Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities
(Part of the Global, Area, and International Archive Series)
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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 C?te d'Ivoire to squatters...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520098749
ISBN13:9780520098749
Release Date:November 2010
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.79 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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