Contested terrains and constructed categories

contemporary Africa in focus

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contemporary Africa in focus

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Westview
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English
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474

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Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories
2019, Taylor & Francis Group
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Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus
January 23, 2002, Westview Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction : African studies in contention / George Clement Bond and Nigel C. Gibson
Part 1. Challenging modes of thinking : making maps and mapping history. "So geographers in Africa maps with savage pictures fill their gaps" : representing Africa on maps / Mohamed Mbodj ; The challenges of writing African economic history / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
pt. 2. Contested categories : economy, politics, and society. Structural adjustment / Sayre P. Schatz ; Poverty profile in Sub-Saharan Africa : the challenge of addressing an elusive problem / Oliver S. Saasa ; Civil society, pluralism, Goldilocks, and other fairy tales in Africa / Irving Leonard Markovitz ; Beyond the state and civil society : labor movements and economic adjustment in African transitions : South Africa and Nigeria compared / Franco Barchiesi ; Silencing power : mapping the social terrain in post-apartheid South Africa / Kate Crehan ; Negotiating identity in post-settlement South Africa : ethnicity, class, and race in a regional frame / Edward Ramsamy ; Negotiable property : making claims on land and history in Asante, 1896-1996 / Sara Berry
pt. 3. Violence of the word/violence against the body. Mapping Africa's presences : Merleau-Ponty, Mannoni, and the Malagasy masacre of 1947 in Frantz Fanon's Black skin white masks / Nigel C. Gibson ; Contesting terrains over a massacre : the case of Wiriyamu / Mustafah Dhada ; Negotiating postwar identies : child soldiers in Mozambique and Angola / Alcinda Honwana ; Sex and the politics of space in colonial Zimbabwe : the story of Chibheura (open your legs) exams / Lynette Jackson ; Girls, sex, and the dangers of urban schooling in coastal Madagascar / Lesley A. Sharp ; The moving frontier of AIDS in Uganda : contexts, texts, and concepts / George Clement Bond and Joan Vincent ; Contested claims and individual bodies / Meredeth Turshen.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-457) and index.

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Boulder, Colo, Oxford

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306/.096
Library of Congress
GN645 .C654 2002, GN645.C654 2002, GN645

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 474 p. :
Number of pages
474

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3389649M
ISBN 10
081333974X, 0813336783
LCCN
2004616257
OCLC/WorldCat
48884369, 1024311206
LibraryThing
4375608
Goodreads
2222599
1319034

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OL18007170W

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