Modernity on a Shoestring
Author : R. (Richard); Van Binsbergen Fardon (W. (Wim); Van Dijk, R. (Rijk))
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Page : 422 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : R. (Richard); Van Binsbergen Fardon (W. (Wim); Van Dijk, R. (Rijk))
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Richard Fardon
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Africa
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Author : Richard Fardon
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9789054480372
Author : Ben Fine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136214526
Consumption has become one of the leading topics across the social sciences and vocational disciplines such as marketing and business studies. In this comprehensively updated and revised new edition, traditional approaches as well as the most recent literature are fully addressed and incorporated, with wide reference to theoretical and empirical work. Fine's refreshing and authoritative text includes a critical examination of such themes as: * economics imperialism and globalization * the world of commodities * systems of provision and culture * the consumer society * public consumption. This book presents an updated analysis of the cluttered landscape of studies of consumption that will make it required reading for students from a wide range of backgrounds including political economy, history and social science courses generally.
Author : S. Osha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137446935
African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization.
Author : David Garbin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1350152609
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.
Author : Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845455767
During the last decades, the world has been facing tremendous political transformations and new risks: epidemics such as HIV/Aids have had destabilizing effect on the caretaking role of kin; in post-socialist countries political reforms have made unemployment a new source of insecurity. Furthermore, the state's withdrawal from providing social security is taking place throughout the world. One response to these developments has been increased migration, which poses further challenges to kinship-based social support systems. This innovative volume focuses on the ambiguous role of religious networks in social security and traces the interrelatedness of religious networks and state and family support systems. Particularly timely, it describes these challenges as well as social security arrangements in the context of globalization and migration. The wide range of case studies from various parts of the world that examine various religious groups offers an important comparative contribution to the understanding of religious networks as providers of social security.
Author : Michael Bergunder
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520266617
AndrT Droogers is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at VU University, Amsterdam --
Author : Rijk van Dijk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004492208
This anthology deals with the complexity, variety and experience of all the forms of mobility we witness today in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three sets of issues are being discussed. First, the concept of mobility itself is considered and how it is conceived of in distinction from sedentarity. Second, which forms of mobility can be distinguished, not only from the perspective of Western social sciences, but also from the perspective of people's own experiences, ideas, notions, etc? Social science in Africa has particularly focused on rural-urban migration, but it is clear that there are many other forms as well. Third, the concept of mobility concerns not only geographical space, but there are other 'spaces' to consider as well. In addition to 'forms of mobility' there is a 'mobility of forms' in which the perception of those other spaces plays a crucial role. In short, the book intends to turn the whole notion of mobility as a supposedly rupturing phenomenon on its head, emphasizing that rather through travelling connections are established and continuity is experienced. We are challenged to delve into the traveller's mind, to think and follow their multi-spatial livelihoods and to explore what it means to people if they move in a variety of spaces.
Author : Dmitri Van Den Bersselaar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004160914
Using a focus on the trajectory of commoditisation of gin in West Africa, this book investigates how imported goods acquire specific local meanings. It shows that local consumers, not foreign advertisers, produced the importance of schnapps gin for African ritual