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Congo's Dancers
Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among the various genres popular in the capital city of Kinshasa, Congolese rumba occupies a special place and can be counted as one of the DRC’s most well-known cultural exports. The public image of rumba was historically dominated by male bandleaders, singers, and musicians. However, with the introduction of the danseuse (professional concert dancer) in the late 1970s, the role of women as cultural, moral, and economic actors came into public prominence and helped further raise Congolese rumba’s international profile. In Congo’s Dancers, Lesley ...
Rethinking Disability
The act of life is a lived experience, common and unique, that ties each of us to every other lived experience. The fact of disability does not alter this fundamental truth. In this edition of Rethinking Disability: World Perspectives in Culture and Society, we are presented with a system of thinking that considers the values of disability, as a resource, as a creative source of culture that moves disability out of the realm of victimized people and insurmountable barriers, and provides opportunities to use the experience of disability to enter into networks that recognize strengths of differing abilities. The authors within will intrigue you, will move you, will charm you, but always will c...
Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania
Although slavery was legally abolished in 1981 in Mauritania, its legacy lives on in the political, economic, and social discrimination against ex-slaves and their descendants. Katherine Ann Wiley examines the shifting roles of Muslim arāīn (ex-slaves and their descendants) women, who provide financial support for their families. Wiley uses economic activity as a lens to examine what makes suitable work for women, their trade practices, and how they understand and assert their social positions, social worth, and personal value in their everyday lives. She finds that while genealogy and social hierarchy contributed to status in the past, women today believe that attributes such as wealth, respect, and distance from slavery help to establish social capital. Wiley shows how the legacy of slavery continues to constrain some women even while many of them draw on neoliberal values to connect through kinship, friendship, and professional associations. This powerful ethnography challenges stereotypical views of Muslim women and demonstrates how they work together to navigate social inequality and bring about social change.
Évolution des pratiques de sécurisation des conditions de vie dans trois quartiers populaires de Kinshasa
A travers une analyse clinique des pratiques de la production spatiale et sociale de la ville, cette thèse montre combien le foncier et l'économie populaire sont des facteurs importants de sécurisation pour les acteurs populaires.
Croisement des savoirs villageois et universitaires
Pendant quatre ans, des acteurs villageois, des animateurs d'un projet de développement en milieu paysan, des étudiants et des universitaires nigériens et belges,ont participé à un projet de croisement des savoirs: «Consolider la relation entre recherche universitaire et opérations de développement en renforçant les synergies entre savoirs scientifiques et savoirs paysans».Ce livre reflète le contenu de ce croisement des savoirs dans une région située au Centre Sud du Niger: la région d'Aguié, zone rurale transfrontalière avec le Nigeria. Il présente le point de vue des acteurs de ce projet pour qui l’écriture est un moyen ou le moyen privilégié d’expression de la pen...
Economie de la débrouille à Kinshasa. Informalité, commerce et réseaux sociaux
10 pages de cahier photos Comment, dans un contexte de crise économique et sociale durable, les citadins réinventent-ils les moyens de leur survie à Kinshasa ? C’est à cette question que cet ouvrage s’attache à répondre. On y trouve une description ethnographique minutieuse des dispositifs microsociaux qui permettent aux citadins-commerçants d’approvisionner la ville et aux citoyens ordinaires de continuer simplement à vivre. Le livre plonge ainsi le lecteur dans les multiples formes de la « débrouille » qui organisent l’univers du petit commerce dans les marchés de la ville de Kinshasa. La créativité de la débrouille kinoise ne cesse d’étonner. Elle révèle l’in...
La société morale
Cet ouvrage collectif construit à partir des conférences données dans le cadre du XXIe Congrès de l’AISLF privilégie deux entrées principales : d’abord, la manière dont les sciences sociales se saisissent de la question morale sous plusieurs angles ; ensuite, le rôle des analyses en termes d’économies morales. La troisième partie de l’ouvrage rend hommage à la sociologie de la Tunisie.
Congo Brazzaville
Héritière de grands royaumes (Kongo, Téké et Loango), la république du Congo, communément appelée Congo-Brazzaville pour la distinguer de son voisin, la RD Congo, est une ancienne colonie française dont la capitale, Brazzaville, fut également celle de l’ex-Afrique équatoriale française. Le Congo doit à cette phase de son histoire ses limites territoriales et sa langue officielle, le français. Au sortir de la période coloniale, dont les épisodes les plus durs ont été la conquête du pays sous l’égide de Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, le régime des compagnies concessionnaires et la construction du chemin de fer Congo-Océan, la décolonisation s’est relativement opérée ...
Pentecostal Republic
Throughout its history, Nigeria has been plagued by religious divisions. Tensions have only intensified since the restoration of democracy in 1999, with the divide between Christian south and Muslim north playing a central role in the country's electoral politics, as well as manifesting itself in the religious warfare waged by Boko Haram. Through the lens of Christian–Muslim struggles for supremacy, Ebenezer Obadare charts the turbulent course of democracy in the Nigerian Fourth Republic, exploring the key role religion has played in ordering society. He argues the rise of Pentecostalism is a force focused on appropriating state power, transforming the dynamics of the country and acting to demobilize civil society, further providing a trigger for Muslim revivalism. Covering events of recent decades to the election of Buhari, Pentecostal Republic shows that religio-political contestations have become integral to Nigeria's democratic process, and are fundamental to understanding its future.
Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial Cinema
This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives. Bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on African crises through postmillennial films, the book addresses the need to situate global south cultural studies within the region. The book employs film criticism and semiotics as devices to decode contemporary cultures of African cities, with a specific focus on crisis. Drawing on a variety of contemporary theories on cities of the global south, especially Africa, the book sifts through nuances of crisis urbanism within postmillennial African films. In doing so the book offers unique perspectives that move beyond the confines of sociological...
