Search: African Studies - Sociology &amp; Anthropology

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Africa for Sale?

Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Caroline Seagle, Froukje Krijtenburg, VU University Amsterdam

Africa for Sale? Positioning the State, Land and Society in Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa analyzes the role of the state in driving, negotiating and facilitating (foreign) land deals, and examines the extent to which large-scale land acquisitions are conditioned by land ...

€46.00$64.00

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9789004251397

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COSATU'S Contested Legacy

edited by Sakhela Buhlungu,University of Pretoria and Malehoko Tshoaedi, University of South Africa

COSATU's Contested Legacy analyses the dilemmas and opportunities of trade unionism in contemporary South Africa. The volume brings into sharp relief the contestation that union activists engage in as they seek to chart a future trajectory for trade unionism.

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Worlds of Human Rights

Bill Derman, Norwegian University of the Life Sciences, Anne Hellum, University of Oslo, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Peace Research Institute of Oslo

Worlds of Human Rights presents ethnographic studies from Sub Saharan Africa that highlight how individuals and groups use human rights to achieve greater justice. It shows how struggles concerning land, property, gender equality and legal identity are shaped by contexts of history, power ...

€42.00$58.00

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Cultural Tourism and Identity

Edited by Keyan G. Tomaselli, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Studies of cultural tourism and indigenous identity are fraught with questions concerning exploitation, entitlement, ownership and authenticity. Unease with the idea of leveraging a group identity for commercial gain is ever-present. This anthology articulates some of these debates from a ...

€44.00$61.00

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Transforming Innovations in Africa

Jan-Bart Gewald, African Studies Centre, Leiden, André Leliveld, African Studies Centre, Leiden, Iva Peša, Leiden University

In Transforming Innovations in Africa the authors explore how external innovations (products, technologies, services, institutions and processes) that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere, came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly appropriated and transformed within Africa.

€59.00$82.00

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Child Fostering in West Africa

Erdmute Alber, University of Bayreuth, Jeannett Martin, University of Bayreuth, Catrien Notermans, Radboud University

Child fostering in West Africa connects classical and new kinship theory and offers ethnographic studies on a mobile and creative kinship practice.

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Long Journeys. African Migrants on the Road

edited by Alessandro Triulzi, Università di Napoli-L’Orientale and Robert McKenzie, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

What does it mean to cross half a continent without documents or rights? The self-told story of African migration.

€73.00$95.00

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Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia

Edited by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Jean-Pierre Angenot

Study of the African diaspora is now a dynamic field in the development of new methods and approaches to African history. This book brings together the latest research on African diaspora in Asia with case studies about India and the Indian Ocean islands.