Bettina von Lieres Civic Agency in Africa (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Civic Agency in AfricaCondition: NewEAN: 9781847010865ISBN: 9781847010865Publisher: James CurreyFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/20/2014Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Arts of Resistance in the 21st CenturyISBN-10: 1847010865Description: Examines the variety of mostly unorganized and informal ways in which Africans exercise agency and resist state power in the 21st century, through citizen action and popular culture, and how the relationship between ruler and ruled is being reframed.The recent eruption of popular protests across North Africa and the Middle East has reopened academic debate on the meaning and strategies of resistance in the 21st century. This book argues that Western notions of state and civilsociety provide only a limited understanding of how power and resistance operate in the African context, where informality is central to the way both state officials and citizens exercise agency. With the principle of informality as a template, the chapters in this volume collectively examine the various modes - organised and unorganised, formal and informal, urban and rural, embodied and discursive, serious and ludic, online and offline, successful and failing - through which Africans contend with power. Resistance takes place against the backdrop of deep fractures in state sovereignty, the remnants of colonial rule and the constraints of a global, neoliberal economic system. Ebenezer Obadare is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas; Wendy Willems is Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBContributor: Bettina von Lieres (Contributions by), Innocentia Jabulisil Mhlambi (Contributions by), Ebenezer Obadare (Contributions by), Ebenezer Obadare (Edited by), Daniel Hammett (Contributions by), Wendy Willems (Edited by), Wendy Willems (Contributions by), Patrick Chabal (Contributions by), Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (Contributions by), Grace A Musila (Contributions by), Jendele Hungbo (Contributions by), Markus Ihalainen (Contributions by), Ilda Lindell (Contributions by), Susan Thomson (Contributions by), Dorothea E. Schulz (Contributions by), Basile Ndijo (Contributions by)Genre: Law & PoliticsItem Weight: 1gAuthor: Bettina von LieresRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Civic Agency in Africa

Title: Civic Agency in Africa

EAN: 9781847010865

ISBN: 9781847010865

Release Date: 02/20/2014

Release Year: 2014

Subtitle: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century

ISBN-10: 1847010865

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Contributor: Basile Ndijo (Contributions by)

Genre: Law & Politics

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Civic Agency in Africa : Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited

Publication Year: 2014

Subject: Political Process / General, Africa / General, Civil Rights, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World / African

Item Height: 0.8 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 17.6 Oz

Author: Daniel Hammett, Ebenezer Obadare, Basile Ndijo, Wendy Willems

Item Length: 9.4 in

Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History

Item Width: 6.3 in

Format: Hardcover