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1 online resource |
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African potentials |
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African potentials (Series)
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| Contents |
Introduction : flexible citizenship in the 21st century Africa / Itsuhiro Hazama, Kiyoshi Umeya & Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Global and African discourses on citizenship / Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh & Claire-Anne Lester -- Inclusive citizenship : review of literature / Ayanda Manqoyi -- Demarcating battle lines : citizenship and agency in the era of misanthropy / Tamara Enomoto -- Citizenship practices in the resistance of north-eastern Ugandan pastoralists / Itsuhiro Hazama -- Reflexive accounts on Uganda general election 2016 : the agency of the dead and its effect among Western Nilotes / Kiyoshi Umeya -- Buddhist altars in vacant houses and the citizenship of the deceased / Toshiki Tsuchitori -- Creation of cooperativity through memorial rituals for the dead : ritual citizenship among the Alur in the Republic of Uganda / Noriko Tahara -- In and out of family : family affairs and deep play at nightclubs in Kampala, Uganda / Gaku Moriguchi -- The miracle in misfortune : South Africa belongs to all those who can afford it / Olivia Joanes -- From amakwerekwere car guard to a South African citizen : an autoethnographic account / Kongo Minga Mbweck -- Vesseling : discursively negotiating citizenship and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa / Zuziwe Nokwanda Msomi -- Opening up academic citizenship for students from previously excluded groups : the case of a foundation course at the University of Cape Town / Msakha Mona -- Mental mobilities and belonging to the hip hop nation / Marlon Swai -- Spectres of citizenship : reflections on the hauntologies of belonging in Zakes Mda's Ways of dying / Harry Garuba -- Rethinking citizenship in 21st century Africa : some conceptual considerations / Francis B. Nyamnjoh |
| Summary |
Anthropological reflections on citizenship focus on themes such as politics, ethnicity and state management. Present day scholarship on citizenship tends to problematise, unsettle and contest often taken-for- granted conventional connotations and associations of citizenship with imagined culturally bounded political communities of rigidly controlled borders. This book, the result of two years of research conducted by South African and Japanese scholars within the framework of a bilateral project on citizenship in the 21st century, contributes to such ongoing efforts at rethinking citizenship globally, and as informed by experiences in Africa and Japan in particular. Central to the essays in this book is the concept of flexible citizenship, predicated on a recognition of the histories of mobility of people and cultures, and of the shaping and reshaping of places and spaces, and ideas of being and belonging in the process. The book elucidates the contingency of political membership, relationship between everyday practices and political membership, and how citizenship is the mechanism for claiming and denying rights to various political communities. 'Self' requires 'others' to construct itself, a reality that is subject to renegotiation as one continues to encounter others in a world characterised by myriad forms of interconnecting mobilities, both global and local. Citizenship is thus to be understood within a complex of power relationships that include ones formed by laws and economic regimes on a local scale and beyond. Citizenship in Africa, Japan and, indeed, everywhere is best explored productively as lying between the open-ended possibilities and tensions interconnecting the global and local |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 11, 2019) |
| Subject |
Citizenship.
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Citizenship -- South Africa
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Citizenship -- Japan
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African history.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Citizenship
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Japan
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hazama, Itsuhiro, editor.
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Umeya, Kiyoshi, 1969- editor.
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Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961- editor.
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| ISBN |
9956550698 |
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9789956550692 |
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