Author

Publication

2017 - Boydell & Brewer, Limited

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781847011657
  • ISBN-101847011659
  • OCLC Control Number985685979
  • Better World Books9781847011657
  • Open LibraryOL28635724M

Classifications

  • LCCHC800
  • LCCHC800 .P655 2017

Description

What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the political economy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial and apartheid pasts.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Political Economy of Everyday Life in AfricaBoydell & Brewer, Limited2017

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