[FoME] WG: [IAMCR] NEW BOOK: Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century

[Wolf Ludwig]

Just FYI -- with regards,
Wolf

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Wendy Willems sent Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:10:
>Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century
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>Edited by Ebenezer Obadare and Wendy Willems
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>The recent eruption of popular protests across North Africa and the Middle
>East has reopened academic debate on the meaning and strategies of
>resistance in the 21st century. This book argues that Western notions of
>state and civil society provide only a limited understanding of how power
>and resistance operate in the African context, where informality is central
>to the way both state officials and citizens exercise agency.
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>With the principle of informality as a template, the chapters in this volume
>collectively examine the various modes - organised and unorganised, formal
>and informal, urban and rural, embodied and discursive, serious and ludic,
>online and offline, successful and failing - through which Africans contend
>with power. Resistance takes place against the backdrop of deep fractures in
>state sovereignty, the remnants of colonial rule and the constraints of a
>global, neoliberal economic system. 
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>Ebenezer Obadare is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University
>of Kansas
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>Wendy Willems is Assistant Professor, Department of Media and
>Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and
>Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Media Studies, University of the
>Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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>Published by James Currey, Oxford
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> <http://www.jamescurrey.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14424>
>http://www.jamescurrey.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14424
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>Book launch at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 12
>March 2014, 6.30-8pm:
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><http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2014/03/20140312t1830vCLM5.02.aspx
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>http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2014/03/20140312t1830vCLM5.02.aspx
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>Contents
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>1  Foreword by Patrick Chabal
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>2  INTRODUCTION - African resistance in an age of fractured sovereignty by
>Wendy Willems and Ebenezer Obadare 
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>PART ONE: POST-COLONIAL STATE FORMATION AND PARALLEL INFRASTRUCTURES
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>3  Global technologies of domination and arts of resistance in Africa: from
>colonial encounters to the Arab Spring by Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
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>4  Citizenship from below: the politics of citizen action and resistance in
>South Africa and Angola by Bettina von Lieres 
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>PART TWO: EMBODIED MODES OF RESISTANCE AND THE POST-COLONIAL STATE
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>5  The politics of confinement and mobility: informality, relocations and
>urban re-making from below by Ilda Lindell and Markus Ihalainen
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>6  Overcoming socio-economic marginalisation: Young West African hustlers
>and the reinvention of global capitalism by Basile Ndjio
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>7  Accepting authoritarianism? Everyday resistance as political
>consciousness in post-genocide Rwanda by Susan Thomson 
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>PART THREE: POPULAR CULTURE AS DISCURSIVE FORMS OF RESISTANCE
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>8  Participatory politics in South Africa: social commentary from above and
>resistance from below by Innocentia J. Mhlambi
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>9  Laughing at the rainbow's cracks? Blackness, whiteness and the
>ambivalences of South African stand-up comedy by Grace A. Musila
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>10  'Beasts of no nation': Resistance and civic activism in Fela
>Anikulapo-Kuti's music by Jendele Hungbo 
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>PART FOUR: PUBLICS AS EVERYDAY SITES OF RESISTANCE
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>11  The power of resonance: Music, local radio stations, and the sounds of
>cultural belonging in Mali by Dorothea E. Schulz
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>12  Narrating the contested public sphere: Zapiro, Zuma and freedom of
>expression in South Africa by Daniel Hammett
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