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African futures

Object category:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Greiner, Clemens
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Bollig, Michael (1961)
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Wolputte, Steven van (1970)
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Publisher:
Brill
Place of publication:
Leiden
Date:
2022
Extent, illustration, format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 387 S.;) Ill.
Language:
Englisch
Abstract:
The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.
Object text:
edited by Clemens Greiner, Steven van Wolputte, and Michael Bollig
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Futuring Africa: An Introduction; Part 1 Re/Thinking; African Futures: Polymorphous, Polycentric, Heterogeneous, Unpredictable (as Everywhere and Always); COVID-19, Disrupted Futures, and Challenges for African Studies; frican Pastoralism: Plus ça Change? From Constant Herders to Social Differentiation; Religious Practice and/as Future Making in Africa: Some Cautionary Remarks; Rethinking the Ethnographic Museum; The Future of Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is There a Path to Longer and Healthier Lives for All?; Part 2 Living; A New Politics of Uncertainty: Towards Convivial Development in Africa; Twenty-First Century Conservation in Africa: Contemporary Dilemmas, Future Challenges; Forest Crime in Africa: Actors, Markets and Complexities; Framing the Future of National Parks; The Future of Communal Lands in Africa: Experiences from Namibia; Part 3 Confronting; Connected Sahel-Sahara in Turmoil: The Past in the Future; Black Swan, Grey Swan? Pandemic Scenarios and African Peace and Security Futures; The Youth and Land Access Challenges: Critical Reflections from Post-Fast Track Land Reform Zimbabwe; “We will not Watch Like Monkeys”: Development Visions and Conflict Potentials in Northern Kenya; Spells of Moral Panic and Flashes of Pride: Digital Kinois’ Engagements with the Search for a COVID-19 Cure; Beyond the Dead End: Gikuyus and Englishes in Colonial and Postcolonial Debates on Language and Decolonizing (Kenya); Part 4 Imagining; Animating the Future: Storytelling and Super Heroes in Africa; Conceptual Design and Fashion’s Futures in the Afropolis; Future Tense; CityLabs: Making Cities, Making Futures; Innovation, Music and Future Making by Young Africans in a Challenging Environment: Examples from Cameroon and Nigeria; A Future of Hope: Artists in a Context of Insecurity; Part 5 Relating; ‘Girling’ the Future and ‘Futuring’ Girls in Niger; Queer Futures, National Utopias: Notes on Objects, Intimacy, Time, and the State; Futuring Together: Inside and Outside of Marriage in Namibia; The Future of Female Genital Cutting: An Evolution of its Medicalization; Imagination on the Past and Memory for the Future: Re-Establishment of the Lifeworld through Rituals Among the Gǀui/Gǁana; Visitations; Part 6 Concluding; Academic Cooperation in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Post-COVID Future

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Created:
2023-04-12
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