Civic agency in Africa : arts of resistance in the 21st century / edited by Ebenezer Obadare & Wendy Willems ; foreword by Patrick Chabal.
Contributor(s): Obadare, Ebenezer
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TextPublisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, [2014]Distributor: Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer Inc.Copyright date: ©2014Description: xx, 236 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847010865; 1847010865Subject(s): Power (Social sciences) -- Africa | Government, Resistance to -- Africa | Political participation -- Africa | Political culture -- Africa | Civil society -- Africa | Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-LOC classification: JQ1879.A15 | C57 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: African resistance in an age of fractured sovereignty / Wendy Willems and Ebenezer Obadare -- Part I. Postcolonial state formation & parallel infrastructures. Global technologies of domination: from colonial encounters to the Arab Spring / Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- Citizenship from below: the politics of citizen action & resistance in South Africa & Angola / Bettina von Lieres -- Part II. Embodied modes of resistance & the postcolonial state. The politics of confinement & mobility: informality, relocations & urban re-making from above & below in Nairobi / Ilda Lindell and Markus Ihalainen -- Overcoming socio-economic marginalisation: Young West African hustlers & the reinvention of global capitalism / Basile Ndjio -- Accepting authoritarianism? Everyday resistance as political consciousness in post-genocide Rwanda / Susan Thomson -- Part III. Popular culture as discursive forms of resistance. Participatory politics in South Africa: social commentary from above & resistance from below / Innocentia J. Mhlambi -- Laughing at the rainbow's cracks? Blackness, whiteness & the ambivalences of South African stand-up comedy / Grace A. Musila -- 'Beasts of no nation': Resistance & civic activism in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's music / Jendele Hungbo -- Part IV. Publics as everyday sites of resistance. The power of resonance: Music, local radio stations, & the sounds of cultural belonging in Mali / Dorothea Schulz -- Narrating the contested public sphere: Zapiro, Zuma & freedom of expression in South Africa / Daniel Hammett.