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Civic Agency in Africa

By Wendy Willems, Wendy Willems

Civic Agency in Africa General education

Civic Agency in Africa

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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.
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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2014-02-20
Publication Date:
2014-02-20
Publisher:
James Currey
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847010865
ISBN13:
9781847010865
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
555 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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