The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins

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Beyond the Margins

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Edited by Wale Adebanwi

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: August 2018
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781787440517
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787440517

Subjects:: Political Economy, Politics and International Relations

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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. Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press).

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Beyond the Margins

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Maps, Illustrations & Tables
pp ix-ix

Notes on Contributors
pp x-xvi

Foreword
pp xvii-xviii

Acknowledgements
pp xix-xx

Approaching the Political Economy of Everyday Life An Introduction
pp 1-32

Part I - MONEY MATTERS: CURRENCY & FISCAL LIFE STRUGGLES
pp 33-34

1 - Cattle, Currencies & the Politics of Commensuration on a Colonial Frontier
pp 35-71

2 - Currency & Conflict in Colonial Nigeria
pp 72-91

3 - Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899–1913)
pp 92-114

4 - The Macroeconomics of Marginal Gains Africa's Lessons to Social Theorists
pp 115-132

Part II - LABOUR, SOCIAL LIVES & PRECARITY
pp 133-134

5 - From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in African History
pp 135-156

6 - Navigating Formality in a Migrant Labour Force
pp 157-176

Part III - MARGINALITY, DISAFFECTION & BIO-ECONOMIC DISTRESS
pp 177-178

7 - Precarious Life Violence & Poverty under Boko Haram & MEND
pp 179-215

8 - The Debt Imperium Relations of Owing after Apartheid
pp 216-238

9 - Marginal Men & Urban Social Conflicts Okada Riders in Lagos
pp 239-265

10 - opona, Social Relations & the Political Economy of Colonial Smallpox Control in Ekiti, Nigeria
pp 266-284

Part IV - HISTORICITY, TEMPORALITY, AGENCY & DEMOCRATIC LIFE
pp 285-286

11 - History as Value Added? Valuing the Past in Africa
pp 287-307

12 - Cultural Mediation, Colonialism & Politics Colonial ‘Truchement’, Postcolonial Translator
pp 308-317

13 - ‘Kos'ona Miran?’ Patronage, Prebendalism & Democratic Life in Contemporary Nigeria
pp 318-334

Afterword: The Landscapes Beyond the Margins Agency, Optimization & the Power of the Empirical
pp 335-352

Index
pp 353-364

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