African Alternatives ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： Haan   Leo de;Engel   Ulf;Chabal   Patrick  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2007

E-ISBN: 9789047420934

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004161139

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004161139

Subject： C91 Sociology

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

Chapter

Introduction (Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel and Leo de Haan)

pp.：  7 – 14

Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa (Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk and Jan-Bart Gewald)

pp.：  15 – 26

On the Powers and Limits of Literature (Alain Ricard)

pp.：  27 – 42

Land and the Politics of Belonging in Africa (Carola Lentz)

pp.：  43 – 64

Studies in African Livelihoods: Current Issues and Future Prospects (Leo de Haan)

pp.：  65 – 78

Politics, Popular Culture and Livelihood Strategies among Young Men in a Nairobi Slum (Bodil Folke Frederiksen)

pp.：  79 – 100

African Migrations: Continuities, Discontinuities and Recent Transformations (Oliver Bakewell and Hein de Haas)

pp.：  101 – 124

Migration as Reterritorialization: Migrant Movement, Sovereignty and Authority in Contemporary Southern Africa (Scarlett Cornelissen)

pp.：  125 – 150

Approaching African Tourism: Paradigms and Paradoxes (Walter van Beek)

pp.：  151 – 178

List of Contributors

pp.：  179 – 184

Index

pp.：  185 – 191

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