| Description |
1 online resource (185 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies,
1574-6925 ;
v. 2
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African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
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Africa. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1960- |
| Subject |
Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960-
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Social conditions. |
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Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1960 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Chabal, Patrick, 1951-2014.
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Engel, Ulf.
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Haan, Leo de.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: African alternatives. Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2007 9004161139 9789004161139 (OCoLC)145554530 |
| ISBN |
9789047420934 (electronic book) |
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9047420934 (electronic book) |
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9004161139 (Trade Paper) |
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9789004161139 (Trade Paper) |
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9789004161139 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004161139.i-185 |
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