| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
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Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
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| Note |
"This edited volume stems from a two-day interdisciplinary conference, "Anxiety in and about Africa," held at the University of Cambridge in June 2016"--Page vii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. States of Anxiety in Africa: Perspectives, Approaches, and Potential / Yola na Pringle and Andrea Mariko Grant -- Misapprehensions -- Outlaws and Anxiety in Southern Africa's Archaeological Past / Rachel King -- Between the Anxiogenic and the Soothing: Settlers' Engagements with Africans in Dance in Colonial Africa, 1920s-30s / Cécile Feza Bushidi -- Epidemics and Anxiety in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century / Kalala Ngalamulume -- Anxiety over Masculinity: Gendered and Sexual Struggles in Mwanga II's Buganda, 1884-97 / Naka nyike B. Musisi -- No End to the Trouble / Decolonization Anxieties and the Evacuation of White Settlers from Kenya, 1963-64 / Will Jackson and Harry Firth-Jones -- Competing Development "Visions"? State Anxieties and Church Closures in Rwanda / Andrea Mariko Grant -- "Right Now, I Don't Know What the Future Might Bring:" Hope, Anxiety, and Despair in the Burundian Crisis / Simon Turner -- "Obuganda Buladde": Power, Anxiety, and Calm in Postcolonial Buganda / -- Jonathon L. Earle. |
| Summary |
"This volume demonstrates the richness of anxiety as an analytical lens within African studies. Contributors call attention to ways of thinking about African spaces-physical, visceral, somatic, and imagined-as well as time and temporality. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the volume also brings histories of anxiety in colonial settings into conversation with work on the so-called negative emotions in disciplines beyond history. While anxiety has long been acknowledged as able to unsettle colonial narratives, to reveal the vulnerability of the colonial enterprise, this volume shows it can equally unsettle related narratives in the contemporary moment, such as those of sustainable development, migration, sexuality, and democracy. These essays therefore highlight the need to take emotions seriously as contemporary realities with particular histories that must be carefully mapped out"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anxiety -- Africa -- Congresses.
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Anxiety. |
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Africa. |
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Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- -- Congresses.
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Social conditions. |
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1960- |
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PSYCHOLOGY / Ethnopsychology. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1960 |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Grant, Andrea, 1981- editor.
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Pringle, Yolana, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Anxiety in and about Africa (Conference) (2016 : Cambridge, England). Anxiety in and about Africa. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2021 9780821424360 (DLC) 2020036851 |
| ISBN |
9780821447284 electronic book |
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0821447289 electronic book |
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9780821424360 paperback |
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