cultural forms across a range of geohistorical and temporal contexts. Drawing on forms such as newspaper columns, televised English Premier League football, speculative arts, romance fiction, comedy, cinema, music and digital genres, the contributors explore the possibilities and ambiguities unleashed by the production, circulation, consumption, remediation and critique of these forms. Among the questions explored across these essays are the freedoms and constraints of popular genres; the forms of self-making, pleasure and harm that these imaginaries enable; the negotiations of multiple moral regimes in everyday life; and, inevitably, the fecund terrain of contradictions definitive of many popular forms, which variously enable and undermine world-making. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of African culture, society and media.
The Art of Connection
The Art of Connection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Connection write by Dillon Mahoney. This book was released on 2017-01-17. The Art of Connection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Art of Connection: An Introduction -- 2 Mombasa Marginalized: Claims to Land and Legitimacy in a Tourist City -- 3 Crafts Traders versus the State -- 4 Negotiating Informality in Mombasa -- 5 New Mobilities, New Risks -- 6 Crafting Ethical Connection and Transparency in Coastal Kenya -- 7 From Ethnic Brands to Fair Trade Labels -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa
Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa write by David Garbin. This book was released on 2022-11-17. Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and development. This book interrogates how religious socio-spatial models and strategies engage with challenges of infrastructural development, urban social cohesion, inequalities and inclusion. Chapters explore how faith-based practices of urban and infrastructural development link moral subjectivities with individual and wider aspirations for modernization, change, deliverance and prosperity. The volume brings together ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies of religious urbanization across the African continent. It advances discussions of the ambivalent role of urban religion in development and documents the complex, multifaceted socio-cultural and political dynamics associated with religious urbanization in Africa.
