| Description |
1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Series |
African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1574-6925 ; v. 2 |
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African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 2.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, Leo de Haan -- Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk, Jan-Bart Gewald -- On the Powers and Limits of Literature / Alain Ricard -- Land and the Politics of Belonging in Africa / Carola Lentz -- Studies in African Livelihoods : Current Issues and Future Prospects / Leo de Haan -- Politics, Popular Culture and Livelihood Strategies among Young Men in a Nairobi Slum / Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- African Migrations : Continuities, Discontinuities and Recent Transformations / Oliver Bakewell, Hein de Haas -- Migration as Reterritorialization : Migrant Movement, Sovereignty and Authority in Contemporary Southern Africa / Scarlett Cornelissen -- Approaching African Tourism : Paradigms and Paradoxes / Walter van Beek |
| Summary |
To stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances, this book demonstrates that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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HISTORY -- General.
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Sociaal-economische situatie.
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Politieke ontwikkeling.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573
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Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001576
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Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001552
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| Subject |
Africa
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Afrika.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chabal, Patrick, 1951-2014, editor.
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Engel, Ulf, editor
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Haan, Leo de, editor
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| ISBN |
9789047420934 |
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9047420934 |
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