| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 229 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction.Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa / Joël Noret -- Inequality from up Close: Qur'anic Students in Northern Nigeria Working as Domestics / Hannah Hoechner -- 'Born Free to Aspire?' An Ethnographic Study of Rural Youths' Aspirations in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Fawzia Mazanderani -- Great Expectations and Uncertain Futures: Education and Social Im/mobility in Niamey, Niger / Gabriella Körling -- 'Precarious Prosperity?' Social Im/mobilities among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala / Laura Camfield and William Monteith -- 'Here Men Are Becoming Women and Women Men': Gender, Class and Space in Maputo, Mozambique / Inge Tvedten, Arlindo Uate and Lizete Mangueleze -- The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu's Theory of Social Space / Benjamin Rubbers -- Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South-African Border / Maxim Bolt -- Domestic Dramas: Class, Taste and Home Decoration in Buea, Cameroon / Ben Page -- Conclusion. A Multidimensional Approach to Social Positionality in Africa / -- Joël Noret |
| Summary |
"Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa's current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or 'capitals' - including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of 'gains' and 'losses'"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2020) |
| Subject |
Social mobility -- Africa
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Social status -- Africa
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Social conditions
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Social mobility
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Social status
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001576
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Noret, Joël, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019037867 |
| ISBN |
1789204860 |
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9781789204865 |
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