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1 online resource (498 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acronyms; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: African Studies in Contention; Part One Challenging Modes of Thinking: Making Maps and Mapping History; 1 â#x80;#x9C;So Geographers in Africa Maps with Savage Pictures Fill Their Gapsâ#x80;#x9D;: Representing Africa on Maps; History of Mapmaking; Development of Scientific Cartography; Cartography Becomes Geography; Role of Maps in European Expansion; Accuracy in Size Versus Accuracy in Distance; Conclusion; 2 The Challenges of Writing African Economic History; Introduction |
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Spatial and Temporal ScalesThemes and Theories; Comparisons and Connections; Conclusion; Part Two Contested Categories: Economy, Politics, and Society; 3 Structural Adjustment; The Failure of Structural Adjustment; The Ideological Marketing Operation; The Success of World Bank Spin; Conclusion: Developmental Activism; 4 Poverty Profile in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Challenge of Addressing an Elusive Problem; Introduction; Main Causes of Persisting Poverty; Measuring Prevalence of Poverty; Conclusion; 5 Civil Society, Pluralism, Goldilocks, and Other Fairy Tales in Africa; Introduction |
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Conflicting Conceptions of Civil SocietyAfrica Growth and Opportunity Act; International Banking, Capitalist Development, the Asian Crisis, and Africa; The Construction of Civil Society in Senegal: A Case Studyâ#x80;#x94;The Senegalese-Mauritanian Conflict; Pogroms, â#x80;#x9C;Restructuration, â#x80;#x9D; and Civil Society; Conclusion: Cruel Democracy and Cruel Capitalism; 6 Beyond the State and Civil Society: Labor Movements and Economic Adjustment in African Transitionsâ#x80;#x94;South Africa and Nigeria Compared; Neoliberal Adjustment as a Challenge for African Labor in Transition |
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African Transitions and â#x80;#x9C;Transition Studiesâ#x80;#x9D;: Constraining the Space of LaborThe Nigerian Labor Movement, Militarized Economic Adjustment, and the Uncertainties of Transition; Labor in the South African Democratic Transition: The Challenge of Subordinate Incorporation; Conclusion; 7 Silencing Power: Mapping the Social Terrain in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Development as Discourse; The Space of the NGO; The Virtuous Community; NGOs in South Africa: From Struggle to Development; Working with the â#x80;#x9C;Communityâ#x80;#x9D;; Community as Historical Precipitate and Community as Interest Group |
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Conclusion8 Negotiating Identity in Post-Settlement South Africa: Ethnicity, Class, and Race in a Regional Frame; Introduction; Group Identity and the National Liberation Struggle in South Africa; The Politics of Zulu Nationalism; The National Question and the Indian Community; Conclusion; 9 Negotiable Property: Making Claims on Land and History in Asante, 1896-1996; Property as Exclusion; Pushing on a String? Property Rights Reform and African Realities; Negotiable Property in Asante; Property as Participation?; Beyond Familiar Fictions |
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Part Three Violence of the Word/Violence Against the Body |
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Africa-History
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Africa-Social conditions
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Africa-Study and teaching
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Cartography-Africa
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Ethnology -- Africa.
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Geographical perception-Africa
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Human geography-Africa
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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sociology of knowledge.
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Ethnology
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gibson, Nigel
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| ISBN |
9780429980978 |
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0429980973 |
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