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1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages) |
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Introduction: connectivity and the post-global moment: (dis- )connections and social change in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn and Rijk van Dijk -- Flows and forces: once contained, now detained? on connections past and present in Rwanda / Danielle de Lame -- Research practice in connections: travels and methods / Mirjam de Bruijn and Inge Brinkman -- Patriarchy turned upside down: the flight of the royal women of Kom, Cameroon from 1920 to the 1960s / Walter Gam Nkwi -- Beyond the last frontier: Major Trollope and the eastern Caprivi Zipfel / Jan-Bart Gewald -- The "Victorian internet" reaches halfway to Cairo: Cape Tanganyika telegraphs, 1875-1926 / Neil Parsons -- Marriages and mobility in Akan societies: disconnections and connections over time and space / Astrid Bochow -- A ritual connection: urban youth marrying in the village in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Connecting communities and business: public-private partnerships as the panacea for land reform in Limpopo Province, South Africa / Marja Spierenburg, Ben Cousins, Angelique Bos & Lubabalo Ntsholo -- Connectivities compared: transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad and Senegal / Mayke Kaag -- Love therapy: a Brazilian Pentecostal (dis)connection in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- Ajala travel: mobility and connections as forms of social capital in Nigerian society / Oka Obono & Koblowe Obono -- Connecting "ourselves": a Dogon ethnic association and the impact of connectivity / Walter E.A. van Beek -- Intimate strangers: connecting fiction and ethnography / Francis B. Nyamnjoh |
| Summary |
In an age of new technologies of connections, understanding social transformations in Africa through connections has become pivotal. Africa has now arrived at a juncture, referred to as a 'post-global' moment, where connections have turned the global to a normalcy in Africa and elsewhere. Yet a model to understand social transformations from the perspective of the social life of connections is still lacking. Noting that the nature of the connection is often overlooked in social theory, the studies outlined in this volume explore how connectedness continues to change Africa and how Africa continues to shape the social life of connections |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Communication -- Social aspects -- Africa
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Telecommunication -- Social aspects -- Africa
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Social integration -- Africa
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Globalization -- Africa
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Information society -- Africa
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Cultural studies -- Africa.
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Globalization -- Africa.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
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Society.
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Communication -- Social aspects
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Globalization
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Information society
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Social conditions
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Social integration
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Telecommunication -- Social aspects
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Technische ontwikkeling.
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Communicatie.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001576
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Africa
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Afrika.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962-
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Dijk, Rijk van, 1959-
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| ISBN |
9781137278029 |
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1137278021 |
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9781349447497 |
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1349447498 |
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