9 Marginal Men & Urban Social Conflicts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps, Illustrations & Tables ix
4. Notes on Contributors x
5. Foreword by James Ferguson xvii
6. Acknowledgements xix
7. Approaching the Political Economy of Everyday Life An Introduction 1
8. Part I MONEY MATTERS: CURRENCY & FISCAL LIFE STRUGGLES
9. 1 Cattle, Currencies & the Politics of Commensuration on a Colonial Frontier 33
10. 2 Currency & Conflict in Colonial Nigeria 72
11. 3 Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899–1913) 92
12. 4 The Macroeconomics of Marginal Gains Africa’s Lessons to Social Theorists 115
13. Part II LABOUR, SOCIAL LIVES & PRECARITY
14. 5 From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in 133
15. 6 Navigating Formality in a Migrant Labour Force 157
16. Part III MARGINALITY, DISAFFECTION & BIO-ECONOMIC DISTRESS
17. 7 Precarious Life Violence & Poverty under Boko Haram & MEND 177
18. 8 The Debt Imperium Relations of Owing after Apartheid 216
19. 9 Marginal Men & Urban Social Conflicts 239
20. 10 Sopona, Social Relations & the Political Economy of Colonial Smallpox Control in Ekiti, Nigeria 266
21. Part IV HISTORICITY, TEMPORALITY, AGENCY & DEMOCRATIC LIFE
22. 11 History as Value Added? Valuing the Past in Africa 285
23. 12 Cultural Mediation, Colonialism & Politics Colonial ‘Truchement’, Postcolonial Translator 308
24. 13 ‘Kos’ona Miran?’ Patronage, Prebendalism & Democratic Life in Contemporary Nigeria 318
25. AFTERWORD The Landscapes Beyond the Margins Agency, Optimization & the Power of the Empirical 335
26. Index 353