The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins

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The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa

Beyond the Margins

Edited by: Wale Adebanwi
With contributions by: Adigun Agbaje , Anne-Maria Makhulu , Celestin Monga , David Pratten , Elisha Elisha Renne , Frederick Cooper , Gbemisola Animasawun , James Ferguson , Jane Guyer , John and Jean Comaroff , Maxim Bolt , Michael J. Watts , Peter L Geschiere , Sara S. Berry , Souleymane Bachir Diagne , Tristan Oestermann and Wale Adebanwi

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa.

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Adebanwi Wale :

WALE ADEBANWI is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016) and editor of The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa (2017).Agbaje Adigun :

Adigun Agbaje is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and Visiting Professor and Director-General, Oba (Dr) Sikiru Kayode Adetona I statute for Governance Studies, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. He is the author of The Nigerian Press, Hegemony, and the Social Construction of Legitimacy, 1960-1983.Pratten David :

David Pratten is Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa and Director of the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Since 2010 David has been Co-Editor of AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institut. His publications include Nigeria: The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria (2007), which won the Amaury Talbot Prize awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute.Animasawun Gbemisola :

Gbemisola Animasawun is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the Center for Peace & Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. His essays have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, edited books, policy briefs, working papers and op-eds that have earned him national and international research grants and honour.Adebanwi Wale :

WALE ADEBANWI is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016) and editor of The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa (2017).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Maps, Illustrations & Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Foreword by James Ferguson Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Approaching the Political Economy of Everyday Life An Introduction Wale Adebanwi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I MONEY MATTERS: CURRENCY & FISCAL LIFE STRUGGLES
1 Cattle, Currencies & the Politics of Commensuration on a Colonial Frontier Jean Comarof and John L. Comarof Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
2 Currency & Conflict in Colonial Nigeria David Pratten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	72
3 Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899–1913) Tristan Oestermann and Peter Geschiere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	92
4 The Macroeconomics of Marginal Gains Africa’s Lessons to Social Theorists Célestin Monga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Part II LABOUR, SOCIAL LIVES & PRECARITY
5 From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in Frederick Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
6 Navigating Formality in a Migrant Labour Force Maxim Bolt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Part III MARGINALITY, DISAFFECTION & BIO-ECONOMIC DISTRESS
7 Precarious Life Violence & Poverty under Boko Haram & MEND Michael J. Watts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
8 The Debt Imperium Relations of Owing after Apartheid Anne-Maria Makhulu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	216
9 Marginal Men & Urban Social Conflicts Gbemisola Animasawun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
10 Sopona, Social Relations & the Political Economy of Colonial Smallpox Control in Ekiti, Nigeria Elisha P. Renne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	266
Part IV HISTORICITY, TEMPORALITY, AGENCY & DEMOCRATIC LIFE
11 History as Value Added? Valuing the Past in Africa Sara Berry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
12 Cultural Mediation, Colonialism & Politics Colonial ‘Truchement’, Postcolonial Translator Souleymane Bachir Diagne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	308
13 ‘Kos’ona Miran?’ Patronage, Prebendalism & Democratic Life in Contemporary Nigeria Adigun Agbaje Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	318
AFTERWORD The Landscapes Beyond the Margins Agency, Optimization & the Power of the Empirical Jane I. Guyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353

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June 16, 2017

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9781787440517

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384

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787440517

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