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Title Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities
Full text http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/24b027x0
Date 2010
Author(s) Makhulu, Anne-Maria; Buggenhagen, Beth A.; Jackson, Stephen
Abstract The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the rhetoric of African crisis to theorize people's everyday practices under volatile conditions not of their own making. From Ghanaian hiplife music to the U.S. "diversity lottery" in Togo, from politicos in Côte d'Ivoire to squatters in South Africa, the essays in Hard Work, Hard Times uncover the imaginative ways in which African subjects make and remake themselves and their worlds, and thus make do, get by, get over, and sometimes thrive.
Subject(s) Africa; Comparative Studies; Global Studies; Arts and Humanities; anthropology; subjectivity; capitalism; Other Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial Studies; Social and Cultural Anthropology
Language english
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication monograph
Format application/pdf
Source Makhulu, Anne-Maria; Buggenhagen, Beth A.; & Jackson, Stephen. (2010). Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities Location: Global, Area, and International Archive. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/24b027x0
Rights public
Identifier qt24b027x0
Repository Berkeley - University of California
Added to C-A: 2014-04-03;13:04:59